Mark Warren Jacques
Born 1984. Columbus, Ohio
Lives and works in the Portland, Oregon. U.S.A.
Selected Exhibition History
-Solo Exhibitions-
2011
Something About Everything About Something
Dec 7th - Jan 10
White Walls Gallery
835 Larkin St.
San Francisco, California
Seeing is Conceiving
July 7 - Aug 1
Flatcolor Gallery
528 1st Ave South.
Seattle, Washington
Tonight we are stars aligning
January 28 - February 20 2011
YES Gallery
1417 Main St
Cincinnati, Ohio
2010
Home
December 3 - 30 2010
Together Gallery.
2916 NE Alberta st.
Portland, Oregon.
Im Here Now
Gallery Hijinks.
2309 Bryant St.
San Francisco, California.
For this, I would lean into it
Flatcolor Gallery.
528 First Avenue South.
Seattle, Washington
2009
It’s Out There - In Here
Grass Hut Gallery
Portland, Oregon
Big Beautiful Color
Fontanelle Gallery
Portland, Oregon
The Optimistic Life and Mind
Rare Device
San Francisco, California
2008
Plants Are Beautiful People
Life & Limb
Portland, Oregon
2010 Free Life Center - West Coast Tour
Holocene - Portland, Oregon
Greenwood Collective - Seattle, Washington
Lifetime Collective - Vancouver,B.C.
Islands Fold Residency - Pender Island, B.C.
Freedom Festival - Lyle, Washington
The Storm Ship - Arcata, California
Sol Collective - Sacramento, California
Gallery Hijinks - San Francisco, California
Needles & Pens - San Francisco, California
-Group Exhibitions-
2011
Subliminal Sunlight:
Curated by Howard Hurst
Number 35 Gallery
141 Attorney Street
New York, NY
RESURRECTION
Cinders Gallery
23 Marcy Ave.
Brooklyn, New York.
SUGAR MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL
Saturday, April 30th 2011
The Forum Theater
Melbourne, Australia
The Letter Show
Gallery Hijinks
2309 Bryant St.
San Francisco, California.
Oceanic Awareness Collaboration’s
ART FOR AWARENESS
Andi Campognone Project
300 W. Second Street
Pomona, California.
Wallpaper
A&D gallery
Almogàvers, 142
08018 Barcelona.
2010
Diverse Chorus
Curated by Kevin E Taylor
SCOOP Contemporary
57 1/2 Broad St. Charleston, SC
Temple of Bloom
Cinders Gallery
103 Havemeyer St. Brooklyn, NY
A New Beginning
941 Geary Gallery
941 Geary St. San Francisco, California
Rainbow Logic
Corduroy Surf Shop
Portland, Maine.
The Cheaper Show No. 9
Juried group exhibition
Vancouver, B.C. Canada.
New Territory
Split exhibition w/ Henry Gunderson, Akira Beard, and Robert Burden
White Walls Gallery. 835 Larkin St.
San Francisco, California.
This is all we know
Split exhibition w/ Timothy Karpinksi and Nas Chompas
Gallery Three. San Francisco, California
2009
Winter group show
White Walls Gallery. San Francisco, California.
Aqua Art at Art Basel Miami
representation by
The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco.
You Show Me Yours I’ll Show You Mine
split exhibition w/ Bwana Spoons & David Wien.
Together Gallery. Portland, Oregon
The Future Is So Bright
Gallery 6, San Francisco, California
The Spirit of Soldier
Soldier, Boston, Massachusetts
Conceptual Heart
split exhibition w/ Timothy Karpinski
Stumptown. Portland, Oregon
All In Together Now
Headquarters Galerie, Montreal, Canada
Voluntary
Backspace, Portland, Oregon
2008
WFMU 50th Anniversary
Printed Matter, New York, New York
Wood Pushers
Heckelwood, Portland, Oregon
Better Becoming
Olio United, Portland, Oregon
Buried Beneath Me
Cerasoli-Lebasse Gallery, Los Angeles, California
The Idea Board
Together Gallery, Portland, Oregon
The Americans
Grass Hut Corp. Portland, Oregon
The Secret Handshake
Together Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Balls Out!
