Mark Barrow & Sarah Parke's collaborative art practice focuses on the process of weaving and its relationship to visual systems.
Barrow Parke, Woman, Installation View, JDJ Tribeca, New York, NY
Barrow Parke, Woman, Installation View, JDJ Tribeca, New York, NY
Barrow Parke, Woman, Installation View, JDJ Tribeca, New York, NY
They are known for their intricate paintings on hand-woven and embroidered linen.
The painted surfaces interact with the color, texture and pattern woven into the fabric.
Barrow Parke
Woman VII, 2021
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-woven fabric
19.625 x 15.75 inches
Barrow Parke
Woman VI, 2021
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-woven fabric
21.625 x 15.75 in
Installation View, Hard/Cover
The Fabric Workshop and Museum,
Philadelphia, PA,
2021
Barrow Parke,
Woman IV, 2020
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches
Barrow Parke,
Woman IV, 2020
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
15 ¾ × 19 ¾ inches
Barrow Parke, Woman IV, 2020 (detail)
Barrow Parke,
Woman V, 2020
Colored pencil and gouache on paper
10 × 8 inches
Barrow Parke,
Origin, 2019
Embroidery and Acrylic on Hand-Loomed Linen
19 ⅝ × 15 ¾ inches
Barrow Parke, Origin, 2019 (detail)
Barrow Parke, Origin, 2019 (detail)
Their work operates at the intersection of craft, technology and contemporary art.
Barrow Parke,
10.17-12.11, 2015
Acrylic on Hand-Loomed Fabric
19 × 15 inches
Barrow Parke, 10.17-12.11, 2015 (detail)
Barrow Parke,
0N10N, 2019
Acrylic on hand-loomed linen
19 ⅝ × 15 ¾ inches
The Reweave series of paintings are made from hand-dyed linen that Barrow paints areas of vibrant color. Parke then pulls apart the fabric thread by thread, and then weaves back together to form a new composition. The resulting painting is a loose, apparitional echo of the original composition, yet it takes on a form of its own as Parke reconstructs the fabric.
Barrow Parke,
Reweave 9, 2016
Hand dyed linen
20 × 16 inches
This painting's hand-woven fabric is made with red, green and blue threads—the color scale used in digital screens. The threads are then painted over with black, in a sense "eliminating" one of the three fabric colors. The optical result in doing so creates subtle shifts in color when viewed from afar.
Barrow Parke,
BRG4, 2014
Acrylic on Hand-Loomed Linen
26 × 20 inches
Swaths of color and pattern in the works appear in shapes reminiscent of finger swipes on an iPhone.
Barrow Parke,
4.24-6.30, 2017
Acrylic on Hand-Loomed Linen
34 × 30 inches
Barrow Parke, 4.24-6.30, 2017 (detail)
Barrow Parke,
Swipe 4, 2015
colored pencil on paper
31 × 21 ¼ inches
Recent works incorporate pattern in order to form images.
Barrow Parke,
5.23-11.24 (Woman), 2017
Acrylic on Hand-Loomed Linen
46 × 42 inches
Barrow Parke, 5.23-11.24 (Woman), 2017 (detail)
Their 2019 exhibition Future Homemakers of America marked a significant shift in the duo’s oeuvre with the introduction of images that emerge from patterns they have developed for wallpaper, textiles, and paintings. The patterns function as decorative motifs and they also represent the commonality between one idea and another.
Installation view, JDJ, Garrison, 2019
Installation view, JDJ, Garrison, 2019
The exhibition’s title, based on the career and technical student organization, is both a tongue-in-cheek reference to a bygone era and a nod to Barrow and Parke’s artistic and domestic collaboration.
In the titular painting, drawing and wallpaper, the artists have adapted a classic American schoolhouse quilt pattern from the 19th century to reference the silhouette of the gallery building.
Barrow Parke,
Future Homemakers of America, 2019
Colored Pencil and Acrylic on Paper
9 × 8 inches
A new series is inspired by ancient fertility figure statues, such as the Venus of Willendorf. Their bulbous shapes inform the fields of color and pattern of the paintings and drawings.
Barrow Parke,
Woman III, 2019
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
23 ¾ × 17 ¾ inches
Barrow Parke, Woman III, 2019 (detail)
Installation view, NADA Miami, 2019
Mark Barrow (b. 1982) and Sarah Parke (b.1981) live and work in New York City. Their work has been recently exhibited at JDJ | The Ice House, Garrison, NY; La Capella Cavassa, Saluzzo, Italy; Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; White Columns, New York; Le 109, Nice, France; ZERO..., Milan; Galerie Almine Rech, Paris and Brussels; and Elizabeth Dee, New York.
Mark Barrow & Sarah Parke in the studio, 2019.
