Mark Dean Veca Skull, 2008-18 Art Print

In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Phantasmagoria, 2008, Mark Dean Veca's installation at Otis College of Art and Design, he is releasing this print of one of the paintings he incorporated into it.

Mark on the print:

The painting, Skull, 2008, used Damien Hirst’s For the Love of God as a found compositional structure for improvisational line work.

The exhibition opened at my alma mater in Los Angeles on October 11th, 2008, as a component of the Jennifer Howard Coleman Distinguished Lectureship and Residency and was curated by Meg Linton.

Skull, 2008-18
Archival UltraChrome print
13 x 19”
Edition of 130 Signed and numbered by the artist

Available now at markdeanveca.bigcartel.com

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Mark Dean Veca Primus Dallas Poster Release

Mark Dean Veca has a new poster for Primus. Back Off was designed for the show in Dallas last night.

Main edition
Seven color screen print on Warm White paper
Signed & numbered Limited Edition of 200
Size: 18 x 24 inches

Along with the main edition are 3 variants

Variant 1
Six-color screen print on Kaleidoscope Foil paper
Signed & numbered
Limited Edition of 24

Variant 2 Black & Red
Two-color screen print on Warm White paper
Signed & numbered
Limited Edition of 14

Variant 3 hand painted multiple
Six-color screen print on Warm White paper with hand-painted border
Signed & numbered
Limited Edition of 8

On sale at today at Noon Pacific at Markdeanveca.bigcartel.com

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Mark Dean Veca Primus Lancaster Poster Release

Mark Dean Veca has released his Primus Lancaster poster. You can choose from the regular edition or 5 different variants including a hand painted multiple that has a hand painted background.

Commissioned by Primus exclusively for their July 22nd, 2017 performance at Freedom Hall in Lancaster, PA.
Main edition
Four color screen print
Signed & numbered Limited Edition of 350
Size: 24 x 18 inches

Buy them all at  http://markdeanveca.bigcartel.com/

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Mark Dean Veca Ween Baltimore Poster Release

I must say I was surprised pleasantly to see Mark Dean Veca did a poster for Ween.

Boognish
Seven color screen print
Edition: 325 Signed and numbered by the artist
Size: 24 x 18 inches / 61 x 45.7cm

Commissioned by WEEN exclusively for their June 4th, 2017, performance at the Pier Six Pavilion in Baltimore, Maryland

Boognish (variant)
Seven color screen print
Edition: 20 Signed and numbered by the artist
Size: 24 x 18 inches / 61 x 45.7cm

There will be 3 other variants as well.

Available at markdeanveca.bigcartel.com Monday, June 5th, 2017, noon Pacific

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Mark Dean Veca TRI-GLYPHS New Drawings and Prints for Mother's Day and Beyond

Check out Mark Dean Veca's new TRI-GLYPHS Three-Character Pictures. Choose from a selection of prints or commission an original drawing. Words, initials, area codes - you name it - MDV will draw any 3 characters in ink on your choice of any background color.

MOM, 2017
Archival UltraChrome Print, 10 x 8, Edition of 130
Signed and numbered by the artist
Handmade-to-order "MOM" drawings (or any 3 letters) on your choice of background color are also available.

DAD, 2017
Archival UltraChrome Print, 10 x 8, Edition of 130
Signed and numbered by the artist
Handmade-to-order "DAD" drawings (or any 3 letters) on your choice of background color are also available.

420, 2017
Archival UltraChrome Print, 8 x 10", Edition of 130
Signed and numbered by the artist
Handmade-to-order "420" drawings (or any 3 numbers) on your choice of background color are also available.

MDV, 2017
Archival UltraChrome Print, 8 x 10", Edition of 130
Signed and numbered by the artist
Handmade-to-order Monogram drawings (any 3 initials) on your choice of background color are also available.

718, 2017
Archival UltraChrome Print, 8 x 10", Edition of 130
Signed and numbered by the artist
Handmade-to-order "718" drawings (or any area code) on your choice of background color are also available.

