BIO
Jacky Marshall (b. 1963) Lives and works in New York City. She received an MA from the Royal College of Art and has lived and worked as an artist in New York City for the last 30 years.
She has exhibited in a number of solo and group exhibitions, most recently, "I belong to this" at Huxley Parlour in London, curated by Justine Kurland, and the upcoming exhibition "Art and Activism," curated by Chen Xiangyun. Her work is in numerous private collections.
Marshall has self published books as integral part her practice. Her most recent artist book, "From Jacky" is currently available at Dashwood Books NYC. Marshall will be the subject of Speciwomen Magazine’s next issue.
In addition to a life time of making art works, Jacky Marshall is an accomplished designer and illustrator working with Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs and Narciso Rodriguez.
STATEMENT
For the past 30 years, I have been translating my experience as a queer femme into an aesthetic form. My work breaks media-specific orthodoxies. By blurring boundaries between painting, collage and photography, I upend normative categories and make space for expanded possibilities of meaning and being.
My work is an iterative and associative process, where one thing turns into another. A thread ties interdisciplinary approaches together. I have many different approaches to making work. Sometimes I start with a drawing. I might use the drawing as a negative in the color darkroom. Test strips of varying exposures and color temperatures are collaged into new compositions.
Most recently, I have taken my photographs of my partner, who was a legendary drag performer in the 90’s, and archival pictures of my daughter collaged together with images of flowers.
I am interested in exploring the contrasts between photography and painting. To explore the possibility of scale and movement, the female form and the space we inhabit.
My work mediates desire and trauma through associations to color, gesture and form. The process allows me to navigate my way through psychic pain, finally arriving at reparative erotics through beauty and pleasure.
For inquires email jackymarshallstudio@gmail.com