Brian Mark

Anza Borrego Brian Mark

Anza Borrego Alabaster 19.75" x 12.75" x 10" $2100

This stone was quarried in Anza Borrego (south of Joshua Tree, California) and originally weighed 125 pounds. While carving this sculpture, I felt the years of calcification of this rock. It was quite soft to carve, which allowed me to have a free-flowing conversation. It also gave me permission to create many areas of negative space, which allowed the stone to really show its beauty.

Byron Brian Mark

Alabaster 18" x 19" x 8.75" $1900

I sculpted “Byron” from alabaster in 2021. It’s named “Byron” as part of a trilogy of early 19th-century British Romantic poets: Byron, Shelley and Keats. This series began when I created a sculpture made of rocks and many, many shells. It was a most unusual stone that cried out to be called “Shelley.” And, hence, the trilogy began. “Shelley” sold almost immediately. In sculpting “Byron,” I created channels in the back of the sculpture to draw the viewer’s eye to movement.