We recently had the chance to connect with Mark Giorgione and have shared our conversation below.
Good morning Mark, we’re so happy to have you here with us and we’d love to explore your story and how you think about life and legacy and so much more. So let’s start with a question we often ask: What is something outside of work that is bringing you joy lately?
Creating artwork with spray paint and stencils have brought me a lot of joy lately.
I’m learning how subtle things that happen in this process of creating open up new possibilities within the visuals and enhance the technique and overall image. It’s icing on the cake to be able to display the artwork in public and sell them.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I never went looking for art—it found me.
Twenty years ago, I had just moved from Atlanta to Los Angeles, uncertain but curious, following a friend to the Santa Monica Museum. What began as a simple visit turned into a calling. Within weeks, I was helping install Jeremy Blake’s luminous digital paintings—works that pulsed with color, mystery, and emotion. It was as if the city itself had opened a door and whispered, stay.
Those early years in Los Angeles shaped me. I learned by doing—installing shows for Mark Bradford, Betye Saar, and so many others whose voices carried truth and imagination. After hours, my friends and I filled empty galleries with music, blending sound and art in the dim light, chasing that feeling of creation that made time disappear.
At Rosegallery, I fell in love with photography—the quiet power of an image to make the familiar feel sacred. Eggleston’s colors, Shore’s roads, Hido’s light—all reminded me that beauty often hides in plain sight. I discovered my gift wasn’t just in handling art, but in helping others feel it—translating emotion into connection.
My path carried me home to Atlanta, where I became Director at Jackson Fine Art, and later back to Los Angeles with The Lapis Press. Each chapter taught me something new about devotion—to craft, to artists, to collectors who see art not as possession, but as part of their story.
Then, unexpectedly, Miami called. I was headhunted to consult for galleries and collectors, drawn once again into a new rhythm, a new light. Here, surrounded by salt air and possibility, I found balance between experience and intuition, between commerce and the quiet miracle of creation.
Looking back, I see how each step—each artist, each city, each risk—was part of a larger composition. Art has been my teacher, my compass, and my mirror. It continues to remind me that meaning lives not just in what we make, but in how deeply we allow ourselves to see.
Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. What breaks the bonds between people—and what restores them?
Jealousy, envy and ego breaks the bonds between people and trust restores them.
What fear has held you back the most in your life?
I think fear of failure has held me back more than anything. Success requires effort, discipline, and time—and that means embracing failure as part of the process. Procrastination and laziness are often just fear in disguise. Growth happens only when we confront that fear, take action, and learn from the missteps along the way.
Sure, so let’s go deeper into your values and how you think. What are the biggest lies your industry tells itself?
The biggest lie my industry tells itself is that artwork increases in value after the artist dies. Artwork does not have a money value until you have a multiple buyers that solidify a first market value.
Okay, we’ve made it essentially to the end. One last question before you go. If you knew you had 10 years left, what would you stop doing immediately?
If I knew I had 10 years left I would stop selling other artists artwork immediately and concentrate on selling my own.
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- Website: https://www.markgiorgione.com
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