Mark Creegan is an artist living and working in Florida
I am involved in many disparate media and contexts including site-responsive sculpture and installation, video, web-based projects, drawing and painting, sound, and performance. The unifying factors in all of these are the recombination of found cultural matter into new forms and playing with material and contextual aspects of artistic conventions.
The materials I choose reflect my interest in the significance and identity of an object and how that interacts with a particular context and form. Many make up the general detritus of my daily life (used kneaded erasers collected through teaching for example). Some items are explored mostly for their material qualities and how they can be used within an artistic language ("drawing" with shark's teeth or hairnets, "painting" with watercolor sets and paint can drips are examples).
Minimalism, the artistic language I am mostly involved with, offers both formal and conceptual tension with these materials. I find it useful as a way of metaphorically exploring some of the contrasts and dualities of daily living- clean vs. vulgar, serious vs. playful, anonymity vs.individuality.
Many of my artistic choices are based on serendipity and involve improvisatory interactions with the space and context I am presented. Recently, I have been directly involved with chance operations in making sound and video experiments and also by collaborations with others (see KORK project).