Lois Mark (April 14, 1926- April 24, 2020)
started her career as a fashion illustrator, freelancing for several well-known fashion retail stores She started her career as a fashion illustrator, freelancing for several well-known fashion retail stores in New York, Washington DC and St Petersburg, FL including Bonwit Teller, the Hecht Company, Lord and Taylor, and Woodies. She also worked on staff at Women’s Wear Daily and local department stores before turning to textile design selling her designs at international trade shows and directly to fashion houses and manufacturers in New York City, England, France and Italy. As a textile designer, Mark created designs for both apparel and home furnishings developing various unique palettes and patterns both random and regular.
"Wanting 'to paint large,"Mark turned to fine art painting in 1998. Building on her experience in textile design and her extraordinary use of color, she left traditional modes of representation behind, proceeding with a rambunctious spirit and looking for meaning in abstraction. In her paintings, lines sometimes delineated form but more often took an independent path adding another layer of complexity. Preferring vibrant, saturated colors and compositions whose elements draw you closer, often without a central focal point, her goal was to cultivate upbeat rhythms and positive environments to which she gave upbeat titles. She made sure to make room for the viewer's imagination.
Mark exhibited at Fine Line Gallery and Portal in Atlanta, Caelum Gallery in New York and numerous places around Washington including the Katzen Rotunda Gallery at American University and the Yellow Barn Gallery.
Daughter of Harvey B Anderson and Amy L Anderson, Lois Geraldine Anderson, Lois Mark grew up in Washington, attending Gordon Jr High School and Western High School (now Duke Ellington School for the Arts). She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.A. and went on to study at the Art Students League in New York with Dagmar Freuchen and Dora Devries. She briefly lived in Paris attending the Sorbonne. She returned to Washington and married Edward K Mark with who she had two children.
While her career was in the visual arts, Mark also loved music. She learned to play the Mandolin and joined the Takoma Park Mandoleers, playing concerts in and around Washington. She was an avid reader, reading the entire Washington Post every day and always had 2 or 3 books going at the same time.
started her career as a fashion illustrator, freelancing for several well-known fashion retail stores She started her career as a fashion illustrator, freelancing for several well-known fashion retail stores in New York, Washington DC and St Petersburg, FL including Bonwit Teller, the Hecht Company, Lord and Taylor, and Woodies. She also worked on staff at Women’s Wear Daily and local department stores before turning to textile design selling her designs at international trade shows and directly to fashion houses and manufacturers in New York City, England, France and Italy. As a textile designer, Mark created designs for both apparel and home furnishings developing various unique palettes and patterns both random and regular.
"Wanting 'to paint large,"Mark turned to fine art painting in 1998. Building on her experience in textile design and her extraordinary use of color, she left traditional modes of representation behind, proceeding with a rambunctious spirit and looking for meaning in abstraction. In her paintings, lines sometimes delineated form but more often took an independent path adding another layer of complexity. Preferring vibrant, saturated colors and compositions whose elements draw you closer, often without a central focal point, her goal was to cultivate upbeat rhythms and positive environments to which she gave upbeat titles. She made sure to make room for the viewer's imagination.
Mark exhibited at Fine Line Gallery and Portal in Atlanta, Caelum Gallery in New York and numerous places around Washington including the Katzen Rotunda Gallery at American University and the Yellow Barn Gallery.
Daughter of Harvey B Anderson and Amy L Anderson, Lois Geraldine Anderson, Lois Mark grew up in Washington, attending Gordon Jr High School and Western High School (now Duke Ellington School for the Arts). She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.A. and went on to study at the Art Students League in New York with Dagmar Freuchen and Dora Devries. She briefly lived in Paris attending the Sorbonne. She returned to Washington and married Edward K Mark with who she had two children.
While her career was in the visual arts, Mark also loved music. She learned to play the Mandolin and joined the Takoma Park Mandoleers, playing concerts in and around Washington. She was an avid reader, reading the entire Washington Post every day and always had 2 or 3 books going at the same time.