Mark Ponder creates playful, self-reflexive drawings and installations that critically address the potential empowerment and perils that come from perfectionism. His subversive, brutally honest take on his quest for happiness and success reminds one of self help posters gone extremely wrong. Often gaudy and sometimes slightly icky, his visuals seek to tease out the duality embedded in our deepest feelings and emotions. The works are cute, sarcastic, but perhaps most oddly, highly austere.

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