Mark Penxa is the artist behind the stunning internet exhibition "Stealing Signs: Dead-Ball Era Baseball Memories from My Last Life;1927". A beautiful collection of mixed media drawings of well known and unknown players from the golden years of baseball. A project that began as a gift to his grandfather and snowballed into one hundred pieces of art dedicated to America's Past time that can be enjoyed individually and as an entire body of work.

A native of Detroit,  Michigan, Penxa developed his style and aesthetic from the worlds of skateboarding and punk rock, earning his first freelance check from a skateboard company at 15 and touring with the punk band Telegraph for 8 years after high school. Mark has designed images for Girl Skateboards and is currently in the sketching phase of a snowboard design for DC Shoes. He brings great energy, an excellent eye for line and a do-it-yourself attitude to his work that makes you want to stop and look... and keep looking.

Over the next few months Mark will be working on a series of paintings tackling his home town and it's current political climate as well as curating a gallery show with friend Andy Jenkins about baseball and the art it has inspired.

Bellow are are small sampling of the works in "Stealing Signs" as well as a few other of Mark's drawings and paintings, enjoy.

Mixed Media painting and  few sketchbook images...

"None of us were able to choose whether to be an artist or not and you can't learn how to be one but, you can always learn how to be a better one and we should. Constantly. There's a certain amount of responsibility that comes with all of this. It doesn't matter how you maintain it, just that you do." - Mark Penxa

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