Wendy Mark: Beginning with Square One

WENDY MARK i s a painter and printmaker primarily known for her monotypes. Her work is often based on collaborations: with poets and writers such as Adam Gopnik and Louis Menand and here with award winning architects AGENCY. She has produced limited edition books with the Pulitzer Prize winning poets Mark Strand, Charles Simic, Paul Muldoon and David St. John. In her most recent book While The Women Are Sleeping , she worked with reknowned Spanish writer, Javier Marias. Mark began as a writer and received her Masters of Fine Arts from Columbia University’s School of the Arts, writing division. She has had numerous solo exhibitions in New York at ACA Galleries, Forum Gallery, Lori Bookstein Fine Art and Jill Newhouse Gallery. 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, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art. 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 and numerous other museums and private collections.