30 Facts About Lennie Mace

Lennie Mace is an American contemporary artist, born in New York City.

Lennie Mace's imagination has served commercial purposes, appearing in print as illustrations and comic art.

Lennie Mace remains active in art communities of both America and Japan.

Lennie Mace passed the entry exam for New York's High School of Art and Design but did not attend.

Lennie Mace briefly attended New York's School of Visual Arts in the early 1980s.

Lennie Mace was among a circle of emerging artists of the late 1980s whose talents were encouraged by New York-based entities providing work and exposure.

Lennie Mace was among artists supporting the listener-sponsored, free-form radio station WFMU by providing artwork for the station's promotion, publications and fund-raising drives.

Lennie Mace continued his involvement at New York Press even while he'd already based himself in Japan in the mid-1990s.

Later, cartooning courses were among those Lennie Mace chose in lieu of a major while attending School of Visual Arts in the mid-1980s.

Lennie Mace's artwork was among those published in comic books showcasing the students of courses taught by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Eisner, respectively.

Lennie Mace supplied artwork for many of the Big Books, but earned special recognition for his input to the Conspiracies book as well as the Urban Legends book.

Lennie Mace had participated in group exhibitions in the 1980s, but his first solo exhibition came at the start of the 1990s.

In 1993, Lennie Mace attracted the interest of Pilot pen company president Ron Shaw, who then commissioned him to draw a replica of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa using only Pilot ballpoint pens.

Video showing Lennie Mace drawing was broadcast; a drawing of a dog later titled CBS Dog displayed at his INKorporated exhibition.

Lennie Mace was hired to draw the five-story pagoda of To-ji temple in Kyoto photorealistically in ballpoint pen.

Exhibitions in 1996 titled "Media Graffiti" in both New York and Tokyo had been composed entirely of artwork from the series, but the series had its origins within the emergence of graffiti culture of the 1980s in New York City, of which Lennie Mace was a participant.

Lennie Mace began officially publicizing these works as Media Graffiti as output grew to dominate his exhibitions throughout the 1990s.

Lennie Mace spent 1999 touring with selections of completed 365DAZE artwork, beginning with New York City in January.

Lennie Mace was able to return to Japan, and soon became the de facto house-artist for the Febbraio Di Ales cosmetics company, whose president is a principal patron in Japan.

The first began as simple interior modifications to the company's Ales International salon in Harajuku, to accommodate Lennie Mace artwork bought by the owner.

The official re-christening of the salon as the Lennie Mace VIEWseum occurred on February 2,2002.

Woven tapestries from Japan bearing Lennie Mace's imagery started making appearances in American galleries in 2012.

Lennie Mace has been creating single-panel cartoons under the title Japanglish101 since 2013 as a contributor to the japanglish.

Lennie Mace annually produces New Year Card designs which adhere to the cycle of animals celebrated in the Chinese calendar.

Lennie Mace used his Invisible Ink exhibition to formally introduce his "dry pen" technique.

Lennie Mace had been employing the technique in some manner for some time, using "empty" ballpoint pens to draw invisible patterns, images and text into paper.

Media in Japan and America in late-2015 began reporting about Lennie Mace building a "castle" in the Japanese Alps.

Lennie Mace has often incorporated materials reflecting the same "proletarian" origins of his ballpoint pens; office supplies and stationery such as loose leaf paper, corporate letterheads or memo pads, and post-it notes have all been utilized.

The image, as presupposed by the media, implies that Lennie Mace's figure prefers the real nipple over its plastic imitation, and the title implying the artist's gratitude for being provided such ripe source material.

Lennie Mace's artwork appeared on the cover and throughout the magazine.