Buy them at www.markdeanveca.bigcartel.com

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Mark Dean Veca OH YEAH Print Release

Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose highlights 51 remarkable contemporary artists who have been featured in the pages of the popular art magazine Hi-Fructose. Despite differing levels of recognition, all the artists have a distinctive voice and vision. They come from around the world with different perspectives and approaches to art-making. Turn the Page offers the opportunity to view their original works beyond the flat worlds of paper and digital screens, where they are most often seen.

These diverse artists each demonstrate mastery of their chosen media—their work is characterized by vividly colored imagery that is graphically and carefully rendered with high attention to detail. From oil paintings and drawings, to porcelain and bronze sculptures, to video and mixed media artworks, both new and traditional artistic processes are represented. The subjects, images and ideas expressed in these artworks, however, are decidedly contemporary, responding to the world as we see it today. Though the artworks in Turn the Page are often informed by art history, they are also equally influenced by popular culture, current politics and globalization.

Exhibition Tour:

Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) May 22 - December 31, 2016
Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio. February 10 - May 7, 2017
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California. June 11, 2017 - September 17, 2017

Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose is organized by the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art

To commemorate Turn the Page a new print, has been published featuring Mark Dean Veca's contribution the exhibition available now at markdeanveca.bigcartel.com

The print titled OH YEAH is Archival UltraChrome Print, 12 x 12" that is signed and numbered Edition of 130. There is also a variant with an edition of 3

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Mark Dean Veca Natch Print

Thirty-Three: Celebrating 33 Years of the Independent Spirit & Sundance Film Festival showcases 33 artists who are at the forefront of contemporary visual art. Curated by 5-time Sundance alum Morgan Spurlock (CNN’s Morgan Spurlock Inside Man, Where in the World is Osama bin Laden, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Web Junkie and Super Size Me) with additional co-curation by Jensen Karp and Katherine Sutton, the exhibition celebrates the high caliber of diverse and sometimes wild, but always thought-provoking 33 years of Sundance Film Festival. With a collection of artists that embody the Festival’s innovative, edgy, provocative spirit, Thirty-Three unites a group that runs the gamut of contemporary Pop Art and beyond and provides a platform for new thought and conversation. The Kimball Art Center is honored to premiere these artists and their works that celebrate film, vision and independence.

To commemorate Thirty-Three a new print has been published featuring work Mark Dean Veca created for the exhibition available now at markdeanveca.bigcartel.com

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Mark Dean Veca When The Shit Hits The Fan Print

Mark Dean Veca is participating in a show next week with a new print titled When The Shit Hits The Fan. It's a 28 x 22 screen print.

Envisioning Election and Politics in 2016
Use of art in politics harkens back to the middle of the 20th century and beyond. Although the iconography impact of art in politics seems diminished in this digital world of internet, social media, and cable news, artists have not stopped creating and expressing their thoughts on elections and politics. The Puffin Cultural Forum presents a collection of works created by artists expressing diversity of views, perspectives, and emotions related to the upcoming 48th quadrennial U.S. presidential election. Exhibition Opening will feature performances of poetry and music and Q&A with participating artists.

Sep. 17 04:00 pm
Puffin Cultural Forum
20 Puffin Way
Teaneck, New Jersey

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Mark Dean Veca Pearl Jam Toronto Poster And Sticker

Tonight is the first of two sold out Pearl Jam shows in Toronto at the Air Canada Centre that will wrap up this part of the 2016 tour. Mark Dean Veca did the poster for the show and it features a follow up to his St Louis poster as this time Bluto of Popeye is featured.

Don't forget, due to the Toronto Raptors NBA Playoff win in Game 2, the Toronto concert originally scheduled for Wednesday, May 11th has been re-scheduled for Thursday, May 12th at Air Canada Centre.Tickets for the Wednesday, May 11th concert will be honored for the Thursday, May 12th date.

Artist edition signed and numbered posters will be on sale May 12 at 3pm EDT at  http://markdeanveca.com/home.html  . And yes there will be international shipping.

