WENDY MARK
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s a painter and printmaker primarily
known for her monotypes. Her work is often based on collaborations:
with poets and writers such as Adam Gopnik and Louis Menand and
here with award winning architects AGENCY. She has produced
limited edition books with the Pulitzer Prize winning poets Mark
Strand, Charles Simic, Paul Muldoon and David St. John. In her
most recent book
While The Women Are Sleeping
, she worked with
reknowned Spanish writer, Javier Marias.
Mark began as a writer and received her Masters of Fine Arts from
Columbia University’s School of the Arts, writing division. She
has had numerous solo exhibitions in New York at ACA Galleries,
Forum Gallery, Lori Bookstein Fine Art and Jill Newhouse Gallery.
Her monotypes were included in the historical exhibition at The
Smithsonian Institution,
Singular Impressions: The Monotype in
America
. Other museum shows include: The Lyman Allyn Museum,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Hiroshima Museum of
Contemporary Art.
Her prints and books are in the collections of The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Morgan Library, The Spenser and Berg
collections at the New York Public Library and numerous other
museums and private collections.
