Biography:
Marat Paransky is a sculptor, painter, photographer and
mixed-media artist and educator. He received an MFA in Visual Arts degree from
the Lesley University College of A&D in Cambridge, MA. His work has been
exhibited throughout Michigan, as well as in Fayetteville, AR,
Boston/Cambridge, San Francisco and Windsor, ON. Marat?s work generally falls
under the umbrellas of two projects.
The focus of the first is on the nuclear power/weapons debate. It follows
years of interest and research into the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, as
well as its ties to his early childhood in Ukraine. In 2016, the Ministry of Medium Machines exhibit at
Kendall College of A&D in Grand Rapids, MI, covered the first six years of
the project.
The second series concerns chance and found objects/images. It takes the
form of collage and assemblage, and there is often the inclusion of bits and
pieces of Marat?s older artworks and other people?s studio leftovers. The
latest cycle of the work, Duroplast,
was shown at Grand Rapids? Bend Gallery in June, 2018, and Remix Eternal was exhibited in Farmington Hills City Hall in
September, 2018.
