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Artist Statement:
My oil paintings are about
movement, energy, color and
the figure. Generally, my
works communicate issues of
memory, relationships and the
fleeting nature of life. My
subjects are usually the
people whose lives have
somehow crisscrossed with
mine. My style tends toward
the expressionistic. Many of
paintings feature an explosion
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Artist Exhibitions:
2011 - The Schimskys: A Family
of Artists, Orazio J. Salati
Gallery, Binghamton, NY
2010 - Gil and Deborah
Williams Collection - Herbert
F. Johnson Museum of Art,
Cornell University, Ithaca,
NY.
2010 - Artist’s Magazine 27th
Annual Competition - Finalist
in Figure/Portrait Category
2008 - Artist’s Magazine 25th
Annual Competition - Finalist
in ...
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Artist Galleries:
Orazio Salati Gallery,
Binghamton, New York
Windsor Whip Works Art
Gallery, Windsor, NY...
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
Bill & Joy Morrison
Collection, Los Angeles, Ca.,
USA
Gil & Debra Williams
Collection, Binghamton, NY.,
USA
Firehouse Gallery, Nassau
Community College, Garden
City, N.Y., U.S.A.
Temple Beth David, Commack,
New York, U.S.A.
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Commissions:
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Marc Schimsky Biography:
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Age
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62
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
2
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| Religion |
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| Education |
Masters of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
travel, history, crafts, |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Fauvism - (1898 - 1908)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
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| Favorite Work of Art |
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
I owe a debt of gratitude to numerous historical artists starting with Edgar Degas who invented the "construction" of a momentary glimpse - a fleeting image - as a new kind of painterly realization back in the 1870s before roll-film and the portable camera had been invented and shutter speeds were painfully slow. I love the fleeting image and use photography to help me capture the ethereal nature of life. Studying the works of Paul Serusier, I discovered how good painting arises out of the distribution of brushstrokes across the canvas to form contrasting colors and shpes based on the "push and pull" advocated by Hans Hofmann. I am also a great admirer of the works of Paul Gauguin and Andre Derain. I particularly enjoy the way Gauguin reversed the traditional application of darker colors in the background and lighter colors in the foreground. Finally, Larry Rivers and Francis Bacon have both had a great impact on my most recent work. I have a fondness for Rivers' painting method of obliteration and erasure which is derived from the Abstract Expressionists. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Marc Schimsky began painting, drawing and making original hand-pulled prints in high school. In college, he majored in art education with a focus in printmaking, painting and design. From 1969 to 1970, he studied Italian language, history and culture at the University of Siena, Italy, and attended classes in fresco painting and sculpture at the Istituto Statale d’Arte di Duccio di Buoninsegna. During that time, he lived just outside Siena’s medieval walls beyond “San Domenico” in a residential area below the famous “Fortezza Medicea.” His adventure in Italy in those early years reinforced his desire to devote his life to art and to teaching.
While working on his master’s degree at Pratt Institute in 1976, Marc was awarded an assistantship with Clare Romano-Ross, innovator of the collagraph process, at the Pratt Graphics Center in New York City. It was during this time, that Marc was first introduced to the possibilities of mixed media. Twenty years later, in 1996, Schimsky received the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s “Power of Art” Award which gave him the opportunity to briefly visit with the world-famous contemporary American “POP” artist, Robert Rauschenberg, at the LAB School in Washington, DC. Inspired by Rauschenberg’s personality and by his canvasses on view in the Meyerhof Collection at the National Gallery of Art, Schimsky became interested in experimenting with materials ordinarily thought to be incompatible with each on the picture plane and began a series of works in mixed media that communicated issues of memory and abandonment.
Since 2001, Schimsky has devoted himself to painting in oils and acrylics. Within the past decade, his works have become increasingly figurative. His paintings deal mainly with matters of movement, energy and a fascination with people. These subjects are explored through the use of vibrant color, loose yet authoritative brushwork and the illusion of motion. Borrowing qualities found in photography, Schimsky often blurs parts of his subjects as if attempting to freeze-frame them in the fleeting moment of a familiar experience. He does this in the hope of revealing something mysterious or magical about their personalities.
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