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'''Mark Dean Veca''' is an American artist (b.1963) based in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York]]. He creates paintings, drawings and large-scale installations.
'''Mark Dean Veca''' is an American artist (born 1963) based in [[Altadena]], California. He creates paintings, drawings and large-scale installations.


== Biography ==
== 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.
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 Museum of Contemporary Art]], [[PS 1 Contemporary Art Center]], The [[Brooklyn Museum of Art]], The [[Bronx Museum of the Arts]], and Y[[erba 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 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. Awards and honors include a C.O.L.A. 2011 Individual Artist Fellowship,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arrestedmotion.com/2011/03/update-mark-dean-veca-c-o-l-a-fellowship-exhibition/|title=Update: Mark Dean Veca C.O.L.A. Fellowship Exhibition « Arrested Motion}}</ref> Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artprize.org/mark-dean-veca|title=Mark Dean Veca}}</ref> and three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships. His work is included in numerous public collections including the Deutsche Bank Collection, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In April 2018, the Crocker Art Museum announced Mark Dean Veca as the second recipient of the John S. Knudsen Endowment Fund's $25,000 prize.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.crockerart.org/press/maddest-hatter-artist-mark-dean-veca-awarded-knudsen-prize-prepares-permanent-installation-for-crock|title = "Maddest Hatter" Artist Mark Dean Veca to Create New Installation at Crocker Art Museum After Winning Knudsen Prize}}</ref> Also upcoming, Veca has been commissioned to create a major new work of permanent public art for the new Los Angeles Metro station at Wilshire Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, opening in 2023.
Veca is conducting 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.
He currently lives in Los Angeles and his next solo exhibition is scheduled to open Sept. 18 at [http://www.western-project.com/Artists/MarkDeanVeca.html Western Project].


== Veca’s work ==
== 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.<ref>Stather, Martin; Heraeus, Stefanie; & Frisoni, Claude. “Mark Dean Veca” ''Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo!'' (Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefelder Kunstverein Museum Waldhof, 2006). 74.</ref>
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.<ref>Stather, Martin; Heraeus, Stefanie; & Frisoni, Claude. "Mark Dean Veca" ''Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo!'' (Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefelder Kunstverein Museum Waldhof, 2006). 74.</ref>


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.<ref>Gladman, Randy, [http://contemporand.com/Veca1.html ''Mark Dean Veca'']. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.</ref>
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.<ref>Gladman, Randy, [http://contemporand.com/Veca1.html ''Mark Dean Veca''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225215402/http://www.contemporand.com/Veca1.html |date=2008-02-25 }}. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.</ref>


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.” <ref>Mitchell, Steve. “That Which Illuminates Embodies the Suggestion of Darkness” ''Mark Dean Veca: El Gloominator'' (Buffalo, NY: University at Buffalo Art Gallery, 1998): 14.</ref>
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."<ref>Mitchell, Steve. "That Which Illuminates Embodies the Suggestion of Darkness" ''Mark Dean Veca: El Gloominator'' (Buffalo, NY: University at Buffalo Art Gallery, 1998): 14.</ref>


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.” <ref>McCormick, Carlo (March 2006). “Mark Dean Veca; Secret Symmetries”. ''Juxtapoz'': 56.</ref>
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."<ref>McCormick, Carlo (March 2006). "Mark Dean Veca; Secret Symmetries". ''Juxtapoz'': 56.</ref>


In 2004, Veca was commissioned by [[Nike, Inc.|Nike]] to design an installation as well as a limited edition product series. Entitled ''Pulsation'', the work was exhibited at 255 in New York.<ref>Rubin, Josh, [http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2005/01/mark_dean_veca.php ''Mark Dean Veca'']. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.</ref>
In 2004, Veca was commissioned by [[Nike, Inc.|Nike]] to design an installation as well as a limited edition product series. Entitled ''Pulsation'', the work was exhibited at 255 in New York.<ref>Rubin, Josh, [http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2005/01/mark_dean_veca.php ''Mark Dean Veca'']. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.</ref>


