Fleisher: Challenge Artists: Mark McCullen

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Mark McCullen

	Red Bend, 1996, oil on canvas, 50"x52"

Painting is my link to myself and also to the larger world. It is a way of making sense of things on an intuitive and emotional level. Exploration and expression are visceral rather than rational, language and metophor are not narratives, but neither are they unfamiliar. Sometimes painting is something to believe in.

EDUCATION
MFA in painting, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 1990; Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1979

AWARDS
Artists Residency, LaNapoule Art Foundation, LaNapoule, France, 1991; Individual Artists Grant for Painting, PA Council on the Arts, 1990

EXHIBITIONS
The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, The Fine Art of Giving, 1998; Gallery K, Washington, D.C., Paintings and Drawings, 1991; Delaware Center for the Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE, Paintings, 1992; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Contemporary Philadelphia Artists, 1990; Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Recent Paintings, 1990, 1987

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Established in 1978, the Challenge Exhibition Series is a regional juried competition that is committed to enriching and expanding people's lives through art. Several three-person shows, held each year from September through May, feature the work of regional artists chosen annually from over three hundred entries.