Mark Barrow & Sarah Parke's collaborative art practice focuses on the process of weaving and its relationship to visual systems.

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.

Their work operates at the intersection of craft, technology and contemporary art.

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.

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.

Swaths of color and pattern in the works appear in shapes reminiscent of finger swipes on an iPhone.

Recent works incorporate pattern in order to form images.

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.

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.

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.

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.