Marc Chicoine

Lives and works in Raleigh, NC, USA

Artist statement

Marc Chicoine is a visual artist and dancer born in the Bay Area of California. He received his BA from Chicago based Northwestern University in Cognitive Science and Communication. He then moved to NYC in order to further develop his creative ambitions. After designing within the education technology sector, Marc returned to school and received an MFA from the Pratt Institute. Marc's paintings and sculptures focus on bodily narrative, physical objects, and their relationship, in order to craft metaphor. These orchestrated forces merge and occasionally clash with one another to express universal and personal truths. Marc has exhibited across the United States. Showings include the Pratt Institute, Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Art League RI, Viridian Artists, D'art Gallery Denver, Ashton Gallery San Diego, and Attleboro Arts Museum, amongst others. In free time, Marc enjoys sharing on the dance floor. He is a practitioner of House dance and Capoeira. Marc believes that his movement practice is integral to his visual work, creatively, rhythmically, and gesturally. Both systems of expression bridge technical prowess with improvisation. "As a painter, sculptor, and dancer, my work is driven by an appreciation for corporeal experience and its possibilities for expression. Heavily inspired by embodied cognition and the research of pioneers such as George Lakoff, I believe that bodily narrative and sensorial perceptions are responsible for how we conceive of and engage with...

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