'Normally, if I have bad ideas at reasonable hours, 1 a.m. is when the best ones come.' For our Fall 2022 Issue, the New York painter MarcusBrutus answered a few questions for our editor-at-large, Christopher Bollen, while working in Paris.
Marcus Brutus is a New York painter whose deeply moving, color-rich canvases of Black men and women in crowded scenes or set against quiet backdrops have captured the attention of the art world. As he works on a new series for his first show in Paris, our editor-at-large
BRUTUS: I live in Long Island City. There’s so much I get to think about in going from my apartment to the studio and back again—it’s definitely a bonus. It lets me hit stop and pause on a work that I’m struggling with. I used to work from home, and it was a bit tormenting because you could never walk away. On the other hand, if you have an idea at 1 a.m., you can work on it.BRUTUS: Normally, if I have bad ideas at reasonable hours, 1 a.m. is when the best ones come.
in Paris. So, my parents are both Haitian immigrants. My whole life I’ve had this connection to France—both good and bad—because I went to French school growing up in Maryland. It was an immersion program.BRUTUS: Well, the groups of works I create are always inspired by a piece of literature. It could just be a fragment. There’s a book I’ve been reading called], about the experience of Haitian exiles living in Canada and their relationship towards their Haitian and Canadian identities.
BOLLEN: You’ve been showing for a few years, and yet you’re often described as “self-taught.” I feel like that used to mean something, but I don’t quite know what “self-taught” even means anymore for artists. What do you think?
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