Mark Pease

United States of America

Mark Pease explores the contrast between natural motifs and digital artifice, using motion, color, and controlled compositions to reflect on impermanence, desire, and the aesthetics of escape. Through animations and stills, he builds surreal environments filled with floating floral bursts, gleaming surfaces, and hyperreal textures that echo the aesthetics of retail fantasies and the seductive language of advertising. He’s drawn to the fleeting, the polished, and the emotionally engineered—the kind of beauty designed to disappear the moment it’s consumed. He’s also inspired by the depth and spatial tension of abstract painting, guiding the building of animated environments that move, reform, and evolve—transforming static gestures into dynamic forms organized by formal principles and the constraints of the “canvas”.


Mark Pease is a 3D artist, animator, painter, and printmaker that lives and works in Illinois. He received an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from Indiana University, Bloomington. He also studied as an exchange scholar at the Royal Academy of Art, London. He’s shown in the US and internationally including exhibitions at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, the Elmhurst Art Museum, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the International Print Center New York, and the Soap Factory in Minneapolis.


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Fields: Pops

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Fields is a series of animations that map 3D models of household plants, grasses, and flowers to particle simulations, physical forces, and moving patterns to produce weightless landscapes with exploding, flowing, drifting, and trailing streams of botanical amusement. Each animation combines various arrangements of flower species and emits them into clusters, explosions, streams, and bursts while flowing through space. The direction, shape and speed of each event is controlled by bending the rules of nature and combining them with turbulence, wind, friction, and other things like architectural shapes and patterns. The animation invites viewers into a dreamlike space where time bends and logic fades, allowing viewers to experience a momentary escape from reality.


Fields: Pops depicts bursting clusters of white daisies flying upward across a vertical picture plane. The white clusters burst like small fireworks, then gradually descend and disappear.

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3d

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portrait

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03:22

year

2024

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