New public art exhibit blooms in Chicago’s Greektown, with Flowering Grecian Urns along Halsted Street June 5, 2025 - May 2026
Chicago's Fox 32 TV morning interview June 23. 2025
"The Gardener," represents the stewardship of gardening and our historic role in designing, maintaining and preserving nature as caretakers of Mother Earth. The diversity of the garden, filled with wonderful plants, colorful flowers and beautiful trees thrives within the same space receiving and nurturing each other as a community.
In this way I perceive certain individuals in our world as true Gardeners, providing a healthy and enriching environment where we can all grow together as unique and colorful individuals in our garden."
2025 installation of props and paintings for collaboration with Gevell Wagner (Writer-Director-Producer).
2024
Election installation facing Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) elevated train, track & trestle. East bound Pink Line.
"Automata." Nelson's Painting on fiberglass form for Little Wise Owls: National Hellenic Museum/Greektown, Chicago (Public sculpture collective project)
artist Mark Nelson, at the special invitation of Greektown Special Committee for Arts events, was one of several artists that embellished and painted on fiberglass owl forms that will remain through the year as public outdoor sculptures along Halsted Street, downtown Chicago. My owl "Automata" presents a captivating blend of whimsy and craftsmanship, embodying the essence of an owl through intri
"Committed to print" National Invitational printmakers exhibition November 18 - December 18, 2023
"How the West was Won" 2023
Drypoint etching by Mark Nelson
Mark Nelson's drypoint etching "How the West was Won" presents a striking commentary on the complexities of Western expansion. The intricate details and bold lines evoke a sense of stress and struggle, reflecting the historical genocide associated with this era. The overlapping of figures and landscapes suggests a narrative of both triumph and tragedy. The bone black printers ink of the etching enhances the emotional weight.
Cardboard Show at Project Onward
At the invitation/commission of Greektown's Art committee I have painted this prefabricated fiberglass resin form of a butterfly. I chose the theme of the oldest known mechanical computer(4000 years old) discovered in an Ancient Greek ship off the coast of the Greek Island Antikythera.
Αντικύθηρα (Antikythera)
2022 National Museum of Hellenic Art - My Painted Lyre
2021-22 Artists Lincoln Residency
2020 - National Museum of Mexican Art - Ofrenda for my father
2020 Evanston Art Center - IL
Humanity Amorphic
An installation on the subject of universal human trafficking
EAC Interview
Evanston Art Center video Interview