Mary Mattingly Artist

Swale instigated and co created the foodway in concrete plant park the bronx in 2017.

Mary mattingly artist.

Actions traces journeys 1967 2017 opens at university of buffalo s ub art gallery. Mary mattingly is a brooklyn based artist whose work explores issues of sustainability climate change and displacement. The exhibition will be on view at the ub art galleries from september 7 december 31 2017 and travel to the des moines art center in february 2018. Mary mattingly is a mixed media artist that lives works in new york city.

Mattingly works in a variety of media styles disciplines making sculpture metalwork art mixed media drawings and paintings works on paper wearable art jewelry. She is the recipient of a yale university school of art fellowship and. Mary mattingly was born in 1978 in rockville connecticut and lives and works in new york. Eipa mary mattingly everything at once 2017 from mary mattingly on vimeo.

Mary mattingly born september 8 1979 is an american visual artist living and working in new york city she was born in rockville connecticut in 1978. Mary mattingly is a visual artist. Mattingly combines photography performance portable architecture and sculptural ecosystems into poetic visions of adaptation and survival in her work we encounter nomads laboring under the weight of their possessions. Mattingly began showing her artwork in 2009 after a long career in advertising.

Through photography sculpture installation and performance mary mattingly imagines a dire post apocalyptic future. Her work is inspired by pop art americana street art. In mattingly s imagination humans are forced to live nomadically scavenging the wreckage of civilization and living by their wits. She founded swale an edible landscape on a barge in new york city.

She exhibits sculpture mixed media drawings and paintings as well as wearable art jewelry. Docked at public piers but following waterways common laws swale circumnavigates new york s public land laws allowing anyone to pick free fresh food. She has studied at parsons school of design in new york and received her bachelor of fine arts bfa from pacific northwest college of art in portland oregon in 2002.