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MARIE  BIRKEDAL
Mark
Marie Birkedal
Mark


Edition 1
OVERVIEW2026 ++
  1. unterm Lederhimmel
  2. Blueprints Inside
  3. Broken Glass and Kindness
  4. Nobility Game in Pink
  5. Winstons and violet dawns
  6. That day at the playground (for Lucia Berlin)
  7. Black Dahlia for Carolee Schneemann
  8. Blue Chalk Tenderness
  9. Dry Formalism Infused with Otherworldly Interdimensional Portals (for John McCracken)
  10. American Poem (For John Wieners)
  11. Lichtenberg
  12. Monochrome for W
  13. Artist Statement 
  14. Cv
  15. Contact
  16. Studio 
  17. 21 studio notes; June 2026
  18. You & me / Volume 02
  19. Pure Abstraction
  20. Ist
  21. Don’t Play Cards with Satan (for Daniel Johnston)

Edition 2
ARCHIVE/INDEX202X ++

  1. Index
  2. Stranger Things
  3. Hard Earned Innocence
  4. ︎2010
  5. ︎2021
  6. Shefolk 2016
  7. Floor Presents
  8. New Balance
  9. Photo credits


Notes —
Info
  1. Utilizing Expendable Materials to Create Works of Formal Pristine Beauty
  2. alchemist noun
    al·che·mist |  ˈal-kə-mist
    Alchemist: Someone Who Transforms Things for the Better
    The long route to English for alchemist began with the Greek word chēmeia, which probably came from the word chyma (“fluid”), derived from the verb chein, meaning “to pour.” It then passed to Arabic, which added its definite article al- (“the”) to the Greek root. The word then passed from Latin to French before coming to English. Some other words derived from Arabic also retain the al- in English, such as algebra, algorithm, and alcohol; in fact, the transformative liquid that was constantly being sought through experimentation by alchemists is another word with the Arabic al- prefix elixir.
Mark

1. My work is extraordinarily physical
2. My work is extraordinarily transcendental
3. There is no irony whatsoever within my work
4. Disclaimer: 100 % sincerity is impossible within good art
5. I base my work on broken glass and kindness
6. I dive for pearls
7. Effortlessness takes backbreaking work
8. Pure formalism is a myth
9. Bruce Lee is important for painters
10. If one thing matters, everything matters
11. Empathy is a super-power
12. Glitter and trickery should not be mistaken
13. I accept contradiction
14. I think about John McCracken
15. I think about Ana Mendieta
16.  think about Sam Gilliam
17. I think about Robert Irving
18. Mostly I think about Peter Bradley
19. A decade in Germany changes you
20. I know who Vinzenz Brinkmann is
21. Descartes was mean to dogs
22. Material and intellect should not be separated
23. Charles Bukowski is easier read than lived
24. Non-read isolation is a painful price
25. J’veux pas finir comme Camilie Claudel
26. Language exists but is mostly inadequate
27. Sol LeWitt was almost right
28. Good artists are latter-day shamans
29. I believe in the Beholders Share
30. I believe it takes one to know one
31. I never saw San Severo
32. I once saw Colorado
33. I miss the smell of Sagebrush
34. I apologize for disappearing, I had things to take care of
35. I still don’t distinguish between culture and nature
36. I still think about Lenny Bruce
37. I still think about Thoreau
38. My favorite word is still Godspeed
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