Veca’s most recent solo exhibition, ''Imbroglio'' (October 20 – November 17, 2007), 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.<ref>Seldin, Malena. ''Mark Dean Veca: Imbroglio'' Media Release (New York, NY: Jonathan LeVine Gallery, October 2007): 1.</ref>
Veca's 2007 solo exhibition, ''Imbroglio'' (October 20 – November 17, 2007), 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.<ref>Seldin, Malena. ''Mark Dean Veca: Imbroglio'' Media Release (New York, NY: [[Jonathan LeVine Gallery]], October 2007): 1.</ref>


In 2012, Veca's solo exhibition Raging Opulence was described as "MAD Magazine meets Versailles in Mark Dean Veca’s loud yet regal salon installation".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sjmusart.org/exhibition/raging-opulence-mark-dean-veca|title = Exhibitions + Collection|date = 27 August 2012}}</ref> Veca's signature style "grounded in mesmerizing line-work and psychedelic patterns" was perfectly displayed in his 2017 show PSYCHOBIODELICA, which was "an exhibit that looks into how Veca's art has found its place in the world of gig posters".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://haightstreetart.org/blogs/news/psychobiodelica-1|title = PSYCHOBIODELICA: The Graphic World of Mark Dean Veca}}</ref>
== 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]].


His most recent exhibition was in 2020 at California State University Northridge; the exhibition was a duo show entitled Graphic Subversion with Mark Steven Greenfield. The exhibition was focused on graphic language, with Veca utilizing specific cultural icons. In regards to Graphic Subversion, curator Betty Brown stated "their work urges us to not to accept media images as neutral, but to explore the nature of their history and impact, and what they communicate both overtly and covertly."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://artnowla.com/2020/02/29/mark-dean-veca-mark-steven-greenfield-graphic-subversion/|title = Mark Dean Veca & Mark Steven Greenfield: 'Graphic Subversion'|date = March 2020}}</ref>
== Solo exhibitions ==


Veca has also been commissioned to create a permanent public art work for the new Metro Station in Los Angeles, which will be opening in 2023.
'''2009'''
* ''Revenge of Phantasmagoria'', Instituto Cultural de Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico,(Organized by the [[Ben Maltz Gallery]] at Otis College of Art and Design)[http://www.otis.edu/assets/user/Ben%20Maltz%20Gallery/MDV_Mexico_PR.pdf], November 28, 2009 - January 10, 2010.
* University Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, January 30–15 March 2009.


== Awards ==
'''2008'''
Most recently, Veca was awarded a An artist Residency at The MacDowell Colony in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/mark-veca|title = Mark Dean Veca - Artist}}</ref> Additionally, in 2018, Veca was awarded the John S. Knudsen Prize. In 2011, Veca was awarded the Individual Artist Fellowship with C.O.L.A.; Veca additionally earned a painting fellowship with New York Foundation in 2008. Veca was also the 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 of the Arts|Bronx Museum]], the [[MacDowell Colony]], and [[Villa Montalvo]].


