{"id":2194,"date":"2012-10-31T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:31:21","slug":"mark-whalen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/31\/mark-whalen\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Mark Whalen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So let’s assess: naked dudes with pink masks in candy-coated cyber realities enjoying the pleasures of life. \u00a0These paintings by Mark Whalen<\/a> are quite strange yet mesmerizing.<\/p>\n

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So let’s assess: naked dudes with pink masks in candy-coated cyber realities enjoying the pleasures of life. \u00a0These paintings by Mark Whalen are quite strange yet mesmerizing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,70],"tags":[37,125,375,1868],"class_list":["post-2194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-painting","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-mark-whalen","tag-painting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-zo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3620,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/10\/mark-warren-jacques\/","url_meta":{"origin":2194,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Mark Warren Jacques","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"January 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I am in love with Mark Warren Jacques. 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