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Mark Thode
Gallery Exhibit: Mark Thode
- Exhibit runs
- March 8 - April 29, 2016
- SW MN Arts Council Gallery
- 114 N Third Street, Marshall, MN 56258
OPEN MONDAY – FRIDAY
8:00 AM – 12:00 NOON
1:00 PM – 4:30 PM*Artist Reception & Exhibit Opening: Artist Reception on March 8, 2016 from 5-7 PM — with special music by RACHEL KUPHAL from 5:30 – 6:30 PM
Mark Thode Artist Statement
I have heard it said, that beautiful photographs are made...and not taken. The images and composites you see here today are a product of the “Blurred Lines” that present themselves in my everyday life. When looking at my images and composites, you will sense a union of reality and imagined space.
As a self-taught photographer, I don’t only pursue landscapes as a subject, or high school seniors for senior portraits, or models who don’t mind sitting for 4 hours getting made up for an artistic composite, but all of that and more. In pursuit of visual expression and story telling, I find myself going in many different directions. Unfocused you might say, constantly challenging the arena in which I create, and jumping from one arena to the next. Landscape photography, portraiture of any kind, digital composites, graphic
As a self-taught photographer, I don’t only pursue landscapes as a subject, or high school seniors for senior portraits, or models who don’t mind sitting for 4 hours getting made up for an artistic composite, but all of that and more. In pursuit of visual expression and story telling, I find myself going in many different directions. Unfocused you might say, constantly challenging the arena in which I create, and jumping from one arena to the next. Landscape photography, portraiture of any kind, digital composites, graphic
design, they all exist on my canvas. The “Blurred Lines” that separate each of these arenas, are just that for me... blurred. I jump from one to the next in fear of getting artistically trapped. Each of these arenas fulfill me in different ways.
Most of my work, especially the landscape photos, are insights into what I witness when behind the camera. My canvas is splashed with both elements of the world outside and the digital world, a union of reality and imagined space.
I take photographs and create digital art because I want to call attention to what others might over-look; to better understand my reality... and my imagination; to walk less traveled paths and to tell new stories. I hope my work takes you to a place of nostalgia... and even breaks the barriers of your own imagination.
Most of my work, especially the landscape photos, are insights into what I witness when behind the camera. My canvas is splashed with both elements of the world outside and the digital world, a union of reality and imagined space.
I take photographs and create digital art because I want to call attention to what others might over-look; to better understand my reality... and my imagination; to walk less traveled paths and to tell new stories. I hope my work takes you to a place of nostalgia... and even breaks the barriers of your own imagination.
