Born in Atlanta, GA, 1975
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles artist Mark Licari. Licari’s drawings and
works on paper pulse with expressionistic energy, infusing
artifacts of the everyday with an edgy intensity. Licari’s
work frequently celebrates the individual’s heroic defiance
of an absurd contemporary pastoral. The things you own end up
owning you.
Recent solo exhibitions include; 2015 - Cloud Storage for
Future Floods (Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO), Drawing Out (Clay
Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia, Charleston, WV),
2014 - Vector, Accelerate to Zilch (Koplin Del Rio, Los Angeles,
CA), Dialogic Drawing Experiment (collaboration with Andrea
Bianconi and Ricardo Lanzarini) [Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent,
Belgium], 2012 - Waterworks (Museum of Contemporary Art,
Jacksonville, FL), 2011 - False Starts, Repairs and Overhauls,
Disjecta (Portland, OR), Shifting Shaking Days (Cueto Project, New
York, NY). Recent group shows include; 2015 - Food For
Thought (Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA), Hunting + Gathering
(New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM), Recent Acquisitions at
the Athenaeum (The Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA), We Must Risk Delight:
Twenty Artists from Los Angeles (Venice, Italy), 2014 - 7th
Bulgarian International Triennial of Graphic Art: Contemporary US
Printmaking (Sofia, Bulgaria), 2013 - 5th Moscow Biennale of
Contemorary Art, "More Light" (Moscow, Russia), Collaborative
Printmaking (Hong Kong Open Printshop, Hong Kong, China), Fever
Dreams (Koplin Del Rio, Los Angeles, CA), The Los Angeles
Printmaking Society 21st National Exhibition (Cal State Northridge
Northridge, CA), Hamilton Press Lithographs (Athenaeum Music and
Arts Library, La Jolla, CA), Dangerous Beauties (Sturt Haaga
Gallery at Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge, CA), Good
in the Kitchen (Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM), Letters from
Los Angeles (Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA), 2012 -
Drawing Surrealism (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles,
CA), Transient Planet (18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia),
Letters From Los Angeles (Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles CA),
2011- Fast Forward: Four for the Future (Tamarind Institute,
Albuquerque, NM)
Mark Licari's work can be found in the following collections;
Athenaeum Music and Arts Library (La Jolla, CA), Clay Center for
the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia (Charleston, WV), Gemeente
Museum (The Hague, Netherlands), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New
York, NY), Monterey Museum of Art (Monterey, CA), Museum of
Contemporary Art (San Diego, CA), Museum of Fine Arts (Ghent,
Belgium), New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe, NM)
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
