Mark Schoening

Venice

Ever the intrepid explorer, Mark Schoening’s work exists at the frontier where information fragments and explodes into abstract form. The artist operates as a documentarian, creating sculptures and multi-layered paintings investigating the gestation and dissemination of information. The inception of a single quiet thought is added to and built on until it becomes a frenzied barrage of information.

Working with acrylic, latex, spray paint, ink, silkscreen and resin, the artist creates a three-dimensional like space populated by a complex network of abstract forms. Simple geometric forms and lines create architectural backdrops from which emerge fictional landscapes.

In his work, Schoening confronts contemporary high-speed urban existence, documenting society’s ravenous appetite for content which, when combined with a steady onslaught of advertising, results in a desensitized population accustomed to immediately summoning information and, just as quickly, discarding or forgetting it. He criticizes exactly that what Roland Barthes once said: “The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition… always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.”

Mark Schoening

Marine Contamporary

November 29, 2012 – January 13, 2013
1733 — A
Abbot Kinney Blvd
Venice, CA, 90291
USA

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