Marlon Forrester, born in Guyana, South America, is an artist and educator raised in Boston, MA. Forrester is a graduate of School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, B.A 2008 and Yale School of Art, M.F.A. 2010. He is a resident artist at African-American Masters Artist Residency Program (AAMARP) adjunct to the Department of African-American Studies in association with Northeastern University. He has shown both internationally and nationally
Statement
Concerned with the corporate use of the black body, or the body as logo, Forrester’s paintings, drawings, sculptures, and multimedia works reflect meditations on the exploitation implicit in the simultaneous apotheosis and fear of the muscular black figure in America.
StBasquiatObama from the series If Black Saints Could Fly 23: si volare posset nigra XXIII sanctorum., signed pigment print on archival paper, 8 x 10 inches, 2021, $125StRaySly23 from the series If Black Saints Could Fly 23: si volare posset nigra XXIII sanctorum., signed pigment print on archival paper, 8 x 10 inches, 2021, $125
StJesusChrist23 from the series If Black Saints Could Fly 23: si volare posset nigra XXIII sanctorum., signed pigment print on archival paper, 8 x 10 inches, 2021, $125StTrayvonGeorge23 from the series If Black Saints Could Fly 23: si volare posset nigra XXIII sanctorum., signed pigment print on archival paper, 8 x 10 inches, 2021, $125
StTrayvonGeorge23 from the series If Black Saints Could Fly 23: si volare posset nigra XXIII sanctorum., signed pigment print on archival paper, 8 x 10 inches, 2021, $125Marlon Forrestor Exhibition Catalog, $100
