Dear friends, in these murky times it is good to know where you can turn for visual rejuvenation and psychic succor. As we say here at Iluminado: Give me your tired, your sore, your blindered eyeballs yearning to see free, the weeping peepers keen to cry no more. Send these, the unpleased, darkness-bound to me. […]

The floors are waxed, the spittoons are polished, and the doors are open. Iluminado, the Mark Dancey Center for Graphic Energy, is now ready for your visit. Thoroughly overhauled by Web Maestro Marc Storrs (www.marcstorrs.com), our site has been recalibrated to meet the visual needs of everyone from the casual browser to the advanced viewer […]

The catalog for Mark Dancey’s “O Fortuna” exhibit is available for kids who care. Check it out: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MarkDancey

“Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings,” wrote Cormac McCarthy in “Blood Meridian,” a violent tale of scalp hunters in the old west. Just as much as the desperados in McCarthy’s story, George Armstrong Custer had faith in fortune, and his belief in “Custer’s Luck” made him fatally […]

  Mr. Dancey will be participating in the end of the season group show at Re:View Contemporary Gallery in Detroit. His piece, entitled “Wouldn’t It Be Pretty If It Was?” was completed about an hour ago and is ready for you to view it when the show opens Saturday November 10. Book your reservation: http://www.reviewcontemporary.com/exhibitions/future/

Ladies and gentlemen, punkers and skins, we are proud to announce that the long talked about vinyl re-release of recordings by Mr. Dancey’s 1980s hardcore punk outfit is now a reality. The band in question, Born Without a Face, was active from 1983 to 1986. The group had a ferocious guitar-driven sound with metallic influences, […]

Our tastefully revamped shop is now open for business, with limited edition silk screen and giclee prints available to grownups with discriminating viewing habits.  

  Mr. Dancey is participating in the 2012 version of LYRIC, the popular group show curated by Glenn Barr, which features a gang of artists who have produced pieces based on song lyrics. The show runs from Saturday April 21 through May 15 at Gallery 323 East in Royal Oak, Michigan. Mr. Dancey’s work is […]

As mentioned elsewhere in this site, Mr. Mark Dancey was heavily involved with Motorbooty Magazine from its obscure beginnings in 1987 to its ultimate demise 1999. Seeing that we have never really taken the trouble to explain what Motorbooty was about to visitors who might have missed out on Motorbooty experience, the renowned artist Mr. […]

Brothers and Sisters, children and dogs, if you are like us here at Iluminado, you frequently find yourself pausing in your daily tasks to ask, “What’s Dancey doing?” Well, we are pleased to announce that, after many months without word, we finally have an answer to that question, and it’s neither anything shameful nor illegal. […]