MARK DION

From the Collection of Grey Rabbit Dion Puett

January 18, 2025 – March 2, 2025

Since the late 1980s, Mark Dion has produced a diverse body of work focused on the representation of nature and the history of natural history. While best known for his sculptures, installations, and public art follies, drawing and printmaking have been essential to his practice. His works on paper have been widely exhibited and collected. For example, New York’s Museum of Modern Art has fifteen of Dion’s works on paper in its collection.

The drawings fall roughly into two categories- preparatory sketches for installation and sculptures and the more recent drawings, which are mischievous infographic meditations. This fantastical mashup of art and science often resembles informational diagrams, pull-down charts, and chalkboard drawings. These animal topographies and anatomical charts highlight Dion’s often humorous subversive methodology, questioning conventions of institutional knowledge production. Some of the works in the exhibition are the original drawings of works that have been turned into print editions. Since the mid-1980s, Dion has been a committed printmaker and has worked with many prestigious print houses, including Graphic Studio, The LeRoy Neiman Center for Prints, Tamarind Institute, and Obee Editions.

The focus of this exhibition, however, is love since these works are all gifts from the artist to his son, Grey Rabbit Dion Puett. The works cover many years of presents from Dion, and the drawings usually adorn the walls of Grey Rabbit’s private rooms. This is the only public viewing of the intimate collection.

The exhibition includes the original drawing for the lithograph “Mildred’s Lane”, a print developed to support the artist’s think tank and residence program co-founded by Dion and J. Morgan Puett,(Grey Rabbit’s mother). This print is available for sale.

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