Talk: I Spot Eye Spots

Get to know I Spot Eye Spots artist, Mark Greenwalt, on Sunday, February 16th at 2pm!

“I draw on surfaces pregnant with evolutionary potential. There, anomalous figures emerge as wondrous pictorial constructs drawn to those surfaces by the sound of the pencil in my hand. Through cycles of forming and reforming, such figures challenge canons of proportion underlying ideals of beauty and question persistent societal notions about depictions of monstrousness.”

Mark Greenwalt was born in 1961 in Dallas, Texas as the son of a master jeweler. After high school, he received a BFA and MA from Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas and an MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. While in New York, Greenwalt worked for Trestle Editions, Petersburg Press, and M. Knoedler Gallery. After moving to Galveston Texas in 1994, Greenwalt taught various drawing and painting courses for the University of Houston, Rice University, and more recently at the University of Houston Clear Lake. In 2019-2020, Greenwalt was President of the Texas Association of Schools of Art. Currently he is Professor of Art at College of the Mainland in Texas City, Texas and a life drawing instructor for the Glassell School of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. In 2018 Greenwalt participated in Art and Pathology, a collaborative project with the University of Texas Medical Branch and Galveston Art Center. Mark is represented by Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston and has exhibited his work regionally and internationally.

The exhibit will run from February 14 – March 16, and is free to attend.