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Dara Mark Show at C Gallery

By Staff

The new C Gallery in Los Alamos will present “Transparency and Iridescence,” a solo exhibit of Dara Mark’s artwork with an opening reception from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday,

A former resident of the Santa Ynez Valley, Mark is an modern abstractionist. Her work is concerned with transparency, reflectivity, iridescence and repetition. It will include early drawings in colored pencil and oil pas-tel, as well as a body of new paintings in acrylic and wash on layers of dura-lar, plastic, non-porous “papers,” stitched together.

Mark is known as a practicing and showing artist throughout the Southwest, especially in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. She has exhibited not only in California, but in Colorado and in New Mexico, where she currently resides in Santa Fe. Many know her as a former California Artists-in-Residence, where she has taught in schools throughout the tri-county region.

Recently, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City selected her to be published in their quarterly. New American Paintings, a catalog of the winner’s work from the western competition. Her work, “Green Circles #1,” won second place in the 38th Annual National Juried Exhibition at the Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Springs. She was represented by EVO Gallery in Santa Fe for many years.

Journalists have described Mark’s work as having “poetic mystery,” meditative, possessing “invisible and powerful laws of attraction” in her designs. The artist describes her work as a “balance ... between what is willed and what is allowed.

“My paintings are small. I hope they allude to a vastness both inner and outer. The visible inspiration for my work is the New Mexico sky,” said Mark.

The C Gallery is at 466 Bell St. in Los Alamos, next door to Cafe Quackenbush. The exhibit will run through Wednesday, Oct. 15, when The C Gallery will exhibit the “Pop Show.”

For more information, call 344-3807.