Mark Barrow & Sarah Parke's collaborative art practice focuses on the process of weaving and its relationship to visual systems.
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Barrow Parke
Fire of the Jaguar, 2023
Acrylic and Embroidery on Hand-Loomed Linen
33 5/8 x 29 5/8 in
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Barrow Parke
Artemis, 2021
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-woven fabric
28.25 x 22 inches
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Barrow Parke
c:/, 2022
Colored pencil and gouache paper
13 7/8 x 11 1/16 in
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Barrow Parke
Pisces, 2022
Gouache on paper
9 x 7 1/2 inches
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Barrow Parke
Moths, 2021
Colored pencil and gouache on paper
9.5 x 7.25 inches
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Barrow Parke, Woman, Installation View, JDJ Tribeca, New York, NY
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Installation View, Systems and Mythologies, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany 2023
They are known for their intricate paintings on hand-woven and embroidered linen.
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Barrow Parke
The Sargasso Sea, 2022,
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed fabric
33 1/3 x 31 1/2 in
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Barrow Parke
Woman VIII,
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-woven fabric
23.625 x 17.75 inches
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Barrow Parke,
Woman IV, 2020
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches
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Barrow Parke
Shapes in Time, 2022
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
20 x 20 in
The painted surfaces interact with the color, texture and pattern woven into the fabric.
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Installation View, Hard/Cover
The Fabric Workshop and Museum,
Philadelphia, PA,
2021
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Installation View, Systems and Mythologies, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany 2023
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Barrow Parke
c:\, 2022
Acrylic on hand-loomed linen
29 5/8 x 23 3/4 in
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Barrow Parke, The Universe, 2023
Gouache and Colored Pencil on Paper
18 x 19 in
Their work operates at the intersection of craft, technology and contemporary art.
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Installation View, Systems and Mythologies, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany 2023
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Installation View, Systems and Mythologies, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany 2023
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Barrow Parke,
10.17-12.11, 2015
Acrylic on Hand-Loomed Fabric
19 × 15 inches
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Installation View, Systems and Mythologies, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany 2023
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Installation View, Systems and Mythologies, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany 2023
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Barrow Parke,
0N10N, 2019
Acrylic on hand-loomed linen
19 ⅝ × 15 ¾ inches
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Installation View, Systems and Mythologies, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany 2023
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.
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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.
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Barrow Parke,
BRG4, 2014
Acrylic on Hand-Loomed Linen
26 × 20 inches
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Installation View, Systems and Mythologies, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany 2023
Swaths of color and pattern in the works appear in shapes reminiscent of finger swipes on an iPhone.
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Barrow Parke,
4.24-6.30, 2017
Acrylic on Hand-Loomed Linen
34 × 30 inches
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Barrow Parke, 4.24-6.30, 2017 (detail)
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Barrow Parke,
Swipe 4, 2015
colored pencil on paper
31 × 21 ¼ inches
Recent works incorporate pattern in order to form images.
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Barrow Parke,
5.23-11.24 (Woman), 2017
Acrylic on Hand-Loomed Linen
46 × 42 inches
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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.
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Installation view, JDJ, Garrison, 2019
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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.
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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.
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Barrow Parke,
Woman III, 2019
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
23 ¾ × 17 ¾ inches
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Barrow Parke, Woman III, 2019 (detail)
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Installation view, NADA Miami, 2019
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Installation View, By a Thread, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, 2022
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.
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