Mark Tambella is a New York-based visual artist. He is a painter, installation artist, environmental and site-specific designer, artist-in-residence with La MaMa ETC and Pioneers Go East Collective and a member of Great Jones Repertory Company. His work emphasises devised groupings of people and places, including gay life and queer-identifying artists, impressionistic “plein air” work, and portraits of his neighbourhood and creative-hood family. Published at: BOMB Magazine/Absolute Tambella, Fag Rag, and Gay Sunshine (San Francisco). Illustrations for Lilac Cure and Markings, poetry chapbooks by Richard George-Murray, and My Stone Is Not Dead by Piotr Zbigniew Gawelko. Tambella has been a guest teacher at Williams College (Williamstown, MA), teaching drawing and painting techniques. Education: Visual School of the Arts (1973).
