Mark received his B.F.A. in photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his Masters from the University of Maryland. He has spent much of his professional career working, as Creative Director for companies like AOL, PayPal and Verizon. He has exhibited in several group shows work has been published in several magazines.
Mark’s current work this reaction to climates change and societies lack of interest, knowledge, and to action make significant changes is reverse current course.
Utilizing non-traditional landscape imagery as a backdrop for painted graphs and charts these are representations of data from studies on climate change and it numerous effects on environments. The pictured landscapes are recognizable, but also taken from vantage point that larger structures of global commerce, energy resources and industrialization at play own backyards. The imagery as scenes of wild grasslands, sea scapes, burnt desert forests, receding reservoirs, communities these edge of Chesapeake Bay and the dense urban infrastructure of Baltimore city. Visual data depicted by dots, lines and patterns allow this imagery to show through and blend with there painted colors and textures. The graphs illustrate data from climates studies relevants to environments and speak phenomenon like global sea level rise, greenhouse gas emissions, temperature extremes, drought, wild fires, ground water loss.