Page Text: Original oil paintings and drawings by Mark Vallen
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Featured prints for sale...
NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL ( view large image )
Offset Poster. 19 1/2" x 22" inches - $10.00
Originally created in 1988, Vallen's No Human Being is Illegal poster popularized the slogan - "No Human Being is Illegal."
Published as a bilingual street poster in conjunction with a 1988 drive conducted by the Los Angeles based Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), to secure the rights of undocumented Central American war refugees in the U.S. The slogan on the poster became a catchphrase that has since entered the lexicon of today's defenders of immigrant's rights. Vallen republished his poster in August of 2010.
LIBROS NO BOMBAS (BOOKS NOT BOMBS) ( view large image )
6" x 11" inches - $6.50 for a pack of 5 cards
Printed on heavy card stock, the postcards are blank on the backside and are available in packets of 5 postcards for $6.50, plus $3.50 for shipping in the U.S.
Teachers, parents, and students are encouraged to buy the packs of cards and share them with friends and associates.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE FUTURE?! ( view large image )
Signed silkscreen print - 15" x 16" $100 - Vallen's street poster eventually appeared as a 1980 cover of the L.A. Weekly newspaper at a time when people thought war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was imminent. The print was also included in the 2011 exhibit, Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1972-1981, held at the MOCA Geffen Contemporary in Los Angeles.
NUCLEAR WAR?!... THERE GOES MY CAREER! ( view large image )
Silkscreen print - 15" x 16" $100 - Vallen's 1980 print appeared as a cover of the L.A. Weekly. The print was also included in The Path of Resistance, an exhibit of contemporary protest art held at New York City's Museum of Modern Art in 2000. The artwork was also exhibited at the Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) in an exhibit titled Serigraf�a, which ran from January through April, 2014.
COME BACK TO HAUNT YOU ( view large image )
Gicl�e Print - 10" x 14" $200 - In 1980 Vallen created this cover artwork for SLASH Magazine, the premiere punk rock publication on the West coast. It proved to be the magazine's very last edition.
Gicl�e Print - 10" x 14" $200 - Vallen's portrait of Sue Tissue from the punk-pop outfit, The Surburban Lawns. Vallen's artwork appeared as a cover for a 1979 edition of SLASH Magazine.
VOICES OF JUSTICE & SOLIDARITY WITH GUATEMALA
Offset poster. 11" x 15" $10.00
Ayotzinapa: Faltan 43
(In Ayotzinapa, 43 are missing)
Monoprint. 2014. 6 x 8 inches
Signed by the artist - $100 ( view large image )
To mark the 2014 observance of D�a de los Muertos, Vallen created a suite of twenty monoprints based upon an ancient Aztec glyph representing death. Essentially a printed painting, no two images are alike. The images were painted directly on a sheet of glass in oil paint, and burnished with a wooden spoon; each color was "pulled" separately.