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"Fine artist Mark Andrew Allen's sophisticated jabs at consumer culture blend playful sarcasm with vibrant text messages woven into polychromatic backdrops" - Quendrith Johnson Mark Andrew Allen is an internationally represented fine artist whose work today is a culmination of many years of painting, thinking and experiencing. He blends urban street art with his background of typography, mixed media collage, and abstract expressionism into each of his pop expressionist works to establish a particular narrative of our modern day culture. His artworks are in many notable collections and have been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Rome, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Boston, Houston, Dallas, Austin, Charleston, SC, Asbury Park, NJ, and Chelsea, Canada. Museums include The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum - Cleveland, OH; Experience Music Project - Seattle, WA; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art - Memphis, TN; and Acadia Museum - Lafayette, LA. He has had two art installations in the Rockefeller Center windows in New York and his art work has been included in several television shows and feature films. The Disney Channel purchased eight paintings for the Emmy winning TV show "Wizards of Waverly Place," staring Selena Gomez. Allen served as Vice President of Development for the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts for two years and he has won numerous awards for his graphic design for some of the largest companies throughout the world. His most notable design projects include; The "Yu-Gi-Oh" logo, "The Nightmare Before Christmas" logo, the logo for the 60th anniversary of "The Wizard of Oz", Jackson 5 / Futurist Entertainment, CD art for P. Diddy's Bad Boy Records, tribute album for Willie Nelson, Stevie Nicks, "World Famous KROQ-106,7 FM-Los Angeles Weenie Roast Concert", "The Source Hip-Hop Music Awards Show." Promotion work for Pepsi, Mattel, Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount Studios, Disney, Universal Studios, Hanna-Barbera, Warner Brothers, Capitol Records, Atlantic Records, Interscope, Geffen, EMI, and RCA. Product development for licensing of "The Simpson's", "Family Guy", "M*A*S*H", "My Name Is Earl", "King Of The Hill", "Lion King", "Beauty and the Beast", "The Mummy", "Casper", "Dumb and Dumber", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", and "Buffy, The Vampire Slayer".