“The possibilities that slumber in abstraction are endless.”

-Mark Dagley

Mark Dagley has exhibited internationally for over thirty years. During the 1980s, he was active in the East Village art scene, showing alongside other pioneering abstract painters, including Olivier Mosset, Steven Parrino, and Alan Uglow. His debut solo show took place in 1987 at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York City. Five years later, he had his first museum exhibition at Kunstverein St. Gallen, Switzerland.

In the summer of 1991, working in the medieval city of Nürenberg and surrounded by old-fashioned craftsmen inspired the artist to take a handmade approach and shun electric tools while constructing a body of technologically informed works titled Radical Structures, a series he continued for over 30 years. Peculiar dimensional shifts and strange torquings of space propelled these shaped canvases into the post-industrial domain of signs and symbols.

Moving forward with his investigation in new mediums, his Radical Structures/Chromatic Frequency series explores the conceptual and optical extreme in the digital space. The visual itself becomes a logocentric representation as tangible as a fact, a quality, or a feeling. This series of 25 unique works deconstruct the NFT into its core elements of the figure, ground, and color producing a unique geometric symbol, playful and reductive, yet personalized.