Mark Van Proyen

Associate Professor
Painting
mvanproyen@sfai.edu
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In both my visual work and in my written commentaries, the focus is on satirizing the tragic consequences of blind faith placed in economies of narcissistic reward. 

Selected Publications: 

  • “Facing Innocence: The Art of Gottfried Helnwein,” Crocker Art Museum, 2011
  • “Cirian Logic and the Painting of Preconstruction,” Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, 2010
  • “Administrativism and its Discontents,” Art Criticism, SUNY Stony Brook, 2006
  • Corresponding Editor: Art in America, 2003-Present

Education: 

  • MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 1979
  • BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 1977