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== Solo exhibitions ==
== Solo exhibitions ==
* ''El Gloominator'', State University of New York at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1998{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}
* ''El Gloominator'', State University of New York at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1998<ref>https://ubartgalleries.buffalo.edu/exhibitions/mark-dean-veca-el-gloominator/</ref>
* ''Picturing Florida'', Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL (with Ellen Harvey), 2006{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}
* ''Picturing Florida'', Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL (with Ellen Harvey), 2006<ref>https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/galleries/exhibitions/pisturingflnew/</ref>
* [[Ben Maltz Gallery]], Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, October 11 – December 6, 2008{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}
* [[Ben Maltz Gallery]], Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, October 11 – December 6, 2008<ref>https://markdeanveca.com/section/313481-2008.html</ref>
* University Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, January 30–15 March 2009{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}
* ''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.pdf<ref></ref></ref>
* ''Revenge of Phantasmagoria'', Instituto Cultural de Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico. Organized by the [[Ben Maltz Gallery]] at Otis College of Art and Design,<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100528101705/http://www.otis.edu/assets/user/Ben%20Maltz%20Gallery/MDV_Mexico_PR.pdf</ref> 2009/10.
* ''Revenge of Phantasmagoria'', Instituto Cultural de Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico. Organized by the [[Ben Maltz Gallery]] at Otis College of Art and Design,<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100528101705/http://www.otis.edu/assets/user/Ben%20Maltz%20Gallery/MDV_Mexico_PR.pdf</ref> 2009/10.
* ''As Cold As They Come'', Jonathan Le Vine Gallery, New York, NY, 2009.
* ''As Cold As They Come'', Jonathan Le Vine Gallery, New York, NY, 2009<ref>https://jonathanlevineprojects.com/exhibits/mark-dean-vecaas-cold-as-they-come/</ref>
* ''When the Shit Hits the Fan'', Western Project, Los Angeles, CA, 2010 <ref>http://www.western-project.com/news/2010/12/04/mark-dean-veca-when-the-shit-hits-the-fan-new-paintings</ref>
* ''Paintings, Wall Drawings, and Collaborations'', The University Art Gallery at University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA 2009
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* ''Impulse'', The Lab Gallery, New York, NY, 2011 <ref>https://markdeanveca.com/artwork/2721791-Impulse-2010.html</ref>
* ''When the Shit Hits the Fan'', Western Project, Los Angeles, CA, 2010
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* ''Mark Dean Veca: Raging Opulence'', San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 2012 <ref>https://sjmusart.org/exhibition/raging-opulence-mark-dean-veca</ref>
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* ''Impulse'', The Lab Gallery, New York, NY, 2011
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* ''Mark Dean Veca: Twenty Years'', Western Project, Los Angeles, CA, 2013 <ref>http://www.western-project.com/news/2013/08/01/mark-dean-veca-20-years-work-from-the-new-monograph</ref>
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* ''Mark Dean Veca: Raging Opulence'', San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 2012
* ''Made for You and Me'', Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, 2013 <ref><ref>https://www.cristintierney.com/exhibitions/55-mark-dean-veca-made-for-you-and-me/press_release_text/</ref></ref>
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* ''Mark Dean Veca: Twenty Years'', Western Project, Los Angeles, CA, 2013
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* ''Divinity Degenerate'', Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA, 2013 <ref>https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/galleries/exhibitions/pisturingflnew/</ref>
* ''Made for You and Me'', Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, 2013
* ''Everlast'', Western Project, Los Angeles, CA, 2014 <ref>https://hifructose.com/2014/10/21/opening-night-everlast-by-mark-dean-veca-at-western-project/</ref>
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* ''Divinity Degenerate'', Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA, 2013
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* ''Le Poppy Den'', David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO, 2014 <ref>https://markdeanveca.com/section/414954-2014.html</ref>
* ''Everlast'', Western Project, Los Angeles, CA, 2014
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* ''Pony Show'', Site:Lab, Grand Rapids, MI, 2015 <ref>https://markdeanveca.com/artwork/3856022-Pony-Show-2015.html</ref>
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* ''Le Poppy Den'', David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO, 2014
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* ''Pony Show'', Site:Lab, Grand Rapids, MI, 2015
* ''Mark Dean Veca: The Mundane and the Sublime'', Duke Art Gallery, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA (catalogue with essay by David Pagel), 2016
* ''Mark Dean Veca: The Mundane and the Sublime'', Duke Art Gallery, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA (catalogue with essay by David Pagel), 2016
* ''PsychoBioDelica: The Graphic World of Mark Dean Veca'', Haight Street Art Center, San Francisco, CA, and Agent Ink Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA, 2017
* ''PsychoBioDelica: The Graphic World of Mark Dean Veca'', Haight Street Art Center, San Francisco, CA, and Agent Ink Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA, 2017

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Mark Dean Veca is an American artist (born 1963) 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.

