Mark Slankard Ohio University School of Art Mark Slankard recently completed an MFA in the photography area in the School of Art at Ohio University. He has been exhibited at galleries and museums widely, including Ohio University’s Seigfried Gallery, The Dairy Barn of Athens, OH, University of Rio Grande’s Greer Museum, the Fulton Street Gallery in Troy, NY, and the Ohio State University Wexner Center for the Arts. He has also been published in The Photo Review and Quarter After Eight. He is the 2001 recipient of the Harry Z. and Grace R. Foster Memorial Scholarship and The Friends of the Kennedy Museum of Art’s Fenske Award. Slankard grew up in the suburbs of Evansville, IN and received a BA in psychology from Indiana University in 1996. In addition to his photographs, he is currently working with video, film, and other media to explore social and psychological consequences of the suburban façade as spectacle and metaphor, and its role in the construction and projection of identity. Though he insists on working in color, he is color-blind.