Alice Thorson,
New Art Examiner / Kansas City Star
On first encounter, the diverse artistic output of Baltimore-based artist Sherwin Mark seems to defy generalization. Ranging from dust sculptures, swept into being from the debris on his studio floor, to ambitious multi-media works exploring the terrains of language, photography, and human behavior. Mark's oeuvre bespeaks a volatile, quicksilver intelligence of seemingly unpredictable focus.
He collects — varicolored bars of soap which he photographs in a row. He wraps — the odd, valueless found object in a raggedy blanket, or a trio of World War II gas masks ... MORE
