The Visual Art of Mark Mothersbaugh.
If you’re a fan of illustration, art and/or DEVO this should get you excited. DEVO founder Mark Mothersbaugh’s has made a habit of drawing postcard illustrations over the years. Now his 30 years worth of interesting creations have been compiled into a traveling exhibit.
See samples, find out how it all began and where the exhibit schedule on the jump. No word if the Whip It whip is on display.
Here’s the blurb on how the postcard illustrations began courtesy of Humid City.
During his downtime on early worldwide tours with DEVO, Mark Mothersbaugh began illustrating on postcards to send to his friends and family, which he still creates, and has been creating every day for over 30 years. It’s an obsessive habit/hobby, which still yields anywhere from one to a couple dozen new postcard-sized images per day.Mark has archived nearly all the original postcard-sized works, filed neatly in spiral-bound folders at his home in Hollywood, CA. It is an astonishingly obsessive collection of private thoughts featuring Mark’s plethora of provoking and unusual imagery.
The 2008 Gallery Tour features high-resolution, limited edition prints of Mark’s works. Each original postcard diary sketch is scanned and altered especially for the tour, often with the addition of text, digital effects, photos, etc. each customized image is printed on quality archival Lysonic paper in a very limited edition (usually editions of 3-20, each embossed and signed by the artist.) Mark archives one of each print edition for his own archives, which further limits distribution of each postcard diary print.
The Mark Mothersbaugh Postcard Diary exhibit just premiered in New Orlenas over the weekend at L’Art Noir New Orlean. To see if the exhibit is coming near you check out the Mutato Visual tour dates page.
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