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At NADA Miami 2019, we presented an immersive installation of paintings, drawings, and wallpaper by Mark Barrow and Sarah Parke.

Installation view, JDJ at NADA Miami, 2019

Over the last decade, Barrow Parke’s practice has explored the logic of weaving and its relationship to visual and digital systems.
Barrow Parke’s paintings on hand-loomed and embroidered fabric, works on paper, and artist-designed wallpaper lend the booth qualities of a domestic space, much like the gallery’s permanent location in the Hudson Valley.
Several of the works on view are part of a new series inspired by ancient fertility figure statues, such as the Venus of Willendorf.
The bulbous shapes of the fertility statues inform the fields of color and pattern of the paintings and drawings.
Abstract motifs, some hand-painted and some hand-embroidered, are are interspersed with imagery suggestive of sex, fertility, and regeneration.
A group of new wood-fired porcelain sculptures made by Japanese artist Shino Takeda respond to the arcs and curves found in Barrow and Parke’s compositions.

Barrow Parke,
Woman III, 2019
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
23 ¾ × 17 ¾ inches

Barrow Parke,
Woman III, 2019
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
23 ¾ × 17 ¾ inches (detail)

Barrow Parke,
Woman II, 2019
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
23 ¾ × 17 ¾ inches

Barrow Parke,
Woman II, 2019
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
23 ¾ × 17 ¾ inches (detail)

Barrow Parke,
Woman I, 2019
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
23 ¾ × 19 ¾ inches

Barrow Parke,
Woman I, 2019
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
23 ¾ × 19 ¾ inches (detail)

Barrow Parke,
Tentacle, Braid, Lily Repeat, 2019
10 × 8 inches

Barrow Parke,
Woman II, 2019
Colored pencil and gouache on paper
10 ¼ × 8 inches

Barrow Parke,
Woman I, 2019
Colored pencil and gouache on paper
9 ½ × 8 inches

Barrow Parke,
Woman III, 2019
Colored pencil and gouache on paper
10 ½ × 8 inches

NADA 2019 press release