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click images to enlarge   Icarus Mixed media on canvas 54 x 54   Save the Queen Mixed media on canvas 36" x 36"   Girl in Red Mixed media on panel 48 x 48   Broken II Mixed media on canvas/panel 42" x 54"   The Dreamer Mixed media on canvas/panel 42" x 54"

Mark Acetelli             Artist Statement I started painting through an unusual, but evolved course. As a professional musician for most of my life, my need to express myself in other media intrigued me. Painting is very similar to making music, tones and textures are like sounds on a canvas, it is a visual and melodious link to the soul.   I utilize a mixed media of acrylics, charcoal, tar, and found objects, I incorporate them together with layers upon layers of paint and a combination of words and phrases, through this process I seek to evoke a feeling rather than depict a defined image. One that is ever changing in all it’s complexities from the fragile to the seductive, beautiful to the mysterious. My most recent paintings are inspired by what I call the “elegance of decay”. Things that are distressed, old and weathered  as if the hands of time have stripped and eroded the surface of the painting to reveal a beauty all of there own. As a self- taught artist. I let the muse come to me and then let it spill onto the canvas, like a river to the sea, It is a intense creative process that is both primal and visceral. Pure emotion in motion.  As if the painting paints itself, I am merely a conduit, that transcends from the intangible to the tangible.    _________________________________________________ Mark Acetelli was born April 22nd, 1969 in Detroit, Michigan into an artistic household. Mark's Mother is herself a painter and some of his earliest memories were the smell of turpentine and oil paint.  Growing up surrounded by his mother's work, Mark was inspired to create his own art.  Mark's first inclination however was toward music, rather than visual art.  The family moved to Ft Lauderdale, Florida in 1978 and by age 13 Mark had taught himself to play guitar. At age 29 after many years of playing music, Mark decided it was time for a change.  No longer musically inspired, Mark went into the local art supply store and bought himself a set of paints.  Mark quickly discovered that painting was his true calling.  Eventually, the guitars stayed in their cases and the walls began to fill up with an ever-growing body of work.  In his first juried exhibition Mark won best in show, validation for this new form of self-expression.  Mark immersed himself in his painting, finding inspiration in the emotionally charged work of artists such as Picasso, Modigliani, Basquiat and Giacometti. Since Moving to Southern California in 2000, Mark has shown extensively in Los Angeles as well as New York and Miami.  His work can be found in numerous corporate and private collections throughout the United States.  Mark also frequently donates his work to charities benefitting among others, Parkinson’s, heart disease and Los Angeles Children’s Hospital, generating thousands of dollars for research and support.   Selected  Exhibitions 2006  Soho Gallery, Studio City, Ca Micheal Josephs Gallery, Wilton Manors, Fl 2005 SoHo Gallery , Studio City, Ca  Studio Blue Promotions, Brentwood, Ca 2004 Melrose lightspace Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca Soho Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca New York International Art Expo, New York , Ny Art Miami ,Miami, Fl Artfront Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca Track 16 Gallery, Hollywood Bowl/ Frank Geary, Sphere Project Create Fixate, Los Angeles, Ca 2003 Guardian Gallery, Los Angles, Ca Art Coalition, Los Angeles ,Ca Chaz Dean Studio, Hollywood, Ca   Selected private and corporate collections. Michael and Juantia Jordan, Chicago, IL Tom Beiry, Vice President Warner Brothers Promotions, Los Angeles,Ca Jack Permeter, Vice President, CBS Promotions, Los Angeles, Ca Raytheon Corperation, Los Angels, Ca Tom Shadyac, Universal Studios, Studio City, Ca Claire Forlani, Los Angeles, Ca Lavar Burton, Los Angeles, Ca Thomas Bähler, Los Angeles, Ca Chaz Dean, Hollywood, Ca Steven Zeller, Brentwood, Ca American Heart Association, Los Angeles, Ca Hollyrod Foundation, Beverly Hills, Ca Mark Kohn, Detriot, Mi Jeff Franklyn, Los Angeles, Ca Stuart Beattie, Calabasis, Ca Russell Bearney, Brentwood,Ca Francine Maisler, Beverly Hills, Ca

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