Collection: Mark Grotjahn

Mark Grotjahn (b. 1968) is an American artist whose practice moves between painting, drawing, and printed matter. He is best known for his Butterfly paintings — large-scale works built from radiating lines converging on multiple vanishing points — and for a sustained engagement with the formal logic of perspective, symmetry, and optical pressure.

Less visible but equally considered is his interest in vernacular graphics: the handmade sign, the price tag, the commercial announcement. His Sign Exchange works and related projects treat the visual language of local commerce as a found system — one with its own conventions, economies, and aesthetic force.

K&H Liquors, published by Karma in 2015, sits within this strand of the practice. A book of reproduced liquor store signs, it operates at the point where ordinary shop graphics become something else through the act of selection, sequencing, and publication.

Publications gathered here document Grotjahn's work across its full range. Artist books, exhibition catalogues, and printed matter from galleries and institutions in the United States and Europe.

Original period items.