China Marks

• Marks began her career as a sculptor and later concentrated on drawing. In 2000, she had a revelation. “[M]y drawings told me that they had to be sewn, and it wouldn’t be enough to hand-embroider them: I had to buy a sewing machine and learn to generate and control a sewn line.”

• Curator Bill North has written about the artist’s work: “Through her inventive and distinctive method, an improvisational and revelatory dance of mind, hand, and material, Marks arrives at fantastic creations that are once in and out of this world.”

• In 2007, the artist began to create books using her sewn drawings.

• Marks earned a bachelor of fine arts from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1970 and master of fine arts from Washington University in St. Louis.

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