The Origin of Mark Flood

On the face and the self in Mark Flood's early work.

This book investigates a crucial period for the Houston-based artist Mark Flood (born 1957), from 1987 to 1992, during which he was still making and exhibiting work using his birth name, John Peters. Artist and editor Adam Marnie explores Flood’s motif of the face and his use of personae, aliases and surrogates.