Welcome to The Art of Lou Marek.

A 7' x 26' painting on canvas hanging in the offices of renown art collector Peter Norton, in Santa Monica, California.

produces portraits, landscapes, wildlife, murals, graphic designs, furniture paintings. I am a Board Director and past president of Mountain Arts Network.

Member of The Portrait Artist Society, The Salmagundi Club, The American Watercolor Society, The California Art Club.

My painting for the Progeria Foundation is in the permanent collection of The Boston Museum.

My commissioned work includes but is not limited to such corporations as Symantec, NBC, Merrill Lynch, Bally's Casino, Ketchum Advertising agency, SIR. Also numerous businesses and residential establishments, from NYC to LA.

Renown art collector Peter Norton (see above) commissioned a work from the studio that hangs in his Santa Monica offices.

Notable clients, the late John Candy, Swoozie Kurtz, Kevin Nealon, Alan Thicke, Louise Sorel, Teo Penglis and many Hollywood writers, producers and directors.

I spent 25 years in NYC to LA as an advertising creative for such international agencies as Scali McCabe Sloves, Wells, Rich, Greene, BBDO, Tracy Locke, Grey, Tinker, Dodge Delano.
I worked with Young & Rubicam legend Bob Giraldi at Ampersand studios in NYC and Milton Glaser at Push Pin in NYC. I graduated the premier art college Pratt Institute and I am known for having the only solo show, from the famed illustrator/teacher Herschel Levitt.

I owned and operated Marek Advertising in Denver, also owned and operated Mural Mural On The Wall a mural and decorative painting company in LA. Taught classes at Colorado University,Chouinard Art Institute.

My paintings and murals are in private and corporate collections from Florence, Italy to Auckland, New Zealand.

I believe in the words of James McNeil Whistler that art should be for art's sake and yet I cannot forget that as an individual my art is a point of view of my life and has a universal appeal.
 As Oscar Wilde said "We look in a mirror to see ourselves but we look at art to see our souls".

My art therefore must strive to appeal to a viewers sense of beauty, wonder and emotion at the same time.

Contact me: loumarek@theartofloumarek.com










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