Exhibition

Rebus Works is pleased to announce Layers, featuring mixed-media pieces by Mario Marzan (Durham) and Eugene Korsunskiy (Chapel Hill). The exhibition will open at Rebus Works on Friday, August 6, with a reception from 6-10 p.m. The exhibition will continue through September 25.

Korsunskiy and Marzan layer pigments and combine materials to create luscious environments in two dimensions with distinctly different results. Marzan's palette is bright and active, while Korsunskiy primarily uses blacks, grays and browns. Both use shapes that would be as equally at home in scientific diagrams as they are in their drawing and painting-based works. Together, their work presents unique explorations of fluidity and control, in landscapes and geography for Marzan, and in materials and their conditions for Korsunskiy.

Mario Marzan’s work explores the shifting, changing and constantly evolving negotiation of geographical spaces in relation to individual and cultural identities and histories. From depictions of vast geographic locations to the intimate rooms of a house under construction, his work maps transient spaces as fluid sites of exchange.

Mario Marzan was born and raised in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico. In addition to keeping an active studio practice, Marzan is an Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he teaches a wide range of courses within the Painting and Drawing curriculum and mentors MFA students. He received his MFA degree in Studio Art at Carnegie Mellon (PA) and his BFA degree from Bowling Green State University (OH).