Mark G Picascio - About Mark & The Artist's Statement

In the world of “the modern” contemporary abstract artist Mark G. Picascio creates paintings that are luminous hues of earth and sky complementing the seeming weightlessness of hidden colorful free forms and geometric angles as they come alive, entangled together in a unique balancing act of one element cantilevering another in a song of nature and architecture. Highly influenced by modern architecture, His paintings are a view of abstract images, a segment of time captured, a glimpse, a shimmering fragment of a moment in his mind that creates mental collages from the space around him, later to become his art on canvas.

"There is a spirit and rhythm in every heartbeat, every life force in each of us, that transcends the human condition in this earthly realm".

In this statement, the artist wants to have its meaning be conveyed on canvas by expressions of sincere images extracted from his heart and soul, implemented in paint, as a graphic language that communicates the beginning of something new.

Born in Los Angeles California, 1961. The artist was inspired by the surrounding, hills, and mountains as well as the oceans of Malibu, California where he grew up in the late 1960’s and 70’s. Self taught, by age twelve the artist was drawing and painting portraits of people and rendering architecture in watercolors.

In Junior High his biggest influence into the art world was his art teacher Roberta Lannes-Sealey, who taught him a great color sense and balance of color and composition in painting. She also helped him develop his artist signature at a young age.


A Way Through 29" x 41"	Yellow Submarine 29" x 41"	China Seas 29" x 41"

After graduating high school in 1980, his studies included, fine art, and art history at College of the Canyons, Valencia, California. In 1982 – 1984 he majored in advertising and graphic design, with additional courses in illustration, photography, display merchandising, and architectural design at Los Angeles Trade Technical College, Los Angeles, California. 1984 – 2001 The artist played a key roll for many of southern California’s premiere architect and design firms as a presentation artist and designer encompassing all of his skills in the visual arts. The artist also worked as a production designer implementing set design with architectural renderings and still photography for product commercials at studios in L.A. California and Paris, France.

The artist’s work is shown and sold in galleries and design centers in California and New York. Early on the artist was greatly influenced by the shapes and forms of Frank Stella’s work in the early 1970’s and the works of artists Mark Rothko, Paul Klee, Caldecott, Kandinsky and Pierrre Soulages – all abstract expressionist and post-modern artists.