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Works
For Sale
All
artworks by Mark Vallen
Works can be purchased
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The
Gaze (view
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Black & White silkscreen print. 1980
17.5" x 23" inches
Signed and numbered by the artist - $100
The
artist's serigraphic portrait of a young woman.
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LIBROS
NO BOMBAS (BOOKS NOT BOMBS) (view
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6" x 11" inches - $6.50 for a pack
of 5 cards
Printed
on heavy card stock, the postcards are blank on
the backside and are available in packets of 5 postcards
for $6.50, plus $3.50 for shipping in the U.S.
Teachers,
parents, and students are encouraged to buy the
packs of cards and share them with friends and associates.
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WHATEVER
HAPPENED TO THE FUTURE?! (view
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Signed
silkscreen print - 15"
x 16" $100
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Vallen's
1980 street poster eventually appeared as a cover
of the L.A. Weekly newspaper at a time when people
thought war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union
was imminent. This print is now included in Under
the Big Black Sun: California Art 1972-1981 at
the MOCA Geffen Contemporary in Los Angeles.
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1984
(view
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Signed
silkscreen print - 29"
x 21" $100
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Around
200 of these black and white silkscreen prints were
published and distributed around Los Angeles on the
eve of 1984. The artwork was of course inspired by
George Orwell's novel concerning a dystopian society
ruled through propaganda, fear, and raw police power.
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NO
HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL (view
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Offset Poster. 19 1/2" x 22" inches
- $5.00
Originally
created in 1988, Vallen's No Human Being is Illegal
poster helped popularize the slogan - "No Human
Being is Illegal."
Published
as a bilingual street poster in conjunction with
a 1988 drive conducted by the Los Angeles based
Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), to secure
the rights of undocumented Central American war
refugees in the U.S. The slogan on the poster became
a catchphrase that has since entered the lexicon
of today's defenders of immigrant's rights. To oppose
the rising tide of discrimination aimed at the undocumented
in the U.S., from Arizona's racist SB1070 anti-immigrant
law, to efforts by members of the U.S. Congress
to overturn the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
(which guarantees citizenship to children born on
U.S. soil), Vallen republished his poster in August
of 2010.
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PAT
BAG (view
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Linoleum block print. 24.5" x 15.5"
inches - $400
In
early 1979 Vallen carved this linoleum block portrait
of Pat Bag, the bass player for The Bags, one of the
first and most notorious late 70s punk rock groups
in Los Angeles. In late 2010 Vallen worked with master
printer John Greco of Josephine Press in Santa Monica,
California, to finally publish the suite of prints
that should have been issued in '79. In all likelihood
"Pat Bag" is the only linoleum cut portrait of a central
figure in punk to have been created anywhere in the
world as punk was actually unfolding.
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Giclée
Prints
All
Giclée prints are hand signed by the artist. Giclée (pronounced
"zhee-clay"), is a French word that refers to the
spraying of ink. The prints offered here were created with
archival inks on high quality fine art paper (Arches, Cold
Press). Vallen's limited edition prints were published by
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AFRICAN
AMERICAN (view
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Giclée Print. 11" x 14" $100.00
-This
Giclée print is an exact reproduction of Vallen's
oil painting on wood panel.
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MY
NATURE IS HUNGER (view
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Giclée
Print.
20"
x 26" Print $300.00 - Vallen
created the oil painting, My Nature is Hunger,
as the cover art for author Luis J. Rodriguez's book
of poetry.
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AMERICA
NOVIA MIA (view
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Lithograph. 21" x 29" $300.00
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Vallen's lithograph is a tribute to the dispossessed
and impoverished people of the Americas. Only a few
of these hand-signed and numbered prints are available
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EL
SALVADOR PRESENTE (view
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Lithograph. 14" x 18" $250.00
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Vallen's 1994 lithograph is dedicated to the Salvadoran
people and their struggles for peace and justice.
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Giclée
Punk Portraits
All prints are hand signed by the artist. Each historic
artwork is suitable for framing and represents punk as it
first appeared in L.A. during the late 1970s.
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SUZY
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Giclée
Print - 16"
x 26" $300
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In 1980 Vallen created this portrait of Hollywood
denizen, Suzy Gardner, during the heyday of the hardcore
Los Angeles punk scene.
