Mark T. Duffy (b. 1980) is a self taught artist living in Oakland, Ca.  At the age of 30 he began exploring creativity to express and process experience.  He has little formal training and has developed a painting process through longterm experimentation.  He’s interested in how power, authority, and freedom affect human suffering.  When he’s not feeling too irreverent about the world, he thinks the function of art is to generate hope and emancipatory action.