- Terry Marks
Terry Marks, born 1960, is a Stuckist artist in New York City. She was one of the US artists in the landmark show "
The Stuckists Punk Victorian " at theWalker Art Gallery during the 2004Liverpool Biennial .Life and art
Tery Marks is an internationally exhibited, award-winning painter, printmaker and tattooist. Marks was born and raised in
New York City . As a young teenager she met painterJoseph Wolins , known for his work during the WPA period, who became her first art teacher and mentor.In 1980 she moved to
London ,England , where she lived for nine years, went to art college and worked in a lot of hellish pubs pulling pints for football hooligans. Marks received a BA Hons in Fine Art Printmaking from theCentral/St. Martin's School of Art (1987) and an MFA in painting atNew York Academy of Art (1993). After a chance hearing of a radio piece on Stuckism in 2001, she became founder of New York Stuckism, a local chapter of the international ReModernist art group. In addition to exhibiting with the Stuckists in England, she has also shown her work with the Melbourne Stuckists in Australia.Other notable shows include her solo exhibition "This is Not an installation" (2004) at the Koi Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, and participation in the 1st Stuckist International (2002), Stuckist Centre, London. Marks has been exhibiting her work since 1982 and has taken part in many exhibitions in the United Kingdom, USA, and Australia. Her work is in numerous private collections in the USA & UK.
In a 2004 interview for NY Arts Magazine she made the following statement about Stuckism that has been often quoted and translated into many languages:
On her process, she has said,
elected awards
1990 Dori Brown Award, Northern Arts Council (USA).
1988 CCA Galleries Award for Print, Christies Contemporary Arts, London.
1987 Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Manchester England Whatman Paper Award, Young Printmakers Editions, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK.Whatman Paper Award, British Printmakers Council, UK.
ee also
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Stuckism
*Stuckism in America
*The Stuckists Punk Victorian
*Remodernism References
Strickland, Carol (2004) NY Arts Magazine, [http://artgalny.com/info/Long_Page/carol_strickland.html Stuckist in New York City: An Interview with Narrative Painter Terry Marks]
Milner, Frank ed. (2004), "The Stuckists Punk Victorian" National Museums Liverpool, ISBN 1-902700-27-9
External links
* [http://www.artgalny.com/ Terry Marks official website]
* [http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/stuckists/international/terrymarks.asp Terry Marks on the Walker Art Gallery website]
* [http://csmonitor.com/ "Painting is Back"]
* [http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/ Stuckist in New York, interview with narrative painter, Terry Marks with Carol Strickland, May 2004]
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