Marcia Teusink
www.marciateusink.com
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Artist Statement
I am interested in what occupies the area between concrete things. As bodies, we identify more with trees, architecture, the sidewalk we walk on. But in fact we are surrounded by a cushion of atmosphere and air, which only becomes visible in revelatory moments. When the fog rolls in (in the case of San Francisco), or when a field is filled with fireflies, or when a cloud of dust is caught in a ray of light in such a way that we pay attention—then the space around us becomes animated and alive. But the microscopic components of air, moisture, and dust are always floating around us, unperceived.
Biography
Marcia Teusink works in large-scale painting and digital photography. The artist lives in San Francisco and exhibits frequently in New York City, the Bay Area, Salt Lake City, and abroad. She is a part of the Belcher Artists group, where she has her studio.
Marcia completed an MFA in Visual Arts at City University at New York, Queens College in 1997, after receiving a BA in English Literature at University of California at Berkeley in 1993. She has attended painting workshops conducted by Claire Gavronsky and Rose Shakinovsky at La Cipressaia in Cerbaia, Italy. She also participated in a drawing and puppetry master class with South African artist William Kentridge there. She was an artist-in-residence at Henry Street Settlement in NY, attended a residency at Masia Can Serrat Centre d'Activitat Artistiques, in Barcelona, and has been an artist-in-residence at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley.
Marcia's teaching experience includes drawing and painting courses in Italy, England, Switzerland, and the United States. In New York she taught at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Pratt Institute of Art and Design, CUNY Queens College, and the Lower East Side Printshop. In Italy she co-founded ARTE|VITA Travel Art Workshops, which offers artists' residencies and art workshops.
Talcum Powder Drawings
"Talcum Powder Drawings" are digital photographs of clouds of powder particles suspended in shaft of light, as they swirl in the air and gradually fall. The powder animates the sunlight itself, creating an explosion of light. The images are like views of a tiny moving universe, circling within a large architectural context. I call them "drawings" because of the myriad fine, white marks that are created as thousands of specks travel through space (2002).
Each piece can be purchased as a 12" x 16"/16" x 12" [$300] or a 30" x 40"/40" x 30" [$750]:
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| Talcum powder drawing # 1. |
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| Talcum powder drawing #2 |
Talcum powder drawing #4 |
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| Talcum powder drawing #3 |
Talcum powder drawing #10 |
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| Talcum powder drawing #11 |
Talcum powder drawing #12 |
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| Talcum powder drawing #14 |
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| Talcum powder drawing # 21 |
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| Talcum powder drawing #22 |
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| Talcum powder drawing # 23 |
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