Marcus John Guillory

For the past twenty years I have actively worked as a writer for film, television, literature and essay in Los Angeles, California (with the bulk of my practice in narrative fiction). In 2012, while producing my first album “Postcards From Strangers” on Osunlade’s Yoruba Records (where I combined spoken prose with house music), I started to develop my writing practice into text-based visual art with the intention of bringing evocative messaging and story-telling that I’d utilized in other disciplines.

My paintings are flashes of stories, images, beliefs and behaviors. Lives and Life. All translatable through typography, colors and composition. My practice explores the human necessity to be understood clearly and succinctly in past, present and speculative future through narratives, moments and utterances, utilizing text art as speech act; an intercourse of typography, pragmatics, narrative and aesthetics – where what is said is as important as how it’s said.