Widely known in the California art community for his tenures as Director of the Watts Towers Arts Center and of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Mark Steven Greenfield has tirelessly supported the work of local visual artists for several decades. Over the same period he also established a reputation for his own artistic practice, both as a graphic designer and a fine artist.

Lookin' Back in Front of Me displays a body of work that Greenfield himself has described as unapologetically didactic as it is based on his research on literature, cinema, history, and the visual arts. The artist's interests range from early investigations of the Science of Creative Intelligence (his Cosmos series)--a meditative practice that stirred large abstract interpretations of the astrophysical--to figurative work inspired by Sun Ra and Parliament Funkadelic (his Afrofuturistic works). Greenfield has also delved into the artistic renaissance of LA's Crenshaw community (his Crenshaw's Consciousness series), gang culture, genealogy (his Iconography and Sunday's Best pieces), and more recently, African American stereotypes (his Blackatcha, Doo Dahz, and Animalicious) and the re-contextualization of American appropriations of African spiritual practices (Egunguns).