Molly Markow (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Kingston, New York, working across printmaking, photography, quilting, sculpture, and performance. She holds an MFA in Studio Art from Illinois State University and a BFA from the University of Wyoming.
Her practice explores how relationships to place are shaped through images, memory, and inheritance. She prints photographs of rocks onto fabric and situates her body within parking lots, riverbeds, and highway medians, becoming, or attempting to become, the landscape itself. She is as interested in the tenderness of ordinary spaces as in traditionally sublime environments. Moving between the conceptual and the bodily, the humorous and the serious, her work builds meaning from fragments that do not fully cohere.
Attentive to the ways landscape imagery has been shaped by histories of colonial expansion and ideas of ownership, her work looks for forms of relation that resist fixed boundaries between body and environment, subject and ground. Rather than treating landscape as something to possess or define, she approaches it as something encountered, negotiated, and shared.
She is currently at work on a series of writings and photographs titled Silently Sucking on Seashells in Big Sky Country — about a tarot reader, her grandmothers, the ocean, and Nova Scotia.
Her work has been exhibited at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Women’s Studio Workshop, Ox-Bow School of Art, New Mexico Highlands University, and University Galleries at Illinois State University, among other venues.
She is currently the Grants and Relationship Manager at Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, the oldest continuously running summer art school and residency program in the United States.
Contact: memarkow (at) gmail.com