"Lucid Perturbations: The Sewn Drawings and Books of China Marks at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, NM, presents over 200 artworks from China Marks's sewn oeuvre, offering the broadest survey of the artist's hypnagogic tableaux of storytelling to date. China Marks dedicated the last 23 years of her active art practice to producing more than 600 sewn works. Lucid Perturbations, on view from May 15 to July 11, reveals the depth of Marks's artistic psyche and the range of her intuitive responses to the travesties and phenomena of our world, its power dynamics, and the tragicomedy or psychology of human relationships."
"The exhibition title comes from Mark's own observation of how each work "remains lucid despite the perturbations of the fabric," speaking to the paradox in coherence of imagery despite the disjointed, the disconcerting, and the enigmatic. "I am after as complex a truth as possible. My drawings reflect the world in all its glory, horror, and absurdity - its workers and slugs; sleepwalkers and prophets. Who is in charge, and who suffers because of that? Why does the past keep biting us in the ass? What does it mean to be in love?"-China Marks"
"In 2000, at age 59, Marks decided to pivot from painting, printmaking, and sculpture to exclusively sewing together the many joys, sorrows, and contradictions of life into emotionally resonant, if not beautifully bizarre, scenes that are, in turns, uncomfortably familiar and cryptic. Until now, Mark's many worlds have been a universe predominantly private to her."
The exhibition presents over 200 sewn works from China Marks’s hypnagogic tableaux of storytelling. The show offers the broadest survey of her sewn oeuvre to date, including more than 600 sewn works created over 23 years of active practice. The title reflects an observation that each work remains lucid despite perturbations of fabric, emphasizing coherence within disjointed, disconcerting, and enigmatic imagery. Marks shifted in 2000 from painting, printmaking, and sculpture to exclusively sewing scenes that combine joys, sorrows, and contradictions of life. The works respond intuitively to world phenomena, power dynamics, and the tragicomedy and psychology of human relationships, while raising questions about control, suffering, the past, and love.
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