“My painting, “The Projects,” was the cover of the summer issue of the quarterly literary and art journal, “The Cafe Review.” Four of my pen & ink drawings are also included in the issue. The painting on the cover is a view from the window of my family’s 6th floor apartment on Stanley Avenue, in the Boulevard Housing Projects in East New York, Brooklyn. ”

“Something about Marc Shanker’s work speaks to me, a sophisticated sense of whimsy, almost a serious or melancholy whimsy but playful at the same time. Deceptively complex.”