Right: Meanwhile in Guatemala. Mark Vallen. Graphite on paper. 1988. One of four drawings exhibited by Vallen at:

Man's Inhumanity To Man
Brand Library Gallery & Art Center Glendale, California. April 4 - May 8, 2009

Azalea Iñiguez of Telemundo T52 - the L.A. affiliate of the second largest Spanish-language TV network in the U.S., interviewed Vallen on her Cambiando el Mundo (Changing the World) segment of May 6, 2009. The interview took place at the Man's Inhumanity to Man exhibit at the Brand Gallery. View the interview with Vallen at Telemundo's website.

[ Left: We Are Afraid - Mark Vallen. Graphite on paper. 1987. shown at the Brand Library's Man's Inhumanity to Man exihibition. ]

Mark Vallen's "Art For A Change" Web log
www.art-for-a-change.com/blog

New Blog Posts - El Salvador Presente - "Two years after El Salvador's civil war ended in 1992, I would create my drawing, El Salvador Presente, a visual summation of my attitude towards that Central American nation's long conflict." My Take on Things: An Interview with Vallen - "'Realism', as I understand the word, is not just a specific aesthetic, but a way of examining, analyzing, and making comment upon certain objective conditions found in our world." LACMA's $25 Million Choo-Choo Train - "A price-tag of $25 million for the LACMA-Koons Train boondoggle verges upon lunacy, and it most assuredly is an indication of an arts institution profoundly out of touch with the realities lived by the vast majority of the working population of California and the nation."