Steve Mark

Mark’s work is heavily influenced by Native American Pow Wow regalia, ceramic glaze patterns, Jackson Pollock, satellite imagery, and Anselm Kiefer.  Horse skulls with their main, horse hair, horns, cow skulls, bones, and dried plant materials, with added toy parts are sculptural elements that are amalgamated within Mark’s rugged, painted landscape constructions: Mark’s describes the process by which he works his canvases : “I use  paint to create surface on which I can float sculptural elements. I ‘pour’ my canvases with a thick, viscous mixture of oil and water based paints in order to build up a ‘natural’ earth base.”  Stephen Mark, by design and through serendipity, deals with a number of continuing themes: decay, mortality, reclamation, and transformation not to be construed in there negative meanings but rather, to simply reacquaint us with meaning.

Steve Mark Statement/Bio