Tv to Tea Rooms: Housing Author Adapts To Artistry
The recession forced Mark Nash to reconsider his compensation options. With a slowing real estate market, Nash a long-time Chicago broker decided that his interest in art might be propagated in his extra free time.
Online, September 27, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Milwaukee Exhibition Sales Create New Boom for Chicago Painter and Broker
In 2005, Mark Nash's third real estate book: "1001 Tips for Buying and Selling a Home" brought the adulation of The Early Show, The Wall Street Journal and The Library of Congress. In 2011, serious collectors and reviewers tout success from his major show of more than twenty-seven abstract paintings at the Anaba Tea Room in the Garden Room in Shorewood, Wisconsin.
In the depths of the financial and housing crisis, Nash pasted his life-long mantra to his bathroom mirror: "The only person I can change is myself". Drawing on his reservoir of creativity first utilized in writing, Nash, a seasoned visual artist in his real estate clients homes, consulting on interior design and staging for property marketing, put brush to canvas in 2008.
The first canvases were displayed in Nash's vacation rental property in Wisconsin. Vacationers started asking if they could purchase the painting over the fireplace, and soon after Nash had his own first gallery in every room of the property. Word spread, Barb Caprile, curator of The Morning Gallery, in the Marcus Performing Art's Center, Milwaukee, called and wanted to carry his acrylic paintings. A friend offered more outgrowth of his artwork with a line of twenty-four note cards, which feature his most popular images.
Nash hasn't foreclosed his interest in residential real estate. Widely quoted by Ellen James Martin for her nationally syndicated "Smart Moves" column, he is still a licensed broker in Illinois. With the housing slump lingering longer than expected he cherishes his new business opportunity in art.
"Forget the beret, I'm not a mercurial artist. I love to paint everyday and collectors of my paintings say that my artwork makes them happy" Nash says. Milwaukee's Sheperd Express art reviewer Judith Ann Moriarty compares Nash's organic abstracts to artist Mark Tobey's who gained international fame as an abstract expressionist.
Sam Watson a University of Wisconsin art history professor adds of Nash's 27 paintings in the exhibit: "I have been following Mark's rapid evolution in painting, the art world and aficionados must experience his amazing new visual perspective."
Nash's exhibit also features his line of Gallery Greeting Note Cards based on twenty-four of his most popular paintings. "Thanks for all the effort you went to in marketing the cards...they are a great addition for us." Casey Dunagan, Retail Manager, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art.
Nash's exhibit "Continuum" runs through October 30, 2011 at the Anaba Tea Room, in the Garden Room, 2107 E. Capitol Drive, Shorewood, Wisconsin. Comprised of twenty-seven new paintings created especially for this venue; Nash's focus is on Organic Abstracts.
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For more information, to request an interview or for digital images of artwork, please contact Mark Nash at 773-610-2074 or Mark.Nash@cbexchange.com