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Original
oil paintings and drawings by Mark Vallen
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A small selection
of prints by Vallen can be purchased directly from this
page.
Payment is made using the secure shopping cart system provided
by Paypal.
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NO
HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL (view
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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.
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LIBROS
NO BOMBAS (BOOKS NOT BOMBS) (view
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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.
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WHATEVER
HAPPENED TO THE FUTURE?! (view
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Signed
silkscreen print - 15"
x 16" $100
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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.
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NUCLEAR
WAR?!... THERE GOES MY CAREER! (view
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Silkscreen
print - 15"
x 16" $100
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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 Serigrafía,
which ran from January through April, 2014.
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COME
BACK TO HAUNT YOU (view
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Giclée
Print - 10"
x 14" $200
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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.
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SUE
TISSUE (view
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Giclée
Print - 10"
x 14" $200
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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.
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VOICES
OF JUSTICE & SOLIDARITY WITH GUATEMALA
(view
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Offset
poster. 11"
x 15" $10.00
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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 Día 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.
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