Mark Safan
Mark Safan is a painter and musician currently living in Austerlitz, New York. Born in Los Angeles, he studied painting at University of California, Santa Barbara (1969-1970), San Francisco Art Institute (1970-1972), and Vancouver School of Art (1972-1973). He began his professional career as a musician in Los Angeles recording for Warner Bros. Records and Electra/Asylum/Planet Records. He also wrote songs popularized by recording artists of the period and sang on numerous film soundtracks.
After moving to New York City in 1986, he began exhibiting in New York, and in Germany with the Galeriebrockstedt, Berlin. Exhibitions included: Köln Messe and Messe Düsseldorf (1993), and Galerie Kolon (1993). One man shows at Galeriebrockstedt followed in 1994 and 2004. In 1995 he was invited to be artist-in-residence at Atelierhaus Pankow in Pankow, Berlin, also including a one man show “Die Wolken hängen schwer am Himmel: Mark Safan’s Clouds”, 1995.
Exhibitions in New York include: Abstract Eight, 55 Mercer Gallery, 1995; “This Mess We’re In: Reflections on the Metropolis”, Pelavin Gallery, 2010, “A Field Guide to Getting Lost” Pelavin Gallery, 2011, and “In Sight: Bruce Edelstein, Mark Safan, Fulvio Testa” at Terrazzo Art Projects, 2014. Exhibitions that included musical performance as well as painting are: “On the Wall/Off the Wall”, Elizabeth V. Sullivan Gallery, Art Students League, Vytlacil, 2012, and “Music Seen: Visual Artists Who Make Music”, LABspace Gallery, Hillsdale, NY, 2017. Mark taught painting at The Art Students League, Vytlacil Campus, 2009 – 2014, and was a “critique instructor” at the The Art Students League Residency Program, 2012-2016.
Girl rubbing her eyes. 2020. Oil-Cotton, 16×20. Hans Witschi. 
Untitled. 2018 Acrylic-Cotton, 30×24. Hans Witschi. 
Injured Girl Drawing. 2019 Oil-Cotton, 20×16. Hans Witschi. 
Grieving Girl 2021 Oil·Cotton, 20×16. Hans Witschi. 
Pigtails. 2021. Oil-Cotton, 20×16. Hans Witschi. 
Man with a candle. 2020. Oil-Cotton, 16×20. Hans Witschi. 
Girl scrutinizing an object. 2020. Oil-Cotton, 16×20. Hans Witschi.
Hans Witschi
Hans Witschi lives and works in New York. His paintings range from funny and humorous to abysmally painful. Strong in psychological impact and stylistically heterogeneous, the work conveys a message from a world of collapsed time. Witschi studied in Zurich under Gustav Guldener in the 1970s. His works have been shown at the Shedhalle, Zurich 1990; On Stellar Rays, New York 2013 and LABOR, Mexico City 2015. His work is in numerous collections including JP Morgan Chase Art Collection. Paolo Poloni’s documentary, ‘Witschi geht’, was shown at the Locarno Film Festival in 1992. Witschi’s collaboration includes his piano music from the 2014 performance with Bruno Jakob at the Kolumba Museum, Cologne, 2012 Kunstmuseum Lucerne to Noritoshi Hirakawa’s video ‘A Destination of Ego’ 1994 at P.S.1. He also acted as the German philosopher Georg Christoph Lichtenberg for Matthew Buckingham’s film ‘Subcutaneous’ 2001. 2013 an interview conducted by Zipora Fried appeared in the ‘BOMB Magazine’.
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Hans Witschi is represented by Galerie Stephan Witschi, Zuerich: https://www.stephanwitschi.ch/
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