The DEVOlutionary Visual Art of Mark Mothersbaugh
/Mark Mothersbaugh has been active in creating music and visual art for over 30 years. He has intersected with and influenced pop culture in many ways over the years. Read more about each aspect of his lengthy career by following links to Mark's Music & Visual Art.
Postcard Dairies
During his downtime on early worldwide tours with DEVO, Mark Mothersbaugh began illustrating on postcards to send to his friends, which he still creates, and has been creating every day for over 30 years. It's an obsessive habit/hobby which still yields anywhere from one to a couple dozen new postcard-sized images per day. READ MORE>>
Beautiful MutantsImages pulled from man's past... then corrected into sickeningly beautiful beings. A study of humans via symmetry using photos both recent & vintage.
Mark talks about his Beautiful Mutants project: Rorschach’s patterns, though abstract, suggest different visual images to each person who views them, and each interpretation is correct. Objects in this world are what they are to you because of how you happen to see them.
[Thanks to Drew Dernavitch, a devolved artist in his own right!]
People are all hiding something. Many know exactly what that is, while most probably have no idea. Our asymmetrical exterior hides the true contents of each of us. READ MORE >>