Mark Soltero

The Projection Room

Mark Soltero’s practice evolves from his personal history. Working primarily in a monochrome palette as a self-imposed constraint, he makes drawings, prints and paintings that examine relationships between images and memory.

His methods often involve the production of detailed layers of hand-cut stencils. Working in an intense and repetitive process deconstructing and mining images to see what they contain, looking through the layers, drawing and re-drawing outlines and shapes, resulting in a kind of physical tracing of cinemas as containers of images, memory and history.

Tim Main

The Foothills

For me the pleasure of the aesthetic experience lies in finding a balance between a guiding structure and a variety of embellishments; a harmony of order and movement. I like the idea that we can observe the medley of forms in a plant and take from that a few expressive elements that once crafted/constructed will function as a symbol for all nature. There is a yearning for perpetuity embodied in pattern, and a desire to understand natures sublime secret of creation.