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Mark Cross: “Get on the damn plane” Importer Brett Porter is the unsung hero of the country’s latest exhibition - by Niue-based artist Mark Cross. “Brett Porter told me...
Mark Cross is one of a select band of New Zealand painters whose works depict the landscape in a meticulous style and yet are not about the landscape – at least, not in the illustrative man...
At the John Leech Gallery until May 31 are paintings by Mark Cross, New Zealand art's most gifted outsider. These paintings, the result of years of patient work, are remote from any of the fashionable movements.
Mark Cross (born Auckland 1955) is a sculptor, writer, print-maker and installation artist but is more familiar to the New Zealand art public for his realist paintings that move from traditional landscape...
Mark Cross’ paintings are more sur-real than real. They are part of a realist tradition that is concerned with portraying the subjective explorations of the landscape rather than any true physical representation...
Story telling is not a luxury. Our species is helpless without it and the urge to reflect, recollect and interpret reality to each other, among generations and between cultures...
It is with some reluctance that I indulge in this introduction to seventeen years of work. I am told it is improper for artists to write about themselves and I ponder why...
The only way that art can be exorcised from the constraints of the frame is to reduce the importance of those ultimate of art frameworks the institutions. In saying this I should qualify...