Welcome
Hi, I'm Marc Chicoine, a visual artist and dancer now based in Raleigh, NC. Thanks for stopping by to view my work. I have original pieces and reproductions available. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions, and enjoy your visit!
Bucket Hat Boy by Marc Chicoine
Happy Feet by Marc Chicoine
The First Yoyoist by Marc Chicoine
The other Yoyoist by Marc Chicoine
On the Throne by Marc Chicoine
Rhapsody by Marc Chicoine
Jubilee by Marc Chicoine
Fool Saint by Marc Chicoine
Elephunk by Marc Chicoine
Young Love by Marc Chicoine
St. Marks After Dark by Marc Chicoine
The Eternal Punishment of Prometheus by Marc Chicoine
Pedestrian by Marc Chicoine
In the Cloudz by Marc Chicoine
Wombat by Marc Chicoine
XO to KO by Marc Chicoine
The Big Cry by Marc Chicoine
The Nightwalker by Marc Chicoine
Blews by Marc Chicoine
Rainforest Cafe by Marc Chicoine
Samsara Sushi by Marc Chicoine
The Boy Named Crow by Marc Chicoine
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About Marc Chicoine
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
- Proverb from Tokushima
Marc Chicoine is a visual artist and dancer based in Brooklyn, NY and Raleigh, NC. Marc was born in the Bay Area of California. He received his BA from Chicago based Northwestern University in Cognitive Science and Communication. He moved to NYC in order to pursue freestyle dance and further develop his creative ambitions. Marc began as a designer and commercial artist within the education technology sector, before returning to school to receive an MFA from the Pratt Institute.
Marc's paintings focus on corporeal experience with heavy influence from his dance practice. Both technically informed and raw, his encaustic, dry media, and gouache/oil pieces bridge the universal with the intimately psychological. Marc has exhibited across the United States. Showings include the Pratt Institute, Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Viridian Artists in Manhattan, and Attleboro Arts Museum, amongst others. In free time, Marc enjoys sharing on the dance floor, being a long time student under dancer and teacher Sekou Heru. Marc believes that his movement practice is integral to his visual work, both creatively, rhythmically, and gesturally. Both systems of expression bridge technical prowess with improvisation.
'When creating visual narratives, be it with brush or on the dancefloor, I strive to bridge the universal with my own intimate psychosocial experiences. I aim to inspire viewers to consider how they ~wiggle~ through this life, and how seemingly isolating experiences may be vantage points for shared truths. I hope to peel away the divisive constructs we fashion around ourselves in order to reveal the shared patterns of experience and behavior at our core.' - MC