Gallery Talk Reminder |artist Jeff Marshall at Jane Deering Gallery #GloucesterMA

Jane Deering Gallery, 19 Pleasant Street, Gloucester MA

Artist Talk | Jeff Marshall

Sunday . January 27th . 2:00 pm

Jeff talks about drawing and his current work in the exhibition ‘Working the Waterfront’ If you missed Marshall’s acclaimed exhibition at the Cape Ann Museum, this is the last opportunity to view this stunning body of work, which is the subject of Marshall’s year-long observation of the ‘comings and goings’ on Gloucester’s Morse-Sibley Wharf.   Marshall’s work at Jane Deering Gallery was recently noted by The Boston Globe’s Critics’ Pick as one of the best exhibitions to catch.

About the artist:

‘’When I moved into my studio at Morse-Sibley Wharf in East Gloucester in 2016, I spent months drawing as a way of taking inventory of my surroundings …. This long process of drawing and painting from observation has allowed me to focus on what seems to drive the work, friendships, family, and struggles of the fishermen and lobstermen who show up to this place every day. The contested landscape has been my subject for over a decade, from the post-Katrina neighborhoods of New Orleans to the coastline of Massachusetts. I look for imagery that echoes the complex social and environmental issues of specific places that I love. The subjects I choose are often overlooked, revealed as thematic possibilities only after intense visual research of a site.”
Jeffrey Marshall has a BFA from Cornell University and and MFA in painting and printmaking from Massachusetts College of Art. He is a lifelong educator, most recently an Associate Professor of Art Foundation at Mount Ida College in Newton, MA. Previously he was Associate Professor of Graphic Design at The New England Institute of Art. His teaching career started with Teach for America in New Orleans, where he taught elementary school. His drawings and paintings have been shown in many national venues, including the Cape Ann Museum, Aspen Museum of Art, The University of Rhode Island, The Boston Center for the Arts, and Endicott College among many others. His New Orleans Drawing Project, a 10-year document of the city’s post-Katrina Recovery, was featured in The New York Times, Art New England and Artscope Magazine. The artist lives/works in Gloucester MA; he maintains a studio on Morse-Sibley Wharf.