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Last updated on: April 6th, 2008.
 
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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.

Oil painting by Mark Vallen Oil painting by Mark Vallen
Oil painting by Mark Vallen Oil painting by Mark Vallen
A People Under Command - Painting by Mark Vallen, 1985 A People Under Command - Painting by Mark Vallen, 1985
A People Under Command - Painting by Mark Vallen, 1985 A People Under Command - Painting by Mark Vallen, 1985

[ 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

[ 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."

Oil painting - work in progress  - Mark Vallen Oil painting - work in progress  - Mark Vallen
Oil painting - work in progress  - Mark Vallen Oil painting - work in progress  - Mark Vallen
OTHER WORKS BY VALLEN ON THIS SITE...
Vallen's collected artworks from the
early 1970's to the present.
Vallen's portraits of L.A.'s early
punk rock movers and shakers.
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Vallen's original Prints.
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