For more than 50 years Mark Spencer has been celebrated as an American Neo-surrealist painter whose images are imbued with varying degrees of hope, morbidity, dystopian angst, despair, and rapture.

​­­Working alone and grappling with this simple-sounding but harrowing question throughout his painting career has resulted in images imbued with varying degrees of hope, morbidity, dystopian angst, despair, and rapture. Mark has sought to discover meaning in his work, not something all artists want or need to do. When undertaking the search for meaning, you have to find reason, and therefore order. Many of his images elude literal descriptions. His work has never been reasonable. Maybe it is meaningful, and the crucible of time will tell. But it has always been truthful, merciless in how he has scrubbed his images clean of personal delusion. Mark has described his work as a type of post-Surrealism. Surrealism is generally defined to be a formal process stressing the subconscious or non-rational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism, the exploitation of chance effects, or unexpected juxtapositions.

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