Don B. Huntley Spirit of the West Award, 2018 and 2019
Website
markmaggiori.com
Early life and educationedit
Maggiori was born in Fontainebleau, in 1977. At the age of 15, during his first visit to the United States, Maggiori went on a month-long road trip from New York City to San Francisco and visited several National Parks and other sites in the Southwestern United States. He later cited that trip as the beginning of his fascination with the Southwest and the inspiration behind his Western art.[2]
Maggiori graduated from the Académie Julian in Paris, where he was formally trained in academic drawing.[2][3]
Musicedit
From 1997 to 2007, Maggiori served as the lead vocalist, graphic designer, and music video director for his band, Pleymo.[2][4] After signing with Epic Records the band released four studio albums and toured internationally. Pleymo went on a hiatus after 2007, but reunited in 2018 with Maggiori once again providing lead vocals. After the reunion tour announcement for the Paris concert the band had sold out Le Trianon in Paris in less than a day.[5]
2007 : « L'instinct et l'Envie » (Alphabet Prison)
Other music Videosedit
2008 : Like A Hobo de Charlie Winston
2009 : Apprends-Moi de Superbus
2010 : Laisse Aller de Vadel
2010 : I Love Your Smile de Charlie Winston
2010 : Help Myself (Nous ne faisons que passer) de Gaetan Roussel
2010 : Mes défauts de Superbus
2010 : La Vengeance d'une Louve de Brigitte
2010 : Ma Benz de Brigitte (Cover de NTM)
2010 : Battez-vous de Brigitte
2011 : I love you, mais encore des Starliners
2011 : This is a love song de Lilly Wood & The Prick
2012 : Drama Queen de Vadel
2012 : Des mots invincibles de Leslie
2013 : Paranoïak de Seth Gueko
2014 : Comment faire des Plastiscines
Fine artedit
Maggiori began painting Western scenes in 2014.[6] Since then, his works have been featured in Forbes, Flaunt, Art of the West, Southwest Art, Western Horseman and others.[7][8] Maggiori has been noted in particular for the way he paints clouds in his landscape scenes, with Christopher Barker describing them as, "layered, textural monuments that both dwarf and magnify the subject with impossible detail."[6]
Beginning in 2017, he began to work en plein air in New Mexico, Arizona and Wyoming.[3] Maggiori's style and technique has drawn comparisons to Western artists Frederic Remington and Frank Tenney Johnson.[2] Gallery owner Beau Alexander has noted that Maggiori's paintings are unique because of his outside perspective, having not grown up in the culture of the West and that "[He] goes to great lengths to have the cowboys depicted accurately...he will use colors and techniques learned in his photo and film days to create a more dramatic scene."[4][12]
Maggiori moved to Taos, New Mexico in 2019 and created the Taos Pueblo Art Education Fund in 2021, which raises money for the Taos Day School's art programs.[13][14]
Referencesedit
^"A Look at Love in the American West". Outside Magazine. April 28, 2016. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
^ abcdAshley M. Biggers (September 15, 2015). "Show Preview – Mark Maggiori". Southwest Art. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
^ abKatie Lynn (June 27, 2019). "Mark Maggiori Brings The Romance of the American West To Life". Cowgirl Magazine. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
^ abMiles Griffis (March 28, 2019). "Cloudscapes: Mark Maggiori". Flaunt. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
^La Rédaction (March 22, 2018). "INTERVIEW – Pleymo, vingt ans après". Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
^ abChristopher Barker (October 31, 2018). "Mark Maggiori is living in his own dream". Semipermanent. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
^Chad Scott (September 4, 2018). "'Quest for the West' Continues Bringing Best of Western Art To Indianapolis". Forbes. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
^"Mark Maggiori". The Autry. September 26, 2017. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
^Dana Joseph (March 13, 2019). "Art Beat: Night of Artists at the Briscoe". Cowboys and Indians. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
^Kathleen Petty (May 1, 2020). "An Eye Toward the West at the Briscoe Western Art Museum". San Antonio Magazine. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
^Dena Miller (September 30, 2021). "Preserving history: Lunder Research Center opens quietly at the Couse-Sharp Historic Site". Taos News. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
^"A Guy, A Horse, A Hat, A Sunset: Mark Maggiori On Painting The West". Cowboys and Indians Magazine. December 19, 2022. Retrieved February 25, 2023.