Mark Maggiori

Mark Maggiori (born June 16, 1977) is a French-American painter, graphic designer, draftsman, musician, music video director and lead vocalist of the nu metal band Pleymo. He is noted for paintings of American cowboys, American Indians and the American Southwest.

Mark Maggiori
Born (1977-06-16) June 16, 1977
Fontainebleau, France
NationalityFrench-American
Education
Known forPainting (oil) and Music
MovementWestern art
Spouse(s)Petecia Lefawnhawk Maggiori[1]
Awards
  • William B. Travis Awards for Patrons Choice, 2016
  • Sam Houston Awards for Best Painting, 2017
  • Don B. Huntley Spirit of the West Award, 2018 and 2019
Websitemarkmaggiori.com

Early life and education

Maggiori was born in Fontainebleau in 1977. At the age of 15, during his first visit to the United States, Maggiori went on a month-long road trip from New York City to San Francisco and visited several National Parks and other sites in the Southwestern United States. He would later cite that trip as the beginning of his fascination with the Southwest and the inspiration behind his Western art.[2]

Maggiori graduated from the Académie Julian in Paris, where he was formally trained in academic drawing.[2][3]

Music

From 1997 to 2007, Maggiori served as the lead vocalist, graphic designer, and music video director for his band, Pleymo.[2][4] After signing with Epic Records the band released four studio albums and toured internationally. Pleymo went on a hiatus after 2007, but reunited in 2018 with Maggiori once again providing lead vocals. After the reunion tour announcement for the Paris concert the band had sold out Le Trianon in Paris in less than a day.[5]

Fine art

Maggiori began painting Western scenes in 2014.[6] Since then, his works have been featured in Forbes, Flaunt, Art of the West, Southwest Art, Western Horseman and others.[7][8] Maggiori has been noted in particular for the way he paints clouds in his landscape scenes, with Christopher Barker describing them as, "layered, textural monuments that both dwarf and magnify the subject with impossible detail."[6]

In addition to published features, Maggiori'is paintings have been exhibited in the Briscoe Western Art Museum in San Antonio, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, the Autry Museum of the American West and the Maxwell Alexander Gallery in Los Angeles.[9][10]

Beginning in 2017, he began to work en plein air in New Mexico, Arizona and Wyoming.[3] Maggiori's style and technique has drawn comparisons to Western artists Frederic Remington and Frank Tenney Johnson.[2] Gallery owner Beau Alexander has noted that Maggiori's paintings are unique because of his outside perspective, having not grown up in the culture of the West and that "[He] goes to great lengths to have the cowboys depicted accurately...he will use colors and techniques learned in his photo and film days to create a more dramatic scene."[4]

References
  1. "A Look at Love in the American West". Outside Magazine. April 28, 2016. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  2. Ashley M. Biggers (September 15, 2015). "Show Preview – Mark Maggiori". Southwest Art. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  3. Katie Lynn (June 27, 2019). "Mark Maggiori Brings The Romance of the American West To Life". Cowgirl Magazine. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
  4. Miles Griffis (March 28, 2019). "Cloudscapes: Mark Maggiori". Flaunt. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  5. La Rédaction (March 22, 2018). "INTERVIEW – Pleymo, vingt ans après". Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  6. Christopher Barker (October 31, 2018). "Mark Maggiori is living in his own dream". Semipermanent. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  7. Chad Scott (September 4, 2018). "'Quest for the West' Continues Bringing Best of Western Art To Indianapolis". Forbes. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  8. "Mark Maggiori". The Autry. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  9. Dana Joseph (March 13, 2019). "Art Beat: Night of Artists at the Briscoe". Cowboys and Indians. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  10. Kathleen Petty (May 1, 2020). "An Eye Toward the West at the Briscoe Western Art Museum". San Antonio Magazine. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
Paintings
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