
Mark Yale Harris was Born in Buffalo, New York, I spent my childhood enthralled in a world of drawing and painting. Though honored for my creative endeavors, I was encouraged to pursue a more conventional career. After finding success in real estate and hotel development, the artistic passion that existed just beneath the surface of my long-established business persona was finally able to present itself in tangible form upon selling my company in 1996. I began sculpting, and have since created an evolving body of work made up of alabaster, marble, limestone, and bronze.
The purpose of my artwork is to provoke a perceptual, internal, and intellectual response for the viewer; A visual that speaks to life`s experiences. To create symbols of universal connection and the relationship that one has to another and to nature.
Sculptures by mark yale harris
Credentials
Qualifications
EDUCATION
2011 - Studio Immersive, with visiting critics: David Humphrey and Charles Long
Anderson Ranch Arts Center - Snowmass Village, Colorado
2011 - Mark Yale Harris, Curator, National Sculpture Exhibition - Carbondale, Colorado
Sponsored by: Carbondale Council for the Arts and Humanities
2006 - Building on Ideas: Looking for Source, intensive workshop with Terry Allen and Jo Harvey
Anderson Ranch Arts Center - Snowmass Village, Colorado
2000 - Workshop in creative development with James Surls
Anderson Ranch Arts Center - Snowmass Village, Colorado
1997-2003 - Marble/marble Institute of Colorado - Marble, Colorado
1996 - Studied with Doug Hyde, Bill Prokopiof, James Surls, Lincoln Fox, and John Forno
1961 - Ohio State University BBS,EDUCATION
2011 - Studio Immersive, with visiting critics: David Humphrey and Charles Long
Anderson Ranch Arts Center - Snowmass Village, Colorado
2011 - Mark Yale Harris, Curator, National Sculpture Exhibition - Carbondale, Colorado
Sponsored by: Carbondale Council for the Arts and Humanities
2006 - Building on Ideas: Looking for Source, intensive workshop with Terry Allen and Jo Harvey
Anderson Ranch Arts Center - Snowmass Village, Colorado
2000 - Workshop in creative development with James Surls
Anderson Ranch Arts Center - Snowmass Village, Colorado
1997-2003 - Marble/marble Institute of Colorado - Marble, Colorado
1996 - Studied with Doug Hyde, Bill Prokopiof, James Surls, Lincoln Fox, and John Forno
1961 - Ohio State University BBSExhibitions
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Awards
2015
Selected for the Columbus Museum of Art’s Decorator Show House - Columbus, Ohio2013
Honorable Mention, Juror Peter Selz, internationally renowned art critic - Stephen F. Austin State University,
Texas National - Nacogdoches, Texas2009
Significant Sigma Chi nomination - National
Second Place, Sculpture - Museum of the Southwest, Group Exhibition - Midland, Texas2007
Best of Show: Second Place, 3-d Mixed Media Division - Museum of the Southwest, Spring Juried Art Exhibtion - Midland, Texas2007
Honorable Mention, Beaumont Art League - Beaumont, Texas2002
Sculpture / 3D, Roswell Museum, sponsor: Roswell Chamer of Commerce - Roswell, New Mexico.1996
First Place, Elisabeth Ney Museum Sculpture Show - Austin, TexasMemberships:
Sculptor.org
International Sculpture Center
New Mexico Sculptors Guild, Former Vice Chair
National Sculpture Society
Texas Society of Sculptors
Texas Fine Arts Association
Friends of Contemporary Art Santa Fe
Austin Visual Artist’s Association
Society of Animal ArtistsPublications
One Hundred+ publications have featured his sculpture (books, magazines, newspapers and catalogues) in the past 10+ years
2010 - Mark Yale Harris: Figurative Abstractions
2011 - Mark Yale Harris: Untamed in 2011
2006, 2013 - Mark Yale Harris, A Retrospective,One Hundred+ publications have featured his sculpture (books, magazines, newspapers and catalogues) in the past 10+ years2010 - Mark Yale Harris: Figurative Abstractions
2011 - Mark Yale Harris: Untamed in 2011
2006, 2013 - Mark Yale Harris, A Retrospective
Mark Yale harris was Born in Buffalo, New York, I spent my childhood enthralled in a world of drawing and painting. Though honored for my creative endeavors, I was encouraged to pursue a more conventional career. After finding success in real estate and hotel development, the artistic passion that existed just beneath the surface of my long-established business persona was finally able to present itself in tangible form upon selling my company in 1996. I began sculpting, and have since created an evolving body of work made up of alabaster, marble, limestone, and bronze.
Mark Yale Harris realized his passion in the Southwest; stone carving became his life`s work, as Santa Fe became home in the late 1990s. Dedicating himself to creating in 1996; with much to learn, the artist chose a mentor who he had long admired to assist with honing his burgeoning artistic skills, sculptor Bill Prokopiof (Aleut, 1944-1999). In the spirit the nation`s most recognized Native American artist, Allan Houser (Chiricahua Apache, 1915-1994), Prokopiof and sculptor Doug Hyde (Nez Perce), took Harris under their wings, generously sharing their immense knowledge, talent, and vision. Inspired by the geographical region and grounded in the knowledge of his teachers, he began feverishly creating sculpture.
