ARTIST STATEMENT
Mike Marks’ prints reflect processes of change and loss within landscape. Mike draws inspiration from the natural and constructed environments that he has observed from his perspective as an outdoorsman, creating images that contemplate the human influence on place, and whether the marks left by both natural and artificial changes in the environment are becoming indistinguishable from one another. His work emphasizes the physical manipulation of land, echoed in the surfaces of his prints using collagraph plates, stencils, embossment, relief and intaglio processes.
Mike Marks’ prints reflect processes of change and loss within landscape. Mike draws inspiration from the natural and constructed environments that he has observed from his perspective as an outdoorsman, creating images that contemplate the human influence on place, and whether the marks left by both natural and artificial changes in the environment are becoming indistinguishable from one another. His work emphasizes the physical manipulation of land, echoed in the surfaces of his prints using collagraph plates, stencils, embossment, relief and intaglio processes.
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BIO
Mike Marks holds a BFA in Drawing from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Delaware. His prints and drawings have shown both nationally and internationally. He currently lives and works out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is a 2017/2018 Jerome Foundation Emerging Printmaker in Residence at the Highpoint Center for Printmaking. Prior to relocating to Minnesota, he was Director of Intaglio for Maine-based printmaking collective Pickwick Independent Press from 2013-2016. Mike has taught printmaking at Haystack Mountain School of Craft (ME), Long Island University (NY), and the University of Delaware (DE). He's also conducted workshops at art-centers in New Mexico, Alabama, Michigan, Minnesota, and Maine. Mike has been an artist-in-residence at the Tides Institute & Museum of Art (Eastport, ME), Stone Trigger Press (Abiquiu, NM), Crooked Tree Art Center (Petoskey, MI), and Acadia National Park (Mt. Desert Island, ME). When he's not printing he's usually out backpacking or exploring rivers! Fly rod in hand!!!! |