== Solo exhibitions ==
* [[Ben Maltz Gallery]], Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, October 11 – December 6, 2008.
* ''El Gloominator'', State University of New York at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1998<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ubartgalleries.buffalo.edu/exhibitions/mark-dean-veca-el-gloominator/|title = UB Art Galleries » Mark Dean Veca: El Gloominator}}</ref>
* ''Picturing Florida'', Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL (with Ellen Harvey), 2006<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/galleries/exhibitions/pisturingflnew/ | title=Picturing Florida }}</ref>
* [[Ben Maltz Gallery]], Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, October 11 – December 6, 2008 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://markdeanveca.com/section/313481-2008.html|title = 2008}}</ref>
* ''Paintings, Wall Drawings, and Collaborations'', University Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, January 30–15 March 2009<ref>http://uag.ucsd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/20091_Mark-Dean-Veca {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref>
* ''Revenge of Phantasmagoria'', Instituto Cultural de Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico. Organized by the [[Ben Maltz Gallery]] at Otis College of Art and Design,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.otis.edu/assets/user/Ben%20Maltz%20Gallery/MDV_Mexico_PR.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=www.otis.edu |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528101705/http://www.otis.edu/assets/user/Ben%20Maltz%20Gallery/MDV_Mexico_PR.pdf |archive-date=28 May 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 2009/10.
* ''As Cold As They Come'', Jonathan Le Vine Gallery, New York, NY, 2009<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jonathanlevineprojects.com/exhibits/mark-dean-vecaas-cold-as-they-come/|title = Mark Dean VecaAs Cold as They Come}}</ref>
* ''When the Shit Hits the Fan'', Western Project, Los Angeles, CA, 2010 <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.western-project.com/news/2010/12/04/mark-dean-veca-when-the-shit-hits-the-fan-new-paintings|title=Mark Dean Veca: When the Shit Hits the Fan / New Paintings / 2010}}</ref>
* ''Impulse'', The Lab Gallery, New York, NY, 2011 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://markdeanveca.com/artwork/2721791-Impulse-2010.html|title = Impulse, 2010}}</ref>
* ''Mark Dean Veca: Raging Opulence'', San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 2012 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sjmusart.org/exhibition/raging-opulence-mark-dean-veca|title = Exhibitions + Collection|date = 27 August 2012}}</ref>
* ''Mark Dean Veca: Twenty Years'', Western Project, Los Angeles, CA, 2013 <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.western-project.com/news/2013/08/01/mark-dean-veca-20-years-work-from-the-new-monograph|title = Mark Dean Veca: 20 Years - Work from the New Monograph}}</ref>
* ''Made for You and Me'', Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, 2013 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cristintierney.com/exhibitions/55-mark-dean-veca-made-for-you-and-me/press_release_text|title=Mark Dean Veca: Made for You and Me &#124; January 31 - March 9, 2013}}</ref>
* ''Divinity Degenerate'', Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA, 2013 <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/galleries/exhibitions/pisturingflnew/ | title=Picturing Florida }}</ref>
* ''Everlast'', Western Project, Los Angeles, CA, 2014 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hifructose.com/2014/10/21/opening-night-everlast-by-mark-dean-veca-at-western-project/|title = Opening Night: "EVERLAST" by Mark Dean Veca at Western Project|date = 22 October 2014}}</ref>
* ''Le Poppy Den'', David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO, 2014 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://markdeanveca.com/section/414954-2014.html|title = 2014}}</ref>
* ''Pony Show'', Site:Lab, Grand Rapids, MI, 2015 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://markdeanveca.com/artwork/3856022-Pony-Show-2015.html|title=Pony Show, 2015}}</ref>
* ''Mark Dean Veca: The Mundane and the Sublime'', Duke Art Gallery, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA (catalogue with essay by David Pagel), 2016 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://markdeanveca.com/artwork/3856022-Pony-Show-2015.html|title=Pony Show, 2015}}</ref>
* ''PsychoBioDelica: The Graphic World of Mark Dean Veca'', Haight Street Art Center, San Francisco, CA, and Agent Ink Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA, 2017 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://haightstreetart.org/blogs/news/psychobiodelica-1|title = PSYCHOBIODELICA: The Graphic World of Mark Dean Veca}}</ref>
* ''Passaggio di Pop'', Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, 2018 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.crockerart.org/oculus/find-spring-color-in-passaggio-di-pop|title = Find Spring Color in "Passaggio di Pop"!}}</ref>
* ''The Troubled Teens (Work of a Decade)'', Jason Vass Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2019 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.booooooom.com/2019/01/23/the-troubled-teens-work-of-a-decade-by-artist-mark-dean-veca/|title = "The Troubled Teens (Work of a Decade)" by Artist Mark Dean Veca}}</ref>
* ''35-Year Mid-Career Survey'', Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA (postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic), 2020
* ''Graphic Subversion'', California State University Northridge Main Art Gallery, Northridge, CA (with Mark Steven Greenfield) (catalog) 2020 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://artnowla.com/2020/02/29/mark-dean-veca-mark-steven-greenfield-graphic-subversion/|title = Mark Dean Veca & Mark Steven Greenfield: 'Graphic Subversion'|date = March 2020}}</ref>


'''2007'''
* ''Imbroglio'', Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, NY

'''2006'''

* ''Picturing Florida'', Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, [[Boca Raton, FL]] (with Ellen Harvey)

