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Mark Dean Veca @ UAG - UCSD (1/30/09)
« Thread Started on Jan 27, 2009, 6:46am »

Man this wall looks pretty sick.

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Re: Mark Dean Veca @ UAG - UCSD (1/30/09)
« Reply #1 on Jan 29, 2009, 4:50am »

I stopped by to take some pics of the installation and did an interview with Mark if you guys are interested.

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Also, there is a contest for some showcards and postcards here.

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Re: Mark Dean Veca @ UAG - UCSD (1/30/09)
« Reply #2 on Jan 29, 2009, 11:39pm »

I love Mark's work! Plus he is a great guy. The popeye from the mural is based off a painting that I showed when I first opened my gallery in NYC last spring. The show looks sick and his murals / installations are some of the best imho!

Probably my favorite painting in my collection is a Veca. A bit off subject from the show but thought I would share:

The Decline
2004
Acrylic on canvas
74 x 50 inches
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Re: Mark Dean Veca @ UAG - UCSD (1/30/09)
« Reply #3 on Feb 23, 2009, 2:44pm »

Just a reminder, Mark will be giving a free lecture this Thursday at UCSD. If you haven't seen the installation this would be a really cool time to see it and listen to Mark discuss his craft.

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Re: Mark Dean Veca @ UAG - UCSD (1/30/09)
« Reply #4 on Feb 23, 2009, 3:03pm »

Jan 29, 2009, 11:39pm, joshualinergallery wrote:

I love Mark's work! Plus he is a great guy. The popeye from the mural is based off a painting that I showed when I first opened my gallery in NYC last spring. The show looks sick and his murals / installations are some of the best imho!

Probably my favorite painting in my collection is a Veca. A bit off subject from the show but thought I would share:

The Decline
2004
Acrylic on canvas
74 x 50 inches
(sorry for the small pic, all I have on file)
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Love it. Thanks for sharing.

I agree Mark is a top bloke. I've one of his paintings and it's a stunning piece of work.

Cheers for the pics sleepboy, Mark's installations are second to none.

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Re: Mark Dean Veca @ UAG - UCSD (1/30/09)
« Reply #5 on Feb 27, 2009, 1:22pm »

I enjoyed the lecture last night. Mark talked about growing up in the SF suburbs and going to Otis then moving to the "art capital of the World", NYC. He talked about how his first installation at The Drawing Center http://www.drawingcenter.org/ led to another installation in Buffalo, which led to an installation in Houston, and several others. He grew tired of having his work be so temporary and decided to explore other avenues for a few years, thats when the damask wall paper design inspired him. It liberated him from designing the arrangement. With the traditional french design in place, he was able to focus on the art. He spent his time drawing, which is what he always loved. As his son got a little older he started getting hungry to do a few more installations and had the opportunity to do "Boogey Fervor", which features a new character mark created, the "Boogey Man" which would show up again. Mark also started creating his work on PVC panels that he could take down after a show.
For his latest installation, Mark "vecafies" images and characters taken from pop culture, art history, and religion. He randomly juxtapositions these characters, and adds his intestine texture and other enhancements.
Mark recently won a commission to paint a mural at a school in NYC. He is completing the design and will be doing the installation sometime in 2010.

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Re: Mark Dean Veca @ UAG - UCSD (1/30/09)
« Reply #6 on Feb 28, 2009, 2:07pm »

Feb 27, 2009, 1:22pm, sabotage wrote:

I enjoyed the lecture last night. Mark talked about growing up in the SF suburbs and going to Otis then moving to the "art capital of the World", NYC. He talked about how his first installation at The Drawing Center http://www.drawingcenter.org/ led to another installation in Buffalo, which led to an installation in Houston, and several others. He grew tired of having his work be so temporary and decided to explore other avenues for a few years, thats when the damask wall paper design inspired him. It liberated him from designing the arrangement. With the traditional french design in place, he was able to focus on the art. He spent his time drawing, which is what he always loved. As his son got a little older he started getting hungry to do a few more installations and had the opportunity to do "Boogey Fervor", which features a new character mark created, the "Boogey Man" which would show up again. Mark also started creating his work on PVC panels that he could take down after a show.
For his latest installation, Mark "vecafies" images and characters taken from pop culture, art history, and religion. He randomly juxtapositions these characters, and adds his intestine texture and other enhancements.
Mark recently won a commission to paint a mural at a school in NYC. He is completing the design and will be doing the installation sometime in 2010.

Thanks for the update. I wish I could have made it to this lecture.

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