Carly Mark

Carly Mark (born 1988) is an American contemporary artist and writer working in a variety of media including sculpture, painting, and video.

Carly mark was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1988[1] and attended the Eliel Saarinen designed Cranbrook Kingswood High School.

[6] When Mark began painting individual bags of snack foods, she started by using materials she had readily available, notably tracing paper and watercolor.

[1] Zach Sokol of Vice describes her Haribo bag paintings as," revisionist advertisements" and "...gorgeous acrylic freakouts that mix and mash personal reference points with the flamboyant wrapping, such as Gold Bear bags featuring characters from films like Alien or Brazil and nods to art history like the postmodern architecture collective Memphis Group.

[6] Carly Mark exhibited in many group shows between 2013 and 2016 including the Red Bull Music Academy, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Shanghai Biennale in 2013, The Frieze Art Fair in 2014, The Museum of Modern Art and Montreal's Division Gallery in 2015, and Frieze New York and The Armory Show in 2016.