MARIN MAJIĆ

Brooklyn-based artist Marin Majić creates small, atmospheric paintings with iridescent surfaces. The Frankfurt-born Croatian artist layers colored pencil, wax, oil paint, and marble dust to build these luminous fields. Marble dust is employed almost sculpturally, giving the appearance of the traditional metalwork and enamel technique of cloisonné.

"Marin Majić’s discodisco is an exhibition of intimately scaled paintings of discotheques, landscapes, and the charged middle ground between them. Expanding on the nocturnal vocabulary of his 2023 exhibition Nocturnes, where the show felt like wandering alone through a dreamscape, discodisco puts bodies in the room. Dancers, animals, and suited figures populate these canvases, all of them caught dancing, gazing, or suspended in stasis, gestures pointed away from what comes next. Their soft, scratchy, muted palette of greens, greys, and oranges oscillates with a surrealist sensibility while nodding toward the English Romanticists. The scale insists on intimacy in a moment of overwhelming spectacle."

Layers of colored pencil and marble dust worked into an oil-like substance flood the linen planes on which Marin Majic works. The Brooklyn-based artist builds upon a foundational drawing, blending various media into a richly textured surface resembling fabric or plaster. Matte finishes radiate across the scenes, appearing like magical glimmers under a night sky