Mark Iwinski
Mark Iwinski is an interdisciplinary artist who recently moved to Durham after living and teaching for ten years in Ithaca, New York, and Vermont. Originally, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he studied sculpture, life drawing, and watercolor, receiving his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 1991. He has taught art at The College of William and Mary, Dartmouth College, Colby College, and Cornell University. He is the past recipient of a Constance Saltonstall Foundation Grant in 2006. His artwork has been featured in the recent international artist’ book tour Arcadia Id Est and Ghost Trees and Crosscuts: Intersections Between the Forest and History, a one person exhibition at Lawrence University in 2006 and Terrains of Absence at Wells College in 2008. He is a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow for his current work entitled This was now and the ghost buildings of Terrains of Absenc exhibitions of which are in planning for 2010. He does site specific work to document the loss of old growth and uses a rephotographing technique to reveal losses in the architectural fabric of our cities through urban renewal while creating a spectral slippage between the past and our current sense of time and place.