Mark Lightfoot

My work is about my lifelong passion for and connection to nature. To convey the sense of mystery I find hidden there, I use its colors, shapes, textures, and shadows as elements in my paintings.

Although seemingly chaotic, nature has its own structure. My response to nature?s movement and energy as well as its structure is what connects and grounds me.

In the process of creating these artworks I recapture my original response to all that my world has to offer visually as well as emotionally. It is this wonder and beauty I want the viewer to see.

BS Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI

MFA, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

DIGITAL IMAGING, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA

1 Person Exhibitions

2014 OF THINGS PAST, Manna Gallery, Oakland, CA

2012 E = MC2, Manna Gallery, Oakland, CA

2011 FIGURE SERIES, Oakland City Hall, Oakland, CA

DANCER, Market Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2009 MARK LIGHTFOOT: NEW DIRECTIONS Los Gatos Museum of Art, Los Gatos, CA

Group Exhibitions

2014 ABSTRACT SANCTUARY, Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland, OR

2011 TERRA ENTWINED, Art Gallery, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA

COME ON HOME TO ME, Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, Oakland, CA

INAUGURAL EXHIBITION, FIELDS OF VISION, HOLIDAY SHOW, Manna Gallery, Oakland, CA

THREE PERSON EXHIBITION, Community Art Gallery, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Berkeley, CA

2010 CHANDRAS, FEINSTEIN, LIGHTFOOT, Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

ARTISTIC TRANSFORMATIONS, Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, Oakland, CA

ARTPRIZE, Campau Square Plaza, Grand Rapids, MI

PAINTERS X3, San Pablo Arts G