Using synthetic paper for its translucency, she applies watercolor and allows it to flow and pool in accordance with gravity and chance, creating evocative, non-representational compositions that assert a strong sense of presence. Her recent series Elegies was made in response to the death of her husband and resonates with absence, presence, loss, and acceptance. Mark studied architecture at Yale University and after earning her BA went on to earn an MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara.