Mason Rader, Contemporary Surrealist Spray Paint Painting Mixed Media, The Trap, Mason Rader, 1995

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The Trap 1995 by Mason Rader A graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George … Read more The Trap 1995 by Mason Rader A graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at the George Eastman House in Rochester NY with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas in Austin and a Master of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia PA. Working artist and art studio assistant to Mark Kostabi and then to Philip Taaffe in New York City. Later working at Nitehawk Cinema of Brooklyn New York as Co-Director of Programming as well as In-House video promos and pre-shows. He showed at Philadelphia-based Rodger Lapelle Galleries. They were big on outsider art and street art artists. He used mixed media, silkscreen, spray paint anc collage reminiscent of Peter Tunney. His work was included in the collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody and shown at the Norton Museum in Palm Beach in the show show “Still/Moving,” It derived its name from its two mediums, photography and video—is both There was enormous trove of material from this generous and eclectic collector, culling 200 pieces from an estimated 3,000-plus photographs and videos—from Robert Capa to Cindy Sherman, Diane Arbus to Cecil Beaton, Robert Mapplethorpe to Bernd and Hilla Becher. The show included Marilyn Minter, Hank Willis Thomas, Mason Rader, Mark Bradford, Tseng Kwong Chi and Laurie Lambrecht Mason Rader collaborated with Cassandra Lozano and Pop Art master Roy Lichtenstein, on the surrealist parlor game Exquisite Corpse producing an artwork in ink, colored pencil, metallic ink, charcoal, and pastel on paper, that was exhibited at New York, The Drawing Center; Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Santa Monica Museum of Art; St. Louis, Forum for Contemporary Art; and Paris, The American Center; The Return of the 'Cadavre Exquis. See less