drawing and painting, Gretsch and Gibson guitars, tattoos, my '50 Fleetline, rock and roll, cocktails, cheap shows in cheap bars
Music
Rock -n- Roll! Cyril Lords, Detroit Cobras, Temple of Divine Power, Hentchmen, Hi-Fi Handgrenades, TLUK, Electric Six, Muldoons, Detroit bands R great... Chuck Berry, AC/DC, Supersuckers, Dead Boys, Ramones, Misfits, Led Zeppelin, Reverend Horton Heat, Cheap F*#$in' Trick!, Stray Cats, Social Distortion, Crusty old-guy Metal, Stones, Halen, Priest, Motorhead, 30s/40s/50s jazz & jump blues, Charlie Parker, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhard, Cab Calloway, Wynonie Harris, alt-country like Ingham County Regulars, Holy Cows, Bottle Rockets... the list goes on and on...
Movies
Cool Hand Luke, Thunder Road, Idiocracy, Three Stooges, Blues Brothers, Raiders of the Lost Arc, EVIL DEAD!, Anything Hitchcock, Frankenstein, Bela Lugosi movies like The Corpse Vanishes and Devil Bat, cheesy Sci-Fi like The Creature from 20,000 Leagues...
Television
I rock the Weather Channel.
Books
The Goon! Juxtapoz, Garage, Illustration, 50s/60s hot rod mags,
Heroes
Keith Richards, Spider-Man, Coby Whitmore, Andrew Loomis, Gil Elvgren, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Jimmy Page, Lemmy Kilmister, Frank Frazetta, The A Team, Dan DeCarlo, DeeDee Ramone, Tony Hawk
About me: Marc Nischan is an artist, illustrator, and musician living in the Detroit area. Taking cues from Golden Age magazine illustrations, pulps and comics, kitsch and sci-fi/monster movies, 60s men’s mags and Rock and Roll and car culture iconography, he explores ideas of isolation, individualism, fortune and fate, power, beauty and belonging. Sometimes paintings are based on a commentary or a story, but more often a painting starts as an idea or sketch that is interesting enough to develop. Adding other characters from sketchbooks or making up new elements to flesh out the composition, the paintings become populated. Generally with girls, cars, and monsters.
Although most of the paintings have a back-story that guides choices about characters and elements in the composition, these relationships are played out in a surreal manner to keep the narrative intentionally vague. The intent is to make the painting give off a vibe without necessarily explaining everything, to give the viewer something to contemplate as they make up their own relationships for the subjects in the piece.
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