Mark Dean Veca

Born 1963 in Shreveport, Louisiana; lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Mark Dean Veca is renowned for creating paintings, drawings and installations that portray surreal cartoons, psychedelic landscapes, and pop culture iconography while also being inspired by long-established decorative motifs. Veca is widely recognized for his all-encompassing installations that surround the viewer and inspire a sense of awe. Revealing fantastical and, at times, humorous, aggressive, or sexual imagery with frenzy and pattern-like precision, his works often resemble a modernized interpretation of toile de jouy, a rococo textile pattern. In the 1998 catalogue for Vecas El Gloominator exhibition, Steve Mitchell asserts that Veca works in the meticulous tradition of the fresco painter to produce an image that paradoxically evokes the immediacy of the graffiti artist.

Veca's work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan at institutions such as The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Vecas work has been reviewed in numerous publications including The New York Times, Artforum, Art in Ame...

BFA, 1985, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles,

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2008
New Paintings, Milieu Gallery, Bern, Switzerland

2007
Imbroglio, Jonathan Le Vine Gallery, New York, NY

2006
Florida, Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
(with Ellen Harvey)

2004
Pulsation, 255 Elizabeth Street, New York, NY (catalogue)

2003
Pleasure Machine, Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Royale, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2002
New Drawings, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY (with Cotter Luppi)

Scope Art Fair, curated by David Hunt, New York, NY

2001
Toile de Brooklyn, g-module, Paris, France

2000
Magnificent Compulsion, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Harum-Scarum, Gallery at Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA

1999
Funky Jungle, DiverseWorks Art Space, Houston, TX

New Paintings, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY

1998
El Gloominator, State University of New York at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (catalogue)

Gummi Grotto, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008

Hef, Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Inaugural Exhibitio...