ASU Herberger College School of Art Faculty:
2006-2007 Exhibition

April 14 through September 9, 2007

STEPHEN MARC

Stephen Marc
Untitled from the Walking in the Footsteps series, 2006 
digital montage, archival-pigment print
22 ½ x 37 ½" framed
Courtesy of the artist

Stephen Marc

This montage shows a riverboat scene overlooking the Mississippi River at Natchez along with: a section from the bank of the Ohio River, reward notices from an 1844 National Intelligencier newspaper from Washington, D.C., and illustrated etchings from the $100 Confederate bill and a $5 bank note from the Planters Bank of Fairfield, South Carolina depicting plantation slave labor.

Stephen Marc is a photographer and digital montage artist whose work explores the African Diaspora. Since 2000, Marc has documented numerous Underground Railroad sites across the United States and in Ontario, Canada. Each UGRR sites is described inside and out, utilizing several photographic views; but Marc also addresses the larger institution of slavery by constructing narrative montages that weave together surviving Antebellum plantation structures, documents, and artifacts, with other Black historical remnants and contemporary cultural references. His work is visually interpretative, bearing witness to, and recontextualizing African American history, which is American history.

Marc is one of the Olympus Visionary photographers. His book Passage on the Underground Railroad scheduled for released in 2008, will be published by the University Press of Mississippi. Marc is currently completing two large scale Chicago public art projects for Avalon Library and the CTA 79th Street Dan Ryan Station.

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