China Marks
Born 1942 in Kansas City, Missouri. She lives and works in Long Island City, USA.
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About
The fusion of drawing, narrative, and pattern shaped China Marks’ aesthetic. She learned to “draw” with a sewing machine—first simply, then with increasing complexity—creating stitched drawings enriched and transformed by their making. While her early work already explored imaginative themes, the colors, textures, and visual language of fabrics, together with the tonal, tactile, and linear qualities of sewing, expanded her artistic vocabulary.
After receiving an MFA in Sculpture from Washington University in St. Louis in 1976, Marks moved to the East Coast of the United States to pursue her career as an artist. She has received numerous fellowships and awards, including three from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a Mid-Atlantic Arts fellowship, two from the George Sugarman Foundation, three from the New York Foundation for the Arts (most recently in 2017), and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2013.
Since 1999, she has lived and worked in Long Island City. Her works have been exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe.