Mark Pflughoeft

I thoroughly enjoy an airplane window seat. I enjoy viewing the lush and textured earth surfaces divided into the functionally derived, topographical patchwork quilt of human endeavors. I love the exquisite line of an old meandering stream that is contrasted by the geometry of a farm field edge or a dark and slick winding road. And oddly, I delight in seeing bodies of water trapped inside hurricane walls or inside in enormous agricultural boundaries. There is a tension that comes from these opposing visual elements that is strikingly contradictory, and also intriguing, dynamic and beautiful to me. My challenge in my Coalescence Series is bringing these diametrically opposed elements together and helping them to coalesce into unique and unified abstract compositions. ..................................................................................



Artists Statement
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I’ve been very fortunate as an artist in that I’ve never had to live off my art sales, being a teacher and a coach. That has freed me to take artistic directions I have desired. I haven’t had to bend to popular trends, co...

1977 - MFA, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1973 - Graduate studies, UW-Milwaukee
1972 - BS, Art Education, UW-LaCrosse

One Person Show - Your Art’s Desire Gallery, Minnetonka, MN - 2018
Paintings on consignment - Woodland Studios, Stoughton, WI - 2016 to the present
Paintings on consignment - Plum Bottom Gallery, Egg Harbor, WI - 2014 to the present
Two Person Show with Ray Zovar - Overture Center, Madison, WI - 2015
Two Person Show with Carol Pflughoeft - Capital Lakes Gallery, Madison, WI - 2014
Juried Group Showing, Beneath the Surface, Overture Center, Madison, WI - 2013
One Person Show - Monroe Hospital Grand Opening, Monroe, WI - 2012
Wisconsin Visual Art’s Biennial - Anderson Art’s Center, Kenosha, WI - 2012
Two Person Show with Mary Wells, Promega Corporation Gallery, Fitchburg, WI - 2010
Paintings on consignment - Grace Chosey Gallery, Madison, WI 2008-09
Wisconsin Painters and Sculptures Biennial, Appleton, WI - 2003