Mark Horst
What Have I Become? No. 1, 2011, oil on canvas, 18 x 18 in.
Brothers No. 6, 2011, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in.
The Holy Family No. 4, 2010, oil on canvas, 12 x 16 in.
Brothers, 2009, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 in.
Things New No. 1, 2010, oil on canvas, 12 x 16 in.
Untitled, 2011, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in.
Embrace No. 35, 2011, oil on canvas, 22 x 28 in.
Things New No. 2, 2009, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in.
About The Artist
I paint as a way to see and to know the world. Yet the world is never finished and the joy of seeing it is never complete—and so my painting points to the fleeting, the glimpsed, to the life that is always present and so difficult to touch.
I paint the way I see—which is always incomplete and in process. The more I look, the more there is to observe. The world opens up and flowers; the mud takes form.
I paint the figure as an invitation to explore the world and ourselves—our light, our shadows, our incompleteness. I’m trying to create a space for us to inhabit and give us time with questions that are not meant to be answered.
Mark Horst at Canyon Road Contemporary
Very nice work~