The original works of Mark Poteat are presented chronologically and grouped as a series where envisioned.
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Elhanan The Pitcher 2023
Oil on Canvas 2023
78 x 60 inches
The painting, Elhanan (The Pitcher), takes as its subject a figure in the act of throwing a ball.
The title references a biblical figure by the name of Elhanan, who is mention in the second book of Samuel as being the one who Killed Goliath. Later corrected to killing Goliath's brother.
The figure is influenced by two sources in art history. These sources are from the Baroque sculptor Bernini’s David statue, and the other being the Borghese Gladiator, from ancient antiquity, which influenced Bernini. In the guise of a pitcher in the act of throwing a ball, its meaning is about that moment when a person, or people have to confront a foe, a situation, a fear, or an injustice that seems overwhelming and insurmountable. It’s about action, giving it your best shot no matter what, and having courage to stand up and face the existential uncertainties of life that we as human beings all face.
Offered for sale at $20,800
Lake Meridian Series
Part of a series of landscapes inspired by the Fonta Flora Trail section overseeing Lake James, North Carolina
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The Lake Meridian #3 Fall Oil on Canvas 2023 18" x 24" 2800
The Lake Meridian #4 Winter Oil on Canvas 2023 18" x 24" 2800
The Lake Meridian #5 Winter Oil on Canvas 2023 18" x 24" 2800
The Lake Meridian #7 Spring Oil on Canvas 2023 18" x 24" 2800
The Lake Meridian #8 Spring Oil on Canvas 2023 18" x 24" 2800
The Lake Meridian #10 Summer Oil on Canvas 2024 18" x 24" 2800
The Lake Meridian # 2 Fall Oil on Canvas 18 x 24
The Lake Meridian #1 Fall Oil on Canvas 18 x 24
Figure Study In Yellow #1 2022
Collage and Acrylic On Canvas 2022
20 x 16 inches
Offered for sale at $1800
Figure Study In Yellow #2 2022
Collage and Acrylic On Canvas 2022
20 x 16 inches
Offered for sale at $1800
Violin No 8 2020
Oil On Canvas 2019
20 x 16 inches
The Violin painting, (The White Violin), is one of several Violin and Guitar paintings completed between 2018 and 2021. These oil on canvas paintings range in size from 20”x16” to 24”x18”. These works were investigations into the structure and subject of the Cubist paintings by Picasso, Braque, and Gris in the early nineteen teens, combined with the projected space of 17th century Baroque portrait painting.
Offered for sale at $3,800
Large Landscape (The Greenway) 2020
Oil On Canvas 2020
48 x 72 inches
Offered for sale at $14,800
Gueridon With Keyboard 2020
Oil On Canvas 2019-2020
48 x 36 inches
Gueridon with Keyboard is one of two paintings inspired by several paintings of the same subject completed by the artists Pablo Picasso, George Braque, and Henri Matisse in the mid nineteen teens. These oil on canvas paintings are 48”x 36”. These works were investigations into the structure of Cubist painting combined with the projected space of 17th century Baroque painting.
Offered for sale at $8,500
Gueridon With Guitar And Bowl Of Fruit 2019
Oil On Canvas 2019
48 x 36 inches
Gueridon with Fruit and Guitar is one of two paintings inspired by several paintings of the same subject completed by the artists Pablo Picasso, George Braque, and Henri Matisse in the mid nineteen teens. These oil on canvas paintings are 48”x 36”. These works were investigations into the structure of Cubist painting combined with the projected space of 17th century Baroque painting.
Offered for sale at $8,500
Aficionado The Pitcher 2017
Oil on Canvas 2016-2017
66 x 48 inches
The Aficionado (The Pitcher) is an oil on canvas painting. The painting takes as its subject a baseball pitcher in the act of throwing a pitch. The figure is composed of forms that are found in industrial architecture. The painting is an homage to my father who was a factory worker and who pitched in the minor leagues after the second world war, as well as being an aficionado on baseball. The title and the concept is based on a 1912 cubist work called the “Aficionado, (The Torero)”, by Pablo Picasso. Which was a painting of his father who was an expert on the corrida (bullfight).
Offered for sale at $16,800
SOLD
The Factory 2013
The Plant 2006
Acrylic And Collage On Wood Panel
2005-2006
60 x 48 inches
The painting, The Plant, takes as its subject, the Carbon Plant in Morganton North Carolina. The Carbon Plant is a factory that makes Carbon Electrodes and various graphite products. This painting has personal significance in that my father worked there for 43 years. It is the first of a series of many paintings completed from 2005 through 2018 that take as their subject industrial structures. Its is a seminal work in that it is the first factory painting and that it is one of several works created in 2005 and 2006 that begin to explore the formal problems of pictorial space in painting.
Offered for sale at $12,800
Figure With An Umbrella 2006
Acrylic And Collage On Canvas 2006
20 x 16 inches
The collage painting, Figure With an Umbrella was completed in 2006. It was a part of a series of three paintings, that represent a figure umbrella in the midst of a downpour, while his umbrella is falling apart. It is an image that express the feeling of vulnerability and at times a sense helplessness. However, it is my hope that it expresses the drive and determination of weathering the storm. The figure leans forward, so it also represents the act of confronting what is thrown at us and doing our best to move forward and to overcome and meet adversity head on.
