Fog Machine
Mark Flood's *Fog Machine* is an acrylic on canvas work that embodies the artist's signature blend of irreverence and conceptual depth. The piece evokes a sense of obscured reality, as layers of paint create an atmosphere of deliberate ambiguity and visual noise. Flood's bold approach to the medium reflects his ongoing exploration of cultural saturation and the tension between clarity and chaos.
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Under the Influence
March 7, 2014
Artists in conversation
Wade Guyton
American · b. 1972
Guyton's work similarly engages with conceptual abstraction and visual disruption, layering imagery to create atmospheric tension between legibility and noise. His paintings share Flood's interest in cultural saturation and the deliberate destabilization of clear meaning on canvas.
Charline von Heyl
German · b. 1960
Von Heyl creates gestural abstract paintings with muted and shifting palettes that evoke a similar ethereal ambiguity and layered visual atmosphere found in Fog Machine. Her work balances chaos and controlled mark making in a way that mirrors Flood's conceptually driven approach to abstraction.
Albert Oehlen
German · b. 1954
Oehlen's paintings blend irreverence, gestural abstraction, and conceptual weight through densely layered acrylic surfaces that obscure and reveal meaning simultaneously. His exploration of visual noise and cultural tension resonates strongly with the atmospheric ambiguity central to Flood's Fog Machine.
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