MARK ASMUS oil painter
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About the Artist:
I entered the art world through the back door. No watercolor set as a four-year-old.
No prodigious art awards as a teenager. No MFA. Instead, my sheepskin reads BS
Metallurgical Engineering. Although my artistic bent lay dormant for almost 60 years,
I am making up for lost time.
The process of creating, from the conception of the idea to the completion of the work,
and everything in between, is very gratifying to me. And, I love the people with whom
my art brings me in contact as well as enjoying drawing attention to beautiful,
interesting and humorous Taos.
I paint with a palette knife on birch panel because it gives me a highly textured surface
with depth, looseness and hard edges.
In the last few years, I have been honored to have a one-man show (July and August, 2010)
at the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos and to have two paintings juried into the
Harwood Museum of Art's exhibit, "New Mexorado". In September, my paintings
were shown in the Blumenshein Museum, a part of the Taos Historic Museums, from
September 16th to the 30th, 2011.
