Mark Vallen

In 1980, I created the silkscreen print, Nuclear War?!…There Goes My Career! The artwork was in response to public fears that a nuclear war would break out between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. But the print wasn’t merely an assault upon those who possessed nuclear weapons—rather, it was a critique against those self-possessed and upwardly mobile individuals who were too busy with their careers to notice they were in part responsible for the state of the world.