'''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 (with Cotter Luppi)
* ''Scope Art Fair'', curated by David Hunt, New York, NY
* ''Toile de Brooklyn'', g-module, [[Paris, France]]

'''2000'''

* ''Magnificent Compulsion'', Mark Moore Gallery, [[Santa Monica, CA]]
* ''Harum-Scarum'', Gallery at Villa Montalvo, [[Saratoga, CA]]

'''1999'''

* ''Funky Jungle'', DiverseWorks Art Space, [[Houston, TX]]
* ''Mark Dean Veca: New Paintings'', Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY

'''1998'''

* ''El Gloominator'', State University of New York at Buffalo Art Gallery, [[Buffalo, NY]]
* ''Gummi Grotto'', Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY

== Selected group exhibitions – last 5 years ==
'''2006'''

* ''Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art'', [[Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery]], [[Los Angeles, CA]]
* ''Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo!'', Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany; traveled to Kunstverein Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany and Cercle Munster, Munster, Luxembourg

'''2005'''

* ''Erotic Drawing'', DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; traveled to The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, [[Ridgefield, CT]]

'''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 ==
== Footnotes ==
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== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://www.markdeanveca.com/ Mark Dean Veca]
* {{Official website|www.markdeanveca.com}}
* [http://www.otis.edu/fileadmin/homepage/index.html Otis College of Art and Design]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070707010318/http://www.otis.edu/fileadmin/homepage/index.html Otis College of Art and Design]

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Latest revision as of 08:31, 31 July 2022

Mark Dean Veca is an American artist (born 1963) based in Altadena, California. He creates paintings, drawings and large-scale installations.

Biography

[edit]

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. Awards and honors include a C.O.L.A. 2011 Individual Artist Fellowship,[1] Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,[2] and three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships. His work is included in numerous public collections including the Deutsche Bank Collection, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In April 2018, the Crocker Art Museum announced Mark Dean Veca as the second recipient of the John S. Knudsen Endowment Fund's $25,000 prize.[3] Also upcoming, Veca has been commissioned to create a major new work of permanent public art for the new Los Angeles Metro station at Wilshire Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, opening in 2023.

He currently lives in Los Angeles.

Veca's work

[edit]

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.[4]

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.[5]

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."[6]

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."[7]

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.[8]

Veca's 2007 solo exhibition, Imbroglio (October 20 – November 17, 2007), 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.[9]

In 2012, Veca's solo exhibition Raging Opulence was described as "MAD Magazine meets Versailles in Mark Dean Veca’s loud yet regal salon installation".[10] Veca's signature style "grounded in mesmerizing line-work and psychedelic patterns" was perfectly displayed in his 2017 show PSYCHOBIODELICA, which was "an exhibit that looks into how Veca's art has found its place in the world of gig posters".[11]

His most recent exhibition was in 2020 at California State University Northridge; the exhibition was a duo show entitled Graphic Subversion with Mark Steven Greenfield. The exhibition was focused on graphic language, with Veca utilizing specific cultural icons. In regards to Graphic Subversion, curator Betty Brown stated "their work urges us to not to accept media images as neutral, but to explore the nature of their history and impact, and what they communicate both overtly and covertly."[12]

Veca has also been commissioned to create a permanent public art work for the new Metro Station in Los Angeles, which will be opening in 2023.

Awards

[edit]

Most recently, Veca was awarded a An artist Residency at The MacDowell Colony in 2019.[13] Additionally, in 2018, Veca was awarded the John S. Knudsen Prize. In 2011, Veca was awarded the Individual Artist Fellowship with C.O.L.A.; Veca additionally earned a painting fellowship with New York Foundation in 2008. Veca was also the 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

