Mark Moffett was born in Mineola, NY, in 1956. At the age of seven, his family moved to Paris, France, where he spent five years amid cultural touchstones. He attended school at l’Ecole Active Bilingue, enjoyed trips through Europe, Russia, and Africa, and came to view art, in all its guises, as a natural and vital practice. After completing high school in Vermont, where his family repatriated after France, he studied art and French literature at Reed College, and later, digital arts in the iEAR (Integrated Electronic Arts at Rensselaer) MFA program at RPI. 

In painting, sculpture, and drawing, Mark favors an eclectic approach that yields disparate bodies of work. Influenced by cubism, as much as by Rembrandt, Jasper Johns, and Aboriginal Art, he has explored representational, abstract, and conceptual themes. During the aughts, he painted primarily in encaustic and developed a technique of embedding imagery with stamp-like clarity in fields of wax. By plotting palimpsests of coincidental imagery, competing layers of information, he sought to tease harmony from mixed signals. 

Currently, Mark pursues sculpture with a more direct objective, carving abstract totems latent with figurative presence and cultural memory. The totems, improvised with a chainsaw, sanded and sealed, make use of trees felled by storms and combine his lifelong love of wood with formal investigations in-the-round. Alone, or in groups, he views the pieces as inscrutable guardians or, alternately, as studies for skyscrapers.

Mark has exhibited his work in a variety of media for over forty years. He has supported his practice with writing, videography, and as an artist assistant to Ellsworth Kelly. He lives in Manchester, Vermont.