Mark Making

Exhibition Statement

The Schneider Museum of Art explored current manifestations in traditional drawing and other forms of mark-making that use linear and tonal variation in the exhibition Mark Making, which opened on May 7, 2004. The intimate art of sketching and drawing with pencil, chalk, pen and ink expanded to include linear images in photography, the graphic arts, computer-generated and collage/assemblage images, erasures, transfers, and other systems of mark-making.

The exhibition was designed to inform students and the community-at-large about the oldest form of art and its many variations. The exhibition focused on the enormous variety of mark-making techniques, without placing emphasis on a particular process. Twenty-five artists from Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington were invited to participate in the exhibition. Artists whose work was included in the show were John Altoon, Robert Andersen, Hilary Brace, Cody Bustamante, Steve Galloway, David George, Marvin Hardin, Gendron Jensen, Robert Johnson, Linda King, Betsy Lohrer-Hall, Byung-Hun Min, Selma Moskowitz, Margaret Nielsen, Mari Omori, Stas Orlovsky, Christine Taylor Patten, Patrick Percy, Raymond Saunders, Olga Seem, Coleen Sterritt, Masami Teraoka, Judy Tuwaletstiwa, Laura Vanderburgh, and Peter Zokosky.

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