Marcus Harvey, artist and art
Born 1963, Birth Leeds, England.
The artist lives and works in London.
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Work
Artist’s work and biography
Marcus Harvey’s large, brightly-coloured canvases, made active by broad sweeps of impasto paint, literally bear the mark of his hand. The impressions made in the thick surface of the paint scrape through the layers of colour and smear the different hues to create a highly agitated surface. Harvey’s paintings reference Action painting, the post-war movement that placed great importance on the traces of the artist’s physical presence in bringing the work into being…
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