Career
He has written more than twenty books, including Let"s Face lieutenant!: Selected Poems 1974-2015. Marin"s family moved to Malibu in the 1920s, becoming one of the first residents of the new Malibu Movie Colony. A sensitivity to the beauty of nature, learned while hiking and surfing in this rural suburb of Los Angeles, has been a great influence on Marin"s work, as have trips taken in his youth to countries like France, Switzerland, Greece and India.
He has worked as a wine distributor since the 1980s.
Marin majored in American Studies, with a minor in Creative Writing/ and French, at Stanford University (class of "78). "Not Not " Using traditional canvases—as well as the fronts of postcards, hotel stationery and small pieces of paper—Marin paints with acrylic pens to produce contemporary, multi-colored abstracts, portraits, and landscapes.
His work has been shown in galleries, and collected by celebrity inventor Ron Popeil among others He cites as influences artists who "address the fragmentedness of modern existence," such Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, David Hockney, Jean-Michel Basquiat and, most notably, Paul Klee.
Marin"s image entitled "Riven Rock" is now a wine label for Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon wine being sold under a private label of the same name at the grocery chain Whole Foods Market.
Marin"s apartment has been dubbed "The Palisades Art House" because of the thousands of paintings that crowd its walls, shelves, and floor. He hosts private tours to showcase his apartment as an art piece in itself. His art is handled by the Daniel Rolnik Gallery and the Blooming Art Gallery, and is on display at several Malibu businesses including SunLife Organics, Vitamin Barn, Doctorate’Amores Pizza, Kaishin, Malibu Farm and Pacific Coast Greens.
