Mark Vallen

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Mark Vallen at an exhibition in Eagle Rock, California, December 2005

Mark Vallen (born 1953) is an American graphic artist, painter, and blogger. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and was strongly influenced by the Chicano Movement and the L.A. punk scene. Among his artistic influences he counts Francisco Goya and Honoré Daumier, as well as the German expressionists and the Mexican muralists.

While still in his teens, he began publishing cartoons in the underground Los Angeles Free Press, and produced art for Slash magazine from 1979 – 1980. He currently lives in the San Fernando Valley.

Vallen studied art at the Otis College of Art and Design, then called Otis/Parsons, where he came under the tutelage of the social realist painter Charles White. Despite his formal training, he considers himself largely self-taught.

His political posters have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and his work has been featured in many magazines. His work has been shown in many group and solo exhibits throughout California and the rest of the United States.

Vallen runs the website Art for a Change, where he reposts news articles pertaining to political art, promotes his work and the work of other artists, and blogs. In 2005, he broke the story of the closing of the East Los Angeles Chicano art center Self Help Graphics & Art, a story which was later picked up by the progressive press and the Los Angeles Times.

Vallen is also a collaborator, with poet Luis J. Rodriguez, on the art website Xispas.

Vallen currently paints in the figurative realist style.

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