Work Fast, Cure slow, Destroy Before Collecting Dust.

I am a pop artist with social practice awareness and training attune into consciousness. I believe my work to be conceptual in nature and look for connections and synchronicity to the social public sphere- and those who may discover and identify within it. I subscribe that an artist’s role is often to observe and reflect the environment around them and promote a reaction

Mark x Farina Santa Monica CA Born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, USA

My work is social practice through pop art techniques. I have maintained a regimen in recycling, repurposing, and messaging through various street tactics. I am a pop artist with social practice awareness and training attune into consciousness. I believe my work to be conceptual in nature and look for connections and syncro's to the social public sphere- and those who may discover and identify within it.

Education: MFA, Social Practice Arts, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles CA BFA: Media Arts, minor in Cinema, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

Senior lecturer and adjunct professor at Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles CA. Courses include Advertising, Urban Art and Printmaking, Radio Communications , Audio and Video production. High school art instruction courses at Brentwood Art Center and Wildwood School.

2019 Awarded post graduate artist Residency Cite Des Arts Paris France