Artist Bio:
Marlon Green Jr. is an aspiring surrealist artist aiming to explore the complex landscape of identity, conflicting feelings, and resonance found within the mundane. By primarily using two-dimensional media to produce vivid, symbolic images of reality, he aims to capture the psychological weight of various subject matter. Born and raised in South Florida, Marlon thrived within the art scenes where he honed his craft and received recognition through multiple exhibits and awards. Currently residing in Orlando, Florida, he continues to further his education as a part of the Emerging Media MFA program at the University of Central Florida. He fully intends to obtain his master’s degree in studio art and design to become a professor at the university. Marlon strives to seek opportunities to fuel his creative expression and foster fresh new ideas and perspectives to bring into the ever-expanding art world. His work has been featured in the ArtFields Competition and Festival in South Carolina, 1310 Gallery in downtown Fort Lauderdale, FL, and other exhibitions across Florida since 2018.
Artist Statement:
My work centers around the emotional fluctuations of a creative being through the use of self-portraits contained within paint-marbled backgrounds. I’m interested in how moments of hope and defeat, self-doubt and support, and other contrasting emotions can affect conceptualization, dissolution, and reform in the ambiguous realm of the subconscious mind. Creativity can be perceived as a gift and a burden affecting our emotions and exposing our inner being. By manipulating color and intricate details to blend my body with the ever-changing abstract color fields, I produce works that juxtapose the essence of clarity and the complexities of the psychological to express the constant cycles of human emotions. I use multiple layers of acrylic paint to create fluid, swirling colors that enhance emotional depth and motifs, mirroring not a fixed identity but an unpredictable future that develops in creativity itself. This approach makes my marbled surfaces act as mirrored landscapes that blur lines between inner thoughts and forms of outer expression unifying abstract and realistic forms. Through this interplay between vulnerability and transformation, I reflect on the subtle bonds that tie emotion, intuition, and uncertainty into the evolving layers of “color” and self within the vast realms of creative identity.
