MARC LEPSON has been part of the downtown art scene in New York City since the early 1990’s, beginning with his work as artist and Master Printer at the Lower East Side Printshop. Lepson’s work first came to national attention as part of the activist group, ad hoc artists, staging public performances (Our Grief is not a Cry for War) in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in Lower Manhattan. In the decade that followed, his strident political prints and evocative installations were shown at Miyako Yoshinaga gallery NY, The Brooklyn Museum and the Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna. His current practice uses painting to isolate and abstract gestures of violence and domination.
Lepson has received a Pollock-Krasner Grant and his work has appeared in Art on Paper, and Art in America. He teaches drawing, imaging, and book arts at Parsons School of Design, is co-curator of the online exhibition series Fermata 3x3, and is a founding member of the Anarchist Review of Books collective.
