Exhibitions Run: August 6 – September 12
Artist Talks + Reception: Saturday, August 22, 4:30p-6:30p
A paired exhibition by Mark Weaver and Jessica Marie Gross. With a common history in printmaking, Mark and Jessica approach their creative practices with curiosity and care. This exhibition features Mark’s woodblock prints as an intuitive exploration of process and material, and Jessica’s multidisciplinary works that are research and autobiographically inspired. Together, the gallery presents these two artists and their extraordinary works in complementary conversation.
Mark Weaver (b.1958 in Albuquerque, NM) studied block printing and graphic design in the 1970s at Washington University in St Louis MO, while earning a degree in architecture. He has continued working from his home studio in the intervening years, and has exhibited in galleries in New Mexico, California, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. He is also a working musician who plays tuba in a variety of ensembles. He loves music, reading, and NM mountain hiking. The artwork in the exhibition are relief prints of woodcuts: hand-rubbed impressions on kozo (mulberry) paper using oil based ink, typically carved from scavenged wood pieces.
Jessica Marie Gross is a conceptual artist and a scientist. Each of her practices offers a lens for understanding human behavior and the ways we construct ideas of place, identity, and belonging in relation to one another and to the living world. She holds a BFA in Studio Art and a PhD in Anthropology, and her work has been exhibited in galleries across the United States.
