Mark Dean Veca is inspired by popular culture, the baroque and the collision of the two. He uses additional forms and materials related to architectural, environmental and decorative arts such as furniture, lighting and wallpaper to create large scale mural installations. Veca received his BFA from Otis Art Institute. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships from the City of Los Angeles, New York Foundation for the Arts and the Pollack-Krasner Foundation. Veca has exhibited in New York, San Jose, Brooklyn, Houston, Santa Monica, Switzerland, Mexico, Japan and England.