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Ceramic Artist returns to clay after 30 year hiatus.
Graham Marks, Former Head of Ceramics at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, now in his 70’s, returns to working in ceramics with a solo exhibition at Sculpture Space NYC – CCA.
Marks was a well-known ceramic artist and influential teacher, exhibited internationally in the 1970’s and 80’s. Following an involvement in fighting the placement of a nuclear waste dump near his home in Alfred, NY he followed his interest in healing, returned to school, and became an acupuncturist, maintaining a rural private practice for 25 years.
Following his retirement, Marks resumed working in clay. His first solo exhibition of new work since 1991 will open at one of the few non- profit exhibition spaces dedicated to ceramics in the New York metropolitan area.
This body of work, candelabras and vases, was inspired by seeing the French decorative arts in the exhibition Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts last year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, curated by Wolf Burchard.
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