Installations/Exhibitions
Gallery North is pleased to present Mark Van Wagner: Repercussions, on view from February 19 to April 4, 2026. Gallery North will host an ArTalk on Saturday, March 14 from 3 pm to 5 pm. The exhibition, reception, and ArTalk will be free and open to the public.
Repercussions, Mark Van Wagner’s first solo exhibition at Gallery North, presents the artist’s sculptures, paintings and drawings. Van Wagner investigates inner and outer topographies through aggregates of materials including natural sand collected from various locations around the world, pigmented sand, debris, polymer glues and carboard boxes. These common materials provide ideal components to explore time, location and substance. Each of Van Wagner’s works simultaneously references archeology, geology and sociology while merging natural and man-made cycles of accretion and erosion, formation and destruction. Viewers witness the consequences of impact events and the reverberation of forces. The implications of conflict and ruin are present but juxtaposed against suggestions of humor and restoration, which reaffirms the cyclical nature of life and invites the viewer to contemplate impermanence.
Mark Van Wagner is a Long Island based sculptor and painter. He has exhibited regionally and internationally including a solo exhibition in Vienna, Austria and inclusion in the Hecksher Museum’s Long Island Biennial. Van Wagner is a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago.