BIRTHPLACE:   Los Angeles BIRTH YEAR:   1959 LIVES IN:   Los Angeles WORKS IN:   Los Angeles

WEBSITE:   http://kevinmackart.com SCHOOLS:   Art Center College of Design, 1981, Doctorate of Science TAGS:   abstraction, digital-print, pop-surrealism, digital, surrealism, surreal, painting, emerging, giclee, hollywood, op-art, Visions, zen

Statement

My work is an exploration of the sublime beauty of infinity, complexity, perception and consciousness. I have a passionate fascination with the powerful visions that inspire this exploration.

By creating imagery that exists at the threshold of recognition, I seek to invoke the unconscious imagination of the viewer and inspire a personal experience of awe and mystery.

I've developed and refined my process over many years. Digital paintings are transformed with 3D math functions to create abstract dimensional objects and spaces of vast complexity. From within these spaces I compose images which are rendered at extremely high resolution.

My process integrates intuition and intellect - deliberate design and random happenstance - realism and abstraction - humanity and technology - pop culture and nature - painting and math - science and mysticism.

Biography

Kevin Mack is a pioneering Digital Artist and Academy Award winning Visual Effects Supervisor. He received the Oscar for his work on the film "What Dreams May Come". His other film credits include "Ghost Rider", "Big Fish", "Fight Club", "A Beautiful Mind", "Vanilla Sky", "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", "Apollo 13", "The Fifth Element" and many more.

The son of Disney artists, Kevin was tutored in art by his parents and their artist friends.  At 16, he received a scholarship for drawing classes at Art Center College of Design. At 18, he was the youngest student to be accepted into the college program, where he studied Fine Art, Illustration and Film.

After college, Mack worked in the film industry doing traditional glass matte paintings, scenic paintings, sculpting, model making, animation, storyboards and set design, all the while continuing to pursue his own art and music.

In the mid-eighties, Kevin began experimenting with computers to make his art and music. Recognizing it's potential for film work, he helped pioneer the use of computer graphics for visual effects and became one of the industry's most innovative leaders.  Recently he received an honorary Doctorate of Science degree from Art Center for his contributions to the field of motion picture visual effects.

Mack's work is the result of ongoing research in a wide range of fields from the mathematics of complexity to neuroscience and human perception.  His work in Artificial Life and Rule Based Systems, used on "What Dreams May Come" and "Fight Club", inspired the development of tissue simulation software that is now being used for virtual stem cell research.  In 2006, Mack received the title of Honorary Neuroscientist, from UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, for his lectures there on perception, visualization and creativity.

Mack's visionary abstract dimensional math paintings explore infinity, complexity, perception and consciousness and have been exhibited at Siggraph, Cannibal Flower, The Hive, The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art and Sony Pictures Imageworks. His animated film "Annihilation Becomes Creation Through a Stretch of the Imagination" was featured in the Siggraph Electronic Theater.

Mack is a native of Los Angeles, California, where he lives with his wife, artist Snow Mack and their sons, Jon and Ray.