Mary Mattingly Artwork

Mary mattingly is an artist based in new york.

Mary mattingly artwork.

Wetland a floating installation designed by the well known new york environmental artist mary mattingly to look like a sinking rowhouse has itself sunk into the schuylkill. Mattingly works in a variety of media styles disciplines making sculpture metalwork art mixed media drawings and paintings works on paper wearable art jewelry. Pipelines with permafrost and. Combining a visual art practice with environmental activism and education mattingly wrote a manifesto that opens with the statement art can transform people s perceptions about value and collective art forms can reframe predominant ideologies.

Mattingly began showing her artwork in 2009 after a long career in advertising. 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. In mattingly s imagination humans are forced to live nomadically scavenging the wreckage of civilization and living by their wits. Mary mattingly is a brooklyn based artist whose work explores issues of sustainability climate change and displacement.

Through photography sculpture installation and performance mary mattingly imagines a dire post apocalyptic future. 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. Along the lines of displacement 2018. Her work has been exhibited at the brooklyn museum of art the kitchen international center of photography the seoul art center the bronx museum of the arts the new york public library decordova museum and sclupture park and the palais de tokyo.

Eipa mary mattingly everything at once 2017 from mary mattingly on vimeo. Mary mattingly is a mixed media artist that lives works in new york city. On september 7th wanderlust. She is the recipient of a yale university school of art fellowship and.

Actions traces journeys 1967 2017 opens at university of buffalo s ub art gallery. 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. Her work is inspired by pop art americana street art. Inspired by images of semi submerged houses in the aftermaths of hurricane katrina and sandy the houseboat was created as a demonstration project and semi self sufficient.

What happens after 2018. She exhibits sculpture mixed media drawings and paintings as well as wearable art jewelry. 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.