Mark Swindle

What if your filthiest, most disturbing, most vicious dreams and desires could come true?

You step into a dimension where your suppressed desire of killing off the most hated and dangerous monsters on the world’s stage is acted out; another where you bear witness to an apocalypse-in-progress; yet another where you find your face in a sea of bloody syringes; or where you are forced to reflect on the sex crimes of an unrepentant perpetrator immune from censure or justice.

You do not want to watch or acknowledge any of this, but, in a now-fearsome reverie, your body has turned to marble, and you cannot turn away. From within the dark forest, the artist is undertaking target practice on your head, heart and your safe places and cherished convictions. You’ll grope and struggle to discover what—if anything—you can do to avert the world’s slide into catastrophe, or your own descent into despair.

Sometime in the second half of the 20th century I was born next to the ocean, in LA, but was raised in the middle of an ocean of corn, in rural, coal-mining, Bible-thumping Central Illinois. This uprooting had significance—first by starting off a search for a place to call "home" (49 attempts); and by launching a violent immune system reaction,...

Taylorville Senior High School, Taylorville IL. Valedictorian

University of Illinois, B.S. Architectural Studies. Bronze Tablet/With Honors

Northwestern University, MS (incomplete) Computer Information Systems

2013, March
Iterations and Inquiries
(international group show)
Organized and exhibited in with 12 artists
Univer Gallery, Paris, France

2022, March
Target Practice, A Peaceful Exhibition
(solo show)
Gallery Opening, Barcelona, Spain

2022
Art In the Time of Corona
"Mommy, I'm Scared"

2022, July
ARTBOX.PROJECT Palma 1.0
"Mommy, I'm Scared"

2022, Sept
ARTBOX.PROJECT Zürich 4.0, SwissArtExpo
"Mommy, I'm Scared"; "Lake Mead (Make Love Not War)"

2024, May
L'Age D'Or International Surrealist Exhibition
Valid World Hall, Barcelona, Spain
(7 works)