Mark Essen profile in New York magazine

March 31, 2009 | by YTJ | In the Media
Mark Essen (Photo: David Sherry for New York magazine)

Mark Essen (Photo: David Sherry for New York magazine)

This week’s New York magazine includes a one-page profile of twenty-two-year-old Mark Essen, the youngest artist included in “Younger Than Jesus.” The piece begins:

Upon graduating from Bard College last May, Mark Essen and his friends planned to buy cheap, damaged bikes on the Hudson Valley Craigslist, fix them up, then sell them in Manhattan. But they were too lazy to move them down to the city. Months later, after he was laid off from a tech job, Essen moved back in with his parents in Los Angeles, where he listened to a lot of Led Zeppelin. Since returning to New York, he’s been living out of his backpack, camped on friends’ couches.

Sounds like your typical slacker’s postcollegiate year, except for one thing: At 22, Essen is about to erupt on the art scene. He is the youngest of the 50 artists in the New Museum’s “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus,” the international exhibition exclusively showcasing the work of artists 33 and under.

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