NYAB Event - Mark Barrow Exhibition

Mark Barrow Exhibition

Elizabeth Dee

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Elizabeth Dee presents the gallery’s first exhibition of work by Mark Barrow.

Positioned in postmodernism’s vacuous wake, Barrow mines diverse formal elements as he circumspectly crafts an open-ended practice. Skeptical of modernism’s linear reductiveness, however, Barrow resists a reactionary, nostalgic return to any formalism.

Barrow’s expansive works revolve around the structure and geometries of weaving, both as material substrate and conceptual framework. Working on hand-loomed linen that his wife Sarah Parke fabricates, Barrow methodically applies paint corresponding to Parke’s pattern. This collaborative gesture is emblematic of the entire process, a free flow of information and marriage of forms. Just as the distinction between image and object dissolves with each dot placed, so too do the boundaries between antithetical ideas. The empirical and the accidental, the mechanical and the handmade, the systematic and the intuitive are all conflated in a complex matrix.

Mark Barrow graduated with an MFA from Yale in 2006. His paintings were first exhibited in New York at the 2007 White Columns Annual selected by Clarissa Dalrymple and he has since exhibited in numerous group shows. This is his first solo presentation at the gallery and his second solo presentation in New York following his 2008 White Columns White Room show under the direction of Matthew Higgs.