Published on INTERnetVIEWmagazine.com
Vol. 2, Issue 2 | February 2006
South Carolina-based painter Mark Malmgren is not only self-taught, but also color-blind. To show the world the beauty he sees in his primary-colored universe, Malmgren uses only black, white, red, blue, and yellow in his paintings. His simple, primitive works are the byproduct of a deep appreciation for nature's common beauty.
More interesting, though, is Malmgren's reliance on what he calls "super brain," the vast, unused portion of the brain most people do not use. (His keeps him painting every day on leap years and helped him create 75 paintings a day for 2 months in response to 9-11, with each piece representing a victim.)
Malmgren says the super brain is a resource he's been able to identify, give assignments, and have working on solutions to his problems in the background. And guess what? According to the artist, everyone has one.
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