SaraNoa Mark

Carved Conversations, an exhibition I curated is open to the public through October 30th at Sultanhanı Keransarayı Im excited to share documentation of the site specific artworks that enter into an active conversation with Sultan Han, the largest preserved Seljuk monument built to host a community of transient people along the Silk Road. I am grateful to each artist for trusting the project and creating wonderful and compelling artworks. In order: SaraNoa Mark @saran0a Yazılıkaya Concrete Panels cast from carved clay originals, 2022 Buşra Tunç @tuncbu Scratch Medium: Electroluminescent dyes, metal, fresnel light coding, 2022 LÜTFÜ @thelutfu Orta Doğu Plaster molds cast from toy building block forms into ceramic pieces arranged on sand, 2022 Alejandro Figueredo Díaz-Perera @alejandrofigueredodiaz Protomother Digital paintings created with artificial intelligence, HP latex print, 2022 Cara Megan Lewis @carameganlewis The water shed Collected materials from Hahamongna watershed park in what is now Altadena, CA, 2022 Lara Ögel @laraogel Turquoise II / Turkuaz II Video, 2015 Nergiz Yeşil @nergizyesil LOREM İPSUM II. series Kombucha mushroom, food dye, glass framed with copper and paper box. 2020-2022 Photography by @zeynepfirt Carved Conversations is generously supported by The U.S. Embassy Mission to Turkey @abdbuyukelciligi @luminartsculturalfoundation @foundationforcontemporaryarts . With gratitude to Belediyesi for hosting the exhibition. @sultanhani_belediye @fahri.solak.68

Wave Hill Winter Workspace open studios 2/18 1-4pm Your invited to visit my studio + @masterofdivinity @tomomoriart @iviva_in_brooklyn @s_k_williams @carloswilfredoart Detail of cast concrete Photo by @zeynepfiratphotos 🚨Link in bio for donating links for earthquake relief. Otherwise I’m collecting $ to support the efforts in Turkey + Syria you can venmo me saranoa-mark and I’ll send your money to the right place and share a receipt with you after. 15 million people have been displaced let’s get them temporary shelter and other urgent resources.

WE ARE ALL GUESTS HERE 09.03.21 – 01.15.22 @bridgeprojects_la Deeply energized by the entire process of creating newly commissioned work: PRAYER FOR RAIN, Made of collected water from Lake Michigan, Mississippi River, Colorado River, and Castaic Lake. carved clay, carved glass, aluminum. Inspired by the Jewish pilgrimage holiday of Sukkot I embarked on a water pilgrimage. Water is a moving source involved in constant restless pilgrimage. The journey brought me to the banks of rivers, under stars in deserts shapes by water. Water carves, therefore I carve. Sukkot has always been my favorite Jewish holiday this year I celebrated by investigating ancient water ritual through making art elevated my spiritual practice. Sukkot, a layered Jewish holiday, it is a harvest festival where we petition for rain. The holiday is celebrated in a time of abundance looking ahead as we move into a new season into the unknown. We collect the previous years rain water the water was brought on the pilgrimage route to the Temple used to pour out water libations. In Prayer for Raoin water drips slowly from glass water clocks onto dried earth. On the seventh day of Sukkot we recite a prayer for rain that we continue to say daily until Passover. I carved this prayer into the hanging glass water clocks. As fires burn, droughts continue, climates rise, and pipelines are built through clean water sources, and we use more water then the earth can return. Prayer for Rain is a ritual attempt to concentrate on water usage to pray through action. Grateful to share this work alongside such thoughtful artists: Brody Albert, Susy Bielak, Mira Burack, Rael San Fratello, Adam W. McKinney, and Jenny Yurshansky The exhibition is curated by Bridge Projects’ team Cara Megan Lewis @carameganlewis , Linnéa Gabriella Spransy Neuss @linearlinnea , Vicki Phung Smith @artsypanda1 , and Michael Wright With extreme gratitude to the @bridgeprojects_la team your creative vision, hospitality, and artistic support are unmatched and forever have inspired me. The talented team @igniteglass @elissaosterland !! @alexandriadouziech !! #pulpogallery2022

Final days @huxleyparlour Grateful to those who visited the show! Organized the show! And to the exhibiting artists! Looking forward to October 🇬🇧

Excited to share three carved clay works in my first exhibition in London @huxleyparlour METAMORPHOSIS: ON CLAY March 6 - April 18. Bird Palace, 2026 Carved clay 10 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 2 inches I made this work this past fall @yaddotoday halfway through building it I realized the structure was subconsciously inspired by the magnificent bird palaces I’d admire when I lived in Istanbul. These bird palaces are discretely carved into the sides of stone buildings and offer everything to the birds and the eyes when you remember to look up! AT HUXLEY-PARLOUR 45 Maddox Street London W1S 2PE Hours: Monday to Friday, 11:00am – 5:30pm Saturday, 10:00am – 1:00pm

Thank you to all of you that came out for Ocean, Reduced by SaraNoa Mark @saran0a last week. It was a great evening on the LES. Stay tuned for a VR documentation of the installation in addition to these photographs. Thanks again to Post Times @post__times for hosting us on their sidewalk. See you soon! 🌊

Join us next Thursday, March 19, for SaraNoa Mark's @saran0a exclusive 95 Gallon presentation of work. Ocean, Reduced will showcase several of Mark's notable bodies of work. Thanks to Post Times Gallery @post__times for hosting us in their backyard. Light beer refreshments will be served. Stay tuned for further details. See you next week.

