The TWO DECADES exhibition features a limited edition print series from noted artist Marcus Jansen. The focus of this exhibit is Jansen’s standout works from the Modern Expressionism period: 2000-2019. Available ‘only’ for this curated exhibition are 30 different limited edition archival prints, 3/3 ea., by Jansen – in collaboration with SMITH contemporary.
"They gave me the feeling of seeing paintings that had leaped 100 to 150 years from the American style of the Ashcan school, i.e., Edward Hopper’s midnight pictures bathed in yellow light of a few patrons in a diner, very poetic. Marcus is the innovator of Modern Expressionism. What initiated it for him, was the graffiti on the sides of subway trains when he traveled from the Bronx to Manhattan to sell his work on the street. This is somewhat reminiscent of Jackson Pollock learning to kneel with the Hopi Indians and throw sand to make sand pictures. That innovation may have been the beginning of Abstract Expressionism." - Jerome A. Donson - Art Historian and Former director of The American Vanguard Exhibitions, MOMA, New York, 1961.
“Marcus Jansen’s work brings you into an interpretation of yourself. Its depth makes you aware of your isolation, and inner most thoughts as a human, as a witness. What makes this print so valuable, meaningful and impactful is her fearlessness to speak truth to power. As a curator, his work opened a lens into analyzing so many difficult moments and subjects.” - Terrence Sanders-Smith
Solo Exhibitions: La Triennale di Milano Museum, Milan, the Museum Zitadelle Berlin and a major survey at The Baker Museum, Naples, FL, (Marcus Jansen Two Decades of Relevance) and at the Rollins Museum of Art, (Marcus Jansen E Pluribus Unum). He has participated in his first U.S. Museum invitational group show titled, Under/current/overview 8, at the Tampa Museum of Art in 2006, followed by the 12th International Print and Drawing Biennial in Taiwan at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art.
Private and Public Collections: Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), The Bunker Art Space in the Collection of Beth Ruin Dewoody, The Artistic Museum of Contemporary Art (AMOCA) Wales, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, The New Britain Museum of American Art, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, The Rollins Museum of Art, Baker Museum, Florida, The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, The Housatonic Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.
Note: In 2022, Marcus Jansen’s MMXX sold at Christie's Auction in NYC for $107,100.00 +53% est.
