Mark Steele is a well-known Boston painter, sculptor, designer, and illustrator. He creates original art for solo and group shows, unique editions for collectors, commissioned artwork for individual patrons and corporations, and illustrations for major publications including several covers for the New York Times Magazine, Harvard Magazine, and Business Week!
You can contact Mark at marksteele1@me.com
Recent work includes:
- Sculpture commissions for renowned restaurants Dali, Somerville, Ma. and Cuchi Cuchi, Cambridge, Ma.
- Three-dimensional sculptures for calendars and books commissioned by publishing giant Workman Publishing in New York.
- A 45 foot painting for the new Performing Arts Center at Regis Jesuit, Denver, Co.
- Commonwealth Avenue, the newest 2017 collectible series of hand-cast, painted sculptures of 12 classic Boston Brownstones.
- The 'Boats' are one of a kind three-dimensional wall pieces.
- The life-size hand-formed 'Vessels' transform the idea of two-dimensional/three-dimensional art.
- A new series of 8 foot 'Columns' are dynamic three-dimensional representations of different cities around the world.
- 'Painters/Composers Series' bring personalities such as Van Gogh, Jackson Pollock, and Leonard Bernstein to life via unique three-dimensional dioramas.
- A brand new 2017 website and store display a rich variety of work created in oils, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, ink, plaster and several other experimental mediums.
"My goal as an artist is not to duplicate what nature does best, but it is to ignite the sensations of the stunning world we live in by making artwork that rearranges three-dimensional space through the use of visual surprises of scale, viewpoint and dimension. My explorations of scale in the ‘Vessel’ series, responds to an ancient desire to create imagery that speaks to a bigger cosmos. I am inspired by Egyptian icons and sculpture using scale to speak to a larger physical and spiritual world, a world we can imagine but cannot seem to fathom in our limited human bodies. My boats also explore the cosmos by placing the viewer outside the realm of what we normally experience, allowing him to imagine a view from another world. All of this I do in hopes of adding to a bigger discussion about the importance of who we are and why we are here."