Discipline: Visual Art

Wendy Mark

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1990
More: www.wendymarkart.com
Wendy Mark is a painter and printmaker primarily known for her monotypes. Her exhibitions often include collaborations with poets and writers and she has produced limited edition books with the Pulitzer Prize-winning poets, Mark Strand, Charles Simic, Paul Muldoon, and David St. John. She has had numerous solo exhibitions in New York at ACA Galleries, Forum Gallery , Lori Bookstein Fine Art and Jill Newhouse. 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 in CT, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art in Japan. 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, the Beinecke Rare Books Library at Yale and numerous other museums and libraries. She is among the 20 artists sited by Thomas Hoving in his article in cigar Afficionado: "20 Artists who May Be the Picasso's and Monet's of the 21st Century."

Studios

Putnam

Wendy Mark worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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