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Mark Dean Veca Puscifer Phoenix Poster Artist Edition Release

Zoltron has done another dope job with this second Puscifer tour series of posters. You can get Mark Dean Veca's poster on Tuesday.

El Luchador, 2016
Six-color screen print
Edition: 180 Signed and numbered by the artist
Size: 24 x 18 inches / 61 x 45.7cm
Signed and numbered by the artist
Hand-Embellished version also available.

El Luchador Gold (Variant), 2016 Five-color screen print
Edition: 27 Signed and numbered by the artist
Size: 24 x 18 inches / 61 x 45.7cm
Hand-Embellished version also available.

Commissioned by Puscifer exclusively for their March 18, 2016, performance at the Comerica Theater in Phoenix, Arizona.

Available at  markdeanveca.bigcartel.com  Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016, noon Pacific

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Mark Dean Veca Major Work Show in San Francisco Opening Friday & New Prints

This is how big the original painting is

In celebration of the Major Work exhibition at Chandran Gallery, San Francisco, two new prints have been published by Mark Dean Veca Studio.

Apprentice features the painting from Major Work depicting Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice in Disney's 1940 psychedelic animated masterpiece, Fantasia.

Hatter portrays The Mad Hatter from Disney's 1951 cartoon classic, Alice in Wonderland, based on Lewis Carroll's surreal 1865 novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Both were inspired by vintage Blotter Art, the graphic embellishment of an LSD delivery system that has become a distinct category of printmaking in and of itself.

Apprentice, 2015
Archival UltraChrome Print on
100% cotton rag paper 290 gsm
12 x 12" inches, Edition of 130
Signed and numbered by the artist

Hatter, 2015
Archival UltraChrome Print on
100% cotton rag paper 290 gsm
12 x 12" inches, Edition of 130
Signed and numbered by the artist

Both prints available now at markdeanveca.bigcartel.com

Opening soon: "Major Work" Curated by Andrew Schoultz

New, large-scale works by: Alicia McCarthy, Aaron Noble, Kelsey Brookes, Revok, James Marshall (Dalek), Sam Friedman, Eric Yahnker, Mark Dean Veca, Saber, Hilary Pecis, Tim Biskup, Eric White, Allison Schulnik and Andrew Schoultz

Fourteen artists, recognized for their significance in shaping major genres within contemporary art, are brought together in an expanded definition of social discourse. The artists are akin for their amplified voices and commentaries that are often formed through their highly individualistic choices in lifestyle and/or professional trajectories. In keeping with the theme, the exhibition comprises of new paintings created on a grand scale, giving an enveloping experience of each artist’s work.

The exhibition is on view December 11, 2015 - January 15, 2016, with an opening reception on Friday, December 11 between 7 - 9:30pm.
Chandran Gallery

459 Geary Street
San Francisco, California 94109
Map

Gallery hours: Tuesday -Saturday 12-6pm
For More Information Visit: www.chandrangallery.com

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Mark Dean Veca Tweety Bird Vinyl Figure

Today Kidrobot is ecstatic to release the Kidrobot.com exclusive Limited Edition Mark Dean Veca Tweety Bird Art Toy in this beautiful red color and it is 8 inches tall. This is a limited edition run of 300 pieces and will sell out.

“Since their riotous debut, the Looney Tunes have unleashed a cavalcade of delight upon an unsuspecting world and have been a timeless cartoon staple ever since. Kidrobot is proud to present a full cast of your favorite wacky heroes from Bugs Bunny to Pepe LePew for your collecting pleasure,” said Frank Kozik, Creative Director of Kidrobot, on the creation of the Looney Tunes collection. The product line will include a 3” Blind Box Mini Series, a Looney Tunes Keychain Series and the Limited Edition Mark Dean Veca Tweety Bird Art Toy.

See that Tweety Bird at Kidrobot.com

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Mark Dean Veca Primus London Poster Release Details

Primus has taken the Chocolate Factory and the Fungi Ensemble across the pond for a tour and they kicked it off in London last night. Mark Dean Veca did the poster and it is simple ridiculously good.

