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"The Land and
Sky #580"
Acrylic on Canvas Painting
72" x 60" |
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Mark Gould is perhaps best known for his gorgeous continuing series,
“My Neighbor’s House,” a dazzling exploration of the American dream. His restless brush has also created still lifes, figure studies, and landscapes, and he recently embarked on a series of western landscapes.
Mark says each genre, each piece, offers him the chance to experiment with the five formal elements of painting: line, form, mass, texture, and color. However, signature qualities shine through in all his work: a fearless, virtuosic use of color, an expansive feeling of space and freedom, and bravura surfaces ranging from a mirror gloss to roughly built-up to rhythmically incised (to lend texture to his grass and hay). |
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Born and raised in the rural heartland of America, Gould recalls drawing incessantly, but without access to art classes, until he attended college. On the verge of failing his initial semester he took his first art/design class, at the end of which both he and his instructor knew art should be his major.
After graduating from the
University of Iowa, Gould worked in residential
construction, became a general contractor and eventually
fabricated tradeshow exhibitions. As assistant manager
of the traveling exhibition program at a major museum he
acquired a lasting appreciation for the sacredness of
the objects people made.
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This appreciation
inspired Gould in his own art-making and in his
continued studies at the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, the Denver Art Students League, and the
University of New Mexico. Within three years of
beginning to show his work publicly, in 1986, he gained
representation by major galleries.
The last few years have been marked by extraordinary growth and fruitfulness for Gould. It’s been years of daredevil experimentation, dramatic maturation, and growing recognition, as well as satisfaction in finding that his work has struck a chord in collectors and art lovers around the world. Click on an
image
to see a larger view. |
"My Neighbor's
House #583"
Acrylic on Board Painting
24" x 24" |
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"My Neighbor's
House #614"
Acrylic on Board Painting
14" x 11" |
"Figures in a
Garden #598"
Acrylic on Board Painting
20" x 16" |
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"My Neighbor's
House #633"
Acrylic on Board Painting
48" x 36" |
"My Neighbor's
House #600"
Acrylic on Board Painting
48" x 36" |
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"My Neighbor's
House #7"
Acrylic on Panel Painting
32" x 26" |
"My Neighbor's
House #335"
Acrylic on Panel Painting
22" x 18" |
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"Abiquin #1"
Acrylic on Board Painting
24" x 30" |
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Artist's prices beginning at $550.
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Artist.
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artist updates -
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"My Neighbor's
House #585"
Acrylic on Board Painting
48" x 36" |
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