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Mary Hark Seam: Work from Before, During and After a Year in Kumasi, GhanaKarl Bethke Rorke’s Drift Series: Workshop Sequence
February 9 – March 16, 2008Opening Reception: Friday, February 8. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pmThe Macalester College Art Gallery is pleased to announce two simultaneous exhibitions: Mary Hark's Seam: Work from Before, During and After a Year in Kumasi, Ghana and Karl Bethke's Rorke's Drift Series: Workshop Sequence. Both bodies of work in these exhibitions are the reactions of prominent North American artists responding to profound experiences and influences through time spent on the African continent. Mary Hark has spent extended periods of time in Ghana. Karl Bethke's work is the result of time spent in South Africa during the height of the national apartheid policy. Mary Hark's Seam consists of paintings constructed from cloth and paper transformed by a rigorous and extensive process. As she puts it, they consider the “poetry in accidental marks, the tenderness of flaw, the transformative potential of attention and labor.” Karl Bethke's Rorke's Drift Series consists of elaborate and evocative screen prints that use between 30 and 100 separate stencils to arrive at their final state. Both bodies of work share a rich surface and physicality and a complete mastery of their chosen materiality.
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