Artist

Mario Marzan creates drawings and sculptures depicting an alternative reality, invented and inspired by the cycles of deconstruction and reconstruction produced by the hurricanes of his childhood in Puerto Rico. Marzan’s drawings and sculptures respond to this changing landscape, through a visual fiction that blurs distinctions between representation and abstraction.  Sequences are constructed that create a “world where memories are topographically stored and distorted to their limits of collapse.”  His drawings are at once explosive with color and subtle with fine lines, presenting a compelling struggle between chaos and control, evoking landscapes of the mind, where forgotten and obscured memories resurface. 

 

Mario Marzan is currently an Assistant Professor in the art department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his BFA from Bowling Green State University and his MFA at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

 

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