Marc O’Brien is a Canadian artist/illustrator that spent most of his youth on the road. With little to do in an empty parked car but stare at people with discomforting intensity, he took up drawing and obnoxious face making. Unfortunately, his face got stuck that way, so drawing was the only way he could get people to like him. For a period in high school, he wore only black and began to draw on his own body with permanent marker. People said he had art school written all over him.
Marc is primarily a painter, but works in a variety of digital and analogue media. Recently his experiments have begun to take shape in the 3rd, and sometimes 4th, dimension but he doesn't feel the world is ready for the latter yet. As an illustrator, he has worked in music, marketing, game/film concept and book illustration, recently producing a fully illustrated 'fantasy' book for Specialized Bicycle Components' First Gear initiative. In 2011/2012 he worked as Art Director and Designer for Spontaneous Combustion Magazine. He currently lives andworks in Toronto, Canada.
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Marc and NOTW: "South of queen, between University and Spadina is a district that exists only in the dark. It is more of a time than a place; a time that I rarely set my watch for. It is definitely not my neck of the woods, which is why I chose to explore it. The district in the dark glitters with pretty lights. It’s luring, seductive and chaotic.
Every city needs a place to lose its mind."
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Check out Marc's imaginative work here.
