Gallery Annabeth Marks

March 18–April 22, 2017
Gallery interior with six works installed on the walls, including two abstract paintings and four deconstructed, painted garments.

Annabeth Marks, installation view, 2017

Six works installed along the walls of a gallery, including four abstract paintings and two deconstructed, painted garments. The paintings incorporate bold colors and large shapes.

Annabeth Marks, installation view, 2017

Three works installed on adjacent walls. The paintings Strength Divider and Red Root are to the left, and a deconstructed garment, Digestion IV, is on the right.

Annabeth Marks, installation view, 2017

Three works installed on adjacent walls: the painting Night Adapter and a deconstructed piece, Digestion I are on the left. To the right, the painting The Plant That Heals May Also Poison (RM) is installed.

Annabeth Marks, installation view, 2017

Frontal view of The Spider, 2016, a painting that is mostly black with streaks of orange, yellow and green. Deconstructed strips of fabric hang from the surface of the painting.

Annabeth Marks, installation view, 2017

Digestion II and Digestion III, two deconstructed fabric works installed side by side on a wall. Both works are hung from the top so that strips of painted garment unravel towards the floor.

Annabeth Marks, installation view, 2017

An abstract painting composed of bright blocks of orange, red and yellow, with a center filled with dark greens evocative of a landscape.

Annabeth Marks
The Plant That Heals May Also Poison (RM), 2017
Oil on canvas
80 × 56 × 3.5 inches

A painting composed of light washes of orange and red paint that has been affixed to the center of a larger canvas.

Annabeth Marks
Red Root, 2016
Oil on canvas with thread

80 × 56 inches

A deconstructed, painted garment hung from the top so that strips of painted material unravel towards the floor.

Annabeth Marks

Digestion IV, 2017
Latex and oil paint on deconstructed leather jacket

Dimensions vary

Press Release

White Columns is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition by Annabeth Marks. In this exhibition, Marks presents new paintings on canvas and painted deconstructed garments.

Working with fragmentation and collage, Marks paints on loose sheets of canvas that are then cut, reassembled, and further painted on. Similarly the garment pieces employ both construction and deconstruction as a means of making. Painting fragments migrate between forms, lending a sense of mobility to these works.

The stretched paintings evoke landscapes and topographies. While painting Marks builds image and pictorial space using color as the structure. In these works color is also the matter that moves between forms. Drawing from the artist’s interest in plants known for their simultaneous medicinal and poisonous potential, Marks’ makes paintings that “contain the possibility for two characteristics that are considered to be binaries…locating areas in which a dual oppositional space exists within one ‘body’.”

In the jacket works, Marks carefully deconstructs, paints, and combines second hand coats along their seams to expose a “skeleton” form. Through cutting and painting these objects the artist collapses their interior and exterior space. These linear forms then begin to mirror the visual language of the stretched paintings.  At times “the jacket and the paintings reflect each other, at times the jacket is the figure in the painting’s landscape, the painting is the landscape caught in the jacket’s web.”

Annabeth Marks (b.1986) lives and works in New York. She received her MFA in painting from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Marks’ work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Halsey McKay (2016); CANADA Gallery (2016); Moskowitz Bayse (2016); and Rachel Uffner Gallery (2015). Marks’ collaboration with Eckhaus Latta was included in Greater New York, MoMa PS1 (2015). In 2016, Marks curated the exhibition ‘Doris Staffel’ at White Columns.

For further information about this exhibition contact: info@whitecolumns.org

Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday / Noon – 6pm.

White Columns
320 West 13th Street
New York NY 10014
212-924-4212
www.whitecolumns.org

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Gallery interior with six works installed on the walls, including two abstract paintings and four deconstructed, painted garments.
Six works installed along the walls of a gallery, including four abstract paintings and two deconstructed, painted garments. The paintings incorporate bold colors and large shapes.
Three works installed on adjacent walls. The paintings Strength Divider and Red Root are to the left, and a deconstructed garment, Digestion IV, is on the right.
Three works installed on adjacent walls: the painting Night Adapter and a deconstructed piece, Digestion I are on the left. To the right, the painting The Plant That Heals May Also Poison (RM) is installed.
Frontal view of The Spider, 2016, a painting that is mostly black with streaks of orange, yellow and green. Deconstructed strips of fabric hang from the surface of the painting.
Digestion II and Digestion III, two deconstructed fabric works installed side by side on a wall. Both works are hung from the top so that strips of painted garment unravel towards the floor.
An abstract painting composed of bright blocks of orange, red and yellow, with a center filled with dark greens evocative of a landscape.
A painting composed of light washes of orange and red paint that has been affixed to the center of a larger canvas.
A deconstructed, painted garment hung from the top so that strips of painted material unravel towards the floor.

Annabeth Marks, installation view, 2017 (Gallery interior with six works installed on the walls, including two abstract paintings and four deconstructed, painted garments.)

Annabeth Marks, installation view, 2017 (Six works installed along the walls of a gallery, including four abstract paintings and two deconstructed, painted garments. The paintings incorporate bold colors and large shapes.)

Annabeth Marks, installation view, 2017 (Three works installed on adjacent walls. The paintings Strength Divider and Red Root are to the left, and a deconstructed garment, Digestion IV, is on the right.)

Annabeth Marks, installation view, 2017 (Three works installed on adjacent walls: the painting Night Adapter and a deconstructed piece, Digestion I are on the left. To the right, the painting The Plant That Heals May Also Poison (RM) is installed.)

Annabeth Marks, installation view, 2017 (Frontal view of The Spider, 2016, a painting that is mostly black with streaks of orange, yellow and green. Deconstructed strips of fabric hang from the surface of the painting.)

Annabeth Marks, installation view, 2017 (Digestion II and Digestion III, two deconstructed fabric works installed side by side on a wall. Both works are hung from the top so that strips of painted garment unravel towards the floor.)

Annabeth Marks The Plant That Heals May Also Poison (RM), 2017 Oil on canvas 80 × 56 × 3.5 inches (An abstract painting composed of bright blocks of orange, red and yellow, with a center filled with dark greens evocative of a landscape.)

Annabeth Marks Red Root, 2016 Oil on canvas with thread 80 × 56 inches (A painting composed of light washes of orange and red paint that has been affixed to the center of a larger canvas.)

Annabeth Marks Digestion IV, 2017 Latex and oil paint on deconstructed leather jacket Dimensions vary (A deconstructed, painted garment hung from the top so that strips of painted material unravel towards the floor.)