MARCOART
Arts & Crafts - New York, New York, United States
MARCOART Details
MARCOART hailed by the NY Times in downtown Manhattan is the art based clothing and product line created by NYC POP Art Legend MarcoMarco is a NYC POP Art Legend hailed by the NY Times whose talents extend from painting, to designing, illustrating, animating, writing, film- making, and acting, . All of these mediums combine in one way or another to form what Marco calls MARCOART his art based clothing and product line in New York City's Historic Hip and Trendy Lower East Side in downtown Manhattan.Unlike other quote "legendary" NYC POP Artists like Keith Harring and Andy Warhol, who are both actually originally from Pennsylvania Marco is really born and raised in New York City. Marco's very first exposure to art was 2nd grade art class, it was his favorite time of the day when he could get loose with his friends and do his thingMarco got his start selling his paintings in SOHO NYC in the late 1980's on the corner of Prince and Greene Streets where he was dubbed "Prince of Greene Street" by the locals and covered by the New York Times reporter James Servin who in an January 20th 1991 article titled "SOHO Stares at Hard Times" said of the young upstart artist: "Nevertheless, at the corner of Prince and Greene Streets a smiling young man exclaims, "Art!" and points to crudely painted canvases clipped to a chain fence. He introduces himself as "Marco, the artist." "All of these canvases are waterproof oil," he says. "They're all under $100. You should buy one. In a couple of years, they'll quadruple in value." It turns out he was right, Marco's original paintings now sell for tens of thousands of dollars and have been featured in gallery shows all over the world.
