Markham Strozier

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I write, make visual work, and collect stuff. https://r80o.pagecord.com

Small square mixed media assemblage on canvas. A textured off-white field sits over a strip of aged paper with faint handwriting. A vertical brown wood fragment is attached near the center, crossed diagonally by a pale dried plant stem extending beyond the left and right edges. Small red, black, and green marks appear within the white surface.
Mixed-media collage on an aged 1890 Georgia land deed. A colorful rooster with a patterned tail stands at the upper left, partly covering the legal text. Beneath it, a torn yellow Woodbury Banking Co. statement cuts diagonally across the deed, exposing red account dates and balance numbers. Along the left edge, the cropped letterhead reads “BURY BANKING CO.” The papers are stained brown like old records or coffee-damaged documents, creating a visual link between land ownership, debt, and performative pride.
Mixed-media abstract painting titled Remaining Breath. A dark, algae-green and black field surrounds a pale central cavity containing a ghostly antique bronchial/lung illustration. Bright scraped fragments of pink, orange, yellow, and blue appear throughout the murky surface like trapped sparks or failing oxygen under water. The composition feels submerged, damaged, and respiratory, with dense staining, veils, drips, and buried marks creating the sense of breath struggling to remain visible.
Mixed-media collage on a square panel with a weathered, scraped surface of off-white, gray, black, and aged tan layers. In the upper-right area, a faint graphite profile of an older bald man with a beard faces right, partially embedded in the distressed surface. Ghosted sheet music and fragments of printed text appear through his face and neck, while torn paper, dark stains, and a small yellow curved fragment remain visible along the edges.
Mixed-media alphabet artwork on paper with large stencil letters A through T arranged in rows. Bright red, yellow, blue, green, pink, and orange paint shows through parts of the letters, while much of the surface is covered with smoky charcoal, burnt umber, gray-white washes, and black scraped marks. The piece has raised, glossy, scarred surfaces that make it look like a damaged public notice or schoolroom primer that has been buried, scraped, and partially uncovered.
Mixed-media alphabet artwork on paper showing large black stencil letters arranged in rows from A to T over a hazy field of pale gesso, graphite smudges, and bright red, yellow, blue, green, and pink paint. Most letters remain dark and intact, while E, Q, and T are partially revealed in vivid color, making the alphabet look interrupted, damaged, or in the middle of being erased and uncovered.
A tall mixed-media collage painting on a distressed wood panel, built from layered paper fragments, faded text, music notation, anatomical imagery, and scraped acrylic surfaces. The overall palette is muted gray, tan, black, white, and weathered brown, with a few small bright accents: a red crumpled form near the lower left, a vertical red shape near the top, and four small CMYK-like color blocks along the bottom edge. On the right side, a dark rectangular panel contains a faded anatomical image of a head or torso, while a small “Liberty Tavern” fragment appears near the lower right. The surface is heavily worn, scratched, splattered, and partially obscured, giving the piece the feeling of an old wall, damaged archive, or tavern floor layered with memory and residue.
Mixed-media artwork on a tall narrow panel showing a ghostly human figure surrounded by black, asemic linework and stained gray residue. The figure is built from layered pink, blue, yellow, red, and white marks, with small bright color shapes embedded through the torso like nerve signals or warning lights. A thin, weathered strip of broken wood is attached horizontally across the upper abdomen, creating the feeling of an obstruction or lodged shard. The surface is scratched, sanded, stained, and aged, giving the piece the look of a damaged medical or psychological artifact.
Mixed-media artwork titled Big Values | Lovely Colors | Choice. A central rectangular field sits within a wide white margin. The right side preserves fragments of a vintage fashion advertisement showing women in hats, prices, and catalog text. The left side is heavily scraped and veiled with white, green, yellow, blue, and red paint, creating a worn, abraded surface. A thick green horizontal smear cuts across the middle, partially obscuring the figures and dividing the composition. The image feels like a damaged retail catalog page, part advertisement, part erasure, part archival relic.
A tilted nighttime photo from a porch swing under pale mosquito netting. Colored string lights glow red, yellow, green, blue, and pink along a wooden porch ceiling, casting streaks and reflections through the gauzy netting. The scene feels cozy, strange, and slightly dreamlike.