Super excited for an upcoming yearlong studio residency at the @monirafoundation alongside @luisemilioromero_ @that_ivy @cowfootsoup 🐦‍🔥 Free studio residencies have made being an artist who loves (+ needs) extensive time in the studio possible! Beyond thankful to @monirafoundation and @lmcc_nyc for the previous two years in the financial district. @cacoalition @hydeparkartcenter in Chicago and so many other places that have supported my practice. Send book recs for the 🚃 Continued S/o to my boy @annieflanagan for capturing me in this photo Posted @withregram • @monirafoundation 🎉 Monira Foundation is thrilled to welcome our newest Jersey City Artists-in-Residence!⁠ Please join us in celebrating:⁠ @luisemilioromero_ @saran0a @that_ivy @cowfootsoup ⁠ ⁠ Over the next year, these incredible artists will be developing their work in our studios — exploring memory, identity, land, language, sensuality, ritual, and more.⁠ ⁠ 🪨 From @saran0a ’s meditations on time, place, and erasure...⁠ 🔥 To @cowfootsoup ’s paintings steeped in flavor, family, and diasporic cuisine...⁠ 🧱 To @luisemilioromero_ ’s spiritual geometries rooted in Guatemalan textiles and temple forms...⁠ 💋 To @that_ivy ’s playful and poignant takes on gender, sensuality, and the everyday sublime...⁠ ⁠ We are honored to have them join our creative community — and can’t wait to witness all they will do.⁠ ⁠ This program is supported by public funds from the Jersey City Arts and Culture Trust Fund @jcartandculture ⁠ ⁠ and a grant from the Hudson County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs.⁠

My heart is so full from my time at @yaddotoday so grateful to have met so many incredible artists, to dance all night, for stars, fires, song, extravagant dinners, readings, exploring the mansion, pool session, having the dreamiest studio, and the best housemate. A week back in reality and I cannot be missing communal living more. Sometimes it’s exhausting being an artist but everything about this experience made me thrilled to be one. 🐦‍🔥🐦‍🔥🐦‍🔥 A fair amount of these photos were lifted from the group chat especially Sheri (thanks 🙃)

NADA NY opens today! We're thrilled to share views of our booth (A-215) featuring new and recent works by SaraNoa Mark! If you're in NYC, please visit us at the fair in the Starrett-Lehigh Building. Link in bio or visit our website for info on our presentation, fair hours and location, tickets and more!⁠ ⁠ All booth installation views by Silvia Ros. ⁠ ⁠ *⁠ *⁠ *⁠ ⁠ #NADANY2025 #saranoamark @saran0a #goldfinchgallery #chicagogalleries #artfairs

It’s your last chance today to view SaraNoa Mark’s exhibition “Evaporated Hours”. Visit 12-5 and join us for some drinks and treats 3-5pm for the launch of their gorgeous artist book or order at link in bio. The publication features an essay by @elizabeth.lalley and an interview with @saran0a , excerpted below. “I think as humans we each have orientations – the directions to which we turn our curiosity. Mine face the deep past and the present moment. One of my favorite parts of making art is abolishing the finality of time by inventing ways of traveling through it. When I carve, I can pick up a conversation with Seljuk architecture eight hundred years later. The Chauvet caves were discovered by explorers who were the first humans to set foot in these caves in 20,000 years. They describe the cave paintings feeling as fresh as if they had just been created. They felt the artists’ spirits so clearly present that they wondered if they’d disturbed them. I value the sensation of intimacy that can be forged with an object made thousands of years ago. In my work, I try to stage such a physical encounter with the viewer. My works request closeness, beckoning the body. They offer an invitation to slow down through a visual language that is as much about touch as it is about sight.” - @saran0a

Check out @bombmag ’s studio visit with SaraNoa Mark by Louis Bury at link in bio. Join us for the last hours of their exhibition “Evaporated Hours” at Dreamsong tmrw Sat 5/3, 3-5pm, for some drinks and check out their gorgeous new artist book at our launch event. You can also browse the exhibition or order the book online at link in bio. All photographs, taken at SaraNoa’s studio @lmcc_nyc , courtesy of Louis Bury and @bombmag