LH Talk: Mark Mennin With Hilary Lewis
This conversation between sculptor Mark Mennin and author/curator Hilary Lewis will explore 30 years of Mennin’s career devoted to creating large-scale, site-responsive stone sculptures that blend with nature, as captured in a survey released this year by Skira, Mark Mennin: Observance. Three Decades of Carving in the Landscape, an art book edited by Hilary Lewis and Dani Shapiro. The book, which will be available for purchase, explores his transition from figurative carving to monumental installations, featuring essays by art critics and showcasing his work’s dialogue between human effort, time, and the natural world.
About Mark Mennin
Mark Mennin assisted Toshiko Takaezu at Princeton University. He began to carve stone in Italy in 1984, and worked there for three years, executing commissions and preparing what would be the first of many solo shows in New York at Marisa del Re, Victoria Munroe, among others. The scale of his sculpture evolved to giant landscape and architectural works, often involving hundreds of tons of granite, for which he does all the carving himself.
Mennin’s Interior Portraits are currently on view in the LongHouse Sculpture Court.
About Hilary Lewis
Hilary Lewis is an architectural historian, curator and author. She is co-authos of Mark Mennin: Observance. With Mennin she curated Mark Mennin: Processi at The Glass House as its Chief Curator & Creative Director. The exhibition presented Mennin’s sculptures in dialogue with the landscape and buildings of that prominent historic site. She received her training in art, architecture and urbanism at MIT and Harvard, where she also taught. Lewis has been recognized by Wallpaper* as one of the top creatives in the US.
