July 15th, 2011 at 7:38PM
Marc Horowitz (b. 1976, Westerville, OH USA)  Marc Horowitz is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary artist, working primarily in performance, video and installation. The central concerns driving most of his work have to do with engaging strangers in public and on the internet around absurdist principles. His projects engage in a dialog with a diverse range of subjects including entertainment, advertising, architectural environments, commerce and the quest for daily meaning. He is constantly making lists of potential inventions, neologisms, moneymaking schemes, jokes, drawings, websites, characters and impromptu videos. His work speaks to “the moment,” reflects and critiques American idealism, expansionism and capitalism; and parodies pop culture so successfully it becomes re-appropriated by it.  Horowitz received his BS Marketing from Indiana University, Bloomington and is currently earning his MFA at the University of Southern California, Roski School of Fine Arts. Select solo and group exhibitions include Caminamos. Alrededor es Imposible, curated by Lorenzo Sandoval, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2011), The Advice of Strangers .com, funded by Creative Time, curated by Nato Thompson (2010), The National Dinner Tour & The Signature Series. Somewhere Else, curated Paul Ardenne, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris (2010), talkshow247.com, ARoS Museum, Denmark (2009), Twitter Drawings. The Future Is Not What It Used To Be, Postmasters Gallery, New York (2009), NYCommercial & Google Maps Road Trip, Conflux Festival (NYU), New York (2009), Golden America Loves You, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles (2009), The Me & You Show, The Hayward Gallery Project Space, curated by Ralph Rugoff, London (2008), 7 Days in a Sentra,Working Men, curated by Barbara Polla and Paul Ardenne, Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva (2008), The Center for Improved Living, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva (2007), The Center for Improved Living: Life Coaching, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles (2007), Video Window, curated by Harrell Flecter, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland (2007) and I Invented the Internet, Fluctuating Image - Contemporary Media Art, Stuttgart (2007). Publications in which Horowitz and his work have been profiled include The Economist, Interview Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Esse Magazine, The New York Times, ReadyMade Magazine, The Independent, Useless Magazine, Dazed & Confused Magazine and People Magazine. He was one of 25 emerging artists to be awarded a $25,000 grant in AOL’s 2010 25 for 25 Grant. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.  Image: Marc Horowitz, The Title is a Drawing (with Chris Coy), 2011, video TRT is 16:08, filmed in HD video, edition of 2, 3/3 with 2 APs.(c) Marc Horowitz

Marc Horowitz (b. 1976, Westerville, OH USA) 

Marc Horowitz is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary artist, working primarily in performance, video and installation. The central concerns driving most of his work have to do with engaging strangers in public and on the internet around absurdist principles. His projects engage in a dialog with a diverse range of subjects including entertainment, advertising, architectural environments, commerce and the quest for daily meaning. He is constantly making lists of potential inventions, neologisms, moneymaking schemes, jokes, drawings, websites, characters and impromptu videos. His work speaks to “the moment,” reflects and critiques American idealism, expansionism and capitalism; and parodies pop culture so successfully it becomes re-appropriated by it. 

Horowitz received his BS Marketing from Indiana University, Bloomington and is currently earning his MFA at the University of Southern California, Roski School of Fine Arts. Select solo and group exhibitions include Caminamos. Alrededor es Imposible, curated by Lorenzo Sandoval, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2011), The Advice of Strangers .com, funded by Creative Time, curated by Nato Thompson (2010), The National Dinner Tour & The Signature Series. Somewhere Else, curated Paul Ardenne, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris (2010), talkshow247.com, ARoS Museum, Denmark (2009), Twitter Drawings. The Future Is Not What It Used To Be, Postmasters Gallery, New York (2009), NYCommercial & Google Maps Road Trip, Conflux Festival (NYU), New York (2009), Golden America Loves You, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles (2009), The Me & You Show, The Hayward Gallery Project Space, curated by Ralph Rugoff, London (2008), 7 Days in a Sentra,Working Men, curated by Barbara Polla and Paul Ardenne, Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva (2008), The Center for Improved Living, Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva (2007), The Center for Improved Living: Life Coaching, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles (2007), Video Window, curated by Harrell Flecter, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland (2007) and I Invented the Internet, Fluctuating Image - Contemporary Media Art, Stuttgart (2007).

Publications in which Horowitz and his work have been profiled include The Economist, Interview Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Esse Magazine, The New York Times, ReadyMade Magazine, The Independent, Useless Magazine, Dazed & Confused Magazine and People Magazine. He was one of 25 emerging artists to be awarded a $25,000 grant in AOL’s 2010 25 for 25 Grant. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles. 

Image: Marc Horowitz, The Title is a Drawing (with Chris Coy), 2011, video TRT is 16:08, filmed in HD video, edition of 2, 3/3 with 2 APs.

(c) Marc Horowitz

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