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You are now looking at the art side of markscheeff.com. If you meant to be on the engineering side, click here.
EDUCATION
1992 B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
1995 M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Course work: Mechatronics (mechanical/electrical/software engineering),
robotics, product design and studio art.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Mark Scheeff is an artist/engineer whose work combines the computational with the physical. Through both sculpture and installation, he repurposes his background in engineering (with its emphasis on utility, societal progress and technical mastery) to investigate a set of questions not normally addressed by these skills and attitudes. As a research engineer, he has built robots that are social with people. He has also built countless instruments for scientists in the fields of materials, biology, high energy physics and nano-science. He is also co-founder of a company to build tools for electron microscopes and currently works as an engineer in a small Silicon Valley startup.
He was born in 1969, raised in California, and has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He lives in San Francisco.
EXHIBITIONS
FILE 2009 (juried show). Sao Paulo, Brazil, summer 2009
Text memory (invited), Wood Street Galleries. Pittsburgh, PA April-June 2008
Grounded (juried show), Southern Exposure Gallery. San Francisco, CA, Nov-Dec 2007
SIGGRAPH 2006 (juried show) Bloston, MA July 2006
Emerge(juried show). Gen Art. The Old Mint, San Francisco, CA. November, 2004
Intervals(juried show). Artist's Television Acess. San Francisco, CA. October, 2003PRESS
Guz, Savannah, “Reviews: Jim Campbell and Mark Scheeff”, Sculpture Vol. 28, Issue 2, March 2009.“In Wood Street's Text Memory, technology pulses with emotion”, Pittsburgh City Paper, May 8, 2008.Olson, Marisa, “‘Emerge’ at the Old Mint”, Artweek, Vol. 36, Issue 2, March 2005.
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
I’m a little hesitant to write about my work in the aggregate. However, in order to better understand someone else’s work, I’ve often found it helpful to get just a rough sense of where an artist is coming from. So I’ve put down a few thoughts below.
My work typically ends up as objects or spaces; as something that can be directly experienced by the viewer’s body. These are some of the topics that I am engaged with:
Paying attention and being aware. How does an object or space contribute to that?
Gesture (motion, light, sound): So much of the communication we have with each other involves various dynamic gestures. How does gesture function, particularly when rendered subtly?
Gradual accretion or decay and other cyclic phenomena: How do we respond to a process seemingly without beginning or end? How do we experience ourselves when present in such an environment, one that does what it does according to some hidden plan, and merely permits our presence?
© 2009 Mark Scheeff