Mark Hillard

Details

Nationality: USA
Birthday: July 25, 1953
Url: http://www.houska.com/featured-artist-mark-hillard/
Bornin: Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
Recognition: “Blue Room Magazine” Eastern Illinois University, Featured artists, 2015
Recognition: “Art Heritage Show” Lakeland College, Mattoon, Illinois, First and Third place, 2013
Recognition: “Art Heritage Show” Lakeland College, Mattoon, Illinois, Best in Show 2012
Recognition: “Urbana Trees Festival” Urbana, Illinois, selected work to represent festival in poster and banner form 2013
Education: Eastern Illinois University

Description

From Gallery page:

Two dimensional art has been a major part of Marks life since an early age. He began college as a Fine Arts major, but ultimately graduated from another discipline and pursued a career in business, in large corporations for over 35 years. During this time he worked only intermittently with painting and drawing. Following retirement, Mark has returned full-time to art and reinvested himself in refining his skills and direction. Marks primary interests are color and the human form. He most frequently works in Acrylic, Oil and Ink. Primarily a painter, over the last two years he has been exploring the juxtaposition of spontaneity versus his natural inclination to obsess on the legitimacy of a “finished” product. Transferring the almost subconscious quality of a “napkin sketch” to a finished, large painting is always a psychological challenge for Mark. Most recently, Mark has, experimented with enlarging sketched compositions digitally, printing on canvas and then finishing in oil or acrylic. This investigation almost always manifests itself in the figure and the inherent geometry of the form and it’s context.

EXHIBITS “The Vault”, Tuscola, Illinois 2014-present “Lonnies” Morris, Illinois 2013-2014 “Eclectic” Champaign, Illinois 2011-2014 “The Co-op” Charleston, Illinois 1977-1978

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