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1. I met Mark while we were students at Otis College of Art and
Design in Los Angeles. I have always been interested in his work
and have felt an affinity to it — both in its production and
outcome.
2. Mark's work complicates its relationship to its own production.
The idea of authorship is played and poked with and is often not
completely resolved. In a recent conversation I had with Mark he
suggested that a consistent theme in his work is “my unwillingness
to play fair.” One of my favorite things about his work is
its punk attitude. And better still it
doesn't just use the look of punk, whatever that may be. It cuts
and pastes where it wants and allows the viewer/reader to complete
or
complicate the object in front of them.
3. Some art practices are placed at the nether regions of the periphery.
And often I think I like it that way. By periphery I am referring
to the Art World as center since this conversation is pretty non-existent
outside of this arena. The art I am referring to has a certain quietness
of non-hype; perhaps it's less gimmicky or easily digested.
— Patrick Hill
Selected solo exhibitions: 2001: Low, Los Angeles.
Selected group exhibitions: 2002: A Show That Will
Show That a Show Is Not Only a Show, The Project, Los Angeles; Heaven
Knows I’m Miserable Now, Low, Los Angeles;120 Days of Boredom,
Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles; London Is Balling, The Bart Wells
Institute, London; 2001: Snow, Practice Space, Los Angeles; 2000:
Never Enough Space, B.F.A. Exhibition, Otis College, Los Angeles;
1999: Over the Hills and Far Away, Action Space, Los Angeles.
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