Mark is uniquely qualified to present the next Diebenkorn or Thiebaud. With an eye refined by eclectic training and experience Mark brings a whole unique perspective to the art world. He arrives on the art scent with some early training in art history and several years of painting experience, but considers that the least of factors in developing his aesthetic.

Mark is most recently a refugee from the dot com world, having left the position of Vice President of Technology Development at astrology.com to open his own art gallery. Mark's dot com experience was extremely unusual in that he worked for the same company for eight years, from the nascent early years of the internet ("when it was cool and so utterly new") through the boom, the bust and well into the recovery. Also unusual was the fact that he missed both the extreme riches and the long bouts of unemployment suffered by the average dot communist.

Mark played the role of Alpha Geek at astrology.com, building the massive online astrology chart generating systems that have lead the way in astrology on the internet. Mark even claims to have implemented an electronic shopping cart a year prior to amazon.com's claimed invention of the idea.

It would seem that an MFA and years of bohemian artist life would not have been good training for a internet software engineer, but as in his own words "It was all just so easy for me to do, besides it was all so new and cool in the beginning".

Prior to dot com life you would have found Mark in the light booth running show at the ODC Performance Gallery in the Mission. Mark was working as a technical director for the various modern dance, music and theatre shows put on there. Mark was then winding down what he calls "an extremely modest, yet satisfying career as a professional modern dancer".

For several years Mark had been dancing for a number of minor 'pickup' companies in San Francisco. Mark's few successes such as Colleen Mulvihill's 1994 "Sunken Cathedrals" kept him going but his "ditch digger's body" and apathy for rehearsing kept him from making much headway dancing. "I was one of those dancers who loved technique class, but rehearsals and creating work was terribly boring to me. Unfortunately that's not what good choreographers are looking for." said Mark.

Mark has had a penchant for unusual jobs while pursuing his life in arts, such as building robots for Maxtor and programming databases for Bank of America. An undergraduate degree in mathematics and a stint in the Marine Corps round out his iconoclastic education path. Mark is also known for his idosynchratic mastery of the Argentine Tango.