Markmaking: Selections from the Collection
JAN 2 - APR 3, 2021
1st Floor: The Leah Louise B. Tannenbaum and Louise D. and Herbert S. Falk, Sr. Galleries

Susan Collis, I would like to invite the viewer I, 2014, graphite on paper, 46 3/16 x 30 1/2 in. Weatherspoon Art Museum. Museum purchase with funds from the Dillard Fund for the Dillard Collection, 2014. © Susan Collis

The artworks in this exhibition show a plethora of approaches to markmaking, a term used to describe the different types of lines, scratches, smudges, patterns, dots, and textures that result from the way an artist applies a material, such as graphite or paint, to a surface. Because each mark possesses unique characteristics as well as contributes to the entire composition, it is an effective way to communicate. On display are works by, among many others: Natalie Alper, Keith Carter, Sol LeWitt, Vik Muniz, Alyson Shotz, and Robert Smithson.

Organized by Elaine D. Gustafson, Curator of Collections.