Marion Peck: "Lady Clown" Canvas Print 46x30cm / 18x12"

Admiring the work of Marion Peck, figurehead of Pop Surrealism in the United States, is like taking a stroll in a dark and whimsical universe, a bizarre fairyland where forest animals, grotesque creatures and melancholic children coexist. Sometimes called with a tinge of irony Low­brow Art, Pop Surrealism is a pictorial movement that emerged in the late 1970s in California, of which Marion Peck and her husband, American artist Mark Ryden, happen to be the main figures today.

As often with artists of this movement, the work of Peck recalls the fantasies of Alice in Wonder­land. However, her inspirations reach far beyond Lewis Carroll's iconic novel. Her work converses with famous paintings from the Renaissance. Likewise her technique, perfectly controlled, stems from the heritage of the Old Masters.

With subtlety and originality, Marion Peck excels at weaving together pictorial tradition and contemporaneity. For indeed her paintings reflect back on us, our cultural norms, our entertain­ment industry. They hint at this world of appearances popularized by the media which we all know too well. The artist subverts the codes that we some­times associate with the “Disney magic” to portray characters that seem fragile, worried, ill at ease in their lopsided and dis­proportionate bodies, calling from the viewer an emotional or affective response. Without realizing it, we end up feeling attached to these strange beings that inhabit the eccentric universe of Marion Peck.

Marion Peck was born in 1963 in Manila, the Philippines, while her family was on a trip, and grew up in Seattle. In 1985 she graduated from Rhode Island School of Design, then studied Fine Arts at Syracuse University in New York and Temple University in Rome. In the 90s, she started exhibiting in galleries across the United States, then inter­nationally. In France, it was Magda Danysz who first acknowledged her talent and began to show her work in Paris from 2005. Marion Peck now lives in Portland, USA.

Unframed. Circumferential white border (approx. 4-5cm) for framing.
Shipping: rolled.
The canvas is sensitive to bending. After framing, creases and fraying of the canvas at the edge are harmless.
Size specifications refer to the image area without border.