Marc Lepson
Part-time Assistant Professor
Email
lepsonm@newschool.edu
Office Location
L - 2 West 13th Street
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Marc Lepson has been part of the downtown art scene in New York City since the early 1990’s, beginning with his work as artist and Master Printer at the Lower East Side Printshop. His work first came to national attention as part of the activist group, ad hoc artists, staging public performances (Our Grief is not a Cry for War) in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks in Lower Manhattan.
In the decade that followed, his strident political prints and installations were shown at Miyako Yoshinaga gallery NY and showcased at The Brooklyn Museum. He has exhibited internationally in Vienna, Berlin, Stockholm, and Reykjavic. His current practice uses painting, drawing, and photography to investigate the politics and aesthetics of violence and systems of control.
Degrees Held
B.A. State University of New York at Albany
M.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago
M.S.C. Kapodistrian & National University of Athens, Greece
Recent Publications
Art on Paper, Art in America.
Research Interests
Drawing, painting, printmaking, history, natural science, taxonomy, etymology, boxing, mythologies of violence.
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