{"id":4773,"date":"2011-03-24T21:36:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T02:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2011-03-25T11:08:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T16:08:29","slug":"mark-enger-memorial-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2011\/03\/24\/mark-enger-memorial-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"~MARK ENGER MEMORIAL CELEBRATION"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MARK ENGER – MEMORIAL CELEBRATION
\nSAT – MARCH 26, 2011 – FROM 2-4 PM
\nSt. MARK’S CHURCH – 131 EAST 10th St at 2nd Ave – NYC<\/p>\n

MARK ENGER 1963 – 2011.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking maybe – just maybe – RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA throws the occasional glance or two – at artlovers – and was moved to include – a silkscreen-artist-at-work installation at – ‘FEAR EATS THE SOUL’ – by our recent coverage of the worldly departing of our dear friend and silkscreen artist – supremo – MARK ENGER – who called his studio . . . which he ran with his identical twin brother MATT . . . EXPLODING SKY WORLDWIDE . . . and which Matt continues to run.<\/p>\n

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\nMARK ENGER – in his studio just about one year ago – a true American hero.
\nan amazing super talented artist who silkscreened on canvas – as well as on pretty much everything else.
\n T-shirts included. He died sadly this past January 2011, not quite 48 yrs old. after a long and brave battle with throat cancer.
\nyeah. smokin’ too many of those damn ciggies – brought this sweet cowboy down. <\/p>\n

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\nMARK was a master silkscreener – you can watch him at work, here: MARK ENGER AT WORK\/YouTube !!<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nand yeah, Mark also printed in-your-face slogans . . . but more about the art world – than the world at large.<\/p>\n

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\nALL ARTISTS ARE WHORES
\nALL CRITICS ARE LIARS
\nALL DEALERS ARE PIMPS
\nALL COLLECTORS ARE PIGS<\/p>\n

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\nFASCIST. ARTIST – DEALER – COLLECTOR – ON A MYLAR SCREEN.<\/p>\n

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\nMark really liked to screen on utility jackets.<\/p>\n

in fact, I first met him at PSEUDO – where he was silk screen artist-in-residence for JOSH HARRIS. he silkscreened our in-house crew work shirts at QUIET – and he plays a cameo role in WE LIVE IN PUBLIC – yep, he is the drunken cowboy. who couldn’t get back in the party.<\/p>\n

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\nyeah. his imagery got a little more aggressive – in the face of death. I guess that will do it to, ya.
\ntalk about walking around – and maybe having your silkscreened message – provoke an attack.
\nliberal society or not.<\/p>\n

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\nbut he also addressed the American past . . .<\/p>\n

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\nthe Revolutionary War, the Civil War. cowboys . . . <\/p>\n

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\nand Native American Indians.
\nan army brat, born in FORT SILL, Oklahoma – he came by his imagery – from the ground up. <\/p>\n

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\nto visit Mark in his studio . . .<\/p>\n

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\nwas truly to see . . . <\/p>\n

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\npoetry – in action. <\/p>\n

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\nhe was definitely into making one-off – ‘unique’ – images from the ‘press’.<\/p>\n

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\nMark Enger, gone – but not forgotten.
\nREST IN PEACE.
\nONLY THE GOOD – DIE YOUNG. <\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH.
\nSTUDIO VISIT. EXPLODING SKY, Newark, N.J. APRIL 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MARK ENGER – MEMORIAL CELEBRATION SAT – MARCH 26, 2011 – FROM 2-4 PM St. MARK’S CHURCH – 131 EAST 10th St at 2nd Ave – NYC MARK ENGER 1963 – 2011. I’m thinking maybe – just maybe – RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA throws the occasional glance or two – at artlovers – and was moved to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4773"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4843,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions\/4843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}