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..........Marek Jacisin was born and raised in Czechoslovakia where he received a Masters Degree in Economics.
After he fled communist Czechoslovakia in 1987 he was granted political asylum in USA.
He settled down in California and later moved to Massachusetts.

Always drawn to clay, he took his first ceramics course in 1990 at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with Warren Matther.
Since 1991 he spent most of the time studying and working at the Harvard University (former Radcliffe College) Ceramics Studio.
In 1997 he began to study graphic design, which further deepened his interest in simple, clean forms.

Most of his designs are based on patterns of simple geometrical forms.
He finds inspiration in everything around him from elevator buttons, manhole covers, to the terra cotta architectural fragments of the Boston Back Bay.

Marek's work includes one-of-a-kind slab-built sculptural pieces, mosaics, tiled screens and a limited series of slipcasted tiles.
Clay isn't the only medium Marek is interested in. Digital art and photography are complimenting his ceramic work; all 3 interact and are source for each other.

His past exhibits have included the Annual Show and Sale at Harvard University Ceramics Studio, solo exhibit at Harvard Holyoke Center in Cambridge, Artists Open Studios in Arlington, MA and the annual Alumni Show and Sale at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Marek is focusing on public art and just recently finished tile mural project in Palo Alto, CA.

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