{"id":30555,"date":"2016-10-06T09:41:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=30555"},"modified":"2016-10-07T14:46:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T19:46:21","slug":"caf-cyril-mazard-mark-enger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2016\/10\/06\/caf-cyril-mazard-mark-enger\/","title":{"rendered":"~CASUAL ART FAIR: CYRIL MAZARD & MARK ENGER, GHOST"},"content":{"rendered":"

CYRIL MAZARD . . . brings on the GHOST ARMY !!
\nwhat is the LOWER EAST SIDE – without the ghost of MARK ENGER, RIP ?!!!<\/p>\n

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\none of my first encounters . . upon arriving was CYRIL MAZARD.
\nwe both<\/strong> have a dear, dear departed friend in common – the late, great artist & screen print maestro \/ redneck genius . . MARK ENGER.<\/p>\n

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\nCYRIL was exhibiting & selling some indie zine \/ books of his own making – including this soft cover, full color catalog, titled: ‘Cyril Mazard – 50 Paintings 1996-2012’, which featured this quite good portrait of . . MARK ENGER – towards the back.
\ntitled: ‘MARK BY CYRIL’, 2011 . . I guess it was painted after Mark’s untimely death, Jan 7, 2011.
\nthis sweet & so so talented authentic civil war \/ cowboy . . lost the battle with throat cancer. yeah, he smoked, he drank coca-cola like it was water, actually . . instead of water, and he lived and worked in his silkscreen studio amidst all the fumes . . so there ya go, another lonely cowboy rides off into the sunset.<\/p>\n

I’m only cracking jokes, because otherwise I’d be crying, and that’s why it took me so long to start – these Casual Art Fair posts.
\ntalk about . . ‘outsiders’ !!<\/p>\n

I mean, if you can call WALTER ROBINSON<\/strong>, an ‘outsider’ with decades, decades !! of writing about the art world – under his belt, a recent & very successful, traveling museum retrospective, & . . a big big show – now up at JEFFREY DEITCH – an ‘outsider’ . .
\nthen what do you call . . MARK ENGER ???
\nRedneck ?
\nLower East Side cowboy . . legend – that you never heard of ?<\/p>\n

so, when I get so<\/strong> down on WALTER, and all those other status quo ‘critics’ – mouthing off their bs & highly predictable garbage – in the mainstream cesspool of the NYC artworld – it’s because of the really<\/strong> great AMERICAN MASTERS – like MARK ENGER aka EXPLODING SKY WORLDWIDE, who never had a chance in hell – though I did<\/strong> my best to scream his name . . out loud, and to Walter, too.
\nwho could have helped bring his work to the front page, but totally dropped the ball.<\/p>\n

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\nCYRIL MAZARD, ‘GOING HOME’, 2011
\namen, RIP . . MARK.<\/p>\n

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\nRIP, MARK ENGER. born 1963, Fort Still, OKLAHOMA, died 2011 Newark, New Jersey.
\nthat made him 44 yrs at death. sad, sad beyond the beyond.
\nARCHIVAL PHOTO: NANCY SMITH, NYC NOV 10, 2006. <\/p>\n

someone told me last week, that it’s not<\/strong> just really . . ALL about what you did in your lifetime that matters – but who remains, to tell your story !!
\nI’m – hoping that’s true.<\/p>\n

see: MARK ENGER’S MEMORIAL – art lovers archive<\/a><\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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