Front Cover: Mark Tansey is an American painter known for allegorical, photographic paintings in monochromatic hues that explore visual puns, literary references, and philosophical themes. Born into a family of art historians in San Jose, California, he pursued studio art at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles before attending Hunter College in New York for graduate school. He uses a complex working process arranging photographs, sketches, and archival ephemera into collage form, then brushing and scraping paint to reveal canvas beneath. He often distorts perspective and scale. His work is in many museum collections, and he is represented by Gagosian.

MARK TANSEY
Reader, 1989
Oil on canvas
32 x 21 inches / 81.3 x 53.3cm
© Mark Tansey, Courtesy Gagosian.

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