Mark Dornfeld

Mark Dornfeld was born in New York City and grew up surrounded by all the culture and art that the city had to offer. In his teen years Mark developed a serious interest in Theatre, Film and Photography. He began to understand the narrative in images. How in theater and film the color and tone of an environment was a major component in the story telling, supporting the narrative in the words. In his photographs Mark was always looking for a narrative in the images. He understood that when people look at a photograph they build a story. They look for relationships between the people in an image or an understanding of a place. Mark's over -riding interest has been in creating unique images that capture the spirt and soul of a moment or a feeling. They relate a narrative or tell a story, though often using non-narrative or painterly techniques to get their ideas across.
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Mark's professional life was spent in the film industry working in post production visual effects. Spending his early career as a migrant film worker going from one film to the next and eventually migrating to Disney, where he participated in the creation of visual effects and title sequences for many of its major releases. After eight years at Disney Mark left...

New York Institute of Technology Film and Broadcasting Major 1969-1971

Orson Wells Film School 1971-1972

California Institute of the Arts 1974-1977 BFA film

2010 one man show Universal Art Gallery, Venice California

2019 Shared Show Blue Gallery Santa Monica California