Marcus Jansen

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Marcus Jansen
Born 1968
Manhattan, NY
Nationality American
Field painting,
Training Kunstgewerbe Schule Berufskolleg für Technik und Medien am Platz der Republik in Mönchengladbach
Movement Modern Expressionism
Awards Arte Lagune Art Prize 2013, Venice Italy
Website www.unitaspace.com

Marcus Jansen (born 1968, Manhattan, New York)[1] is an American born painter.[2] He attended the Kunstgewerbe Schule Berufskolleg für Technik und Medien am Platz der Republik in Mönchengladbach in 1985 where spent many of his young adult years.

Life and work

Marcus Jansen started painting in the early 1980s during the ongoing graffiti art movement from New York City. Jansen was raised bilingual by a father from Germany and Mother from the West Indies. Jansen's first book, "Modern Urban-Expressionism",[3] was published in 2006 by his then French dealer in Paris France. The foreword which refers to Jansen as the "innovator of Modern Expressionism", was written by the former Museum director of traveling exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York and the American Vanguard Exhibitions in Europe 1961 Jerome A. Donson who discovered Jansen in 2004.


Donson arranged international traveling exhibitions with action painters like, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Jansen's first US showcase was at Madison Square Gardens Film & Art Festival in 1999. Jansen has shown in important exhibitions and Biennials in Russia, South Africa, Europe, South America and Asia. In 2008, Jansen was commissioned by Warner Brothers Hollywood for an interpretation of the 1939 story The Wizard of Oz honoring the companies 80th Anniversary and later was noted in Who's Who in American Art and became more widely known for his "Absolut Blank" bottle for "Absolut Vodka", as part of the next Generation of Absolut artist's as he joined the names like Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Damien Hirst. In 2012, Jansen's work "Creeping Obstacles in Kansas", appeared on the cover of No. 94 of the New American Paintings alumni selection by juror Dan Cameron, founder of the Prospect New Orleans Biennial inc., which made Jansen the first Florida based artist to ever do so.


His recent shows include the Boca Raton Museum of Art, "All Florida", the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, "eye on the storm" exhibition the Housatonic Museum of Art, "eye of the storm" exhibition. and the The Naples Museum of Art, "Florida Contemporary 2012 and 2014."

Collections

Collections of art that own examples of Jansen's work include: New Britain Museum of American Art,[4] Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art[5] the Housatonic Museum of Art[6] the Moscow Museum of Modern Art,[7] the Ulyanovsk Museum Fine Arts,[8] the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts[9] the, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art (ru),[10] Russia and the Smithsonian Institution[11]

Jansen is represented by Galleria Bianca Maria Rizzi & Matthias Ritter in Milan, Italy and Lazarides Gallery, London, UK .

Auctions

Christie's[12] at Amsterdam,

Awards

  • 2014 FACE Award Gulfshore Business Magazine, Naples, Florida[13]
  • 2013 Laguna Art Prize Finalist Arte Laguna Art Prize, Venice, Italy[14]
  • 2013 Fleurieu Art Prize Finalist Fleurieu Art Prize, Australia[15]
  • 2012 Aesthetica Art Prize Finalist Aesthetica Art Prize, York, UK[16]
  • 2012 Dave Bown Project Award Winner Dave Bown Projects, United States[17]

References

  1. ↑ "Contemporary-Art-Dialogue". Contemporary-Art-Dialogue. Retrieved 2013-04-23. 
  2. ↑ The Saatchi Gallery (2010-03-06). "Marcus Antonius Jansen :: Saatchi Online - Show your art to the world". Saatchi-gallery.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-09-05. 
  3. ↑ Jansen, Marcus Antonius (2006), Modern urban-expressionism Modern urban-expressionism: the art of Marcus Antonius Jansen, American Art Gallery, ISBN 978-0-615-13372-0 
  4. ↑ New Britain Museum of American Art
  5. ↑ Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
  6. ↑ Housatonic Museum of Art,
  7. ↑ "Moscow Museum of Modern Art". Artfacts.net. 2013-04-15. Retrieved 2013-04-23. 
  8. ↑ "Ulyanovsk Museum Fine Arts". Ulyanovsk Museum. 2013-10-28. Retrieved 2013-10-28. 
  9. ↑ "Taiwan Museum of Fine Art". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2013-04-23. 
  10. ↑ permm.ru
  11. ↑ Smithsonain Institution
  12. ↑ Christie's
  13. ↑ "Marcus Jansen". www.gulfshorebusiness.com. Retrieved 2013-12-13. 
  14. ↑ "Marcus Jansen". Artelagunaprize.com. Retrieved 2012-07-01. 
  15. ↑ . Fleurieu Art Prize Jansen http://artprize.com.au/=Marcus Jansen. Retrieved 2013-01-28.  Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. ↑ "Marcus Jansen". Aesthetica Magazine. Retrieved 2012-07-01. 
  17. ↑ "Marcus Jansen". Dave Bown Projects. Retrieved 2012-12-17. 

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