{"id":5711,"date":"2016-06-15T13:29:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T13:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=5711"},"modified":"2016-06-15T14:16:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:16:53","slug":"talking-technology-the-digital-age-and-aesthetics-with-artist-mark-dorf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/talking-technology-the-digital-age-and-aesthetics-with-artist-mark-dorf\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology and Aesthetics With Artist Mark Dorf"},"content":{"rendered":"
Raised in Kentucky, artist Mark Dorf now lives and works in Brooklyn. Well known for his beautiful\u00a0and intelligent combinations of landscape and technology, Dorf creates irresistible scenes that absolutely capture the imagination. Mark Dorf is the kind of person you immediately want to be friends with. It also just so happens that he is the artist whose beautiful digital compositions you immediately want on your walls.<\/p>\n
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Art Zealous met him at his studio in his apartment in Bushwick.<\/p>\n
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AZ: You were raised in Kentucky \u2013 How did you end up in New York?<\/strong><\/p>\n MD:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/b>I always knew I wanted to be here eventually \u2013 there is, of course, such a strong creative community here, which is so important. Through these communities you create and help sustain support systems. Upon leaving university I didn\u2019t really have the money to live here, so I lived up in the Hudson Valley for a year working in a furniture shop as a welder and a woodworker \u2013 lived in the mountains for a while and focused on making work. It got to the point where I was coming to the city 3 or 4 times a month and between the time and money that was involved with that I just decided to take the dive and move down here.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been here for almost 4 years.<\/p>\n I had that classic question: \u2018shit I spent 4 years studying art, what do I do?\u2019 And I said well, I\u2019ll go to a place that allows me to make work which I think is so important to think about \u2013 you really need to create and place yourself in an environment that is conducive to your creativity. If I had moved to New York City right out of university, I very well could have drowned, and I probably wouldn\u2019t be on the path that I am now because I needed an affordable place to live that provided a landscape for me to work in.<\/p>\n \n