Mark Langan's Page
Profile Information
- My Role
- Visual Artist
- My Discipline(s)
- Visual Arts
- My Specialties
- Creating interpretive Bas-Relief sculpture w/ recycled corrugated boxes.
- About Me And My Work
- Procuring commissions from the public and corporations with my artistic creations using recycled boxes as a means to exemplify their sustainability practices.
- Artistic Experiences I Have Had On My Travels
- For me the following I have exhibited at:
Ohio Craft Museum /Columbus, Ohio "Second Nature" 2009
NASA Glenn Lewis Research Ctr. / Cleveland, Ohio "America Recycles Day" 2009 & 2010
The Green Dream / Beachwood, Ohio eco-event 2008, 2009 & 2010
PechaKucha / Cleveland, Ohio "Ingenuity Festival" 2010
Artist Archives of the Western Reserve / Cleveland, Ohio "Seeing Green" 2010
The Ohio Dept of Natural Resources / Columbus, Ohio "America Recycles Day" 2010
The Brea Art Gallery / Brea, Ca. "Repupose, Reuse, Recycle" 2010
The Cleveland MetroParks Zoo / Cleveland, OH. "America Recycles Day" 2010
Brunswick Green Expo / Brunswick, OH. 2010
- Places I Would Like To Visit
- I think it would be wonderful to see where any art piece I create is displayed. I have received commissions from all over the U.S. including two art pieces now in Germany. After creating a sculpture that I've spent so much time on struggling with and nurturing it always wondering as to how it looks in its new home.
- Art Forms And Cultures I Would Like To Engage With
- Always experimenting...that's what makes being an Artist so much fun.
- My Creative Influences & Favorite Artists
- Dali / Warhol / Lichtenstein / Segal
- My Web link
- http://www.langanart.com
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Mark Langan's Blog
Artworks for the Cure 2012
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:47pm 0 Comments 0 Favorites
Received confirmation that I will be a featured Artist for the TJ Martell Foundation's "Artworks for the Cure 2012" this year. I donated one of my earlier sculptures for the event & happy that my work will be shown with such great names as Yoko Ono & Mick Fleetwood who also had given their art for the benefit.
Corrugated box art gets animated.
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:30pm 0 Comments 0 Favorites
My art can be quite time consuming and involves many time upwards of thousands of individual pieces that have to be cut, dry fit and glued one piece at a time. While creating a recent sculpture for a client in California (Eco-Logic Brand) I decided to do something that was not obviously new to most people but new to me. I placed a digital camera on tripod and took progression photo's of my art being created from start to finish. When completed I had the assistance of my daughter who took…
Continue Pecha-Kucha Cleveland: An audio slideshow of my recycled corrugated boxes
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:30am 2 Comments 0 Favorites
The folks at the Pecha-Kucha home (Tokyo) site were so kind in posting my presention on their web page. The folks in Cleveland who do all the arranging for our local events had no current funding or at present to record any of the presenters. I took the initiative in writing the originators of all to see if there was any interest in my video…
Continue Give of yourself and you will be rewarded.
Posted on July 19, 2011 at 9:31am 0 Comments 0 Favorites
Seems these days being an Artist can be a tough way to make a living. At fifty my mid-section's a little thick than when I was in my 20's but I can relate otherwise as probably many who read this to the terms often heard of "Starving Artist." I can honestly say that I would be lost not being able to create and work with my mind as well as hands as is so gratifying and keeps me at peace with…
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Hi Mark! Great to hear from you. Hope all is well in Cleveland. We're hoping that the warm days are around the corner here in NYC. Thanks for your email and looking forward to seeing more of your posts here!
All the best,
Nico
Peace,
Cheryl