Jeffrey Marshall is a Massachusetts based artist with a studio on the Morse-Sibley Wharf in Gloucester, where he currently documents the endangered fishing industry of the city. Working on-site for his paintings and drawings allows for interactions with the populations where he works, and their conversations become an essential part of his process. He has a BFA from Cornell University and an MFA in painting and printmaking from the Massachusetts College of Art. He is a lifelong educator with recent positions as a full-time Associate Professor of Art Foundation at Mount Ida College, as well as adjunct teaching at Endicott College and the Montserrat College of Art. His drawings and paintings have been exhibited nationally including shows at the Aspen Museum of Art, The Cape Ann Museum, multiple colleges and universities, and galleries in New York and Boston.

Jeffrey’s teaching career started with Teach for America in New Orleans where he taught in public elementary schools. His New Orleans Drawing Project, a ten-year initiative to document the post-Katrina recovery of the city, was featured in The New York Times, Art New England, and Artscope Magazine. This ten-year body of work was exhibited at Endicott College, the College of the Holy Cross, and The Charlotte Institute of Art among other venues. Gone…Fishing, a series of drawing documenting the working waterfront, was exhibited at the Cape Ann Museum in the fall of 2018, and thereafter at the Jane Deering Gallery. This exhibition was featured in the November/ December 2018 issue of Art New England, and was chosen as a critic’s pick by The Boston Globe.

He is currently working on a series of paintings that marry the objects of the fishing wharf with the color approach of 16th century artists in Europe. '“Oil painting has a life of its own, and the conversations with the material as I work have been an interesting accompaniment for the in-person interactions that usually happen when I work outside.”