Create a portfolio of the kind of work that you want to get more of, not of work that you will think will get you more work.
Change in this case means challenge for me, to position myself humbly within a new situation and truly become open to new ways of approaching image making.
— Marcos Chin via “Show Me”
Daily Routine, by Marcos Chin.
“Nostalgia for me is romantic, not the kind of romance that exists between lovers, but the kind of feeling that you get when you revisit a place that you’ve forgotten, and then see meaning and stories within the most mundane objects or locations; the sensation is fleeting as it rocks your heart slightly, but I love it all the same.”
There are many times where I get frustrated because all I ever seem to be is in the midst of the process; in the midst of not knowing… But choosing to sit in these spaces of in-between allows me a greater chance of discovery, of coming across, or inventing something new.
During [down] periods, it becomes important to reevaluate one’s work, and possibly find a new place for it within the market, as well as new means by which to distribute one’s work.
— Marcos Chin, commenting on how the economy has affected his stream of work
This Thursday: Marcos Chin in the “T Minus 20” show at Christopher Henry Gallery - 127 Elizabeth St, b/t Broome + Grand St 6-9pm. See you there!
I draw because I have things that I want to say that I might not be able to express through words, through actions. I draw because when I do, the world around me falls away. I draw because it makes me feel good.
— Marcos Chin, “WHY I DRAW” inspired by Joan Didion’s essay “Why I Write.”
Marcos Chin designed 4 tshirts for a H.O.W. Journal fundraiser (Helping Orphans Worldwide) happening on Thursday! There will be a silent auction featuring work by Fernanda Cohen + more, readings, music, hors d’oeuvres and drinks.
May 6th, 7-10pm
112 Franklin St, 4th floor
New York, NY 10013
Hope to see you there!
Marcos Chin’s illustrations for New York Magazine’s feature story on the marriage and divorce of hedge-fund superpower Steve Cohen and his ex-wife Patricia Cohen.
HOW I GOT MY FIRST JOB - Top Illustrators Share Their First Story
FIT Illustration Department Lecture Series
Starring: Yuko Shimizu, Marcos Chin, Fernanda Cohen, Zina Saunders, and Fred Harper
March 24th, 6:30-8pm
Robert Lagary Board Room 9th Floor Feldman Center (C Building)
7th Ave. at 27th St.
New York, NY
I wonder how much of the work that we do is truly original, and not influenced or prefaced by another illustrator and/or artist? …We experience so much in our lives in the way of mass media: on television, the internet, public transportation, billboards, so much - so much of the time that somehow I believe that for most of us through sheer subliminal influence, aspects of various people’s work creep and manifest into our own.
