January 9, 2015 — In the hands of artist Jeffrey Marshall, the twisted flotsam of a historic seaport becomes works of art. Marshall’s creations have caught the attention of Cape Ann Museum, which will present “Knots,” a selection of grease pencil drawings and oil paintings by the artist who now calls Gloucester home. The series will be on view in the museum’s lobby next Thursday, Jan. 15, through March 15.
Raised in Manhattan, Marshall left the city to attend Cornell University in Ithica, N.Y.,where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts ibn painting in 1991. He earned a Master of Fine Arts in painting and printmaking in 2000 from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Marshall also worked for seven years in New Orleans’ public school, as part of Teach For America.
Gloucester appeared on his radar after he viewed photographs from a friend who visited during St. Peter’s Fiesta. But it was the coastal scenes that drew the artist to visit Cape Ann.
“I came up here and fell in love with it,” said Marshall, who at one point lived in Somerville and kept a studio in Magnolia. “I came to paint along the coast. I was missing the rocks and the ocean. It was the landscape I was interested in.”
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