`Maddest Hatter` artist Mark Dean Veca to create new installation at Crocker Art Museum
(Artdaily.org)

The Crocker Art Museum awarded the John S. Knudsen Prize to Mark Dean Veca, a Los Angeles-based artist known for creating paintings, drawings and installations that incorporate surreal cartoons and pop culture iconography to form psychedelic landscapes. One of those landscapes, Maddest Hatter, was installed by Veca at the Crocker in June 2017 as part of the hit exhibition Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose. As the Knudsen award recipient, Veca will return to Sacramento in the summer of 2018 to create a new installation at the Museum. Born in Louisiana to musician parents, Veca received his BFA in 1985 from Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design (now, Otis College of Art and Design) in Los Angeles. After then spending 17 years in New York City, he returned to L.A., where he continues his work. Veca`s art has been shown in galleries and public spaces