Marcia Teusink's practice investigates collapse and the reconfiguration of the built environment through painting, found objects, photography and mixed media. The work takes as a starting point the impact of neglect on our cities and structures, the effects of climate change and extreme weather, and also the normal consequences of time and weathering on objects. Teusink is interested in the political implications of collapse and restructuring, as well as the art historical, psychological, and spiritual ones. Coming from a background in painting in particular, the physical structures of paintings are a primary focus and metaphor for the investigation of these themes. The artist frequently collaborates with other artists to make work and to organise community projects. Teusink has been on several residencies with South African artists Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky in Poppiano, Italy, as well as having been artist-in-residence at Kala Art Institute and The Morris Graves Foundation. In 2021 she will be attending a MASSMoCA studio residency in North Adams, MA, USA. Her studio is currently in Stoke Newington, London and her work is shown in galleries in Europe and the USA.
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SOLO and 2-3 PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2020 Fallibility Cabinet, TODGallery, Sevenoaks, Kent (online due to Covid-19) - solo Isolation, curated by Marc Lepson, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York (online due to Covid-19) 2018 Surface Tension, The Stone Space, Leytonstone, London 2016 Marcia Teusink, Voxel Gallery (online exhibition) - solo Intertidal, Whitstable Biennale Satellite Programme, Whitstable Methodist Church, Whitstable 2014 Transformations, Saint Barnabas Church & Art Space, Dalston, London 2006 Dust in Sunlight, University Art Gallery, California State University at Stanislaus, Turlock, CA - solo 2005 Particle Clouds, 50 Fremont Street Lobby, San Francisco, CA - solo 2003 Talcum Powder Drawings, Buzzer Thirty Gallery, Astoria, NY - solo Water & Air, A Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT 2001 Spill, Galerie des Kulturbüros, Zürich, Switzerland - solo SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 Towards a Global Village, collaboration with Tanya Gill, curated by Nirmal Raja, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, WI, USA (upcoming) Groundwork Exhibition, curated by Matthew Swift, APT Gallery, Deptford, London (upcoming) Ruins of Time, London Munich Exchange Project, St Augustine’s Tower, Hackney (upcoming) This Year’s Model, Studio1.1 Gallery, London (upcoming) 2020 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London (online due to Covid-19) ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London (online due to Covid-19) Groundwork Incubator Residency/Exhibition, curated by Matthew Swift, APT Gallery, Deptford Dover Printfest2020, Dover, Kent (online due to Covid-19) 2019 Past and Present Tense, White Noise Projects, Crypt Gallery, London Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2017 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 On Color, Pushdot Studios, Portland, OR 2015 Memory as a Creative Act, curated by Elise Schonhowd, Oppland Kunstenter, Lillehammer, Norway Zeitgeist Art Project Summer Exhibition, Bond House Gallery, London 2013 Going Underground, East London Printmakers, Shoreditch Town Hall, London Get Culture, Re/Kindle Public Arts, Queens Wood, London Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London 2012 A Right Royal Tea Party, Re/Kindle Public Arts, Alexandra Palace, London 2011 On the Contemplative, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy Birds and Bees, Linksoul Gallery, San Diego, CA 2009 Begin Anywhere, 23HAMquarters, Berkeley, CA 2008 Water 2008, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco, CA Mapping Reason, Viva Italian Cultural Center, Sebastopol, CA 2007 Domestic Departures Collab Exhibition, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA Fresh Work, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA The Edge of Abstraction, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, CA 2006 Don’t Believe Everything You Think, Viva Italian Cultural Center, Sebastopol, CA Four More Years, Buzzer Thirty Gallery, Astoria, NY 2005 Selections 2005, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, CA Thirty Something: Kala Art Institute, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA RESIDENCIES 2021 MASS MoCA Studios Residency, North Adams, MA 2016/18 Artists’ Residency, with artists Rosenclaire, Poppiano, Italy 2015 Kala Artist Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 2013 Morris Graves Foundation Solo Residency, Loleta, CA 2010 Just Painting Residency, Rosenclaire, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy 2009 Artists Residency, Lesheba Center for Indigenous Knowledge, Limpopo, South Africa 2007 Contemporary Issues in Art Residency, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy 2007 Domestic Departures Collab Residency, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA 2004 Kala Art Institute Artist-in-Residence, Berkeley, CA 2000 Masía Can Serrat Centre d’Activitat Artistiques, Artists Residency, Barcelona, Spain 2000 Lower East Side Printshop, Visiting Artist, New York, NY 1998 Henry Street Settlement Artists-in-Residence Program, New York, NY COLLECTIONS I have work in various private collections in the U.K., Europe and the U.S.A. EDUCATION 2011 Institute of Education, University of London, MA Museum & Gallery Education 1997 City University of New York, Queens College, MFA Visual Arts, Honours 1993 University of California at Berkeley, BA English Literature, Summa Cum Laude 1992 Scuola Lorenzo de’ Medici, Florence, Italy, Studio Art & Art History |