Mark Flood (artist)
Mark Flood (born 1957, in Houston, Texas[1]) is an American artist.
Flood has been making art for 30 years and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Rice University in 1981. He sings in the band Culturcide under the pen name Perry Webb. Mark Flood is represented by Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London and KARMA, New York. His art sells for upwards of $200,000.00 per work.[2] His 2013 work, "Select a Victim", was the first contemporary art to have been bought using Bitcoin, when it was sold by The White Company in December 2017.[3]
From NY Times circa 2012,
During most of those years Mr. Flood — a founder of the underground 1980s band Culturcide — never sold enough work to say goodbye to his day jobs (Texaco office worker, elementary school teacher's assistant, video clerk, museum assistant at the Menil Collection.) But now he is getting to have the cred and a career too. He has been represented for the past four years in New York by the Zach Feuer Gallery and since 2007 in Europe by Peres Projects, and paintings he has created using lace — a body of work that some have called "spinster abstraction" — have become highly sought. Beginning July 18 he will present a town house full of little-seen work from the 1980s in "The Hateful Years," at the high-end gallery Luxembourg & Dayan.[4]
Solo Exhibitions
2020
- Protest Signs from 1992, KARMA, New York, NY, USA
2017
- Google Murder-Suicide, Maccarone, New York, NY, USA
2016
- Paintings From The War For Social Justice, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, CA, USA
- Gratest Hits, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX, USA
2015
- American Buffet Upgrade, Modern Art, London
- Some Frequently Assked Questins, SFAQ [Project] Space, San Francisco, CA, USA
- ASTROTURF YELP REVIEW SAYS YES, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
2014
- Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA
- Mark Flood: Another Painting, Contemporary Art Museum of St Louis, MO, USA
- Available Nasdaq Symbol, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Mark Flood: The INSIDER ART FAIR, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Modern Art, London
2013
- Mike Lood / Ask Officer Pepperspray, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
- Facebook Farm, Beta Pictoris, North Birmingham, AL, USA
2012
- Bushwick Basement, Grimm Schultz, Brooklyn, NY, USA
- YES YES YAWN, Home Alone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- People are strangle, Peres Projects Mitte, Berlin, Germany
- The Hateful Years, curated by Alison M. Gingeras, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, NY, USA
- Artstar, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2011
- The Bitterness of the Red Pill, Cardoza Fine Art Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
- Monument to the Responsible Management of the Earth and Do the Math, Maccarone, New York, NY, USA
- Murk Fluid, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Bitch Moves, Peres Projects Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germay
2010
- Bitch Moves, Peres Projects Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
- Decorations on her body, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
- Green Cube, Noma Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2009
- Chelsea Whores, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Wart Exhibit, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
2008
- Entertainment Weakly, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Nondifference Personified, Brasil, Houston, TX, USA
2006
- Assorted Rags, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA
- Lace Paintings, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
- Lace Paintings, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX, USA
2005
- Surprise Your Loved Ones, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Support Your Local Parasitic Art Bureaucracy, Brasil, Houston, TX, USA
2004
- Lace Paintings, American Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
- Lace Paintings, Angstrom, Dallas, TX, USA
- Lace Paintings, Mixture, Houston, TX, USA
2002
- Lace Paintings, Mixture Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
- Lace Paintings, Solway Jones, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Mark Flood, Marfa Book Company, Marfa, TX, USA
- Mark Flood, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
2001
- Lace Paintings, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX, USA
2000
- An Exhibition of Work by Mark Flood Organized by Rob Weiner, Marfa, TX, USA
1998
- Temple Signage, Commerce Street Artists Warehouse, Houston, TX, USA
1997
- More Mark Flood, Brasil, Houston, TX, USA
1994
- Mark Flood, Lynn Goode Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
1993
- Trophy Paintings, Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1992
- Art Management, Lynn Goode Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
1991
- Social Bodies, GVG Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
1989
- Imperatives, GVG Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
- Celebrity Idolatry, Commerce Street, Houston, TX, USA
1988
- Billboard Alterations, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX, USA
1987
- My Relationship with my Co-Workers, Instituto Stato di Cultura, Houston, TX, USA
1981
- And Man Chose, 3221 Milam, Houston, TX, USA
Selected Collections
Berezdivin Collection, Santurce, Puerto Rico
Birmingham Art Museum, Birmingham, AL, USA
The Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, USA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, USA
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, USA
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, USA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA
Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Bibliography
- Clerk Fluid (2009, File Under Alleged Art Writing, ASIN B00588BGN4)
- Wartscene USA (February 2010, ASIN B005882B3I)
- The Hateful Years (August 2012, ASIN B009AP49F8)
- Mark Flood:Gratest Hits (August 2016, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, ISBN 978-1933619590, ASIN 1933619597)
References
- "Mark Flood's Hateful Years Weren't Extra Bad". Interview Magazine. Retrieved 2016-02-23.
- "PHILLIPS : Art Auctions | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions | Private Sales | Private Collections". www.phillips.com. Retrieved 2016-02-23.
- "First Contemporary Art Purchased with Bitcoin in the US". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/arts/design/mark-flood-houston-artist-at-luxembourg-dayan.html?_r=0