Saturday, Apr. 30, 2016
02:00 PM
US/Central
Guests are invited to join artist Mark Flood and Director Bill Arning, curator of the exhibition, for an exhibition walkthrough and discussion focusing on Flood's thirty year career as an artist who describes the cultural landscape through painting, collage, sculpture, and video. The event will feature an dialogue between Arning and Flood, including a discussion on themes found in the exhibition Mark Flood: Gratest Hits, and a brief Q&A with the audience.
About the Discussion
About Mark Flood: Gratest Hits
Mark Flood: Gratest Hits is the first survey of Flood’s work with pieces dating from the 1980s to 2015. Gratest Hits presents two of the artist’s largest, most exquisite lace paintings; site-specific installations made of absurd pseudo-posters, multi-media, ephemera, collages, text paintings, and documents from the last decade; and a suite of recent works including corporate logo paintings and the presentation of his full-length movie Art Fair Fever.
About the artist
Mark Flood received his BA from Rice University in 1981. In 2013 Luxembourg & Dayan Gallery in NYC held a survey of Flood’s work of the ’80s, bringing together more than 100 paintings and collages. Flood’s work can be found in the collections of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Menil Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Birmingham Art Museum. His work is widely exhibited internationally. Mark Flood lives and works in Houston, Texas.
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