The Black Couch started in 2014 as a working studio and art gallery in Chicago curating monthly group shows, weekly workshops, and daily lessons for visual artists of all ages.

Founders Mark Narens and Suzann Norris have since gone mobile and conducted art shows, public murals, and pop-up galleries in California, Arizona and nationwide.

They have recently opened an Art Gallery in Venice, California (right off the Venice Beach Boardwalk) where Mark is showing his full inventory of artwork.