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  • El Gloominator, State University of New York at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1998[14]
  • Picturing Florida, Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL (with Ellen Harvey), 2006[15]
  • Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, October 11 – December 6, 2008 [16]
  • Paintings, Wall Drawings, and Collaborations, University Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, January 30–15 March 2009[17]
  • Revenge of Phantasmagoria, Instituto Cultural de Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico. Organized by the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design,[18] 2009/10.
  • As Cold As They Come, Jonathan Le Vine Gallery, New York, NY, 2009[19]
  • When the Shit Hits the Fan, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA, 2010 [20]
  • Impulse, The Lab Gallery, New York, NY, 2011 [21]
  • Mark Dean Veca: Raging Opulence, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 2012 [22]
  • Mark Dean Veca: Twenty Years, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA, 2013 [23]
  • Made for You and Me, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, 2013 [24]
  • Divinity Degenerate, Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA, 2013 [25]
  • Everlast, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA, 2014 [26]
  • Le Poppy Den, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO, 2014 [27]
  • Pony Show, Site:Lab, Grand Rapids, MI, 2015 [28]
  • Mark Dean Veca: The Mundane and the Sublime, Duke Art Gallery, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA (catalogue with essay by David Pagel), 2016 [29]
  • PsychoBioDelica: The Graphic World of Mark Dean Veca, Haight Street Art Center, San Francisco, CA, and Agent Ink Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA, 2017 [30]
  • Passaggio di Pop, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, 2018 [31]
  • The Troubled Teens (Work of a Decade), Jason Vass Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2019 [32]
  • 35-Year Mid-Career Survey, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA (postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic), 2020
  • Graphic Subversion, California State University Northridge Main Art Gallery, Northridge, CA (with Mark Steven Greenfield) (catalog) 2020 [33]

Footnotes

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  1. ^ "Update: Mark Dean Veca C.O.L.A. Fellowship Exhibition « Arrested Motion".
  2. ^ "Mark Dean Veca".
  3. ^ ""Maddest Hatter" Artist Mark Dean Veca to Create New Installation at Crocker Art Museum After Winning Knudsen Prize".
  4. ^ Stather, Martin; Heraeus, Stefanie; & Frisoni, Claude. "Mark Dean Veca" Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo! (Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefelder Kunstverein Museum Waldhof, 2006). 74.
  5. ^ Gladman, Randy, Mark Dean Veca Archived 2008-02-25 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
  6. ^ Mitchell, Steve. "That Which Illuminates Embodies the Suggestion of Darkness" Mark Dean Veca: El Gloominator (Buffalo, NY: University at Buffalo Art Gallery, 1998): 14.
  7. ^ McCormick, Carlo (March 2006). "Mark Dean Veca; Secret Symmetries". Juxtapoz: 56.
  8. ^ Rubin, Josh, Mark Dean Veca. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
  9. ^ Seldin, Malena. Mark Dean Veca: Imbroglio Media Release (New York, NY: Jonathan LeVine Gallery, October 2007): 1.
  10. ^ "Exhibitions + Collection". 27 August 2012.
  11. ^ "PSYCHOBIODELICA: The Graphic World of Mark Dean Veca".
  12. ^ "Mark Dean Veca & Mark Steven Greenfield: 'Graphic Subversion'". March 2020.
  13. ^ "Mark Dean Veca - Artist".
  14. ^ "UB Art Galleries » Mark Dean Veca: El Gloominator".
  15. ^ "Picturing Florida".
  16. ^ "2008".
  17. ^ http://uag.ucsd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/20091_Mark-Dean-Veca [dead link‍]
  18. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). www.otis.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 May 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  19. ^ "Mark Dean VecaAs Cold as They Come".
  20. ^ "Mark Dean Veca: When the Shit Hits the Fan / New Paintings / 2010".
  21. ^ "Impulse, 2010".
  22. ^ "Exhibitions + Collection". 27 August 2012.
  23. ^ "Mark Dean Veca: 20 Years - Work from the New Monograph".
  24. ^ "Mark Dean Veca: Made for You and Me | January 31 - March 9, 2013".
  25. ^ "Picturing Florida".
  26. ^ "Opening Night: "EVERLAST" by Mark Dean Veca at Western Project". 22 October 2014.
  27. ^ "2014".
  28. ^ "Pony Show, 2015".
  29. ^ "Pony Show, 2015".
  30. ^ "PSYCHOBIODELICA: The Graphic World of Mark Dean Veca".
  31. ^ "Find Spring Color in "Passaggio di Pop"!".
  32. ^ ""The Troubled Teens (Work of a Decade)" by Artist Mark Dean Veca".
  33. ^ "Mark Dean Veca & Mark Steven Greenfield: 'Graphic Subversion'". March 2020.
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