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Jerry the Marble Faun
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Jerry the Marble Faun (born 1955 in Brooklyn, NY) began hand-carving stone in 1987. Jerry is well known as the Bouvier-Beales’ handyman from the Maysles brothers’ 1975 documentary Grey Gardens. While living at Grey Gardens, Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier-Beale gave Jerry the nickname “the Marble Faun,” which Jerry accepted as a fated path to artmaking. In addition to sculpting stone, Jerry worked as a gardener for the royal family of Saudi Arabia, with Wayland Flowers and his puppet, Madame, during their cabaret acts in the ’70s, and for twenty-five years as a taxi cab driver in New York City. Jerry has received widespread recognition and critical praise for his artwork from major outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Observer, Forbes, Interview, and Art Forum. In recent years, the artist has ventured into pursuing ceramic sculpture.
Jerry held his first exhibition in 2014 at Jackie Klempay Gallery in Brooklyn, and since then his work has appeared in exhibitions at SITUATIONS Gallery in New York; Canada Gallery in New York; Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York; Sculpture Center in Queens; 2nd Floor Projects in San Francisco; The Elaine de Kooning House in South Hampton; …
Jerry the Marble Faun (born 1955 in Brooklyn, NY) began hand-carving stone in 1987. Jerry is well known as the Bouvier-Beales’ handyman from the Maysles brothers’ 1975 documentary Grey Gardens. While living at Grey Gardens, Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier-Beale gave Jerry the nickname “the Marble Faun,” which Jerry accepted as a fated path to artmaking. In addition to sculpting stone, Jerry worked as a gardener for the royal family of Saudi Arabia, with Wayland Flowers and his puppet, Madame, during their cabaret acts in the ’70s, and for twenty-five years as a taxi cab driver in New York City. Jerry has received widespread recognition and critical praise for his artwork from major outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Observer, Forbes, Interview, and Art Forum. In recent years, the artist has ventured into pursuing ceramic sculpture.
Jerry held his first exhibition in 2014 at Jackie Klempay Gallery in Brooklyn, and since then his work has appeared in exhibitions at SITUATIONS Gallery in New York; Canada Gallery in New York; Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York; Sculpture Center in Queens; 2nd Floor Projects in San Francisco; The Elaine de Kooning House in South Hampton; Geary Contemporary in New York; the Bureau of General Services/Queer Division in New York; and NADA Miami, amongst others. Jerry has participated in the Shandaken Project's residency program at Storm King Art Center in New Windsor in New York. He lives and works in Queens, New York.
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