Assistant Professor
mmarzan@email.unc.edu
Mario Marzan was born and raised in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico. He
received his BFA in drawing and printmaking from Bowling Green State
University (2001), and his MFA in studio art at Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh (2005). He is currently an assistant professor in the art department at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Marzan's research explores different languages of landscape painting
and mapping as a means to examine culture and identity. His work is concerned with the
recurring fragmentation of memory as iconic forms. Through references
to the hurricanes that often plague islands and shape the vernacular
(replacement) architecture, his drawings recall childhood memories of
growing up on the island of Puerto Rico. Each of his drawings informs
the others, and diagrams a coherent experience that is motivated by the
epigrammatical narratives he has constructed.
Website:
www.mariomarzan.com
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09/07/2007 07:33am.
