JERRY THE MARBLE FAUN

Jerry The Marble Faun is an artist widely known for his appearance in the Maysles brothers’ 1975 documentary Grey Gardens, where he worked as the Bouvier–Beales’ handyman. While living at Grey Gardens, Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale gave him the nickname “the Marble Faun,” which he later adopted as both an identity and an artistic framework.

Alongside his artistic practice, Jerry’s life has been shaped by a series of parallel vocations: he worked as a gardener for the royal family of Saudi Arabia, performed with Wayland Flowers and his puppet Madame during their cabaret tours in the 1970s, and spent over twenty years as a New York City taxi driver. Drawing equally from performance, labor, observation, and lived experience, Jerry’s work treats biography itself as material.

JERRY THE MARBLE FAUN (born 1955, Brooklyn, NY) lives and works in Queens, NY. He has exhibited at MoMA PS1, Queens, NY; SITUATIONS, New York; Canada, New York; Participant, New York; Castle Gallery, Los Angeles; Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York; 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco; The Elaine de Kooning House, East Hampton; Geary Contemporary, New York; and Bureau of General Services/Queer Division, New York. In 2017 he participated in the Shandaken Project residency at Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, NY. His work is included in the collections of The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, the Bunker, Palm Beach, FL, and others.