Mark Dean Veca "Impulse"

The LAB Gallery

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Armed with few supplies and no preconceived design, between March 14th-18th, Veca will enter the enclosed gallery, and in full view of passersby, riff spontaneously, directly onto the walls, "leaving a trail of calligraphic breadcrumbs that lead only to the depths of my psyche". It is an approach atypical of his oeuvre, pure monochromatic improvisation. This will be virtually the only wall drawing in his body of work that's not premeditated. The piece will be uniquely devoid of color; Veca intends to focus specifically on the gestural mark-making which is characteristic of his work.

"Mark Dean Veca is a purveyor of prehistoric magic: creating space on a two-dimensional plane with a few lines of charcoal, ink, or paint. He draws on paper, canvas or walls and uses simple black lines to manifest volume, space, and depth. He shares his illusionary worlds and characters to express the internal and external tension of the human condition as he experiences it. His work is visceral, carnal, with its depictions of organs and orifices and writhing tendons, arteries, and intestines. It is comic and unnerving with strong contrasting palettes and patterns and odd juxtapositions of historical and popular iconography often abbreviated, disfigured, or exposed. Whether large or small the work is intentionally spectacular and the artist wholeheartedly embraces his constructive affliction of horror vacui." -Excerpted from Curator Meg Linton's catalog essay for the publication Mark Dean Veca: Phantasmagoria published by the Ben Maltz Gallery/Otis College of Art and Design in conjunction with the Fall 2008 Jennifer Howard Coleman Distinguished Lectureship and Residency.

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from March 18, 2011 to April 08, 2011

Artist(s)

Mark Dean Veca

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