Val Mayerik has been a successful commercial illustrator for forty years and has worked in all fields of illustration from advertising to comic books to film pre-production. He attended Youngstown State University in Ohio majoring in art and theater. Val then moved on to New York City to work for Marvel Comics and to establish himself as an illustrator.

Val worked for Marvel Comics for more than twenty years working on Conan the Barbarian, Spiderman and was co-creator of Howard the Duck. He then moved on to advertising working as a storyboard and concept artist for many large agencies such as Wieden and Kennedy, Liquid, McCann Ericson to name a few.
His clients have included Nike, Microsoft, Coca Cola, Miller Beer, Sony, Southern Comfort, New Zealand Travel, Coor’s, Heineken, and Delta airlines.
He worked for Modern Ciricullum Press doing educational and historical illustration for high school text books.
In the past ten years he has turned his attention to gallery work focusing mostly on the Western Art genre.
Val is also an avid horseman and polo player.

Exhibition History:
Group show at Museum of Western art, Kerrville TX September 2015
Represented by Adobe western Art Gallery, Fort Worth Tx since 2016

Awards:
Ink Pot award for excellence in the Comics industry at San Diego Comic Con
2013

Gallery and exhibition experience has been limited until recently as my career as a commercial illustrator took much of my time. I am now continuing to transition to the gallery and fine art world.

Email: valmayerik@gmail.com
Call: 512-284-4744

“I’ve been working with a visual vocabulary of shapes that tell a universal story. Painting, printmaking, and mixed media are my primary creative processes. I try not to have any predetermined outcomes but see where the work will take me.”