I created this 18″ x 24″ poster as a reminder to keep dancing, whenever and wherever possible. And yes, it references the excellent BeeGees song, which gave us those immortal words. If this is something you’d like to keep mindful of, or you know someone who’d dig it, I’m selling them for $25 each here. …

My latest series of paintings, Benedictus, are palimpsests built from reclaimed shipping crates, topped with graffiti tags and stencils, and layered with other text and images of my own. The final layer depicts hands making various signs of blessing. The reference is to ancient religion icons, but the hands are contemporary. I’m trying to blur …

In summer of 2018 I created a piece at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities as a part of the In Sight On Sight mural show. All of the artists invited to participate in this exhibit created their murals “live” on site during open hours. This gave Arvada Center visitors the opportunity to …

I’ve got five pieces in the show “Uncanny” at Walker Fine Art in Denver. Exhibit runs through March 10, 2018. Here is a nice review of the show.

11/26/2016 Eight new paintings by Mark Penner-Howell are on exhibit at Walker Fine Art in Denver. Show runs through January 7, 2017.

07/13/2016 I’m happy to be included in this survey of contemporary artists of the Rocky Mountain west. It’s a strong and diverse collection of artists. A nice coffee-table gift idea too. Available various places, including Amazon.

01/14/2016 Happy to announce that my painting “Welcome, Valued Customer” has been included in this year’s Art of the State show at the Arvada Center. Jan 21 – March 27, 2016 Opening Reception Thursday January 21, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. Also, my painting “One” will be on display as part of the invitational exhibit Opiates …

09/08/2015 Combining imagery from the domains of mythology, antiquated science, and contemporary popular culture, this body of work intentionally conflates the personal with the cosmic, the past with the present, to suggest that our ideas about identity and our place in the cosmos are provisional at best. The children in these paintings are depicted in …

2/9/15 I was recently invited to include several pieces in an exhibit called rePOPulated: contemporary perspectives on pop art at the Arvada Center. This show presents pioneering works of Pop Art from the C.U. museum’s collection, together with recent works by regional artists working in a post-Pop vein. The exhibit runs through March 29, 2015. …

4/15/2014 One of the greatest ironies of our age is that we know so much more about the mechanics of the universe than we do about the inner workings of the human psyche. The vast sums of scientific inquiry directed at understanding the cosmos are testament to our need to project the human narrative into …