Marisa J Futernick
Marisa J. Futernick's work looks at the failed promise of the American Dream, intertwining the personal with the historical and fact with fiction, often through the act of searching for something or someplace lost or inaccessible. Issues of class, progress and real estate are also central to her practice. She uses a variety of media including photography, writing, installation, video, drawing, screenprinting and painting; with the combination of text and image a regular feature throughout her work.
Futernick is consumed by an ongoing obsession with the past, specifically the post-war period of her parents’ generation, and how it has affected her own lifetime and the present. She is American, but has lived in London for over a decade, during which time her work has become more and more about America–the longer she has been away from her country, the more deeply she has understood and engaged with it.
She has lived and worked in London since 2002, and received a postgraduate diploma from the Royal Academy Schools, London in 2014. Her work has been shown in exhibitions around the United Kingdom including Whitechapel Gallery, London, Griffin Gallery, London, The Residence Gallery, London, Wagdas Gallery, London, and the Outpost Open Film, …
Marisa J. Futernick's work looks at the failed promise of the American Dream, intertwining the personal with the historical and fact with fiction, often through the act of searching for something or someplace lost or inaccessible. Issues of class, progress and real estate are also central to her practice. She uses a variety of media including photography, writing, installation, video, drawing, screenprinting and painting; with the combination of text and image a regular feature throughout her work.
Futernick is consumed by an ongoing obsession with the past, specifically the post-war period of her parents’ generation, and how it has affected her own lifetime and the present. She is American, but has lived in London for over a decade, during which time her work has become more and more about America–the longer she has been away from her country, the more deeply she has understood and engaged with it.
She has lived and worked in London since 2002, and received a postgraduate diploma from the Royal Academy Schools, London in 2014. Her work has been shown in exhibitions around the United Kingdom including Whitechapel Gallery, London, Griffin Gallery, London, The Residence Gallery, London, Wagdas Gallery, London, and the Outpost Open Film, Outpost, Norwich, UK.
Courtesy of the Royal Academy of Arts