Mark Dotzler

Profile/CV

Mark Dotzler is an American tech artist making sculpture.  He loves metal, science and technology.

Deep relational aesthetics sometimes play an important part in his work (beyond Nicholas Bourriaud’s thoughts), which is also influenced by the minimal artists of the 20th century.  Instead of using the industrial materials of that period, he often uses today’s more scientifically advanced materials and many of the technological things that surround us all.  Computer microchips (silicon wafers), computer hard drives, antennas and thermionic valves (early binary code devices) are just some of the materials he began using when he first started making artwork at the age of forty.  Influences include Constantin Brancusi, Richard Serra and Marcel Duchamp.

His artwork often explores tech terminology and tries to offer a physical presence for some of those fuzzy terms.  Other artwork deals with important societal issues.  Examples and explanations of that work can be seen here:  Aspects of the Art

Mark Dotzler has his artwork in the President’s office of The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and has done major outdoor commissioned sculpture work for the Catholic Church.

Mark Dotzler has also contributed to many high-end fabrication projects in both metal & wood for architects and other artists through his associations with several highly accomplished master craftsmen.  Examples of those projects can be seen here:  Fabrication Capabilities   

Website www.markdotzler.com