Grass Hut Corp. Portland, Oregon
The Influence of Matter
Split exhibition with Ryan Jacob Smith, Together
Gallery, Portland, Oregon
100 Bones
Breeze Block, Portland, Oregon
2007
Currents
Launch-pad gallery, Portland, Oregon
Totally Okay
Group Exhibition, Conference Room Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2006
Open House
River Watch Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Untititled
Superphonic Studios, Columbus, Ohio
2005
123
Split exhibition with Jason Mann. Shisha, Columbus Ohio
Untitled
M Gallery, Covington, Kentucky
2004
Small Works
RoyGBiv Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Interviews
The Post Family. Chicago, U.S.
Read it online here. http://www.thepostfamily.com/articles/featured/mark-warren-jacques
Digital Temple. France
Read it online here. http://www.digital-temple.com/issues/9_issue/intro.htm
Juxtapoz. U.S.
Read it online here. http://www.juxtapoz.com/Features/interview-with-mark-warren-jacques
Arrested Motion. U.K.
Read it online here. http://arrestedmotion.com/2009/02/interviewopening-mark-warren-jacques-fontanelle-gallery/
Bibliography
Artbox, No 15
Cover and 10pg interview. Published by James Knight Media. United Kindom.
Yes Magazine, Issue 2
Art images and interview. Published by No Store, San Francisco, California.
The Open Daybook
Published by Mark Batty Publisher. Distributed by Random House, Inc. Get it here > Random House
San Francisco Chronicle
Art images, review, and exhibition pick of the week. October 14, 2010
Death Magazine
Cover artwork. Issue 2. Oct 2010. Published by Death Magazine, Portland, Oregon
Licht (Light) No 4
Art images and writing. Oct 2010. Published by Die Krieger des Lichts GmbH. Berlin, Germany.
Surfing Magazine.
Volume 46, issue 05. Art Images. published by Interlink media, NYC
Tokion Magazine.
Art images. published by Pinchazo Publishing Group. NYC
Fontanelle - Year One Book.
Art images and exhibition review. Published by Fontanelle Gallery, Portland, OR.
Portland Mercury.
Art images and exhibition pick of the week. Vol. 10. No. 26 Published by Index Newspapers.
Portland Mercury.
Art images and exhibition pick of the week. Vol. 10. No. 20 Published by Index Newspapers.
D Magazine.
Art images and interview feature. published by D Esteban Echeverría. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Lifetime Book Number Two.
Art images. published by Lifetime Collective. Vancouver, B.C.
Point Never Issue 00.
Art Images. Published by Point Never Press. London, U.K.
The Leaflet Vol. 9.
Exhibition Catalog. Published by Together Gallery. Portland, OR.
The Leaflet Vol. 6.
Exhibition Catalog. Published by Together Gallery. Portland, OR.
The Leaflet Vol. 1.
Exhibition Catalog. Published by Together Gallery. Portland, OR.
Proper Vibes.
Artist Booklet including Art images and design. Published by Totally Okay Publishing. Portland OR.
Gallery
-In 2007 Mark along with Timothy Karpinski, David Wien, & Seth Neefus,
founded Together Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
www.TogetherGallery.com
Short bio film. 2008. Featured on Current tv
Born 1984. Columbus, Ohio
Lives and works in the Portland, Oregon. U.S.A.
For Mark Warren Jacques, life is a wave, a fluid energy that washes over us all, binding and defining. The universe is a four lane sidewalk of constant flux, upon the surface of which we must all skate. One night he told me the story of how, searching for answers, he visited a monastery in the Midwest. There was an admiration and peace in the way he described the labor, commitment, belief, kindness and serenity that united this group. These are the forces that bind Mark to life, a commitment to searching and questioning, to finding life’s greatest secrets in the dusty unused corners of a crowded room. A life of talking to monks and bike messengers, Marks eye is tuned equally to the charms of the wise and the insane: the punk and the philosopher, the prophet and the crackpot.
Mark’s paintings trace the lines that connect us all into playful lazy circles. We teleport from front porches and beaches to the mind’s eye of an imaginary temple. We dive headfirst into the sizzling black of space and the warm kind heart of the earth. Trees, veins, sunrays and waves comingle in a dazzling heap of good vibes and ancient wisdom.