Offered for sale at $4,800
UR 2005
Acrylic And Collage On Wood Panel
2004-2005
60 x 48 inches
The standard of Ur, or Ur is a collage and acrylic painting on wood panel. The work is 6’x 4’. It depicts a green hooded figure who is falling forward. The painting itself was inspired or influenced by a series of photographs that came out of Iraq during the second gulf war. These photographs depicted images of miss treated Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison. Although the content of this work was conceived by these photographs, my goal and hope are that it transcends beyond this and reflects and calls attention to a condemnation of man’s mistreatment to his fellow man, the age-old complexities of the conflicts of the peoples of the middle east and in a more universal way, the human condition. The title of the painting references an ancient Sumerian artifact called The Standard of Ur, which was a military standard found in the ancient city of Ur, located in central Iraq. The painting’s composition also references Caravaggio’s Entombment of Christ.
Offered for sale at $16,800
Snakecharmer 1997
Oil, Acrylic And Collage On Canvas 1997
48 x 60 inches
The painting Snake Charmer completed in 1997 gets its title from a famous painting of the same name from the artist Henri Rousseau. It also references the the format association with the work of Jasper John’s completed in the 1980’s and an early work of his Target with four faces completed in the late fifties. Where on the left side can you see at the top four collages Xerox copies of the cobra mustang logo, and underneath a coiled air hose, this is a reference to John’s painting. target with four faces.
The painting Firehawk, also completed in 1997 has the same compositional format as Snake Charmer. It also references a famous work of art, the composer, Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Firebird. In this painting on the bottom right side, there are three Xerox copies of a man standing in front of an old airplane. Represented in that photograph is my grandfather who built propellers and the airplane in the picture (1929).
Most of the works completed between 1997 through 2002 had subject matter associated with manual labor jobs I had during the time of making these image. These jobs consisted of being a Tire Technician at a Tire store and as Grounds worker at a golf course. These works, like all of my works were and continue to related to Art History
Offered for sale at $12,800
Firehawk 1997
Oil, Acrylic And Collage On Canvas 1997
48 x 60 inches
The painting Firehawk, completed in 1997 has the same compositional format as the Snake Charmer. It also references a famous work of art, the composer, Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Firebird. In this painting on the bottom right side, there are three Xerox copies of a man standing in front of an old airplane. Represented in that photograph is my grandfather who built propellers and the airplane in the picture (1929).
The painting Snake Charmer also completed in 1997 gets its title from a famous painting of the same name from the artist Henri Rousseau. It also references the the format association with the work of Jasper John’s completed in the 1980’s and an early work of his Target with four faces completed in the late fifties. Where on the left side can you see at the top four collages Xerox copies of the cobra mustang logo, and underneath a coiled air hose, this is a reference to John’s is painting. target with four faces.
Most of the works completed between 1997 through 2002 had subject matter associated with manual labor jobs I had during the time of making these image. These jobs consisted of being a Tire Technician at a Tire store and as Grounds worker at a golf course. These works, like all of my works were and continue to related to Art History
Offered for sale at $12,800
Wrath 1996
Joint Compound, Acrylic, And Oil On Canvas 1996
60 x 36 inches
A lot of the works completed between 1994 through 1996 were influenced by the art of the COBRA movement that came out of Europe in the 1950s, the painter William de Kooning, and the work of Jean Michel Basquiat. These paintings with the subject of the Cat culminated in the series of 7 Cat paintings (5’x3’ on canvas), with each one (painting/cat) representing one of the seven deadly sins. Completed between the fall of 1995 through the winter of 1996. Examples: Wrath
Offered for sale at $8,800
Envy 1996
Joint Compound, Acrylic, And Oil On Canvas 1996
60 x 36 inches
A lot of the works completed between 1994 through 1996 were influenced by the art of the COBRA movement that came out of Europe in the 1950s, the painter William de Kooning, and the work of Jean Michel Basquiat. These paintings with the subject of the Cat culminated in the series of 7 Cat paintings (5’x3’ on canvas), with each one (painting/cat) representing one of the seven deadly sins. Completed between the fall of 1995 through the winter of 1996. Example: Envy
Offered for sale at $8,800
Cat Got Your Tongue 1994
Acrylic And Collage On Canvas 1994
30 x 40 inches
The painting Cat Got Your Tongue was completed in 1994 is a part of the series of paintings, and works on paper that has as its subject, a man and a cat. Another painting that was a part of this series is the painting The Tramp and The Stray #1.
Both paintings show a man with a cat. At times the cat is friendly and docile toward the man, and in the case of Cat Got Your Tongue, overtly, aggressive.
These series of paintings and works on paper fall under the style of Expressionism, emphasizing the formal elements of gestural line and texture and surface. The content of the work often expressed the complexities of a relationship between two entities.
A lot of the work completed between 1994 through 1996 was influenced by the art of the COBRA movement that came out of Europe in the 1950s, the painter William de Kooning, and the work of Jean Michel Basquiat.
Offered for sale at $6,800
The Tramp And The Stray No 1 1991
Acrylic And Collage On Two Canvas 1991
24 x 48 inches
The painting The Tramp and the Stray #1 was completed in 1994 is a part of the series of paintings, and works on paper that has as its subject, a man and a cat. Another painting that was a part of this series is the painting Cat Got Your Tongue.
Both images show a man with a cat. At times the cat is friendly and docile toward the man, and in the case of the cats got his tongue, overtly, aggressive.
These series of paintings and works on paper fall under the style of Expressionism, emphasizing the formal elements of gestural line and texture and surface. The content of the work often expressed the complexities of a relationship between two entities.
A lot of the work completed between 1994 through 1996 was influenced by the art of the COBRA movement that came out of Europe in the 1950s, the painter William de Kooning, and the work of Jean Michel Basquiat.
Offered for sale at $8,500