Austerity is the first institutional solo exhibition by Megan Marrin (b. St. Louis, MO), an artist based in New York City’s East Village. Across five paintings, Marrin summons Jean-Michel Frank (1895-1941), a French interior designer (or, more appropriately, ensemblier) whose domestic environments evince a fixation with simplicity, perfection, and stripped-back elegance. Frank is credited with signaling a break from the dense, saturated living spaces of the Victorian era, and instead embracing a “passion for absence” that became celebrated amongst the aesthetes of the interwar period in Europe and influenced subsequent generations of tastemakers and designers including Jacques Grange and the late Jed Johnson after his rediscovery in the 1970s.

Digital prints sized at A1 (23.4 x 33.1 in)
Matte finish
Frame not included with purchase

Designed in Collaboration with Megan Marrin & Lucas Quigley