EP #169 - 11.13.2020 - The Viral Art Project

Today we have a discussion of the Viral Art Project with Mark Kelner.

Mark Kelner is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Washington, DC and Brooklyn. A graduate of George Mason University, where he studied with the esteemed novelist Vasily Aksyonov, his work has appeared in Artenol, The Atlantic, The Washington Post and The Times among other media outlets.  His practice centers on the distortion of ubiquitous mass culture –cigarette labels, oil and gas station logos, fast food signs, and retail culture, among other touchstones. In 2019, his solo exhibition “Solaris: Shelter for the Next Cold War” garnered wide acclaim and over 13,000 visitors. Of late, he has shown at Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York and the Librairie du Globe in Paris. Prior to the art world, he worked with filmmaker Steven Spielberg, coordinating the production of video testimonies of Holocaust survivors in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union for the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.