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SELECTED WORKS BY Marcus Harvey

Julie From Hull
Marcus Harvey
Julie From Hull

1994

oil and acrylic on canvas

244 x 244 cm
Taking his images sources from home-brew porn magazine Reader’s Wives, Marcus Harvey’s early canvases use paint as a means to explore the concept of excess. Replicating smutty urgency, Harvey’s Julie from Hull is bathed in frenzied gushy pink, a dirty allurement promising fleshy debauchery. Using a heavy black line over a thick expressionist ground, Harvey’s graphic form becomes both container and barrier of over-indulgence, the promise of gratification monumentalised and ever distant.

Marcus Harvey's BIOGRAPHY

1963
 Born in Leeds

Currently lives and works in London


SOLO EXHIBITIONS



2005
 Marcus Harvey, Mimmo Scognamiglio, Naples
The FĂĽhrer's Cakes, Galleria Marabini, Bologna

2002
 Marcus Harvey, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Marcus Harvey, Vedovi Fine Art, Brussels

1996
 Marcus Harvey, Vedovi Fine Art, Brussels

1995
 Marcus Harvey, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

1994
 Snaps, White Cube, London

1993
 Marcus Harvey, Cohen Gallery, New York


GROUP EXHIBITIONS



2005
 London Calling. Young British Artists Criss-Crossed, Galleri Kaare Berntsen, Oslo

2002
 Closer, Standpoint Gallery, London

2001
 Happy the World so Made, The Nunnery, London

2000
 MoMa. A Thick Bloke Kicking a Dog to Death, The International 3 Summer FĂŞte, Fairfield, Manchester
Sex and the Britsh, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Out There, White Cube2, Hoxton, London

1999
 Now It's My Turn to Scream. Works by Contemporary British Artists from the Logan