Mark Flood (born 1957 in Houston, TX) got his BA from Rice University in Houston. His work has been exhibited internationally in Spain, the UK, France, Italy, Greece and Germany. In 2012, Luxembourg & Dayan gallery in New York held a survey of Flood’s seminal work of the 1980’s, bringing together more than one hundred pieces of Flood’s paintings and collages.
Flood’s work can be found in the collections of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Dallas Museum of Art,the Menil Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Birmingham Museum of Art.
His work is widely exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. Described as an “agent provocateur and enfant terrible - a painter and a prankster," Flood is "known for his fierce intelligence, wry wit, and undeniable talent.” Beginning with his paintings and collages from the 1980s -- while he was in the punk rock band Culturcide -- Flood has been a raucous cultural critic, attacking one and all: low-brow and high culture. The artist's work is both a powerful lens on America and a sophisticated, anarchic continuation of high art’s love affair with the readymade.” Flood’s collages and collection of detritus recall Bruce Connor’s careful constructions and cataloging of the mass obsessions of his day. Flood, however, seems to have a split personality: one half punk-propaganda master and one half elegant lace painter. Using toxic colors and combinations, Flood started making paintings from paint soaked lace pressed against a canvas, showing the age and wear endured by the battered lace before its last incarnation in printmaking. Devoid of irony, the lace paintings have a formal beauty that transcends Flood’s earlier oeuvre, while still delivering a punch in the gut to traditional heroic notions of painting. Flood attributes this shift in style in part to critic Dave Hickey’s 1993 book The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty. “Hickey made me realize that I made ugly art,” says Flood. “But that’s what I thought art was about—if you made something beautiful, you were suspect. … When I discovered how to make something beautiful, I no longer needed any art bureaucracy.”
Mark Flood FACEBOOK FARM at beta pictoris gallery / Maus Contemporary
Mark Flood's exhibition FACEBOOK FARM
one of the finalists AICA's 2013
"Best Show in a Commercial Space Nationally" Award
click above image to read Lilly Lampe's review of FACEBOOK FARM for Burnaway.org
FACEBOOK FARM
2013
Acrylic on canvas
40 by 40 in.
private collection, Atlanta, GA
UPLOADING [spilled]
2013
Acrylic on canvas
40 by 40 in.
private collection, Birmingham, AL
UPLOADING [dragged]
2013
Acrylic on canvas
40 by 40 in.
UPLOADING [cracked]
2013
Acrylic on canvas
40 by 40 in.
UPLOADING [splattered]
2013
Acrylic on canvas
40 by 40 in.
CONNECT TO FACEBOOK
2013
Acrylic on canvas, coaxial cable
painting 40 by 40 in.
installed ca. 70 by 40 in.
private collection, Atlanta, GA
CONNECT TO FACEBOOK
2013
Acrylic on canvas, coaxial cable
painting 40 by 40 in.
installed ca. 70 by 40 in.
private collection, Atlanta, GA
LIKE After Dark
2013
Acrylic spray paint on canvas
12 by 16 in.
Dripping White LIKE
2013
Acrylic spray paint on canvas
12 by 16 in.
Stencil LIKE
2013
cut canvas, marker, wood
12 by 16 in.
private collection, Chicago, IL
Soft LIKE
2013
Acrylic spray paint on canvas
12 by 16 in.
2013
Acrylic spray paint on canvas
12 by 16 in.
Smoky LIKE
2013
Acrylic spray paint on canvas
12 by 16 in.
LIKE Negative
2013
Acrylic spray paint on canvas
12 by 16 in.
Fifties LIKE
2013
Acrylic spray paint on canvas
12 by 16 in.
2013
Acrylic spray paint on canvas
12 by 16 in.
Air Raid LIKE
2013
Acrylic spray paint on canvas
12 by 16 in.
Ike LIKE
2013
Acrylic spray paint on canvas
12 by 16 in.
Magic City
2013
Acrylic on canvas
ca. 40 by 30 in.
private collection, Birmingham, AL
Small Black Mirror
2012
Acrylic on canvas
ca. 38 by 28 in.
private collection, New York, NY
Tender Grapes
2013
Acrylic on canvas
ca. 40 by 30 in.
private collection, New York, NY
North Blvd. Puddle
2012
Acrylic on canvas
ca. 40 by 30 in.
private collection, New York, NY
ANOTHER PAINTING [yellow and orange]
2012
Acrylic and fluorescent acrylic on canvas
40 by 40 in.
private collection, New York, NY
ANOTHER PAINTING [orange]
2012
Acrylic and fluorescent acrylic on canvas
40 by 40 in.
permanent collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
