MARK ROEDER
1974, Whittie, USA. Lives and works in Los Angeles


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.




Untitled, 2000. Offset Litho on Wedgewood 80-lb. bond, edition of 36.