CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/16/2017

Mark Neville: Fancy Pictures

"My work is intensely personal. Many artists strive to make a separation between their personal life and their work but I can't do that. It's not obviously autobiographical, but I am aware that every time I embark on one of my projects it involves me living with a community for quite a long time, becoming part of the community. It's a search, although I've only come to figure that our recently, for a sense of belonging, a family, and quite often one finds very strong family units within working-class communities. There's a desire to be accepted as one would be by a family, and a desire to mediate that relationship, which is always a negotiation, a collaboration, as opposed to an objectification." - Mark Neville, who will be speaking about the work collected in Fancy Pictures tomorrow night, with Adam Bell, at SVA.