Mark Gleberzon is a mixed media artist who works and lives in Toronto that works in. He owns a gallery called the MJG Gallery in the Leslieville area on Queen St. He plays the difficult game of promoting a series of leading artists in his gallery and producing his own work. Gleberzon is a fearless artist and promoter of artists, and is unfaltering in his energy and work within the Toronto art scene. In his work, he focuses on the discarded mementoes of our lives. He brings together fragments of found objects and highlights them into beautiful assemblages that create stories about history, personal space and identity. He uses traditional photographs, artifacts, natural historical elements and salvaged wood & picture frames. All of these are used with original photographs or paintings. These pieces have a surrealistic tone but also evoke nostalgia. Suggestive of Robert Rauschenberg and Joseph Cornell, he delves into the realm of the familiar.
His pieces of art have a familiarity, but when placed together, a new innovative statement is made. Gleberzon has exhibited his work in indoor and outdoor events throughout Asia, Europe and North America and is known for his melding of photography and painting. He also works as an art installer, curator and art consultant. Currently, he’s working at Ryerson University on a series of lectures about his publications. Gleberzon has also been featured in an interior design magazine called TorontoHOME. Recently, the artist discussed his experiences working in the art world. From early in his career, he was most drawn to pop artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.
