About
George Marcus is an emerging, octogenarian artist, who recently returned to studio art after a long interval as an art-book editor and publisher, notably at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He began his study of art at the age of 14 in adult painting classes at the Art Students League in New York, gaining further experience in the crafts and art at creative arts camps in the summers. He received a B.A. in fine arts (studio and art history) from Brandeis University and later attended drawing classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Marcus and his late wife Nancy moved to East Middlebury, Vermont in 2015, where he enjoys hiking and cross-country skiing.
Marcus has chosen colored-pencil as his preferred medium, taking a singular approach in which he ignores the color-layering technique of conventional colored-pencil work for a full-blown use of direct, raw color, which he applies on tinted and colored papers. His goal is to create drawings that are emblematic, in which the non-essentials are eliminated and a powerful image remains. This was recognized with the selection of his work for the exhibition “Mark: Current Approaches to Drawing,” held at the ArtLInk Contemporary Gallery in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 2024.