Mark Dean Veca Mark Dean Veca is an American artist based in Altadena , California . He creates paintings, drawings and large-scale installations.Biography Mark Dean Veca was born in Shreveport, Louisiana , and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles in 1985. Veca has exhibited throughout the United States , Europe , and Japan at institutions such as the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum , PS 1 Contemporary Art Center , the Brooklyn Museum , the Bronx Museum of the Arts , and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts . His work has been reviewed in numerous publications including The New York Times , Artforum , Art in America , Art Review , Juxtapoz , and Flash Art . Veca conducted one-on-one master critiques with undergraduate and graduate Fine Arts students at Otis College of Art and Design in the fall of 2008 as part of the Jennifer Howard Coleman Distinguished Lectureship and Residency. He currently lives in Los Angeles and his next solo exhibition is scheduled to open Sept. 18 at .Veca’s work Veca is known for creating paintings, drawings and installations that portray surreal cartoons, psychedelic landscapes, and pop culture iconography while also being inspired by long-established decorative motifs. He is widely recognized for his all-encompassing installations that surround the viewer and incite a sense of awe. Revealing fantastical, humorous, aggressive, or sexual imagery with both frenzy and pattern-like precision, his works often recall a modernized type of toile painting. In the 1998 catalogue for Veca’s El Gloominator exhibition, Steve Mitchell asserts, “Veca works in the meticulous tradition of the fresco painter to produce an image that paradoxically evokes the immediacy of the graffiti artist.” Carlo McCormick states in a Juxtapoz magazine article that within the artist’s installation work, “confines create ideas, obstacles dictate illusions, and the proliferation of optic information ignites a kind of brain-searing explosion.” In 2004, Veca was commissioned by Nike to design an installation as well as a limited edition product series. Entitled Pulsation , the work was exhibited at 255 in New York. Veca’s most recent solo exhibition, Imbroglio , was held at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery and was his most ambitious New York exhibition thus far. Veca presented 17 new paintings on panel, which were incorporated into an installation.Awards Most recently, Veca was named Honoree of the fall 2008 Jennifer Howard Coleman Distinguished Lectureship and Residency at Otis College of Art and Design . In 2006, he was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Amongst his many honors, Veca has thrice received the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in painting and has carried out artist residencies for institutions such as the Bronx Museum , the MacDowell Colony , and Villa Montalvo .Solo exhibitions 2009 Revenge of Phantasmagoria , Instituto Cultural de Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico,, November 28, 2009 - January 10, 2010. University Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego , La Jolla, CA , January 30–15 March 2009. 2008 Ben Maltz Gallery , Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, October 11 – December 6, 2008. 2007 2006 2004 Pulsation , 255 Elizabeth Street, New York, NY, Commissioned by Nike 2003 Pleasure Machine , Mars Gallery, Tokyo , Japan Royale , Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY 2002 Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY Scope Art Fair , curated by David Hunt, New York , NY Toile de Brooklyn , g-module, Paris, France 2000 1999 Funky Jungle , DiverseWorks Art Space, Houston, TX Mark Dean Veca: New Paintings , Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY 1998 2006 Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art , Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery , Los Angeles Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo! , Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany; traveled to Kunstverein Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany and Cercle Munster, Munster, Luxembourg 2005 2004 Open House: Working in Brooklyn , Brooklyn Museum of Art , Brooklyn, NY NextNext Visual Art , Brooklyn Academy of Music , Brooklyn, NY The Ludovico Treatment , Muller de Chiara Gallery, Berlin , Germany Finesse , Catharine Clark Gallery , San Francisco, CA Impact: New Mural Projects , PPOW Gallery, New York, NY Grotto II , Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY 2003 Pavilion , Bloomberg Space, London , England Labor Day , RARE, New York, NY Cartoon , Riva Gallery, New York, NY Selections 2003 , Muller De Chiara Gallery, Berlin, Germany Metastasize , Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY On and Off the Wall , Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg , New York, NY Blue-Mars 1993-2003 , Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Drawings and Works on Paper: SF/NY/LA , San Luis Obispo Art Center, San Luis Obispo, CA Footnotes
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