Jerry The Marble Faun is an artist widely known for his appearance in the Maysles brothers’ 1975 documentary Grey Gardens, where he worked as the Bouvier–Beales’ handyman. While living at Grey Gardens, Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale gave him the nickname “the Marble Faun,” which he later adopted as both an identity and an artistic framework.
Alongside his artistic practice, Jerry’s life has been shaped by a series of parallel vocations: he worked as a gardener for the royal family of Saudi Arabia, performed with Wayland Flowers and his puppet Madame during their cabaret tours in the 1970s, and spent over twenty years as a New York City taxi driver. Drawing equally from performance, labor, observation, and lived experience, Jerry’s work treats biography itself as material.