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Here's the buzz from the bio page on the well-known artist's web site: "Marco's work has graced the front page of the NY Times Sunday Magazine, Crain's New York, ADWEEK, and was recently featured on the hit FOX TV Show American Idol, New York One, NBC s TODAY Show, and ESPN's Cold Pizza. Marco was appointed as an Official Artist for The 2004 US Olympic Team by The United States Olympic Committee, and created POP Portraits of all of the 2003 NBA All Star Players including Michael Jordan, and Shaquille O'Neil. Gibson Musical Instruments released a hand painted "Marcoart Guitar" and watch giant Swatch commissioned Marco to paint over fifty of it's stores worldwide, in addition to having him create the best selling Artist Swatch of all time: "The Alien Baby." Express commissioned Marco to design "Cyclone Angel" hang tags for their jeans, Onward enlisted Marco to design an entire product line for their "Field Dream" stores in Japan, and Deutsche Telecom printed up 250,000 phone cards with Marco's images on them. Marco has raised thousands of dollars by donating his masterful dynamic paintings to benefits for: The Rainforest Alliance; The Gay and Lesbian Anti-Defamation League; Body Positive; Muscular Dystrophy; United Cerebral Palsy; St. Vincent's Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital to name just a few. Current projects include animation, children's books, an extensive clothing and product line, and worldwide fine art distribution. Not bad from someone who started as "The Prince of Greene Street" selling his canvases on the corner of Prince and Greene streets in SOHO in the late 80s." Marco's BIO: Marco Mark is a multi-dimensional creative artist. He has worked with Airbrush, Acrylics, Crayons, House paints, Watercolors,d yes, printing inks, pastels, colored pencils, magic markers, etchings, engravings, serigraphs, silkscreens, dimensional paints, wallpapers, collage, and ink jet printers. In his creative output, Marco loves to make art of icons and is irresistibly attractive to the famous. "If I didn`t become an artist, I would have become an actor." Marco says, who came fascinated with revelers masquerading as famous people in Trinidad Carnival. Marco`s early childhood impressions had a profound influence on his creative expression. It was a childhood filled with colourful masqueraders, calypso singers and steel drum music at carnival time in Trinidad. West Indian born, Marco was raised in Trinidad, where he spent his early years drawing and painting from American comic books and going to the Movies left an impression on young Marco of magic and creativity. Marco came to the United States in 1968 and attended the School of Visual arts in New York City. Here he learned about commercial illustration and graphic Arts and developed into a commercial artist. After his studies, Marco apprenticed at Designers 3 Art studio and worked as an assistant art director at Hicks & Criest advertising agency. When he left the agency, Marco decided to become a freelance commercial artist. In a short time his artwork adorned Umbrellas and selling in retail outlets throughout the United States. Marco loves specialty advertising which led to screen printing advertisements on Umbrellas in the 70`s. As the `70`s progressed, Marco screen printed umbrellas for fashion designer Oscar de la Renta, Nina Ricci, ABC Wide World Of Sports, NBC Sports, CBS Sports, colleges and numerous businesses. In the 1980s, Marco gave up his commercial pursuits and moved to Atlanta, Ga. where he began making fine art. For the Arthur A. Kaplan Co., Marco created a series of artwork called Flowers, Dogs and Cats. In the 1990s, for the Arthur A. Kaplan Co., Marco was asked to create an African American Dance series. Marco created his "AILEY DANCERS" SERIES, a colorful homage to choreographer and dancer Alvin Ailey. |
