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Age: 71, born 1 January 1953
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United States
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Born in Los Angeles California in 1953, Mark Vallen has been creating images for as long as he can remember. He has forged a style shaped not so much by how others painted, but what they painted. With a firm commitment to social realism, his influences range from Goya and Daumier, to the German Expressionists and Mexican Muralists.
Vallen was part of the original punk rock movement that exploded in Los Angeles during the late 1970s; his direct participation led to a series of paintings, prints, and drawings that not only documented the scene but enthusiastically supported it. He worked for a time at Slash Magazine (one of the
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