You will have your choice of the regular and foil variant poster or you can choose to have them hand embellished by Mark. He really went to town on hand embellishing them as well,

Regular
Commissioned by Primus exclusively for their June, 2015, performance at the O2 Academy Brixton, London, UK.
Four color screen print
Signed & numbered Edition: 265
Size: 18 x 24 inches

Hand Embellished
Four color screen print, hand-embellished with white acrylic linework by the artist
Signed & numbered Edition: 10

Foil Variant
Four color screen print on rainbow foil paper
Signed & numbered Edition: 35

Hand Embellished
Four color screen print on rainbow foil paper, hand-embellished with black acrylic linework by the artist
Signed & numbered Edition: 4

They all go on sale Wednesday at Noon PDT at MarkDeanVeca.com

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Mark Dean Veca Primus Clearwater Posters On Sale

This Chocolate Factory tour from Primus has really produced an outstanding series of posters. Mark Dean Veca has his Gloopfinger poster for the Clearwater, Florida show on sale now.

The regular edition is a 4 color screen print (varnished black and brown on metallic gold ink) Signed & numbered edition of 200 measuring 18 24 inches

The variant is on gold chrome paper with an edition of only 35.

Buy them in Mark Dean Veca's Store

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Mark Dean Veca: Everlast Solo Show at Western Project Preview

Western Project is proud to present the third solo exhibition at the gallery by Los Angeles artist, Mark Dean Veca. His new body of work, EVERLAST, is comprised of seven new paintings and twelve works on paper. Veca grew up around the San Francisco Bay Area surrounded by words; words in the sky, words on the streets, words on the billboards, on trucks and grocery stores, liquor stores – everywhere – an environment of language, letters and images. For this work he writes:

Particular street signs and logos started to jump out at me as perfect combinations of subject matter and composition. I'm not picking words or images at random, but those that I find have some kind of resonance personally as well as universally, be they mundane or iconic, and are redolent of my 1970's California upbringing…

For years now I've been interested in the negative space in and around letterforms, particularly logos in a certain script, like the Fender logo. When I see these spaces I get an urge or compulsion to define and articulate them, to make them the figure, not the ground.

It is the atmosphere which seems to have won out as an undulating miasma or vapor, enveloping the signage from neighborhood stores (LIQUOR MART), to international corporate logos (EVERLAST and Zildjian). Perhaps they recall the brown smog atmosphere from the 1970’s in LA, along with the Pop culture explosion of the era; his paintings reek of immersion in a climate of billowing energy, a charged atmosphere where background shifts to and fro:

Duality seems to be a consistent theme in much of my work. In these word paintings the eye wants to flatten the text, especially from a distance, but upon closer inspection the forms flip. The atmospheric quality that fills the letter forms heightens the effect of creating depth and contrast to the crisp line work defining the biomorphic abstraction surrounding them.

The show opens this Saturday October 18 6-8pm and runs until November 29. 
Western Project is located at
2762 S LA CIENEGA BLVD. LOS ANGELES, CA 90034
310.838.0609

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Pearl Jam St Louis Poster by Mark Dean Veca

Pearl Jam is in St Louis tonight and Mark Dean Veca did the poster with a killer Popeye inspired theme to it. He will have his signed and numbered artist edition posters on sale Saturday at Noon PDT in his store HERE .

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Primus Las Vegas Mark Dean Veca Poster Night 3

Tonight is the last night Primus is in Las Vegas and Mark Dean Veca did the poster for the show. With Hunter S Thompson as the subject this is my favorite so far, but all 3 have been incredible. 

100 Prints will be available at the merch booth, signed, numbered and pre-tubed. Get there early and grab one!

If you can't make it to the show tonight, Mark will have a very limited release here next week http://www.markdeanveca.bigcartel.com of all 3 posters he has done for the Las Vegas shows on May 7 at Noon PDT

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