Spotlight Artist

Marc Librizzi

Northeast
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Skeleton Key

Padlock with an eye, several keys, and a shadowy hand reaching toward the door.

oil on canvas

Spin Cycle

Washing machine with laundry that looks like tiny landscapes and mountains.

oil on canvas

Allure

Surreal underwater scene with a colorful hand-shaped lure and a fish school forming a hand.

oil on canvas

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Artist Statement

 Librizzi’s work looks toward the inanimate artifacts of contemporary life to contemplate personal and interpersonal feelings of desire, self-perception, humiliation, joy, and the connectedness of the world built around them. Although the depiction of the flesh and blood of a person is reserved for the rare occasion, their presence and concerns sit at the forefront. With slight modifications and careful arrangements, familiar sights take on new roles creating a scene that blurs between still life, portraiture, and landscape. Here there is often a sense of being ‘caught in the act’, allowing for the intimacy to witness an event at its precipice, a state of incompletion, at its most revered.

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