About the artist:
Julien Parant-Marquis is a visual artist working predominantly in painting, drawing, sculpture, and experimental photography. In his paintings, Parant-Marquis creates intricate scenes that undulate between the recognizable and the abstract, with each setting vibrating between viscous interiority and grand cosmology. He often refers to these environments as “chaos landscapes,” in which vines, tendrils, tentacles, caves, leaves, fangs, and bodily orifices form momentarily and then impishly fall out of focus. Alongside his painting practice, he maintains a growing body of sculptural woodwork consisting of hand-carved objects and sinuously shaped hardwood frames.
Julien Parant-Marquis was born in 1996 in Montréal, Canada, where he lives. He holds a BFA in Painting & Drawing from Concordia University in Montréal, Canada.
He has participated in recent exhibitions at SARA’S in New York, NY; Espace Maurice in Montréal, Canada; Tap Artspace, Montréal, Canada; Baba Yaga in Hudson, NY; Afternoon Projects in Vancouver, Canada; and Gama Gallery in Mexico City, Mexico.
Specs:
The artist’s multi-pronged practice is on full display in this artwork: a lushly painted environment embedded in a painstakingly hand-carved spruce frame. The artist’s complex carved frames share a distinct aesthetic with American “tramp art”—a style of Depression-era folk woodcarving—yet with a firmly contemporary feel.More
- Framed: 13.2 x 16.0 x 1.5 in.
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