Mark Greenwold is an American painter, born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1942, whose subjects often include figures in psychologically charged domestic interiors, executed with pathologically laborious detail.
10 Facts About Mark Greenwold
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Mark Greenwold began exhibiting in New York in the late 1970s, where he currently lives and works.
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Mark Greenwold's paintings are best described as humans engaging in discomfiting behavior represented with pathologically laborious detail.
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Mark Greenwold sees his art as a place to put all his mishigas.
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Mark Greenwold's pace has always been slow, steady, and intensive.
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Mark Greenwold uses photography as a starting point, which includes taking source imagery from low-end interior design magazines and photographs of friends and family members.
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When Mark Greenwold first embarked on his painting career after grad school, he was entering an art world concerned with little else other than minimalism and conceptualism.
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Mark Greenwold came to his own defense again, penning a letter for the Village Voice, in which he explained that simply depicting an event does not mean he was glorifying it.
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Richard Vine, writing in Art in America in 1993, explained how Mark Greenwold's style was reminiscent of Giotto and other Sienese painters of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
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Mark Greenwold stays true to the subject matter he always focused on, including interiors from architecture magazines and a depiction of the psychological landscape of dysfunctional family life.