Mark Potter makes paintings, sculptures and ceramics in Brooklyn New York and New Haven, CT. He has worked for thirty years.

 

    Mark majored in Art at Yale University and credits his teachers there, Andrew Forge, Bernard Chaet, Richard Herbert, and Vincent Scully. Upon graduating from Yale in 1976 Mark pursued a career as a filmmaker working for Albert and David Maysles, Ismail Merchant and James Ivory as well as other film production houses and directors. His tenure with Merchant Ivory was the longest, and earned him credits on such films as “The Bostonians”, “The Perfect Murder”, “Quartet”, and “Heat and Dust”.

 

    In 1977 Mark designed and built an experimental movie camera for shooting in dark and small spaces, a camera specifically devised for a private film journal. He made films with this invention throughout the seventies and 1980s while working professionally as a film editor.

 

    During this period Mark began a series of small sculptures in wax which he would take with him on trips while working on films. Some of works which survive from that period have been cast in bronze. In the late 1980’s Mark took up ceramics, and constructed a gas fired kiln in an abandoned boiler factory in New Haven Connecticut.

 

    His current work is a series of large paintings and drawings on paper.  The “Tracing Project”, which began ironically as the fulfillment of a deathbed request by Mark’s father, has drawn on Mark’s fascination with poetry and mythology, and deals with themes of the archaic, the divine, and psychedelic experiences evoked by shamanic investigations of the subconscious.