Jerome Marshak   Bio

I was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1942. My journey as an artist began in 1965 while studying law at Washington University. Near the end of my graduate work, I realized that art, not law, would be my life's work.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, I exhibited work at the Los Angeles Artists Association and the Comsky Gallery. During this period, I associated with a group of Los Angeles light and space minimalists. Those artists were instrumental in the formation of my aesthetic as an abstract artist.

Since 1981, I have made my home on Lopez Island in northern Puget Sound. My work is the product of time spent studying the light and lines on the southern coast of Lopez Island Washington for many years. The lines are drawn using a set of templates designed to symbolize and then deconstruct what I see — mountains, wind, clouds, tides, swells, shorelife, boats, and debris. I work in a small studio on the remote southern headlands of the island.

Jerome Marshak
Untitled #6584
Ink and Graphite on Paper
16 x 20 inches

Jerome Marhsak
Untitled #6864
Ink and Graphite on Paper
16 x 20 inches