Professor Anna Westfall,<\/strong> who runs the Margaret Martin Gehman art gallery on campus, said the couple’s work is emotionally charged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n“The brushstrokes, textures, and colors in Stephanie\u2019s paintings create intense energy juxtaposing Lila\u2019s unmanipulated black and white photographs of children creating narratives that feel particularly relevant today,” Westfall said. “Their exploration of childhood and memory, at a time when our world is under great stress, feels appropriately timed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both artists have been wrestling with questions of how much childhood has changed in recent years, and how much it remains the same. While children today have much more access to information, news, and technology than Marks did growing up in the 1990s, they still have a “pure childhood innocence regardless of what they’re exposed to,” she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As she painted, Toth also reflected on the human tendency to yearn for simpler or better times, even as children often can’t wait to grow up and become independent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both Toth and Marks want viewers to glean their own meaning from the exhibit, rather than trying to peddle a certain narrative. They naturally participate in one another’s artistic process as they watch each other work \u2013 one half of their garage is a painting studio, the other half set up with photography lighting and backdrops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Marks put it, “having an artist in the house whose perspective you respect is invaluable.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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