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Mark Pearson
About the artist...
The abstract artist Frank Stella once remarked that he wanted his
paint to 'look as good as it does in the can', but, paint has qualities
and hidden structures which only appear when you get it out of the
can. Pearson encourages the paint to form its own pictures with
minimum intervention - a kind of 'natural formalism'. Unlike true
process painting, the very simple methods used are merely a means
to an end: what is revealed is more important than how it is revealed.
He wants the paint to look better than it does in the can.
The painting called 'Medium-Support Conflict' is from a series
of works which rely on the intrinsic disparity between water-based
paint and the traditional canvas support. A film of paint is poured
to cover the entire surface of the unprimed canvas. This collapses
slowly, retracting like slime mould into 'organic' structures and
forms.
Biography
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS |
| 2004 |
will and compulsion, Broadbent, London |
| 2003 |
Surface Tension, Vertigo Gallery,
London
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Gallery Artists, Vertigo Gallery, London |
| 2002 |
'30 x 30', Vertigo Gallery, London |
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Chamois, MOT Gallery, London |
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The Poster The Show + 1, Hoxton Distillery, London |
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New Work by Mark Pearson & Susan Evans, Vertigo
Gallery, London |
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Art 2002, Business Design Centre, London |
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ARCO International Art Fair, Madrid, Spain |
| 2001 |
Artissima 8, Torino, Italy |
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In Collaboration with David Mach RA, AT Kearney,
London |
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Is It Any Wonder, Palma Dotze Gallery, Barcelona |
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Still, Vertigo Gallery, London |
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Chase 2001, RCA, London |
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Art 2001, Business Design Centre, London |
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Family Favorites, Vertigo Gallery, London |
| 2000 |
Soft and Gentle, Gallery Westland Place, London |
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Assembly, RCA and Goldsmiths recent graduates,London |
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Chase 2000, RCA, London |
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Marta Marce and Mark Pearson, Eurostar, London |
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Plastic, Virgin Airways, London |
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Group Show, Limehouse Arts Foundation, London |
| 1999 |
Mafuji Gallery, London |
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Frameworks Gallery, London |
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Hockey Gallery, RCA, London |
| 1998 |
Gasworks Gallery, London |
| 1997 |
Quicksilver Gallery, London |
| 1996 |
Quicksilver Gallery, London |
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| EDUCATION |
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MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London |
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BA (Hons) Fine Art, Middlesex University, London |
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BSc Biology, Royal College of Science, London |
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| SELECTED COLLECTIONS |
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A.T. Kearney |
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Diesel |
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RCA |
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