NATIONAL SHOWS

2007 Portrait Society of America Children's Portrait Competiton Winner - 3rd Place out of 250 entries.. more info is available at .portraitsociety.org - Mark's painting will be published in an upcoming issue of International Artist Magazine, it will be reproduced in the Portrait Society's quarterly newsletter, and it will be participating in a special exhibition at the 2007 Art Of The Portrait Conference in Washington DC _

______________________________________________________________________________ LOCAL SHOWS

2007 Womens Club of Chevy Chase Annual Community Art Show Winner- 2nd Place Portraits Quick oil study portrait of Dewey Heisig 11x14" oil on linen on panel takes second place in the Portrait Painting category on 3/06 _

_______________________________________________________________________________ 2007 Womens Club of Chevy Chase Annual Community Art Show Winner- 2nd Place Oil Painting 20x30" oil on linen figurative painting of a little girl with hat titled "Innocence" takes 2nd place in the Oil Painting category _

_______________________________________________________________________________ 2005 Rockville Art League Juried Members Art Show Winner- !st Place Oil Painting "Lacey Silhouette" 20x30" oil on linen, took 1st Place in the Oil and Acrylics category of the Rockville Art League Juried Members Art Show at Glenview Mansion in Rockville, MD on April 28, 2005, and will be on display at the Glenview Mansion until May 31st, 2005. The judge of the competition was artist Carolyn Grosse Gawarecki, who has won over 100 national painting awards to her credit, and is represented by the prestigious McBride Gallery in Annapolis MD , and her bio can be viewed at www.mcbridegallery.com/grosse.html _

________________________________________________________________________________ Exhibitions

Womens Club of Chevy Chase Annual Community Art Show 2007 March

Art Expo NY,NY 2007 March

Solo Exhibition Landow Gallery Bethesda, MD Jan 5-25, 2007

Westwood Gallery Soho, NY 8/25/06 - Artist For Human Rights

Johnson Gallery Los Angeles, CA 10/26/06 - Artist For Human Rights

Wenger Gallery - Lancaster County, PA 2006

Discovery Galleries - Bethesda, MD - 2005

Players Gallery - Rockville Maryland - 2005

Glenview Mansion - Rockville Civic Center - October 2005

Whitefish Gallery - Whitefish Montana - 2004

Glenview Mansion Art Gallery- Rockville Maryland - 2004-2005

Rockville Arts Place Gallery Solo Show 8/21/05

Education

Nelson Shanks' Studio Incamminati Philadelphia, PA 2004

Rob Liberace at The Art League School / Alexandria, VA - 2002-2004

Regular drawing of live models in local art groups - 2001-2004

University of Maryland graduate - 1981-1984

Memberships and Organizations

Arists For Human Rights (founding member) August, 2006

Oil Painters of America OPA 2005-2006

Portrait Artist Society of America

Strathmore Hall Arts Association - N. Bethesda, MD

Rockville Art League - Rockville, MD

Rockville Art's Place

Portrait Artist Forum

Selected Publication & Reviews

Preview Magazine/Art Expo,NY - Page 20, February 2007

Strathmore Applause Magazine - On Cover 2006

Art Business News Magazine - Originals, June 2006

Washington Spaces Magazine - July 2006

Art Business News - Emerging Artists December 2005 page 41

Listed in the American Artist - www.askart.com

Montgomery Gazette - 8/24/05 Article

Artist Bio

Mark Lovett began playing guitar and singing professionally at the age of 14, but his drawing and painting passion did not take root until his early forties. Born in Maryland and living in a suburb outside of Washington DC, Lovett was overcome by a passion to create visual art. Lovett abandoned his previous business pursuits and threw himself full time into his painting.

After a long journey mastering the methods and techniques of the old masters in portraiture and figurative works, as well as impromptu “alla prima” and “plein air” study, Lovett has finally come into his own. Lovett now successfully merges the techniques of academic masters of the past with his own new and modern vision.