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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Digmore Bergman, New York City native, is leaving town this week. Godspeed Bergman.

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Burnt toast Breadwinners of the world, unite and take a nap. Enamel on aluminum, 8x10”

Self portrait of the artist as burnt toast

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Steve’s Cave now open in downtown Manhattan.

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Daily Metaltation: Pac Man ghosted all his friends and they wont let him forget it. Enamel on aluminum 8x10 inches

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Life, Its Just Us. enamel on aluminum 8x10”. Dont buy prestige, earn it by shoveling week old snow off the bus stop

An enamel painting in the literal figurative ESPO style of Peaks and Valleys, on their way

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Daily Metaltation. Enamel on aluminum 8x10”. Also enamel on fingers and lips. 👄 MUAH.

A painting of a hand, ready for chef’s kiss. Proper Purple and Robins Egg One Shot Enamel. 8x10” painted Jan 31 2026

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Daily Metaltation 1/29/26. Enamel on aluminum 8x10”. Don’t buy it, get some electric mittens instead

A painting of a hand post-snap🫰brushed in Salmon pink, proper purple. The words COLD SNAP are painted in KC Teal and the word SUNSET over a simple sun and the sunset time of 5:10 are painted in Bright red.

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Daily Metaltation "Nothing is harder to stop than an idea whose time has come." George Clinton via Victor Hugo. @espokyo Open today from 12:00-19:00

Pretty flower growing in poison. only love baby

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Anybody who says no in defense of another is family to me. Enamel on Aluminum 8x10”

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Art transport on the N train. This painting is replacing one that got damaged in transit. I cant learn anything until the third time

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Just think of me as your trusted device

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Burrito and watching Yojimbo, aka Mild King Night

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

my taxi driver in Tokyo and I had a style battle for cabfare. I lost but I got to drive the taxi.

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

(Leo Dicaprio in “once upin a time in Hollywood” meme) when @quintabrunson.bsky.social says my name

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I went to see a band in NYC called Stop Work Order. They were going to play renovating house music, but it got shut down.

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

macrobiotic? no, Im microplasticbiotic

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

where is the tomb of the unknown caller? who is buried in it? Is there room for another body?

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Anybody want anything from the Roasted Sweet Potato truck?

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

at Nihonbashi Philly in Tokyo and Kurt Vile “Pretty Pimpin sounds great as the spatulas chop out a rhythm on the grill and while the Super Bowl LIX plays silently

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

LANGUAGE ARTS is a zine I made with a Tokyo writer named WANTO, here are a few pages. Good handwriting is a sign of civility. Show your city how civilized it can be with whatever marking implement you mark surface with. Just be responsible for your own actions, thats class!

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Press 9 to be removed from my calling list, mother.

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

rescued from the racks at a gallery I love. Circa 2006 Enamel on aluminum.

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Chasing waterfalls, catching urinal stalls

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Walt Kelly had a beautiful way with words. this is from “Potluck Pogo” a collection of Pogo Comic Strips. “If the bomb destroys the human race, this strip will be out of business because our comic sources will have dried up. In this dark when we all talk at once, some of us must learn to whistle”

A few hundred self-deprecating words from the master, Walt Kelly. It ends with, “If the bomb destroys the human race, this strip will be out of business because our comic sources will have dried up. In this dark when we all talk at once, some of us must learn to whistle”

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

After the 2008 crash I made a painting about finance with a shady portrait of Bernie Madoff in the center. It didnt sell until I added an icon of Charlie Munger. You can still solve the puzzle, and you still dont need an appointment. Rest in piss Bernie, Rescquiat En Pace Charlie!

A painting about how you make money while money makes you. Enamel on aluminum 24x24” (61x61 cm) 2009

Charlie Munger painting based on 70’s Berkshire Hathaway photo

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

NYC, big city of dreams, where there are free eggs on the streets

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The daily come up, Free Fudge Stripes on the 2 train

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It took 20 years to get to a point where brushing out a letter looks effortless, and it will be 20 more before it actually IS effortless. It’s fine, I was only going to waste the time anyway

The word WATCH brushed out in enamel. It’s fine, nothing to write home about

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I have enough time to do it all, but it will be close

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Just in case my NEA grant gets vaporized, here is my audition for the sign job at Home Depot.

chisel point marker script that reads “Every time we go up on stage God gives us another chance to clean up the mess we made last time - Art Blakey” Art is posthumously an honorary member of ICY

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Im not a silly goose, I am a gregarious gander

The cover of the Belgian periodical Agenda, Styled by S.Poe for Mark Surface International

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

found my pencil (blue stabilo) returning to normal operating schedule

art needs wine and cheese at the opening, but graffiti needs nothing because its *cool*

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

stepping into the train station at 116th and a woman said to me “Alright Big Pimpin”. Updating my linkedIn accordingly

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

We are currently experiencing a service outage beacause I can’t find my pencil.

Right hand never knows what the right is doing, but dont worry, he’ll find out, it all comes out in the wash

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

(woody guthrie voice) 🎶this metaphor is made for you and meee🎶

a house on fire sinking into the water. this metaphor is made for you and me

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

when in Tokyo visit my storefront in Jingumae, ESPOKYO. When in Brooklyn, visit our print shop PEACE MFG. when in doubt, just get a plain slice. No such thing as bad pizza

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

actually, Im not that dope, but I am easily the humblest artist in manhattan (nyc, not Kansas, bill w. is way more humble than me)

an enamel on aluminum painting. More of a sign, actually, a cluttered screenshot of the brain of a 21st century ponderer. the main takeaway here is “Stuggle is my business and my business is struggling” thats all i have to say as an artist and an entrepreneur

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Mark Surface @steveespopowers.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Im so dope the dragon chases me™️

a philly handstyle in marker on aluminum, telling a story about who what and where I am in the world.

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