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Artist Statement:
Allen's powerful mixed media
paintings have been shown
throughout the world and are
in many notable collections.
His works are a combination of
popular imagery with abstract
painting combined to expose
alternate meanings through
contextual preconceptions.
Recording his daily life
experiences through painting,
using materials that surround
him, he ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
2008 Wally Workman
Gallery, Austin, TX
2007 Gables Art Gallery,
Austin, TX
2006 Le Petit Cafe, Santa
Monica, CA
2005 Soapbox Gallery,
Venice, CA
2004 Abbot’s Habit,
Venice, CA
2004 Experience Music
Project, Seattle, WA
2004 Memphis Brooks
Museum, Memphis TN
2004 Acadiana Museum,
Lafayette, LA
2004 Track 16 ...
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Artist Galleries:
Wally Workman Gallery, Austin,
TX
Soapbox Gallery, Venice, CA
Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New
York, NY
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Artist Reviews:
2008 Austin Chronicle, Show is
a Grand Affair
2003 USA Today, Greatest Album
Covers That Never Were
2002 Rolling Stone Magazine,
Greatest Album Covers That
Never Were
2001 Coagula Art Review
Calendar, January Artist for
year 2001
2001 LA TIMES, LA Times,
Calendar Weekend
2000 ARTFORUM, 30th
Anniversary Issue
1999 ...
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Collections:
MUSEUMS:
Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis
TN
Acadiana Museum, Lafayette, LA
Experience Music Project,
Seattle, WA
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,
Clevland, OH
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
Sophora, New York, NY, USA
Deitrich Coffee, Santa Monica,
CA, USA
Le Petit Cafe, Santa Monica,
CA, USA
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
Mr. Gavin Clarke, New Zealand
Ms. ...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Mark Andrew Allen Biography:
| Biographical information for Mark Andrew Allen can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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100
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
not provided |
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| Education |
Graduate Work |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Bicycling, guitar, surfing, alternative music, television, current events |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Acrylic
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Abstract Expressionism - (1940 - 1955)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Picasso
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| Favorite Work of Art |
too many to pick just one
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
BIGGEST ARTISTIC INSPIRATIONS:
I am inspired with artists that make the biggest contributions to the art world at large, and move art further through their accomplishments...
Pablo Picasso: "Painting remains to be invented" ...the greatest gift to all future artists. "I steal what ever (ideas) I want," He kept painting over a painting until he got something he liked, He was so famous, that when he went out to dinner with his friends, he would write a check for everything, but the waiters would keep his check because his signature was worth more than the meal.
Robert Rauschenberg: "Everything you see is important," "I come to terms with my material."
Andy Warhol: "Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job." Paint what is going on today with materials of today. Turned commerical art into fine art. Warhol liked getting peoples ideas for new drawings. His artwork made people think of the important, everyday things in their lives. Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Worked non-stop, inspired by and created street imagery.
Keith Harring: Invented his own visual language
Chuck Close: Invented an amazing new technique of painting portraits to keep him from getting bored while sitting in his wheelchair.
Frank Stella: Any materials will do.
Jasper Johns: He got his idea of target paintings from a dream he had. These works reflect the influence of Johns' contemporary Robert Rauschenberg, of which he is indebted to helping 'dicover' his art. Leo Castelli went to view Rauschenberg's art and saw Johns work and offered him a show first! I'm sure that is what ended Bob and Jasper's close relationship.
Cy Twombly: He draws on canvas in a calligraphic style to create his own visual language. Similar to a chalk board.
Mark Rothko: Refused to have his work shown with other artists. Didn't want to show at the Guggenheim Museum because the floor was slanted. He took his work VERY seriously, perhaps too seriously. (He killed himself)
David Smith: He put items on the ground, welded them together and then raised it upright to form his sculpture.
Beatrice Wood: "Don't spend your whole life in your studio making art, like I did, you will miss out on lots of important things in life, like relationships and happiness."
Willem de Kooning: "If I knew where a painting was going before I started, I would never start a painting."
Robert Motherwell: Cropping
Helen Frankenthaler : Cropping
Yves Tanguy: He added color to sculpture
Jackson Pollock: "Every good painter paints what he is." He put the canvas on the ground. (not the first one to do this, but he made the biggest breakthrough) Became one with the paining.
Marcel DuChamp: "Why did they spend thousands of dollars shipping my urinal art piece to the United States for a show? They should of just bought one there!"
Hans Hoffman: Push and Pull
Vincent Van Gogh: The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
Wassily Kandinsky: He added graphic elemements to his abstract paintings.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: He would sometimes paint on cardboard and he would leave some of his paintings not quite finished.