The artist’s vocabulary is steeped in the trappings of mysticism, religion, Midwestern folk tradition and west coast vibes. His paintings are of alters and sacred regalia. Symbols of the planet and of humanity serve as a universal mandala. There is a sense of old school bay area psychedelic optimism and of the hyperbole of Saturday morning cartoons, but also a hard edged intensity hinting at basement shows, and long nights. Here is the serious, pensive labor of the acetic, the brow furrowed dedication of painstaking craft. The sobriety of this commitment is tempered by the joy filled high fives of an artist thirsty for experience.
With an eye to the interstellar and the unimagined, the artist is a dogged painter of the everyday. Triangles, and mind melting rays of color anthropomorphize the thoughts, people places and struggles of daily life. It is from the fabric of personal experience that the artist weaves his singsong narratives. The painter is a collector, his body of work a permanent museum housing the psychic ephemera from a life well lived. Form, thought and feeling fuze into one indiscernible ball of color and light. To observe is to create and to create is to live.
Communicating, creating and sharing are the building blocks of his art practice and of his daily life. A celebration of the mundane and the magical, for Mark to see is to conceive.
-Howard Hurst.
Selected Exhibition History
-Solo Exhibitions-
2011
Something About Everything About Something
Dec 7th - Jan 10
White Walls Gallery
835 Larkin St.
San Francisco, California
Seeing is Conceiving
July 7 - Aug 1
Flatcolor Gallery
528 1st Ave South.
Seattle, Washington
Tonight we are stars aligning
January 28 - February 20 2011
YES Gallery
1417 Main St
Cincinnati, Ohio
2010
Home
December 3 - 30 2010
Together Gallery.
2916 NE Alberta st.
Portland, Oregon.
Im Here Now
Gallery Hijinks.
2309 Bryant St.
San Francisco, California.
For this, I would lean into it
Flatcolor Gallery.
528 First Avenue South.
Seattle, Washington
2009
It’s Out There - In Here
Grass Hut Gallery
Portland, Oregon
Big Beautiful Color
Fontanelle Gallery
Portland, Oregon
The Optimistic Life and Mind
Rare Device
San Francisco, California
2008
Plants Are Beautiful People
Life & Limb
Portland, Oregon
2010 Free Life Center - West Coast Tour
Holocene - Portland, Oregon
Greenwood Collective - Seattle, Washington
Lifetime Collective - Vancouver,B.C.
Islands Fold Residency - Pender Island, B.C.
Freedom Festival - Lyle, Washington
The Storm Ship - Arcata, California
Sol Collective - Sacramento, California
Gallery Hijinks - San Francisco, California
Needles & Pens - San Francisco, California
-Group Exhibitions-
2011
Subliminal Sunlight:
Curated by Howard Hurst
Number 35 Gallery
141 Attorney Street
New York, NY
RESURRECTION
Cinders Gallery
23 Marcy Ave.
Brooklyn, New York.
SUGAR MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL
Saturday, April 30th 2011
The Forum Theater
Melbourne, Australia
The Letter Show
Gallery Hijinks
2309 Bryant St.
San Francisco, California.
Oceanic Awareness Collaboration’s
ART FOR AWARENESS
Andi Campognone Project
300 W. Second Street
Pomona, California.
Wallpaper
A&D gallery
Almogàvers, 142
08018 Barcelona.
2010
Diverse Chorus
Curated by Kevin E Taylor
SCOOP Contemporary
57 1/2 Broad St. Charleston, SC
Temple of Bloom
Cinders Gallery
103 Havemeyer St. Brooklyn, NY
A New Beginning
941 Geary Gallery
941 Geary St. San Francisco, California
Rainbow Logic
Corduroy Surf Shop
Portland, Maine.
The Cheaper Show No. 9
Juried group exhibition
Vancouver, B.C. Canada.
New Territory
Split exhibition w/ Henry Gunderson, Akira Beard, and Robert Burden
White Walls Gallery. 835 Larkin St.
San Francisco, California.
This is all we know
Split exhibition w/ Timothy Karpinksi and Nas Chompas
Gallery Three. San Francisco, California
2009
Winter group show
White Walls Gallery. San Francisco, California.
