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In a 2004 interview for NY Arts Magazine she made the following statement about Stuckism that has since been often quoted and translated into many languages:
In a 2004 interview for NY Arts Magazine she made the following statement about Stuckism that has since been often quoted and translated into many languages:
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[[Image:Terry Marks, Burning the Evidence.jpg|thumb|''Burning the evidence'' by Terry Marks, 24 inches x 18 inches, Oil on canvas]]
[[Image:Terry Marks, Burning the Evidence.jpg|thumb|''Burning the evidence'' by Terry Marks, 24 inches x 18 inches, Oil on canvas]]

==References==
Strickland, Carol (2004) [http://artgalny.com/info/Long_Page/carol_strickland.html NY Arts Magazine]<i>Stuckist in New York City: An Interview with Narrative Painter Terry Marks</i>


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Revision as of 21:07, 6 September 2008

Left to right: Charles Thomson with US Stuckists, Nicholas Watson, Terry Marks, Marisa Shepherd, Jesse Richards and Catherine Chow in Marks' New York apartment in 2001. The paintings on the wall are by her.

Terry Marks, born 1960, is a Stuckist painter in New York City. She was one of the US artists in the landmark show The Stuckists Punk Victorian at the Walker Art Gallery during the 2004 Liverpool Biennial.

Life and art

Tery Marks is an internationally exhibited, award-winning painter, printmaker and tattooist. Marks was born and raised in New York City. When a teenager, she met painter Joseph Wolins, known for his work during the WPA period, who became her first art teacher and mentor.

In 1980 she moved to London, England, where she lived for nine years, went to art college, and worked as a bartender. Marks received a BA Hons in fine art printmaking (1987) from the Central/St. Martin's School of Art in London, and an MFA in painting at the New York Academy of Art (1993.) After hearing a radio piece on the London Stuckists in 2001, she became founder of New York Stuckism, a local chapter of the international ReModernist art group.

The Experiment by Terry Marks, 36 inches x 24 inches, Oil on canvas

Other notable shows include her solo exhibition "This is Not an installation" (2004) at the Koi Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, and participation in the 1st Stuckist International (2002), Stuckist Centre, Hoxton, London. Marks has been exhibiting her work since 1982 and has taken part in many exhibitions in the United Kingdom, USA, and Australia. Her work is in numerous private collections in the USA & UK.

Nightmare in a mirror by Terry Marks, 24 inches x 18 inches, Oil on canvas

In a 2004 interview for NY Arts Magazine she made the following statement about Stuckism that has since been often quoted and translated into many languages:

We all choose to be painters, but not as if rock & roll, television, cars, cinema, jazz, and the whole 20th century never happened.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Strickland, Carol, NY Arts Magazine interview, 2004

Selected awards

1990 Dori Brown Award, Northern Arts Council (USA).

1988 CCA Galleries Award for Print, Christies Contemporary Arts, London.

1987 Whitworth Young Contemporaries, Manchester England Whatman Paper Award, Young Printmakers Editions, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK. Whatman Paper Award, British Printmakers Council, UK.

See also

Burning the evidence by Terry Marks, 24 inches x 18 inches, Oil on canvas