Marc Schepens: Broad Sound

Ellen Miller Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Marc Schepens paintings. Marc Schepens: Broad Sound will be on view from May 10- June 1, 2022, Opening reception for the artist, Saturday, May 14, 2-4 pm.

Marc Schepens lives in Nahant, a small town on the ocean. The perpetual recreation of the ocean’s surface through motion and light’s reflection and refraction informs Schepens’ hand patterned vertical broken line paintings. There are usually two alternating colors, often white and variations of blue or green, applied independently and directly. On some occasions there might be as many as three colors or as few as one.  Curved lines and sweeping lines echo the receding and prevailing tides, while the canvas or linen beneath holds its ground. Sky and ocean combine, giving way to structure, color, space, and movement. Schepens’ compositions hold the viewers’ attention, their optical ebb and flow reinventing and renewing themselves with each view.

Marc Schepens was born in Boston in 1977. He received his MFA from Boston University in 2011. Recent solo exhibitions include “East Point”, Bromfield Gallery (2020), Boston, MA, and “Dog Paintings”, Transit Gallery, Harvard Medical School (2019). Recent Group shows include “This Must Be the Place”, curated by Marissa Graziano, Launch F18, New York , NY (2022), “Overflow”, Page Gallery, Camden, ME (2021); “The Areacode Art Fair”, Boston, MA (2020); “Take A Walk for A Line”, MUSA collective, Boston, MA (2020); “The Missing Half Second”, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME (2019); and “Those Who Can”, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA (2019). Marc is a 2020 winner of a Blanche E. Colman Award. He is a Senior Lecturer in Art at the School of Visual Art, Boston University, where he teaches painting and drawing in the Graduate and Undergraduate programs. He is also the Director of Undergraduate Studies and the Artistic Director of the Visual Arts Summer Institute at the School of Visual Arts, Boston University.