SaraNoa Mark

SaraNoa Mark received a BFA at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2015. While studying at PAFA SaraNoa was awarded The Pennsylvania Governor’s Award, The Women’s Board Travel Scholarship, and The Lois and Charles X. Carlson Landscape Painting Residency. SaraNoa has been awarded a grant from The John Anson Kittredge Fund as well as an Award of Excellence from VSA Arts. SaraNoa recently attended the inaugural session of the Summer Sedona Colony. SaraNoa lives and works in Chicago and New York - currently works as a Community Outreach Coordinator at Art Kibbutz and plays an essential part in creating organizational relationships and artist fellowships.

"My artworks explore my relationship with physicality – what it feels like to step on sand, and how materials decay over time. I am interested in temporality, and our desire to document experience. The content of my artwork is inextricable from the process of its production.  I pursue the physical act of deconstructing surfaces through a process of cumulative mark making, a process that lives between destruction and creation. I use carving tools in my drawing process to irritate, scratch, poke, cut, and crawl on paper and fabrics to create sculptural drawings and paper sculptures asking when do works on paper become works of paper?"

At Art Kibbutz her intention is to connect and participate in the extensive history of human documentation and story telling.