Mark Gerard McKee was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally and his works are in national, corporate and university collections. He earned his Master’s in Fine Art from Lesley University College of Art and Design and attended the Lyme Academy – College of Fine Arts, earning a BFA and receiving that institution’s highest award. McKee has studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and has participated in that institution’s prestigious International Master’s Artist Residency.
McKee has taught Studio Arts courses, seminars and workshops as well as Art History and Contemporary Art History in Connecticut at Eastern Connecticut State University, the University of Connecticut, Rhode Island School of Design, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Mitchell College, and in Dublin, Ireland at the National Academy College of Art and Design. He has participated in artist residencies including Vermont Studios and the Bulgarian - American Exchange Program. McKee has served on the board of directors of several arts institutions, including the San Diego Art Institute and the Griffis Arts Center - International Residency Program.
The artist lives and works in Southeastern Connecticut.
Statement
My work resides at the intersection of seeing and perceiving, where the experiences of making art meet those of lived body and memory. As an artist, that is, in seeing as an artist, the mediums of art, and their qualities are now mirrored in the qualities of things; things which, along with the processes of art-making must also include the artist’s memories and the events which give rise to those memories. Likewise, seeing and memory take on the qualities of the medium, just as seeing and memory are realized through that medium.
Each work, every painting or drawing, is an evolving and expanding process, and as such is a means of negotiating, exploring and engaging with the world. Seeing and memory are elements of that means. These elements fit into the structure of a greater realm of inquiry – one that both explores and marvels at those capacities, perceptions, conditions and events that identify us as thinking and experiencing entities.
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