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COME
BACK TO HAUNT YOU (view
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Giclée
Print - 10"
x 14" $200
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In 1980 Vallen created this cover artwork for SLASH
Magazine, the premiere punk rock publication on the
West coast. It proved to be the magazine's very last
edition.
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THE
BAGS (view
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Giclée
Print - 22"
x 30" $300
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Vallen's portrait of Alice & Pat of the notorious
BAGS, one of L.A.'s original 1977 punk bands.
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SCREAMER:
TOMMY GEAR (view
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Giclée
Print - 15"
x 18" $200
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Vallen's portrait of Tommy Gear from L.A.'s techno-punk
band, The Screamers. Iggy Pop once proclaimed them
"the future of music."
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SUE
TISSUE (view
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Giclée
Print - 10"
x 14" $200
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Vallen's portrait of Sue Tissue from the punk-pop
outfit, The Surburban Lawns. Vallen's artwork appeared
as a cover for a 1979 edition of SLASH Magazine.
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SANDINISTA
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9
color Silkscreen print - 11"
x 17" $50
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Printed
in 1986, this silkscreen was created to commemorate
the assassination of Augusto César Sandino, the legendary
Nicaraguan patriot who was murdered on February 21,
1934. Sandino's silhouette is depicted on the flag
waved by the anonymous individual.
Edition
of 50 prints.
Each print is hand-signed and numbered by the artist.
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NUCLEAR
WAR?!... THERE GOES MY CAREER! (view
large image)
Silkscreen
print - 15"
x 16" $100
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Vallen's
1980 print appeared as a cover of the L.A. Weekly.
The print was also included in The Path of Resistance,
an exhibition of contemporary protest art held at
New York City's Museum of Modern Art in 2000.
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BURNING
FUSES (view
large image)
Silkscreen
print - 5"
x 7" $50
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Vallen's
1987 print was inspired by a verse of poetry by Chilean
poet, Pablo Neruda.
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MAY
1, UNITE (view
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Silkscreen print
11.5" x 17" inches
Signed by artist - $100
Created
in 1980 as a celebration of International Workers
Day.
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FREE
SOUTH AFRICA (view
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Offset
poster - 22"
x 30" inches - $5.00.
This
street poster was created in 1985 and widely distributed
at anti-Apartheid protests that same year.
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NO
PASARAN (view
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Offset
poster - 17"
x 21" $5.00
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Vallen's
1984 print, No Pasaran (They Shall Not Pass,)
was created in opposition to the U.S. war against
Nicaragua.
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VOICES
OF JUSTICE & SOLIDARITY WITH GUATEMALA
(view
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Offset
poster. 11"
x 15" $5.00
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SHE
WHO WEARS BELLS ON HER CHEEKS (view
large image)
Digital
print. 11"
x 17" SOLD
OUT
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BOMBS
NOT BREAD (view
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Silkscreen
print - 14"
x 20" $25
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Printed
in 1983, the posters depict a military "calaca"
- Mexican/Chicano slang for skeleton - along with
text that serves as a mocking inversion of the peace
movement's slogan, "Bread Not Bombs." Originally
a street poster, the print was included in the 1984
traveling antiwar exhibit, End of the Rainbow, organized
by the Los Angeles based performance art group, Sisters
of Survival (S.O.S.). The show toured the U.S. and
Europe and included works by artists Leon Golub, Nancy
Spero, Jerry Kearns, and Judy Baca. Each print is
hand-signed and numbered by the artist.
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DIA
DE LOS MUERTOS: 1987 (view
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Silkscreen
print - 15"
x 19" $150
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five color silkscreen prints were made in 1987. The
artist hand-painted the image directly on the screen
with glue, then printed the design using Day-glo inks.
Each print is hand-signed and numbered by the artist.
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CALACA
(SKULL) (view
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Monoprint
- 6"
x 8" $20
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Vallen
created these multicolored monoprints for the Day
of the Dead in 2002. He hand-painted the image directly
on a sheet of glass with oil paints. A piece of paper
was then laid over the painting and gently burnished.
Removing the paper revealed a perfect "mirror image"
print. No two monoprints are alike! Each print is
hand-signed and dated.
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