Two elderly woman, in stunned awkward silence, waiting for the next shoe to drop. Circa 1966.
Mixed media collage on panel featuring a butcher-style diagram of a dog over an orange background, with layered fragments of printed text, torn paper, and distressed textures. The image includes dark vertical forms on the right, a small partial eye embedded on the left, and rough, weathered edges throughout.
Close up of the collaged work.
Title: “Sand for grave” 12”x24” mixed media collage #art
Title: “Romance Hole” 14”x17” mixed media collage on panel
Title: “Simma down, bitch.” 19”x22” Mixed media collage on Bristol
Title: “Retail, 1976.” Mixed media on 20”x24” canvas Can you spot the “wink”?
Abstract mixed media collage on wood
From the Letters from the Futures series, this is collage is sourced from 200 year old text and a 100 year old wedding photo.
“Color Field Experiment 1” 19”x24” Acrylic on Bristol Circles scraped through layers of color, pulled under a white veil. Fragments bleed back like faulty signals. More lab test than painting, the start of a series of experiments.
Title: Finistrations Medium: Acrylic and marble dust on canvas Dimensions: 20” × 24” Description: Finistrations takes broken serif forms and sets them into a thick, gritty surface made from marble dust. The letters feel heavy, almost architectural. Cutting across them is a 16.5” Morse code band that spells “ZRF.” It’s a thin strip—electric blue with bright green blocks—that runs like a broadcast signal through the middle of the piece. The strip doesn’t just sit there. It slices the composition, vibrating against the black and white field. It reads like transmission, interference, or a line of glowing windows punched through the structure. The tension is in that collision: weight versus signal, architecture versus code.
“Packing List, Lost” 19”x24” Asemic writing, acrylic, heavy gesso Series: Letters From The Futures Letters From The Futures began as an exploration of lost language, but it has become something closer to my own lived reality. Blank spaces. Erasures. Whole threads of memory that vanish mid-sentence. These works are not just abstractions—they are the shape of how my mind now records and forgets. Each piece is an artifact from an imagined archive: transmissions that falter, letters sent but half-buried, words rewritten and then struck out again. I don’t approach these works with nostalgia or pity. They stand as fragments—sometimes frustrating, sometimes strangely beautiful—of what it means when memory itself is unreliable.
“Signed, Happy Now” 19”x24” Asemic writing, acrylic, heavy gesso Series: Letters From The Futures
Abstract art
“Alone in a crowd.” Mixed media, 5”x7” on canvas
“Fine. Thanks for asking…” is an abstract painting of my interpretation of living anxiety and depression for 45 years. Its boring.
Abstract fragments quilted together to form a single work.
Abstract fragments quilted together
🟨🟥 Untitled (x2) Mixed media on Bristol paper 19” x 22” each
#MixedMediaArt #AbstractNarrative #ContemporaryCollage #ConceptualArt #VisualLanguage #SymbolicArt #ArtAsTranslation #AnatomicalCollage #EmotionalAbstraction #PostAnalog #DiagrammaticArt #SignalArt #ArtOfFailure #MemoryCorruption #PsychologicalLandscape
Illusion of Fordite 5x5” – acrylic and gel medium on canvas Made a rock out of paint. Tried not to laugh. Hashtags: #fordite #abstractlayers #paintstrata #mixedmediaart #industrialaesthetic #modernrelic #acrylicpainting #visualgeology #smallcanvas
Post No Bills Mixed media on canvas panel Layers of acrylic, toner, anatomical ephemera, sanding, varnish Approx. size: 6”x6” #art #urbanart #mixedmedia #anxietyinlayers #postnobills #contemporaryabstract
This was from a photo I shot many years ago. Out of my comfort zone here. Happy with the abstract composition but the execution—not so much. Acrylic and colored pencil on paper. #art #abstract #abstractcomposition #taxi #painting #selftaughtartist
“F8” painting 22”x30” mixed media on wood
An intuitive piece of abstract art.
Untitled 22”x30”, mixed media on paper, color study. #art #colorfield #mixedmedia #abstract #abstractexpression #acrylicpainting #ink
gilded framed 22”x30” acrylic, marble dust on paper.
22”x30” acrylic, marble dust on paper.