Aqua Art at Art Basel Miami
representation by
The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco.
You Show Me Yours I’ll Show You Mine
split exhibition w/ Bwana Spoons & David Wien.
Together Gallery. Portland, Oregon
The Future Is So Bright
Gallery 6, San Francisco, California
The Spirit of Soldier
Soldier, Boston, Massachusetts
Conceptual Heart
split exhibition w/ Timothy Karpinski
Stumptown. Portland, Oregon
All In Together Now
Headquarters Galerie, Montreal, Canada
Voluntary
Backspace, Portland, Oregon
2008
WFMU 50th Anniversary
Printed Matter, New York, New York
Wood Pushers
Heckelwood, Portland, Oregon
Better Becoming
Olio United, Portland, Oregon
Buried Beneath Me
Cerasoli-Lebasse Gallery, Los Angeles, California
The Idea Board
Together Gallery, Portland, Oregon
The Americans
Grass Hut Corp. Portland, Oregon
The Secret Handshake
Together Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Balls Out!
Grass Hut Corp. Portland, Oregon
The Influence of Matter
Split exhibition with Ryan Jacob Smith, Together
Gallery, Portland, Oregon
100 Bones
Breeze Block, Portland, Oregon
2007
Currents
Launch-pad gallery, Portland, Oregon
Totally Okay
Group Exhibition, Conference Room Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2006
Open House
River Watch Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Untititled
Superphonic Studios, Columbus, Ohio
2005
123
Split exhibition with Jason Mann. Shisha, Columbus Ohio
Untitled
M Gallery, Covington, Kentucky
2004
Small Works
RoyGBiv Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Interviews
The Post Family. Chicago, U.S.
Read it online here. http://www.thepostfamily.com/articles/featured/mark-warren-jacques
Digital Temple. France
Read it online here. http://www.digital-temple.com/issues/9_issue/intro.htm
Juxtapoz. U.S.
Read it online here. http://www.juxtapoz.com/Features/interview-with-mark-warren-jacques
Arrested Motion. U.K.
Read it online here. http://arrestedmotion.com/2009/02/interviewopening-mark-warren-jacques-fontanelle-gallery/
Bibliography
Artbox, No 15
Cover and 10pg interview. Published by James Knight Media. United Kindom.
Yes Magazine, Issue 2
Art images and interview. Published by No Store, San Francisco, California.
The Open Daybook
Published by Mark Batty Publisher. Distributed by Random House, Inc. Get it here > Random House
San Francisco Chronicle
Art images, review, and exhibition pick of the week. October 14, 2010
Death Magazine
Cover artwork. Issue 2. Oct 2010. Published by Death Magazine, Portland, Oregon
Licht (Light) No 4
Art images and writing. Oct 2010. Published by Die Krieger des Lichts GmbH. Berlin, Germany.
Surfing Magazine.
Volume 46, issue 05. Art Images. published by Interlink media, NYC
Tokion Magazine.
Art images. published by Pinchazo Publishing Group. NYC
Fontanelle - Year One Book.
Art images and exhibition review. Published by Fontanelle Gallery, Portland, OR.
Portland Mercury.
Art images and exhibition pick of the week. Vol. 10. No. 26 Published by Index Newspapers.
Portland Mercury.
Art images and exhibition pick of the week. Vol. 10. No. 20 Published by Index Newspapers.
D Magazine.
Art images and interview feature. published by D Esteban Echeverría. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Lifetime Book Number Two.
Art images. published by Lifetime Collective. Vancouver, B.C.
Point Never Issue 00.
Art Images. Published by Point Never Press. London, U.K.
The Leaflet Vol. 9.
Exhibition Catalog. Published by Together Gallery. Portland, OR.
The Leaflet Vol. 6.
Exhibition Catalog. Published by Together Gallery. Portland, OR.
The Leaflet Vol. 1.
Exhibition Catalog. Published by Together Gallery. Portland, OR.
Proper Vibes.
Artist Booklet including Art images and design. Published by Totally Okay Publishing. Portland OR.
Gallery
-In 2007 Mark along with Timothy Karpinski, David Wien, & Seth Neefus,
founded Together Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
www.TogetherGallery.com
Short bio film. 2008. Featured on Current tv