Marcus Jansen an American Painter went from selling on the streets of New York to being collected by museums internationally.
Desert Storm veteran turned Artist, Marcus Jansen began his professional career 23 years ago selling his work on the corner of Prince St. and Broadway in New York City in 1999 as part of many other artists also referred to as "princestreetkings."
Politically driven, Jansen has painted his way into an elitist industry and now shows his work in museums around the globe. From Emmy award winning Director John Scoular and Emmy Award winning producer Madeline Smith Scoular this film delves into the politics and propaganda of the art world and what it takes to break into an exclusive club.
Marcus Jansen Examine & Report
Malibu Arts Journal|March 2018 Review
"There’s a shot late in Emmy Award Winning director John Schoular’s incisive documentary Examine and Report that sums up what’s so fascinating about artist Marcus Jansen and his work
The shot is black and white, and framed with paint buckets and brushes in the deep foreground. Between their twin silhouettes is the hulking Jansen, walking to the camera through the long length of his warehouse - style studio, brush swinging in his hand like a construction worker holding a hammer. Jansen’s gait has a steady weariness to it, a subdued pace. He’s not leaping boundless i n spiration, or sullen as the horrors of the world creep it. He’s simply trudging along, going to work.
At some point in any successful artist’s career, the act itself becomes a job. It’s the source of the paycheck that’s keeping them off the street and with food in their stomachs, and with those pressures come having to occasionally do things you don’t want to. Maybe it’s a piece on commission, or a series of interviews for an art opening. But there’s that other definition of “job,” which is the task that one is simply compelled to do. And in Jansen’s walk in that shot, you see the heft of a worker, commuting to the gig.
“Painting is simply capturing a moment in time,” Jansen says, in the film."
- Rick Paulas
Photos: Marcus Jansen with fellow artists on his corner of Prince Street and Broadway in New York City in 1999.
Desert Storm veteran turned Artist, Marcus Jansen began his professional career 23 years ago selling his work on the corner of Prince St. and Broadway in New York City in 1999 as part of many other artists also referred to as "princestreetkings."
Politically driven, Jansen has painted his way into an elitist industry and now shows his work in museums around the globe. From Emmy award winning Director John Scoular and Emmy Award winning producer Madeline Smith Scoular this film delves into the politics and propaganda of the art world and what it takes to break into an exclusive club.
Marcus Jansen Examine & Report
Malibu Arts Journal|March 2018 Review
"There’s a shot late in Emmy Award Winning director John Schoular’s incisive documentary Examine and Report that sums up what’s so fascinating about artist Marcus Jansen and his work
The shot is black and white, and framed with paint buckets and brushes in the deep foreground. Between their twin silhouettes is the hulking Jansen, walking to the camera through the long length of his warehouse - style studio, brush swinging in his hand like a construction worker holding a hammer. Jansen’s gait has a steady weariness to it, a subdued pace. He’s not leaping boundless i n spiration, or sullen as the horrors of the world creep it. He’s simply trudging along, going to work.
At some point in any successful artist’s career, the act itself becomes a job. It’s the source of the paycheck that’s keeping them off the street and with food in their stomachs, and with those pressures come having to occasionally do things you don’t want to. Maybe it’s a piece on commission, or a series of interviews for an art opening. But there’s that other definition of “job,” which is the task that one is simply compelled to do. And in Jansen’s walk in that shot, you see the heft of a worker, commuting to the gig.
“Painting is simply capturing a moment in time,” Jansen says, in the film."
- Rick Paulas
Photos: Marcus Jansen with fellow artists on his corner of Prince Street and Broadway in New York City in 1999.
