Hill House

mixed media on panel

48 x 48 inches

Courtesy of Boon Gallery

Guest Curated by Ron Stokes

Mark Eanes is a visual artist and educator who recently relocated to Richmond after living in the Bay Area of California for more than fifty years. His work is characterized by richly layered mixed media compositions that blend organic forms with architectural geometry and salvaged ephemera like 19th-century ledger sheets and antique letters. In addition to teaching at VisArts, Mark continues to demystify color and design through the Mark Eanes Academy, offering online courses and private workshops in the U.S. and Italy.

Mark holds a BFA in Fine Arts from U.C. Santa Barbara and an MFA from Mills College. He is Professor Emeritus from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where he taught drawing and painting courses for over thirty three years. Mark also taught at other art institutes in California including San Francisco State University, the Academy of Art University, Dominican College in San Rafael, College of San Mateo, and other community colleges.

Mark taught figure drawing at the California State Summer School for the Arts (a pre-college arts program at CalArts in Los Angeles) for twelve years, and was the Chair of the Visual Arts Department for three years. He has also conducted numerous private drawing and painting workshops throughout California and Italy, and has recently created online courses (The Language of Color, Design and Drawing) through the Mark Eanes Academy website.

Mark has exhibited his artwork throughout California as well as nationally and internationally. His past solo and selected exhibitions include the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, CA., the Parsons School of Design in Paris, the Applied Arts Museum in Belgrade, Serbia, the Cumberland Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee, the Documenta Galeria de Arte in San Paulo, Brazil, Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica, CA, Pence Gallery in Davis, CA, Hanford Center for the Arts, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, and the San Francisco Center for the Book, among many other venues.