Mary Mark 23x26 Handmade Paper Collage Contemporary Abstract Wall Art Fiber Yarn

Description: Ground shipping with UPS/FedEx is free for the contiguous United States. Artist: Mary MarkSize: 23.25” x 26.5"Medium: handmade paper with yarn This is one of the more unique pieces of art that I’ve come across. I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be a landscape, but to me it looks like mountains in the background and a stream in the foreground. It’s handmade using different colors of paper with yarn embedded in the paper. It has a glittery sheen, possibly from glue added to it. It’s signed in the bottom right by Mary Mark. It’s unframed, and will be mailed flat sandwiched between pieces of cardboard. Condition-wise, there is a paper based piece of tape on the back, and the top middle has a separation (see circle in photo). Looking closely, I think this was made in quadrants and then put together, so the two top quadrants aren’t adhered together at the very top. This piece came in a big plastic sleeve with cardboard support, which is more for transport and not display. I will cut it down to ship in, and make sure to include the original paper tag, with original price of $220. FROM HER WEBSITE:Mary Mark has always been an artist. Trained as a painter and printmaker during two bachelor degrees in the 1970s, she taught herself handmade papermaking. In the last 15 years, she has been selling handmade papers, linocuts, and oil pastels in and through 400 gallery and frames shops throughout the U.S. and abroad. She has exhibited in numerous museums, competitions, and received many purchase awards including a recent one from Ohio University in the State Percent-for-the-Arts program. Throughout the summer and early fall, Mary travels the mid-west from Milwaukee to Philadelphia presenting her linoleum block prints and occasionally her other works in juried outdoor art festivals. She lives and works out of a 120-year-old church building in New Richmond, Ohio.Mary's first love is printmaking. In the early 1970s, she was drawn to the printmaking studios by the smell of benzene, kerosene, nitric, and all those toxins used in etching metal or sensitizing limestone. Mary was totally enthralled by the printing mystique; in order to make an image work. The printmaker need carve, etch, or otherwise prepare the matrix in however many steps the chosen process requires. The printmaker is inevitably separated from her visualization and must make the most of the surprises encountered along the way. "Inspired by Picasso' s reduction linocuts, I have been working at this for 20 years now and have yet to conquer it. Pitting negative and positive spaces against each other, the image emerges from the block over months of carving and printing multiple layers of color until it evolves into the original idea."Mary's oil pastels are a profusion of life's accouterments and fabrics, expanded contemporary still lifes, modern living spaces, a frenzied assortment of brilliant colors and textured patina composed into harmonious image that speaks of tranquillity and reflective reverie. They are locations for and images of meditational quietude, contemporary sanctuary for a modern world. Mary's work is sometimes referred to as Matisse-like in her vivid palette and somewhat funky perspective. Surfaces are layered one on top of another, juxtaposing pattern on pattern for a high energy, busy effect.

Price: 99.99 USD

Location: Mesa, Arizona

End Time: 2024-10-06T06:57:05.000Z

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