Actions traces journeys 1967 2017 opens at university of buffalo s ub art gallery.
Mary mattingly ball garden.
Pipelines across permafrost 2020.
In mattingly s imagination humans are forced to live nomadically scavenging the wreckage of civilization and living by their wits.
On september 7th wanderlust.
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.
Courtesy robert mann gallery new york.
Just over a mile up the bronx river from hunts point mary mattingly has docked her newest floating project swale a garden on a 130 by 40 foot steel barge after discovering it is illegal to.
Along the lines of displacement 2018.
What happens after 2018.
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.
News from the ecological front has been alarming of late.
People visit swale to pick edible and medicinal perennial plants for free.
Mary mattingly is a brooklyn based artist whose work explores issues of sustainability climate change and displacement.
She is the recipient of a yale university school of art fellowship and.
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There was september s report from un scientists on the acceleration of climate change and the near certainty that these developments are man made.
Pull detail 2013 chromogenic print 30 inches square.
Through photography sculpture installation and performance mary mattingly imagines a dire post apocalyptic future.
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.
Swale came out of learning that in addition to over 100 acres of community garden space in nyc the city cares for 30 000 acres of public parkland while access to fresh food is limited.