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[
Right: Mark Vallen. Blood. Work in progress.
Oil on masonite. 2008. ]
MARK
VALLEN
For a New Realism
Mark
Vallen is one of those rare individuals who fits within
a great tradition - the artist who creates images
based on social observation and empathy for common
people.
Proficient
in painting, drawing, and printmaking, Vallen is a
unique chronicler of the American experience and an
accomplished social realist for the early 21st century.
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[
Left: Mark Vallen.
A People Under Command.
Acrylic on canvas. 6' x 8'. 1985. ]
Vallen's
painting shown at left,
A
People Under Command: USA Today,
is traveling throughout Europe as part of, Fundamental,
an international art exhibit that explores totalitarian
religion at the turn of the 21st century.
The
show tours 4 European cities between Sept. 07 and
June 08, and offers a timely glimpse into the disturbing
world of global religious extremism.
Next
stop for the exhibit is Brotfabrik Gallery, Berlin,
Germany.
For more info, please visit: www.fundamental.org.uk
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[
Right: Mark Vallen. Portrait of Poet, Megan O'Reilly.
Work in progress. Oil on wood. ]
Mark
Vallen's "Art For A Change" Weblog
Dedicated to art theory, commentary
and exhibit reviews
www.art-for-a-change.com/blog
New
Blog Posts - Spiral
Jetty, Big Oil, & LACMA:
Does art and oil mix? Artists
Against The War - A Review:
"To mark the 5th anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation
of Iraq, Foreign Policy in Focus magazine asked me to write
a review of Artists Against The War, an exhibit of antiwar
art organized and presented by the New York-based Society
of Illustrators." Apostles
of Ugliness - 100 Years Later:
"This past Feb. marked the 100th anniversary of 'The Eight
Independent Painters' exhibit at New York’s MacBeth Gallery.
While the event changed the face of American art and established
the country’s very first avant-garde art movement, the centennial
is not likely to receive any attention from an art world
obsessed with escapism, celebrity and money." The
Unveiling of Robert Scull:
"What’s worth remembering about the Scull auction, is not
so much that it prefigured an era where high finance became
a determining, if not crippling factor in the arts, but
that artists and art lovers still possessed the will to
resist the intrusion of big money."
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OTHER
WORKS BY VALLEN ON THIS SITE...
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Vallen's
collected artworks from the
early 1970's to the present.
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Vallen's
portraits of
L.A.'s early
punk rock movers and shakers.
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Visit
this page to purchase
Vallen's original Prints.
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