this is what came of a brief interview.......
To describe Mark Zee’s body of work would be akin to attempting to sum up the dictionary in five words or less. A life-long student of the arts, Zee began as soon as he could grasp his first Jumbo Crayola. Arriving on planet Earth in 1974 in his home-made spacecraft, the infant Zee absorbed everything he saw around him at his Earthling parent’s flower shop. Starved for knowledge, he unblinkingly stared straight ahead at his 10” black and white TV, captivated by Zorro, the Wolfman, Flash Gordon, kung-fu flicks and an excess of Saturday morning cartoons. At the age of 9, while watching public broadcasting, young Zee’s life is changed forever after seeing the graffiti documentary “Style Wars”. Arming himself with a black marker and a home-made Zorro mask, Zee proceeded to leave his “mark” on every possible surface. After years of practice, the marker and spray can had become extensions of his arms, allowing Zee’s creativity and positive message (namely, don’t pay for art school) to be seen by the world.
Influenced heavily by punk rock, underground hip-hop and modern cinema, Zee has transformed his roots in street art and graffiti into something unique and original. The following collection of works from Zee are being debut here at Treat. The inspiration for these pieces came from his obsession with drawing and designing the letter “Z” of all things. The letters soon became bubbly creatures and took on a life all their own, and those soon evolved into what you see before you today. These mixed media works are a concoction of wheat pasting, punk rock flyers, aerosol paints, stencils and a very shaky yet somewhat steady hand inking the outlines.
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