Opening Reception Sunday February 4, 2024, 1-3 pm (storm date February 11, 1-3 pm)

Marlon Forrester, born in Guyana, South America, is an artist and educator raised in Boston, MA. Forrester is a graduate of School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, B.A 2008 and Yale School of Art, M.F.A. 2010. He is a resident artist at African-American Masters Artist Residency Program (AAMARP) adjunct to the Department of African-American Studies in association with Northeastern University. He has shown both internationally and nationally, concerned with the corporate use of the black body, or the body as logo, Forrester’s paintings, drawings, sculptures, and multimedia works reflect meditations on the exploitation implicit in the simultaneous apotheosis and fear of the muscular black figure in America.

Press:

CLAUDIA FIKS: ARTSCOPE
Guyana-Born, New England Strong: Forrester & Cromwell Elevate New Haven's Ely Center | March 1, 2024

BRIAN SLATTERY: NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT
Artists Let In the Light | Feb 13, 2024