Mark DeLong

Mark Delong is a self-taught artist working in a range of media, including sculpture, drawing, painting, and sequential art. His work has featured a rotating cast of characters in situations both ordinary and surreal. Drawing inspiration from dreams, popular television, and the absurdities in day-to-day life, Delong's work combines humor with a raw and spontaneous aesthetic. As a metaphor for artistic process and art making from a primitive perspective, Delong creates paintings with a fresh color palette, broad marks, and active abstraction. Delong's sculptural work are born in recognizable shapes with strong graphic sensibilities. In his recent body of work, Delong is weaving, embroidering, cutting and pasting fabrics, found objects and cardboard together in his standard raw and rudimentary way. Implementing modern and archaic signs and symbols Delong creates work that is objectively self sufficient.

Submitted by Ed. Varie