In addition to his stonework Mark Mendel is a poet and visual artist working in an array of traditional and untraditional media.  From the ephemeral to the timeless the artist finds inspiration and seizes the opportunity for expression.

WORDS
IN PUBLIC
PLACES
064

Stanza from Blues for John Lennon, 1980.

Shown at Minnesota College of Art and Design, 1981
065

Stanza from Ojos Numerosos.

Cambridge Massachusetts. 1975
063

Phone booth poem on mirrors, with Rob Faught.

Cambridge Massachusetts. 1978

WORDS
ON BARNS
061

Barn Poem, Penobscot Maine.

1975
073

Four Barns-Winter.

Red Wing, Minnesota. 1982.
076

Four Barns-Spring.

Red Wing, Minnesota. 1982.
074

Four Barns-Summer.

Red Wing, Minnesota. 1982.
072

Four Barns-Fall.

Red Wing, Minnesota. 1982.

WORDS
IN THE SKY
068

Text of Aerolyric Angelic.

Poem pulled by two airplanes. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1981
070

Sacrifice.

Poem flown over the 1989 Superbowl, Joe Robbe Stadium, Miami, Florida.

WORDS
ON STONE
071

Garden bench with poem.

Recycled brownstone. 48” x 18″ x 20” with incised lettering
077

Cocaine Andabata/ Cellular Automata.

Bluestone with incised lettering. 72 ” x 38″ x 3″ 1991
075

Stone maquette for AIDS poem.

Poem in four languages. 1991

SCULPTURE
058

Rock and Rail.

Fieldstone, granite, red slate, steamed & bent locust. 80′ x 5′ x 4 ‘ 1996 woodwork, Peter Murkett
084

Equitant Touches.

Marble garden gates and threshold with. poem. 1991
241

American Enantiodromia

3 sided plastic & wood stele. 2003
240

American Enantiodromia

3 sided plastic & wood stele. 2003
242

American Enantiodromia

3 sided plastic & wood stele. 2003
066

The Mason’s Muses

Minneapolis College of Art and Design. 1981