Mark Dean VECA
2008-09-27Veca 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 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 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 and works in Brooklyn and is represented by the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York.
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.
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.
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.»
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.»
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.
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.
http://www.markdeanveca.com/
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TITLE | ELLIOTT WILCOX
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PUBLICATION DATE | 13 FEBRUARY 2009
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PUBLICATION DATE | 04 FEBRUARY 2009
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PUBLICATION DATE | 22 JANUARY 2009
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PUBLICATION DATE | 09 JANUARY 2009
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PUBLICATION DATE | 20 OCTOBER 2008
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PUBLICATION DATE | 10 OCTOBER 2008
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PUBLICATION DATE | 05 SEPTEMBER 2008
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PUBLICATION DATE | 06 JUNE 2008
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PUBLICATION DATE | 27 MAY 2008
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PUBLICATION DATE | 21 APRIL 2008
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PUBLICATION DATE | 09 APRIL 2008
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PUBLICATION DATE | 27 MARCH 2008
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PUBLICATION DATE | 12 MARCH 2008
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PUBLICATION DATE | 05 FEBRUARY 2008
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PUBLICATION DATE | 22 JANUARY 2008
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PUBLICATION DATE | 02 NOVEMBER 2007
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PUBLICATION DATE | 10 OCTOBER 2007
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PUBLICATION DATE | 14 AUGUST 2007
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PUBLICATION DATE | 29 JANUARY 2007
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PUBLICATION DATE | 05 JANUARY 2007
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PUBLICATION DATE | 29 NOVEMBER 2006
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PUBLICATION DATE | 09 OCTOBER 2006
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PUBLICATION DATE | 03 OCTOBER 2006
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PUBLICATION DATE | 29 JUNE 2006
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