Marble Faun Jerry

Talk story about taxi driver jerry torre who appeared in the 1975 cult documentary grey.

Marble faun jerry.

1955 new york is a queens based artist primarily working in stone and earthenware. The marble faun of grey gardens is jerry torre s touching and at times haunting memoir about his teenage days as caretaker of grey gardens the now celebrated mansion chronicled in the iconic documentary grey gardens and two feature length films the book co written with film historian tony maietta is a behind the scenes look at big edie and little edie and their bizarre and reclusive. Jerry the marble faun born 1955 brooklyn ny lives and works in queens ny he began hand carving stone in 1987 and has most recently pursued ceramic sculpture. 2nd floor projects san francisco.

Little edie nicknamed him the marble faun after the nathaniel hawthorne novel but his given name. 1955 is an american sculptor he is best known for his appearance in the 1975 independent documentary films grey gardens and the beales of grey gardens by albert and david maysles as a sculptor his work has been shown in several galleries in new york city and written about in the new york times the wall street journal vogue architectural digest. Additionally jerry is well known as the bouvier beales handyman from the maysles brothers 1975 documentary grey gardens. My partner lee and i had extensive conversations with jerry torre for this web site.

For those not familiar with jerry torre who edie referred to as the marble faun in the maysyles film he is the handyman who appeared in both the original documentary as well as the sequel the beales of grey gardens. Jerry it s nice. Jerry the marble faun b. While living at grey gardens edith little edie bouvier beale gave jerry the nickname the marble faun which jerry accepted as a fated path to art making.

He began carving stone in his partner s apartment stairwell on 23rd street in new york city in 1987. Torre also known as the marble faun is showing five sculptures at this year s outsider art fair at center 548 in chelsea through sunday. Or the romance of monte beni also known by the british title transformation was the last of the four major romances by nathaniel hawthorne and was published in 1860. Andrew edlin gallery new york.

Jerry the marble faun torre b. Jerry held his first exhibition in 2014 at jackie klempay gallery brooklyn and has appeared in exhibitions at situations new york. All of his sculptures are carved by hand without the use of machines.