Barrow Parke
Mark Barrow (b. 1982, Gainesville, FL)
Sarah Parke (b.1981, LaCrosse, WI)
Live and work in New York City
Barrow Parke CV
Education
Mark Barrow
2006
M.F.A. in Painting, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2003
B.A. in Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Sarah Parke
2004
B.A. in Textile Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Solo Exhibitions
2021
JDJ | Tribeca, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2019
Future Homemakers of America, JDJ | The Ice House, Garrison, NY
2018
Analemma, Premio Matteo Olivero, Curated by Stefano Raimondi, Capella Cavassa, Saluzzo,
Italy
2016
Matter of Time, Elizabeth Dee and Almine Rech at Independent Régence, Brussels
2016
wave, particle, string, Elizabeth Dee, New York
2014
Mark Barrow and Sarah Parke, Elizabeth Dee, Independent Projects, New York
2014
Mark Barrow and Sarah Parke, London Arts Club, London
2012
RGB, Elizabeth Dee, New York
Synesthesia, ZERO, Milan
2010
Mark Barrow, Elizabeth Dee, New York
2008
White Room: Mark Barrow, White Columns, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Line by Line, Kent State University, Kent Ohio (forthcoming)
2021
Dangerous Patterns, JDJ | The Ice House, Garrison, NY (forthcoming)
Allegheny College Art Galleries, Meadville, PA (forthcoming)
The Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2019
Painted Threads, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2018
The Surface of the East Coast, Curated by Marie Maertens, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York
2017
The Surface of the East Coast, Le 109, Nice, France
Stretch Release, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague, Netherlands
2016
First Exhibition, Elizabeth Dee, NY
2015
Pretty Raw: After and around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
Dans un intérieur Meubles, œuvres murales & textiles d'artistes, Almine Rech, Brussels
2014
DECORUM, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Halftone: Through the Grid, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Dans un intérieur Meubles, œuvres murales & textiles d'artistes, Almine Rech, Paris
Imitatio Christie’s, ZERO…, Milan
Mingei Spirit, are you here? Pace Gallery, New York
Video Screening 25, ZERO…, Milan
2013
The Time Machine, Cura Basement, Frutta, Roma
Fearful Symmetry, curated by Zoe Stillpass, Balice Hertling, NY
Threaded Stories, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Mingei Spirit, are you here? Pace Gallery, London
To Open Eyes: Art and Textiles from the Bauhaus to Today, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
DECORUM, Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Mind is outer space, Casey Kaplan, New York
Group Show, Galerie Perrotin, Paris
2012
Telephone Paintings, curated by Nicolas Trembley, Almine Rech Gallery, Basel 43
Modern Talking, Muzeul National de Arta Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Four Rooms, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Poland
2011
Prague Biennial, Prague, Czech Republic
Praxis, Elizabeth Dee, New York
Gallery Update #2, curated by Ryan Evans & Amie Scally, White Columns, New York
partoftheprocess4, ZERO, Milan
2009
Mark Barrow, Anthony Pearson, Blinky Palermo, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York
2008
Creswell Crags, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York
Un balance, curated by Katie Rashid, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Defining a Moment: 25 New York Artists, curated by Simon Watson and Craig Hensala, House of Campari, New York
2007
Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, White Columns, NY
Press
2019
2016
2015
2014
Holmes, Pernilla. “Process-based art’s rise”, Financial Times, December 2014.
2013
Rossi, Catharine. “Objects in Conversation”, Disegno, October 2013.
Pancotto, Pier Paolo. “The Time Machine (The Survivors)”, ArtForum, December 2013.
Trembley, Nicolas. “L’Atelier – Mark Barrow and Sarah Parke”, Numero, September 2013
Kalt, Marie. “Quand l’art rencontre l’artisanat”, AD, November 2013.
Barrow, Mark. “Re-Productions”, Lab, Cura, Winter 2013.
Higgs, Matthew. Barrow, Mark. Milan: Mousse, and New York: Elizabeth Dee, 2013.
2012
“Mark Barrow”. ArtCat, December 2012.
“Mark Barrow Synaesthesia”, NERO, June 2012
2011
Kontova, Helena. “Top 100 Artists” Flash Art Magazine, November-December 2011.
2010
Johnson, Paddy. “The 10 Best Exhibitions of 2010, and the 2 Worst.” The L Magazine, December 22, 2010.
“Mark Barrow.” The Exhibitionist New York, September 2010.
2009
Coburn, Tyler. “Mark Barrow, Anthony Pearson and Blinkly Palermo.” Art Review, April 2009
Gartenfeld, Alex. “In the Blink of an Eye: Mark Barrow and Anthony Pearson.” Interview Magazine, February 2009.
Trezzi, Nicola. “Craft – From Commodities to Talismans: Modernity as a Remedy to the Aftermath.” Flash Art Magazine, July-September 2009.
Saccoccio, Jackie. “What state abstraction”. Bomblog, December 2009.
2008
2007
Rosenberg, Karen. “Art in Review.” The New York Times, December 7, 2007.
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