Mark Schlesinger American, b. 1949
Mark Schlesinger is a painter whose work concentrates on an exploration of color and the visual tactility of material. Focusing on lines, planes, shapes, colors, Schlesinger is enthralled with the formal elements of painting.
Michael Schreyach, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Trinity University and author of Pollock’s Modernism, states “Schlesinger’s imagery is motivated on some fundamental level by his sense of the possibilities of representing, through abstract pictorial form, the body’s infinitely variable modes of touching, feeling, and being. Plainly, this cannot be a matter of literal reference or narrative.”
Schlesinger earned a Bachelor of Arts from Harpur College, State University of New York at Binghamton in 1971, and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York City in 1972. He was also a studio assistant to Lee Krasner for almost three years.
Originally from New York, he now lives and works in San Antonio, Texas. He has exhibited his work at Acquavella, Leo Castelli, Mary Boone, and Andre Emmerich Galleries, and his works have been featured and reviewed by The New York Times, Artforum, and Art in America. His works are in international and national collections, including European Fine Art Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland; Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas; Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem; Kameyama Museum, Tokyo, Japan; The McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas.
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Mark SchlesingerLike This One, Like That One, 2020Acrylic, canvas and wood55 x 36"
139.7 x 91.4 cm -
Mark SchlesingerNo Nearer Here, Than There, 2020Acrylic, canvas and wood34 x 30"
86.4 x 76.2 cm -
Mark SchlesingerAll the Letting Go, 2019Acrylic, canvas and wood32 x 28"
81.3 x 71.1 cm -
Mark SchlesingerIt All Returns, 2019Acrylic, canvas and wood32 x 28"
81.3 x 71.1 cm -
Mark SchlesingerSuch a Secret #5, 2018Acrylic on paper22 x 30"
55.9 x 76.2 cm -
Mark SchlesingerAbove All, 2017Acrylic, canvas and wood29 x 27"
73.7 x 68.6 cm -
Mark SchlesingerTime and Again, 2017Acrylic, canvas and wood39 x 32"
99.1 x 81.3 cm
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23rd Annual McNay Print Fair
McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio March 2 - 3, 2019 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art presents works at the McNay's 23rd annual Print Fair.Artists featured at the McNay Print Fair will include: Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Ethel Shipton, Rufino Tamayo, Nate Cassie, Graciela Iturbide, Chuck Ramirez, Pedro Friedeberg, Pedro Diego Alvarado, Mark Schlesinger, and Richard Armendariz.Read more -
22nd Annual McNay Print Fair
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio March 3 - 4, 2018 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art participates in the McNay's 22nd annual print fair. Artists featured include: Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Ethel Shipton, Nate Cassie, Graciela Iturbide, Chuck Ramirez, Pedro Friedeberg, Pedro Diego Alvarado, Mark Schlesinger, Richard Armendariz, among others.Read more -
Mark Schlesinger: Hello Stranger(s)
January 24 - March 10, 2018 San AntonioRuiz-Healy Art presents Mark Schlesinger, a painter whose work concentrates on an exploration of color and the visual tactility of material. Focusing on lines, planes, shapes, colors, Schlesinger explores the formal elements of painting.Read more