Power Tool Baby, 1989
Oil on Canvas, 54" x 48"
Mark Kostabi was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1960, and grew up in Whittier, California. After studying at California State University at Fullerton from 1978 to 1981, he moved to New York City in 1982. Kostabi had his first New York exhibition at the Ronald Feldman Gallery in 1986 and has exhibited internationally since, including shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Mitsukoshi Museum in Tokyo, Japan. All of his work, which is primarily painting, is created at his “factory” in Brooklyn, New York, known as Kostabi World, where he employs artists to design and paint images that he then signs. He is known for faceless “Everyman” figures, which he places in simply depicted settings. His work often includes art historical references and images from earlier periods of art.
*Excerpted from Tools as Art: the Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.
http://mkostabi.com/