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In the late 50s and early 60s the Benton Card Company printed outstanding (and now collectable) lo-budget 14"×22" two and … Read more In the late 50s and early 60s the Benton Card Company printed outstanding (and now collectable) lo-budget 14"×22" two and three-color posters for movie theaters along with Country & Western, R&B and Gospel concerts. Their use of heavy card stock in these posters is unmistakable. The artist contacting them more than 15 years ago and they still had vintage blank 14" x 22" tri-color stock available. The "Benton Card Company Suite" was the main series of 6 images the artist produced with them. It was first shown in 2019 at the David Richards Gallery in NYC.

Mark Dagley (b. 1957, Washington, D.C.) is a U.S.-based visual artist known for his rigorous engagement with geometric abstraction, systematic structures, and perceptual complexity across painting, works on paper, and editions. He emerged in the New York art scene in the 1980s, participating actively in the East Village abstract milieu alongside peers such as Max Gimblett and James Nares. His first solo exhibition was at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York in 1987. Dagley’s work has been shown widely in the United States at venues including David Richard Gallery (NYC), Minus Space (NYC), Spencer Brownstone Gallery (NYC), The Suburban (Chicago), and various museum and project spaces nationwide. Internationally, Dagley has exhibited extensively in Europe (for example with Galerie Hans Strelow in Düsseldorf, Galeria Mar Estrada in Madrid, Galerie Swart in Amsterdam, and at ParisCONCRET), his first museum presentation being at Kunstverein St. Gallen, Switzerland in 1993. His work was also included in the travelling group exhibition Post-Hypnotic, shown across the U.S. from 1999–2001.
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Dagley’s work resides in numerous significant public and private collections internationally, including the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (Switzerland), Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, and Muzeum umění Olomouc (Czech Republic), among others See less