ITEM #025
Untitled (10th Calvary "Buffalo Soldiers" relocated to Texas Canyon in Southeastern Arizona)
Stephen Marc
2011, 6.75"x19.5"
digital montage/archival pigment print
10th Cavalry photo courtesy of the Fort Huachuca Museum
Value: $1000
Minimum bid: $325
Stephen Marc is a Full Professor of Art in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts in his thirteenth year at the University. Originally from Chicago, he received his B.A. from Pomona College and his M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, before returning to teach for twenty years at Columbia College Chicago. He has published three books of his work: Urban Notions (1983) where he explored three black communities in Illinois; The Black Trans-Atlantic Experience: Street Life and Culture in Ghana, Jamaica, England and the United States (1992); and Passage on the Underground Railroad (2009). His Underground Railroad project is a University at Buffalo Galleries’ traveling exhibition; was partially sponsored by Olympus Imaging America Inc. and is a registered program of the National Park Service’s Network to Freedom division. Marc was the recipient of the Factor Prize in Southern Art in 2009, awarded by the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC; and the Kasson in 2004, by the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA. He has completed several site-specific projects including two large-scale digital montage commissions in Chicago for the Avalon Public Library (23K) and for the CTA 79th Street Red Line Station (90K) in 2006-2007. Currently, Marc is continuing his creative research on the African Diaspora, with an emphasis on pre-1930 visual remnants (postcards, trade cards, photographs, illustrated magazines, and textual documents) that are digitally relocated in order to provide insight into United States history.