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.[1]

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.[2]

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."[3]

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."[4]

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.[5]

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.[6]

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

  • El Gloominator, State University of New York at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1998[7]
  • Picturing Florida, Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL (with Ellen Harvey), 2006[8]
  • Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, October 11 – December 6, 2008[9]
  • Paintings, Wall Drawings, and Collaborations, University Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, January 30–15 March 2009Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).</ref>
  • Revenge of Phantasmagoria, Instituto Cultural de Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico. Organized by the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design,[10] 2009/10.
  • As Cold As They Come, Jonathan Le Vine Gallery, New York, NY, 2009[11]
  • When the Shit Hits the Fan, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA, 2010 [12]
  • Impulse, The Lab Gallery, New York, NY, 2011 [13]
  • Mark Dean Veca: Raging Opulence, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 2012 [14]
  • Mark Dean Veca: Twenty Years, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA, 2013 [15]
  • Made for You and Me, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, 2013 Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).</ref>
  • Divinity Degenerate, Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA, 2013 [16]
  • Everlast, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA, 2014 [17]
  • Le Poppy Den, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO, 2014 [18]
  • Pony Show, Site:Lab, Grand Rapids, MI, 2015 [19]
  • Mark Dean Veca: The Mundane and the Sublime, Duke Art Gallery, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA (catalogue with essay by David Pagel), 2016
  • PsychoBioDelica: The Graphic World of Mark Dean Veca, Haight Street Art Center, San Francisco, CA, and Agent Ink Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA, 2017
  • Passaggio di Pop, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, 2018
  • The Troubled Teens (Work of a Decade), Jason Vass Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2019
  • 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 [20]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Stather, Martin; Heraeus, Stefanie; & Frisoni, Claude. "Mark Dean Veca" Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo! (Bielefeld, Germany: Bielefelder Kunstverein Museum Waldhof, 2006). 74.
  2. ^ Gladman, Randy, Mark Dean Veca Archived 2008-02-25 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
  3. ^ Mitchell, Steve. "That Which Illuminates Embodies the Suggestion of Darkness" Mark Dean Veca: El Gloominator (Buffalo, NY: University at Buffalo Art Gallery, 1998): 14.
  4. ^ McCormick, Carlo (March 2006). "Mark Dean Veca; Secret Symmetries". Juxtapoz: 56.
  5. ^ Rubin, Josh, Mark Dean Veca. Retrieved on 2008-02-14.
  6. ^ Seldin, Malena. Mark Dean Veca: Imbroglio Media Release (New York, NY: Jonathan LeVine Gallery, October 2007): 1.
  7. ^ https://ubartgalleries.buffalo.edu/exhibitions/mark-dean-veca-el-gloominator/
  8. ^ https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/galleries/exhibitions/pisturingflnew/
  9. ^ https://markdeanveca.com/section/313481-2008.html
  10. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20100528101705/http://www.otis.edu/assets/user/Ben%20Maltz%20Gallery/MDV_Mexico_PR.pdf
  11. ^ https://jonathanlevineprojects.com/exhibits/mark-dean-vecaas-cold-as-they-come/
  12. ^ http://www.western-project.com/news/2010/12/04/mark-dean-veca-when-the-shit-hits-the-fan-new-paintings
  13. ^ https://markdeanveca.com/artwork/2721791-Impulse-2010.html
  14. ^ https://sjmusart.org/exhibition/raging-opulence-mark-dean-veca
  15. ^ http://www.western-project.com/news/2013/08/01/mark-dean-veca-20-years-work-from-the-new-monograph
  16. ^ https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/galleries/exhibitions/pisturingflnew/
  17. ^ https://hifructose.com/2014/10/21/opening-night-everlast-by-mark-dean-veca-at-western-project/
  18. ^ https://markdeanveca.com/section/414954-2014.html
  19. ^ https://markdeanveca.com/artwork/3856022-Pony-Show-2015.html
  20. ^ https://artnowla.com/2020/02/29/mark-dean-veca-mark-steven-greenfield-graphic-subversion/
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