Artis-Naples opens first solo museum exhibition in Southwest Florida for Marcus Jansen
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Timing is everything.
For two decades, renowned Fort Myers artist Marcus Jansen has been obsessed with many of the same themes: Systemic racism. Social inequality. Urban decay. Government surveillance. The increased militarization of the police.
Then 2020 happened.
And 2021.
Suddenly, many of those topics were on everyone else’s minds, too. And Jansen already a rising star in the art world became more popular than ever.
“I’ve been painting like this for a long time,” Jansen says. “But a lot of the topics I’ve been painting over the last 20 years became more forefront. And that’s changed everything.”
Jansen’s huge, graffiti-influenced paintings have been shown in major museums and art galleries in Europe. Now, finally, he’s getting an exhibit much closer to home.