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#drawing
#maps
#Mark Powell
#pen
#portraits
In Mark Powell’s tender portraits, crinkled eyes and foreheads creased with age mirror highways and scrawled cursive notes. The artist (previously) pairs meticulously detailed drawings of older topics with stamped envelopes, classic guide pages, and maps weathered from use, superimposing faces onto the worn, typically collaged, substrates. Producing immense depth and shadow with the standard ballpoint pen, Powell likens the tales and experiences hidden in a face to these held inside a letter or observe from days passed by.
When you’re in Paris, you possibly can see the artist’s solo exhibition Roads That Make Us by way of February 3 at Loo & Lou Gallery. Store prints and originals on his site, and discover information about upcoming reveals, together with at Mad24 in Madrid, on Instagram.
#drawing
#maps
#Mark Powell
#pen
#portraits
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