Currently, I am finalizing about 20 new additions to my Pharmacopoeia series.
Mark Allen Soderstrom
CREATIVE PROJECTS
Infrastructure Development
Infrastructure Development is an in-process series of eight autobiographical paintings that individually depict the most influential relationships of my formative years.
The works utilize the format of timelines to reconstruct events, both chronologically, spatially, and emotionally, which transpired during a fixed time frame. Each work is three feet tall by a width that corresponds to the chronological length of the illustrated event. Involved persons are depicted using highways carved out of roadmaps while interactions, locations, and experiences are likewise illustrated using various other symbolic elements.
This series blends my fascination in cartographic perspectives, infographics, and concepts of personal inventory and historical accounts in the field of psychology.
All pieces are mixed media on canvas.
Infrastructure Development: KD/'77-'88, 2010
36" x 78"
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Infrastructure Development: CS/'85-'97, 2009
36" x 66"
(detail below)
Contemporary art artist UNC Chapel Hill Durham Raleigh North Carolina RTP Conceptual Sculpture Drawing Painting Skeptic Mythology Belief Comparative beliefs religion cinematography movies timelines Golden Belt Ackland Nasher Duke North Carolina State NCCCA Wetherspoon Black Mountain Ashland Greensboro Winston Salem Eureka Humboldt Arcata Oakland California Mills College Humboldt State University College of the Redwoods
Contemporary art artist UNC Chapel Hill Durham Raleigh North Carolina RTP Conceptual Sculpture Drawing Painting Skeptic Mythology Comparative beliefs religion cinematography movies timelines Golden Belt Ackland Art Museum Nasher Duke North Carolina State NCCCA Wetherspoon Black Mountain Ashland Greensboro Winston Salem Eureka Humboldt Arcata Oakland California Mills College Humboldt State University College of the Redwoods Casablanca 1943 Carrack Modern NCARTS ARTS NC Haines CAM Raleigh SCCA NCMA Nashersculpturecenter NC Art Museum Artcyclopedia Art-collecting UNCG Greensboro SECCA NCCSC Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Catherine Clark Gallery Joe Philadelphia Museum of Jurassic Technology Lien Truong Modesto Junior College Osher Lifelong Learning Institute SFMOMA Cabinet Magazine Rob Cragie 21C Hotel and Museum Thomas Doyle TJ Doyle Jordine Voight SEAN FLETCHER & ISABEL REICHERT ROB CRAIGIE CABINET MAGAZINE GAIL WIGHT HEATHER GORDON INFORMATION IS BEAUTIFUL LAURA SPLAN LEE WALTON 99% INVISIBLE AGNES DENES JANET CARDIFF & GEORGE BURES MILLER SKEPTIC'S DICTIONARY ILYA & EMILIA KABAKOV JORDINE VOIGT
Infrastructure Development: 101
A series of test pieces for this body of work