Marc Schepens
Bio
Marc Schepens lives in Nahant, a small town on the coast of Massachusetts. Schepens was born in Boston in 1977. He received his MFA from Boston University in 2011. Marc is a 2020 winner of a Blanche E. Colman Award. He is a Senior Lecturer in Art at the School of Visual Art, Boston University, where he teaches painting and drawing in the Graduate and Undergraduate programs. He is also the Director of Undergraduate Studies and the Artistic Director of the Visual Arts Summer Institute at the School of Visual Arts, Boston University.
Marc Schepens untitled date paintings denote the days they were finished, and function like a journal for observations of the real and the daily. The perpetual recreation of the ocean’s surface through motion and light’s reflection and refraction informs Schepens’ hand patterned vertical broken line paintings. Abstraction, representation and decoration, converse, complement, and undermine each other, echoing the receding and prevailing tides. Sky and ocean combine in these works, giving way to structure, color, space, and movement. The ocean, like time, is ever changing and hence yields infinite variations.