Mark Spencer
Mark Spencer
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The Art of Mark Spencer
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56 years old
SANTA FE, New Mexico
United States
Last Login: 2/1/2009
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Initially, Mark Spencer's dream-like paintings might seem to be examples of pure fantasy, seductive in their rich suggestiveness. A closer look, however, reveals that there is more in these works than first meets the psyche. Compelling as they are -- once seen, who can easily forget Bride of Fear? -- these visions would not be convincing without the solid mastery of painting technique that animates them. Spencer's genius is the ability to balance the means with ends in order to create a visual experience that is as stimulating to the concious and unconscious mind as it is to the eye.
Mark Spencer is acutely aware of history of art, and it is fascinating to notice how he reanimates the past in a way that gives extraordinary urgency to his visions. Although the artist has allowed his work to be called "neo-classical surrealism", he has fortunately for us, avoided the pathetic and vitiated notion of Surrealism bequeathed to us by Salvatore Dali. Instead, Spencer has hone back to the late nineteenth-century symbolic roots of Surrealism to build his own robust and evocative worlds.
Would House of Silence, for example, resonate so strongly without the existence of Arnold Bocklin's Island of the Dead? Would Sphinx and Nature Rules be such fascinating enigmas without the spirits of Gustave Moreau and Odilon Redon hovering over them? To admit this is possible is to take nothing from Spencer's achievement. Absorbing what he needs from the past, he has tapped into our shared millennial unease to create a singularly hypnotic mirror in which we see reflected not only his dreams and distractions, but ours as well.
By: Richard V. West, Director, Frye Art Museum
MARK SPENCER Born: July 26, 1949, Quincy, Massachusetts
EDUCATION 1971 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2004 Mark Spencer Monotypes, James Reid, Ltd.
2003 Dark Resonance: The ART of Mark Spencer, Boulder Museum of Fine Arts, Bolder CO.
2002 Beyond Reason: Paintings and Monoprints by Mark Spencer, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA.
2001 Vanier Gallery, Scottdale, AZ.
2000 Seductions, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
1999 Mark Spencer: Monotypes, Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ.
1997 Mark Spencer: Paintings and Monotypes, , 1984 - 1997, Greenville County Museum, Greenville, SC.
1996 Towards the Unobtainable Ideal, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2008 Carlos Carulo and Mark Spencer, Goldleaf Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
2008 Santa Fe Super Stars, Goldleaf Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
2007 From Barbizon to Santa Fe, Argos Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
2007 "Retreat", Goldleaf Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
2005 15 Santa Fe Artists, Las Vegas Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV.
2004 The Drawing Show: Wiford and Vogt Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.
2003 Re-Representing Representation VI, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY.
2002 From Realism to Abstraction, Art in New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts
In Pursuit of Peace, 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA.
2001 Re-Presenting Representation V, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira NY.
2000 American Scene II, Van Vechten-Lineberry Taos Art Museum, Taos, NM.
1999 Realism Meets Abstraction, Jenking Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
The Nude, Van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
Pleasures of the Palettes, C.A.S.A. Benefit Exhibit, Scottsdale, AZ.
1997 Waterproof Wallet Art, Albrecht-Kemper Museum, St. Joseph, MO.
1995 The Enduring Inspiration, New Mexico Landscape Painting, Cline Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & FILMS 2008 100 Santa Fe Etchers. Publisher: Bell Tower Editions
2006 Artists of the Southwest
2001 In the Presence of Fear
2001 Barbaric Mercies
1999 Tortilla Heaven
1998 The Sound Man
1997 ARTnews
COLLECTIONS Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Geenville County Museum, Greenville, SC
Williams College Museum, Williamstown, MA
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
John D. Merriman Collection, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Frank Ribelin Collection, Dallas, TX
Kathleen Peters Collection, Santa Fe, NM
Jane Smith Collection, Santa Fe, NM
James Reid Collection, Santa Fe, NM
Jack Copeland Collection, Baltimore, MD
Dennis Foy Collection, Summit, NJ
Joe Regele Collection, New York, NY
Marty and Laya Bloom Collection, Houston, TX
Dan Anthony Collection, Sant Fe, NM
Kay Barber Collection, Carmel, CA
Urban Hirsch Collection, Los Angeles, CA
University of West Virginia
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Dr. Robert Bell, Santa Fe, NM
Jerry Vanier Collection, Scottsdale, AZ
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