Marc St. Pierre will be exhibiting recent work in collage and encaustic in a solo exhibition at the Marion Art Center from March 4 to April 16. An opening reception is planned for Friday, March 4 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm where you can meet the artist. St. Pierre is a professor of Fine Arts at UMass Dartmouth, and he maintains a studio in downtown New Bedford.
He was initially trained as a painter and received his undergraduate degree from Laval University in Quebec City. Then St. Pierre studied intaglio printmaking with Stanley William Hayter in Paris in the mid-1970s. He earned his graduate degree in printmaking from the University of Illinois at Edwardsville. He taught at the Swain School of Design for nine years before joining the faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, in 1988.
His work has been in several exhibitions including “New England Impressions: The Art of Printmaking,” juried prints at the Fitchburg Art Museum, which traveled to Kleve, West Germany. Recently, he was included in the portfolio “East/West: A Survey of American Printmaking,” an exhibition that traveled across the United States. His work is included in the Canadian Art Bank, Le Babinet des Estames in Geneva, Switzerland and in numerous private collections.
The galleries at the Marion Art Center are open to the public Tuesday through Friday, 1:00 to 5:00 pm and Saturdays, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. There is no admission charge.