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ca. 1980
24 x 29 1/2 x 28 1/2 in. (61 x 74.9 x 72.4 cm)

Graham Marks
American

Object Type: Sculpture
Medium and Support: Clay
Credit Line: Marion Stratton Gould Fund; Memorial Art Gallery Purchase Award, 1980 Rochester - Finger Lakes Exhibition
Accession Number: 1980.45
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Graham Marks’s ambiguous ceramic work triggers associations with familiar forms: squishy cerebral folds or the hard, ragged interior of a nut. In 1980, Marks came to Rochester to teach a semester at Rochester Institute of Technology and this piece was awarded the purchase prize at the Gallery’s Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition. The same year he was featured in the national Ceramics Monthly and was quoted as saying, “Clay is a material that is engaging to me because of its resistance to the imposition of monologue and its insistence on dialogue. I inform it as much as it informs me.”

[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]

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Purchased by the Gallery from the artist

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20th Century American Art
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It Came from the Vault: Rarely Seen Works from MAG’s Collection
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