Mark Casey Milestone

Mark identifies as a symbolist.

Classified over his 40-year career under many different categories, including “folk artist”, “outsider artist” and “visionary artist”, self-taught Mark Casey Milestone has never adhered for very long to any label applied to him and never wanted to fit into a particular category of artist.

“Art chose me; I didn’t choose art.”

As long as he can remember, he knew he was destined to be an artist and has created art in many forms and formats for most of his life--sculpture, whirligigs, machines, music, writing, watercolors, sketches, oils.

Over time, Mark’s medium of choice has become oil on either wood panel or canvas. With local, regional, national and international shows, and a feature in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Folk Art (Volume 23; 2013: University of North Carolina Press), one can trace the evolution of his art along with the evolution of his life. Every piece of work represents a new journey, a new step, a new adventure for Mark.

His Artist's Statement:
My artwork represents what I have done since I was a small child — making things. That has always allowed me to be happy, even during a childhood that I know now was a bit spotty.

When I was about five, I remem...

Self-Taught

The Secret Life of Earth
American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM)
Baltimore, MD, USA
5 October 2019 - 6 September 2020
Curator: Rebecca A Hoffberger

Shades
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA)
Winston-Salem, NC
3 May 2017
Invitational Group Show
Curator: Kateryna Czartorysky

Art of Mark Casey Milestone: Retrospective
Delurk Gallery
Winston-Salem, NC
7 – 30 April 2017

Reaching for Light
Mary Davis Holt Gallery
Salem College
Winston-Salem, NC
28 August 28 – 17 October 2015
Curator: Kim Varnadoe

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Urban Artware
Winston-Salem, NC
6 November 6 – 2 December 2009
Curator: Millicent Greason-Spivak

Curiously Creative: Art of Mark Casey Milestone and Lin Barnhardt
Greenhill at Hemphill Library
Sponsored by GreenHill Center for North Carolina Art
Greensboro, NC
12 June- 25 August 2009
Curator: Edie Carpenter

Plane and Pedestal
GreenHill Center for North Carolina Art
Greensboro, NC
3 April – 7 June 2009
Invitational Group Show
Curator: Edie Carpenter

Winter Show
GreenHill Center for North Carolina Art
Greensboro, NC
7 December – 31 December 2008
Invitational Group Show
Curator: Edie Carpenter

This & That
Mary Davis Holt Gallery
Salem College
Winston-...