BERT YARBOROUGH - marked
BERT YARBOROUGH
marked
april 02-may 04, 2022
This exhibit is a selection of works on paper selected from the archives of Yarborough’s years of art making. All the work in the show is unframed. The size of the works varies. There is no specific time period or theme to this show. It is a cross section of the mark making and materiality Yarborough makes in his work.
Years of mark-making in a variety of mediums, across multiple disciplines, that include drawing and printmaking, have honed Yarborough’s skills and given him the ability to allow engaged play, chance and accident to have a major role in his work. He continues to let the process of making, the liquid materials of gouache, ink, watercolor and paint, fuel his curiosity and guide his search.
Curated by Susie Nielsen of Farm projects, Nielsen made visits to Yarborough’s studio in Truro going through archival boxes and flat files. “I am sure we only touched the surface, Bert is prolific. In some ways it doesn’t matter if I saw every piece he ever made, what I am interested in is Bert’s range and how there is a constant thread through his work and how that gets transposed.” writes Nielsen.
This project started when Nielsen and Yarborough created a book of his index/codex series; eighty works on index cards he purchased at a yard sale in Provincetown thirty years ago. Beginning in 2018, while moving his studio to Truro, he revisited the cards and has spent the last five years intermittently working on. them. Yarborough and Nielsen compiled the eighty drawings into one book. Yarborough believes they represent of the span of his mark making. That began the conversation which became a show.
Bert Yarborough and Farm projects have been working on print and art projects for the last 03 years. Yarborough is represented by Berta Walker Gallery and will have an exhibition of paintings there this summer.
Bert Yarborough has a degree in Architecture from Clemson University and an MA and MFA in Photography from the University of Iowa. He held the Sonia C. Davidow ’56 Endowed Chair in the Fine and Performing Arts at Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, where he also served as the Director of the William and Sonja Carlson Davidow ’56 and Marian Graves Mugar Art Galleries and taught Drawing and Painting. A former two-year Resident Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, he served as Visual Arts Program Coordinator for four years and is now serving as Chairman of the Visual Committee. He has received grants in Painting and a Fulbright Fellowship to Nigeria, in Sculpture, and a Visual Arts Residency Fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbria, Italy. He lives in Truro, MA.
