Skip to profile content
Log In
All Artists

Jean-Marcel St. Jacques

Works

Filters

Category
Select categories
Size
0 in 80 in
Reset
Orientation
Portrait Landscape Square
Clear Filters
  1. Darker Than a Paper Bag, With Four-C Hair by Jean-Marcel St. Jacques, Image 2.

    Jean-Marcel St. Jacques

    Darker Than a Paper Bag, With Four-C Hair, 2021

    Salvaged wood, acrylics and oils, found objects on oriented strain board

    48 x 72 x 2.5 in (121.92 x 182.88 x 6.35 cm)

Jean-Marcel St. Jacques (philosopher/sculptor/hoodoo) is a self-taught artist who traces his ancestors back to the first slave ships to enter Louisiana. His family fled Louisiana in 1970 to escape racial oppression. He returned a year before Katrina and purchased a home in New Orleans to reconnect with the land of his ancestors.

St. Jacques currently makes art with wood salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in the Tremé neighborhood, and masks as a Medicine Man in the Black Masking Indian tradition. His art is in the permanent collections of the American Folk Art Museum, The Alexandria Museum of Art, and in the homes of thousands of art-lovers worldwide.
Image of artist