Marcia Teusink's artwork is concerned with the fallibility in terms of both physical forms (i.e. architecture or geometric shapes) and abstract ideals (i.e. ‘home’, ‘safety’, ‘country’). She starts her work by photographing discarded objects on the streets and collecting images of current events in the paper, usually having to do with political failures and climate disasters. These images inform simple models out of humble materials, such as paper, paint, old canvases, and found wood. From there, the work takes on a life of its own, resulting in larger wall installations, mixed media pieces and more developed paintings. Teusink works across painting as a way of rendering images with layered mark-making and making paintings as sculptural objects, which are composed of cut up reused stretcher bars and also incorporate found objects and materials. Moving back and forth between these two painting idioms is a way to engage in a conversation about collapse in political, environmental and personal terms, as well as exploring different aspects of painting. Teusink has currently has her studio in Hackney, London. She shows her work in galleries in Europe and the USA and has taught art in schools, museums and retreats in Europe and the USA.
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SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2020 Ruins of Time, LME Project, St Augustine's Tower, Hackney, London (upcoming) 2019 Past & Present Tense, White Noise Projects, Crypt Gallery, London Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London 2018 Surface Tension, with Andy D'Cruz & Sam Hodge, The Stone Space, Leytonstone, London 2017 White Noise, White Noise Projects, Crypt Gallery, London Dover PrintFest, Dover Arts Collective, Dover All Inked Up, University of Canterbury, Kent 2016 GRIT, curated by Jane Boyer, Arthouse1 Gallery, London Marcia Teusink, Voxel Gallery Online (solo) On Color, Pushdot Studios, Portland, Oregon Intertidal, Whitstable Biennale Satellite Programme Exhibition, Whitstable Methodist Church, Whitstable 2015 Memory as a Creative Act, Oppland Kunstenter, Lillehammer Norway (organised by Elise Schonhowd) Zeitgeist Art Project Summer Exhibition, Bond House Gallery, London 2014 Transformations, Saint Barnabas Church and Art Space, Dalston, London 2013 Going Underground, Shoreditch Town Hall, London Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London The Sketchbook Project Print Exchange 2013, Williamsburg, New York 2011 On the Contemplative, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy Birds and Bees, Linksoul Gallery, San Diego, California 2009 Begin Anywhere, 23HAMquarters, Berkeley, California 2008 Water 2008, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco, California Mapping Reason, Viva Italian Cultural Center, Sebastopol, California 2007 Domestic Departures Collab Exhibition, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, California Fresh Work, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California Women’s Group Show, Hotel des Artes, San Francisco, California The Edge of Abstraction, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, California 2006 Dust in Sunlight: Paintings and Photographs of a Particle Universe, California State University at Stanislaus, Turlock, California Gift, 301 Bocana Gallery, San Francisco, California 2005 Particle Clouds, 50 Fremont Street Lobby, San Francisco, California Selections 2005, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, California Thirty Something: Celebrating Innovative Work from Kala Art Institute, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, California 2004 Fresh, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California Small Works, SF LGBT Community Center, San Francisco, California Roads & Pastimes, curated by Amy Bay, Buzzer Thirty Gallery, Astoria, New York 2003 Talcum Powder Drawings, Buzzer Thirty Gallery, Astoria, New York (solo) Water & Air, A Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah (solo) Time & Transcendence, Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, Ben Lomand, California RESIDENCIES/AWARDS 2018 Residency with Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky, Poppiano Italy 2017 Workshop and residency with Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky, Poppiano Italy 2015 Kala Artist Residency Award, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 2015 Workshop and residency with Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky, Poppiano Italy 2013 Artists residency at Morris Graves Foundation, Loleta, CA 2013 Workshop and residency with Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky, Poppiano Italy 2010 Just Painting Workshop, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy 2009 Artists residency at Lesheba Center for Indigenous Knowledge, Lampopo, South Africa 2007 Contemporary Issues in Art workshop, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy 2007 Domestic Departures Collab Residency, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA 2004 Kala Artist Residency Award, Berkeley, CA 2000 Residency, Masía Can Serrat Centre d’Activitat Artistiques, Barcelona, Spain 1998 Henry Street Settlement Artists-in-Residence Program, New York, NY EDUCATION 1993 BA in English Literature, University of California at Berkeley 1992 Coursework in Fine Arts, Scuola Lorenzo de'Medici, Florence, Italy 1997 MFA in Visual Art, City University of New York, Queens College 2011 MA in Museum & Gallery Education, Institute of Education, UCL, London |