Carly Mark (born 1988) is an American contemporary artist and writer working in a variety of media including sculpture, painting, and video. She is known for creating works that relate to commercial food packaging, specifically Haribo gummy bears. Currently, she is best known for her fashion label

Puppets and Puppets Puppets and Puppets is a New York based fashion label found in 2018 by Carly Mark and Ayla Argentina, but is now run solely by Mark. In 2023, Mark was nominated for the Fashion Trust US St. John Knits award for ready-to-wear. In 2024, Mark annou ...

Life and career

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Carly Mark, Illuminated
Interview. March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 18, 2017. and attended the Eliel Saarinen designed Cranbrook Kingswood High School.Mark, Carly
Lisa Frank on Lisa Frank
. Foundations Magazine. August 28, 2015. Retrieved February 18, 2017. After growing up in the

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Mark moved to New York City at 18 to attend the School of Visual Arts. In 2014 she began creating artwork as a full-time endeavor. Mark was formerly in a relationship with artist Jordan Wolfson. In 2018 Mark founded the fashion label

with Ayla Argentina. By 2023 it was noted in the Washington Post and Business of Fashion that Argentina had left the label leaving it to be run solely by Mark.

Work

Carly Mark's work centers on commercial food packaging, specifically the wrappers for Haribo gummy bears. She works in multiple media including sculpture, painting, and video.Sokol, Zach
This Human Gummy Bear Plugs His Butt with a Fancy Haribo Dildo
June 26, 2016. Vice. Retrieved February 2, 2017. When Mark began painting individual bags of snack foods, she started by using materials she had readily available, notably tracing paper and watercolor. Zach Sokol of Vice describes her Haribo bag paintings as," revisionist

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s" 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." In 2015, Carly Mark edited an issue of, and conducted an interview with Lisa Frank for, Foundations magazine. Mark's 2016 video ''Good Buy Human'' features Eric Wareheim from the

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Tim & Eric as an

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gummy bear inserting a

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. The solo show which featured this video also exhibited a selection of her paintings, wallpaper she designed, as well as blown glass sculptures.

Exhibitions

Carly Mark exhibited in many group shows between 2013 and 2016 including the

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, the

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and the

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in 2013, The Frieze Art Fair in 2014, The Museum of Modern Art and Montreal's Division Gallery in 2015, and

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and

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in 2016.Carly Mark
UbuWeb. Retrieved February 18, 2017. Her first major solo show was in 2016 at The Breeder Gallery in Athens, Greece.

References

External links

Carly Mark's official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mark, Carly 1988 births Living people Artists from Detroit School of Visual Arts alumni American contemporary artists