Mark Pease

Mark Pease is an Associate Professor in the College of Art, Architecture, and Design at Southern Illinois University. He specializes in creating multidisciplinary artworks using digital media, including printmaking, animation, 3D visualizations, painting, and photography, exploring themes like consumer nostalgia, simulacra, and the intersection of natural motifs with digital artifice.

• Education: MFA from University of Pennsylvania, BFA from Indiana University, and exchange scholar at Royal Academy of Art London
• Expertise: Computer graphics, digital animation, video art, 3D modeling
• Exhibitions: Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Elmhurst Art Museum, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, International Print Center New York, Soap Factory

His Fields series combines 3D botanical models with particle simulations and physical forces to generate surreal, meditative environments that evoke escapism through weightless landscapes and hyperreal textures.

Contact: markpease@siu.edu | Office: Glove Factory 110