| Birth Place: | Kenosha, Wisconsin |
Marc Travanti is an American contemporary artist. His practice includes painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and video.[1]
Travanti was born in 1956 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He received a BFA from the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater and a MFA from the University of Colorado Boulder. He lives and works in New York and Wisconsin.[2]
Travanti’s art often involves some sort of duality. He has connected images of cell towers and early 20th century American sculpture; African masks and corporate logos; naked human bodies and stock market charts; and portraits of the living with renowned portraits from the distant past.[3] Totemic compositions are often used, particularly in his sculptural wall work.[4]
His art has been described as "modern artifacts; a combination of primal elements of simple organic shapes with a modern sensibility".[5] His video work features cross-dissolves of his photographs and photocollages. Travanti's video entitled Entanglement[6] "shows male and female figures twined around each other in ways that evoke tantric sex, wrestling, and the incarnations of Hindu deities".[7]