Henri Matisse: He learned a lot by copying paintings by other great artists, such as Raphael. His use of cut-outs (collage) advanced a new direction for him. Also he painted with a long stick towards the end of his life which led to a new body of work that he would never have acheived had he not of been in a wheelchair,
Rembrandt: Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.
Michelangelo: Even this great artist had trouble collecting money for his artwork. The church paid him very slowly for his ceiling work.
Leonardo da Vinci : "One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself." "Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master." This multi-talented artist pushed very hard with everthing he did. Great passion led to great works of art. (and inventions)
Famous artists that I have met;
Robert Rauschenberg
Andy Warhol
Roy Lichenstein
Jim Dine
Claes Oldenburg
Christo
Larry Rivers
David Hockney
Ed Ruscha
Bruce Nauman
Richard Artschwager
Dennis Hopper
Tony Bennett
Ed Moses
Nancy Kienholz
Robert Williams
Frank Gehry
and gallerists...
Leo Castelli, Mary Boone,
Artists I would like to meet:
Jasper Johns
Frank Stella
James Rosenquist
Artists that I would like to have met:
Pablo Picasso
Jean-Michelle Basquiat
Edward Kienholz
Marcel DuChamp
Leonardo DaVinci
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
WHY I BECAME AN ARTIST:
My father is an artist, so from an early age I have been creating art. My dad gave me a book on artists for Christmas one year. It featured many excellent artists doing great work, such as Pollock, Warhol, DeKooning, Rauschenberg, Johns, Lichtenstein and others. He told me to learn from the great artists of our time, rather than the local yokals (artists) that he knew. He taught me to be an artisit of my OWN time. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
PERSONAL BIO:
Artist Mark Andrew Allen’s work has been exhibited in one-person and group exhibitions in New York City, Los Angeles, Houston, Austin, Japan, Korea, and New Zealand. Most notably at the Rockefeller Center in New York City (on 2 different occasions), Monique Goldstrom Gallery in Soho, (New York) and the Soapbox Gallery, (Los Angeles.)
Born in Houston, Texas, Allen’s earliest influences came from his commercial artist father, Harrison Allen. Allen studied at Parsons School of Design in New York City, Art Center College of Design in Passadena, CA, and received his Bachelor’s Degree at Texas State University. (formerly S.W.T.S.U.)
His work has been published in ARTFORUM, LA Weekly, Rolling Stone, USA Today, Communication Arts, Print, HOW, Coagula Art Journal, Letter Arts Review, Extreme Graphics, Letterwork, published in London, Sugar, published in Japan, The New Logo of California Vol. 1 & 2, The Workbook 92-06, Single Image 16, 17, 19, and The Alternative Pick 93-01, and American Showcase-1998-99.
Allen is also known for his design and eccentric lettering style. This work has won him such prestigious clients as Pepsi, Coca-Cola, The Walt Disney Co., FOX, MCA/Universal, CBS, GUESS, Levi’s, Salomon (Paris), Astrea (Japan), Atlantic Records, Warner Brothers, Miller Genuine Draft, Sean “P. Diddy” Combs (Bad Boy Records), WCW, Diet Coke packaging, Bacardi Rum, Stevie Nicks (Warner Bros.), and Daddy Yankee (who recorded hit single with Snoop Dogg.), Museum of Contempory Art, Los Angeles, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and 36 other museums in the U.S. and Canada. Some of the most notable work includes Yu-gi-Oh! logo, The Nightmare Before Christmas logo, 60th Anniversary of The Wizard of Oz, merchandise for The Simpson’s, King of The Hill, Family Guy, My Name is Earl, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, M*A*S*H, Aliens, Quintuplets, My Friend Flicka, Aquamarine, Casper, Waterworld, Monkey Bone, Eragon, and The Jetson’s. Designed the logo for RA, The Nightclub at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, Desgned the logo for Tyco’s ‘Shell Shocker’ which was voted “2005 Toy of the Year,” designed a patch for the uniforms of the U.S. troops serving in Iraq.
His art and design is represented throughout the United States as well as in Europe and Japan. Typefaces that he has designed are represented by T-26 in Chicago.
Allen served as Vice President of Development for the Los Angeles Chapter of The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
for two years. He has been an invited lecturer and portfolio reviewer at Cal State Universities and at Art Center College of Design. He has been involved with the internship programs for many years and has employed students from colleges throughout California and London. AIGA Las Vegas invited Mark to judge a show and present his work.
Allen currently resides in Austin, Texas and maintains studios in Venice, California, and the Chelsea area of New York City.
Representatives:
Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX
Monique Goldstrom Gallery, NYC
Soapbox Gallery, Los Angeles |
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