Marc Tasman

cast of characters
xerox transfers 
1998-2000

Work made in Louisville, KY and Columbus, OH. Exhibited at Wexner Hillel, New Millennium, C.E. January 2000
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Illuminated (M. Chaim Luzzatto) 1998 xerox, gel medium, prismacolor on wood panel 48x48 in.

Hot Coals, Hot Ashes 1999 xerox, gel medium, prismacolor on wood panel 48x48 in.

A Prayer Sung 1999 xerox, gel medium, charcoal on wood panel 48x48 in.

Golem 1999 Xerox, gel medium, prismacolor on wood panel 48x48 in.

Not A Contradiction 1999 Xerox, gel medium on wood panel 48x48 in.

Aaah Cholera! 1999 Xerox, gel medium on wood panel 48x48 in.

Sobbing (Love and Angst) 1999 Xerox, gel medium on wood panel 48x48 in.

Suspicion (for Duddy Kravitz)1/3 1999 Xerox, gel medium on wood panel 48x48 in.

Jew With A Gun, Call 911 2000 Xerox, gel medium on wood panel 48x48 in

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"I see life as a performance of thoughts and actions as a way of understanding reality. Performances repeated with mindfulness become rituals. The curtain draws open as I begin to create one-person tableaux using scripts and inner-monologues (referencing Jewish mysticism, Yiddish folk traditions, and family stories). Staging events by method acting, to evoke emotion, I image my face using an instant camera. The performance continues as a method of xerography, cutting, piecing together, adhering, scrubbing, and mark-making, climaxing as an astonishing, large, image of a face, materializes upon a wooden panel. The curtain closes." -artist's statement, 1999