MARK
DORF

Emergence2014

As human beings we have the innate desire to dissect our surroundings in order to better define the unknown. Historically, we have searched for our answers in religion, the stars, and in the observable phenomena of our natural world. In modern times, the scientific method aids us in revealing patterns that better our understanding of the world in which we live. However, theories and collected data are only predictions and translations of the world around us. This calculated understanding of our environment remains an abstraction of the reality that we experience with our senses—it is not an objective truth.

Like the production of artworks stemming from the life and experience of the artist, through these scientific abstractions produced by vast data sets and analysis, new information is revealed that might otherwise go unseen by the human eye.

The production of Emergence was supported by the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory and the National Science Foundation.

Additional images available upon request.

Selected Exhibitions
201 7 Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
2016 Metronom Gallery, Modena, Italy
2016 Galerie Philine Cremer, Düsseldorf, Germany
2016 University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
2016 Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Publications
2017 ARCH + - Issue No. 228
2016 Foam Magazine - Issue No. 44
2016 Translations - Monograph - Ain't Bad Editions
2015 Magenta Foundation - Flash Forward
2015 Granta Magazine - No. 131
2015 Emergence - Artist Book - In the In-Between

Emergent #16, Archival Pigment Print, 30″ x 32″, 2014

Emergent #7, Archival Pigment Print, 30″ x 24″, 2014

Emergent #23, Archival Pigment Print, 30″x30″, 2014

Reassemblage #3, Archival Pigment Print, 40″x80″, 2014

Mesh Translation #4, Archival Pigment Print, 30″x30″, 2014

Emergent #22, Archival Pigment Print, 30″x30″, 2014

Reassemblage #1, Archival Pigment Print, 40″x80″, 2014

Mesh Translation #3, Archival Pigment Print, 30″x30″, 2014

Emergent #24, Archival Pigment Print, 30″x30″, 2014

Emergent #10, Archival Pigment Print, 30″x23″, 2014

Emergent #19, Archival Pigment Print, 30″x25″, 2014

Mesh Translation #2, Archival Pigment Print, 30″x30″, 2014

Emergent #4, Archival Pigment Print, 30″x28″, 2014

Installation View at Postmasters Gallery, NYC, 2015

MARK DORF

MARK
DORF