Mark Flood (born 1957, in
Houston
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, Texas
) is an American artist.
Flood has been making art for 30 years and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a private research university in Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranked among the top universities ...
in 1981. He sings in the band
Culturcide
Culturcide was an American, Houston-based experimental punk band, active from 1980 to 1990 and from 1993 to the present day. They were notorious for their 1986 album ''Tacky Souvenirs of Pre-Revolutionary America'', which earned the band a cult f ...
under the
stage name Perry Webb. Mark Flood is represented b
Stuart Shave/Modern Art London and KARMA, New York.
In 2012, Randy Kennedy wrote in the ''
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' that Flood was "a founder of the underground 1980s band Culturcide" who "never sold enough work to say goodbye to his day jobs (Texaco office worker, elementary school teacher's assistant, video clerk, museum assistant").
Work
Flood has worked in several media and formats such as painting, installation, artist's books and photo-collage.
His paintings created with lace have been called "spinster abstraction".
The process involves collecting lace and shredding it, soaking the lace in paint, and then draping it over a painted canvas. A pattern is left on the canvas after removing the lace.
Another series of paintings include stenciled and spray-painted texts that read, "Another Painting", "3 More Paintings" and 25 More Paintings."
In 2012, Flood created a pop-up exhibition space in Miami called ''Mark Flood Resents'', where art works were presented in a casual scattering and nothing was for sale.
Hyperallergic described the project as a place where "conversations and exchanges about art seemed to tie and hold everything together" in a grungy punk-rock madhouse where "everything and nothing seemed to be art.
In 2021 Flood collaborated with the jewelry company, love for both of us, on a series of pendants in bronze and gold that referenced Greek sculptures.
Selected exhibitions
Flood has had solo exhibitions at KARMA, New York;
the
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is a not-for-profit institution in the Museum District, Houston, Texas, founded in 1948,
dedicated to presenting contemporary art to the public.
As a non-collecting museum, it strives to provide a forum for visual ...
; Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany;
the
Contemporary Art Museum of St Louis;
Zach Feuer Gallery
The Zach Feuer Gallery is a contemporary art gallery that operated from 2000 to 2016 in New York City; Hudson, New York; and Los Angeles.
History
Zach Feuer Gallery was founded in 2000 as the LFL Gallery by Nick Lawrence, Russell LaMontagne and ...
, New York;
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany; Luxembourg & Dayan, London;
American Fine Art, New York;
Rubell Museum
The Rubell Museum, formerly the Rubell Family Collection, is a private contemporary art museum with locations in the Allapattah neighborhood of Miami, Florida, and the Southwest Waterfront neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Opened to the public i ...
, Miami,
among other venues.
Collections
*Berezdivin Collection, Santurce, Puerto Rico
*Birmingham Art Museum, Birmingham, Ala.
*The Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla.
*Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
*Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
*The Menil Collection, Houston
*Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Wash.
*Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth
*The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
*Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Fla.
*Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Bibliography
* ''
Clerk Fluid'' (2009, File Under Alleged Art Writing)
* ''
Wartscene USA'' (February 2010)
* ''
The Hateful Years'' (August 2012)
* ''
Mark Flood:Gratest Hits'' (August 2016, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, ISBN 978-1933619590)
References
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Artists from Houston
Rice University alumni
1957 births
Date of birth missing (living people)
Living people