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El Conejo in His Head, oil on canvas 20x16, 2010 |
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The Republic of Suicide,
oil on canvas 44x72, 2009 |
Humorologist C.W. Metcalf says humor and laughter do not exist in the absence of sorrow and tears, but co-exist as a balance of sanity. Mark Bryan's iconography, loaded as it is with multiple inferences, has the potential to make us laugh and also think about the frivolities and stupidities committed by so-called "enlightened" human beings . "Sometimes while I'm sketching," says Bryan, "I often feel like I'm taking notes at a dark comedy, but the play never ends, and they won't let us go home." essay by Nicholas Roukes, Artful Jesters |
Sorry, This Party's not Over! |
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"The
Mad Tea Party" "
I'll never go there again!" said Alice, as she picked her
way through the wood. "It's the Stupidest tea-party I ever
was at in all my life!" |
| Posters
and Giclee prints of "Mad Tea Party" and "Dick"
are available click
here for details |
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The Grateful Dead,
oil on canvas 30x24, 2009 |
News,
Upcoming Events |
"Hard Times" |
Steynberg
Gallery |
Nov. 20th -Jan 10th, opening reception Nov. 20th, 6-9pm |
1531 Monterey St. San Luis Obispo Ca. 805 547 0278 |
"El Dia De Los Muertos"" |
San Luis Obispo Arts Council, Arts Space |
570 Higuera St. San Luis Obispo Ca. |
Oct 29th- Nov. 13th, Opening reception Nov. 6th, 6-9 pm |
Recent Events |
"Meditations
on the Apocalyptic" |
Cal
State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
Sept. 21 -Oct 23 rd, opening reception Oct. 4th, 3-5pm |
W. Kieth and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery |
Open Studios, Oct 10th-11th, 2009 |
16 Temple St. San Francisco Ca. |
Hollywood
Ca., June 2009 |
"A
Farewell Kiss" (for Bush) |
| Feb. 6th- March 14th., Opening receptions Feb. 6th, March 6th, 7-10 pm |
Curated by DeWitt Cheng |
Oakopolis
Gallery, link |
"Visual
Subversion" |
| Mark
Bryan, Dennis
Larkins, KRK Ryden, Winston
Smith |
Pop
Gallery, http://www.popsantafe.com/ |
Oct.
11th/Nov. 30th, Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
"Monkeys
in my Head" |
Steynberg
Gallery Nov.
7th/Jan 2nd, San Luis Obispo Ca. |
Nov.
7th .-Dec. 28th, opening reception Nov. 7th 6-9 pm |
"Bread
and Circus" Art
of Democracy |
ArtObjectGallery,
San Jose Ca. Nov. 15th-Jan !5th |
Opening
reception Nov. 15th 6-9 pm http://www.artobjectgallery.com/ |
Art
of Democracy: War and Empire |
| Meridian
Gallery http://www.meridiangallery.org/ |
535
Powell Street San Francisco, CA 94108 |
Sept.
4th-Nov. 4th, opening reception Sept. 4th 6-9 pm |
Solo
Exhibition, May 1st-31st 2008, Sacramento Ca. |
Opening
Recption May 10th |
"Lakeview
Terrace" |
Mark
Bryan's Mad Tea Party painting featured
in "Lakeview Terrace" |
Starring
Samuel Jackson, release date sept. 19th 2008 |
"Carnivora" |
The
Dark Art of the Automobile |
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Cpop Gallery, Detroit, Opening
Jan 12th |
L'imagerie
Gallery |
May
3rd.-June 14th, opening reception May 3rd 7pm |
10555
Victory Blvd. North Hollywood |
JUXTAPOZ
Magazine |
Feature
article, Gallows
Humor, The Art of Mark Bryan, January issue 2007 |
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"Last of the Pinot", oil on canvas, 30x24 2009 |
Geez
Magazine |
Cover
art , Monsters in our Midst, fall issue
2007 |
Miz
Radio interviews Mark Bryan |
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"Dick" |
New
portrait, oil on canvas 30x24", 2006 |
Posters
and giclee prints are available of "Dick" click
here for details
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T-
shirts of "Mad Tea Party", "Dick" and "Uncle
Sam" are now available click
here for details |
| bAdbusters Magazine illustration for TV Turnoff Week,Spiritual pollution issue |
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| bAdbusters Magazine Three illustrations, for special end of the year issue 2005 bbb |
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