Mike Marks, Remainder, woodcut
ON VIEW: JANUARY 15 - FEBRUARY 6, 2021
PUBLIC CONVERSATION: JANUARY 28, 2021 7-8:00pm
This exhibition fills Highpoint’s galleries with a quantity of original collographs, intaglio, and relief prints made by 2020 McKnight Printmaking Fellow Mike Marks. Much of the featured work is recent, however because this McKnight Printmaking Fellowships are for mid-career artists, some older gems will also be on view.
Exhibition walk through and Q&A with Mike Marks
About the artist: Mike Marks holds a BFA in Drawing from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Delaware. In 2016 he relocated to Minneapolis where he now lives and works. Mike’s prints are included in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museo do Douro (Douro, Portugal), Munakata Shiko Memorial Museum of Art (Aomori, Japan), Zuckerman Museum of Art (Kennesaw, GA), and the California College of Arts (Oakland, CA). Marks has been a resident artist at South Dakota State University, the University of Evansville, the Tides Institute and Museum of Art, Crooked Tree Arts Center/Good Hart Residency, Stone Trigger Press, and Acadia National Park. His work has exhibited both nationally and internationally. He recently received an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, during which he produced his most recent solo exhibition, No Trace (2020).
Mike’s work focuses on critical habitat and landscapes under duress, using printmaking as an analogue for the mechanisms that reshape the environments around us. The prints often incorporate an act of deletion in their image-making process, representative of Mike’s ongoing interest in unmaking one object in order to create another.
