I constantly look to ancient clay tablets, papyrus fragments, wall reliefs, wall paintings, carved ivory, woven shoes, baskets, nets, and tapestries. These artifacts survive time, as they outlive their maker. Yet, they are fragile and their material temporality forces them to take on new shapes. I am fascinated by this idea of trying to see the constant and invisible activity of time.
-SaraNoa Mark
SaraNoa Mark (b. 1991) pursues a drawing practice that reflects a desire to evidence the constant and invisible activity of time. Upon graduating from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2015 SaraNoa was awarded a European travel scholarship. Mark’s work has been supported by grants from The John Anson Kittredge Fund and by a SPARK Microgrant. She has held residencies at The Lois and Charles X. Carlson Painting Residency, the Sedona Summer Colony, Art Kibbutz, Montello Foundation, Hyde Park Art Center, and was a BOLT resident at the Chicago Artists Coalition in 2018-2019. In 2019 SaraNoa was named a Visual Arts Fellow by the Luminarts Cultural Foundation. She is also a Director at the 4th Ward Project Space in Chicago. Recent exhibitions of her work have taken place at Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL; Monaco,St. Louis, MO; Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL; Davis & Langdale Company, New York, NY; Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Smithsonian Institution’s S. Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, DC among others. In 2019-2020 SaraNoa will pursue an arts-research Fulbright in Turkey.
Interview, Comp, Art and Design Magazine, 2018
