Mark Christopher Harvey is a Creative professional, educator, photographer, and self-publishing artist living in Los Angeles.
Media forms include Interaction design, publications (Fluxion art journal, ReVision Photography journal, and limited edition Books. Harvey is currently teaching Full-time in the Design Media Arts program at Pasadena City College, and formerly taught at Glendale College, Los Angeles City College and Art Center: College of Design.
Harvey maintains a studio at the Keystone Art Space based in Lincoln Heights, near downtown Los Angeles.
Since moving to Los Angeles in 1995, Harvey has worked as a professional designer, photographer and educator. Work experience ranges from editorial, fine art, entertainment to corporate. Harvey served as the Art Director for The Advocate magazine, Creative Director for FotoFactory Press’s Fine Art editions, designed DVD packaging and theatrical movie posters with Kustom Creative for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Classics, MGM, Lions Gate Films, and others, with a current focus since 2007 on education.
Originally from Hopewell, Virginia, Harvey studied Communication Arts and Design at Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond VA under the directorship of Phillip Meggs, and received an MFA in photography from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, directed by Will Larson.
Mark co-founded Antebellum Gallery in Hollywood in 2005 with Rick Castro and was a co-curator/owner of that space in 2005-2006.
Harvey has also published two fine art books under the Fluxion Editions imprint: 13 Years of Bondage: the Photography of Rick Castro in 2004 and Fellow Travelers: A Photographic Memoir by Mark Thompson in 2006. As well as editorial writing for artists and art related publications.
The artist is also aspiring to become a PhD candidate (visual studies) at IDSVA at some point in the future.
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