- Stone Studio
- Palmerston House
- Beacon, NY
- Ludovic de Saint Sernin
- Gucci Beauty
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LES Collection
- Selected Works
- Available Works
About
bymarcranger@gmail.com
About
bymarcranger@gmail.com
Muscle Memory
Invited by Everett Williams and Nicholas Scarpinato to inaugurate their new studio in Beacon, New York, Marc Ranger created his largest and most comprehensive works to date: three paintings spanning seventeen yards of eight-foot canvas, completed over two days. Working with a mix of new and salvaged paints, he allowed colors from the hardware store’s discarded “oops” section to guide the palette and shape the compositions, leaving much to chance while introducing both restraint and direction. The works unfolded through instinct and urgency, extending Ranger’s practice to new levels of scale and immediacy, while continuing his exploration of gesture, memory, and belonging. Their scale connects them to his in-situ wall works and architectural interventions, where line and movement respond directly to space. The residency was built on trust and exchange. Williams and Scarpinato hosted Ranger as the first artist in their new studio, documenting the process across 18 rolls of film and digital.
The figures in these paintings are not invented—they are recalled. Their gestures emerge from years of internalized observation and self-consciousness, shaped by the pressures faced by young queer bodies learning how to move, speak, and occupy space. Painting these figures became a way to release and reclaim gestures long rehearsed in silence—embodied expressions finally articulated with clarity, fluency, and presence.
Works
Acrylic and Salvaged Interior House Paints on Raw Canvas
610 cm x 244 cm
From left to right, moving from light to dark, day to night, innocence to heat. This painting charts a passage of becoming: what begins in playful softness grows into a confident, embodied presence. Gestures once suppressed under the weight of expectation, including limp wrists, arched feet, and carefree flourishes, return with freedom. Figures shaped by early fascinations with glamour and performance surface as long-held personas, finally given space to move.
Acrylic and Salvaged Interior House Paints on Canvas
610 cm x 244 cm
Executed flat on the floor, this second large-scale painting pushed Marc’s gestures to the edge of physical reach—limbs extended, painting with his entire body. More energetic, more chaotic, and more sensual than the first, this work feels like the inside of the mind: shifting moods, untethered logic, intuition in motion. Melting hues of blue, peach, yellow, and fuchsia blur together like a dream half-remembered. There are echoes of a night out—heels, sweat, muscle, abandon. It’s androgynous, intimate, loose. A continuation of the first work, but wetter, freer, and more alive.