Mary Mattingly Visual Arts

Art in the age of the anthropocene is organized by the harn museum of art at the university of florida and curated by kerry oliver smith harn museum of art curator of contemporary art.

Mary mattingly visual arts.

Mattingly who has previously centered her artwork on rivers and barges her swale project in new york city is what she calls a public floating food forest was not outside her comfort zone. In her artwork mattingly combines earth sciences ecology and utopian ideas to communicate information about the earth s changing climate and human response to our physical environment. 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. 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.

The world to come. Currently swale is a floating food forest for new york. Mary mattingly was born in 1978 in rockville connecticut and lives and works in new york. She is the recipient of a yale university school of art fellowship and.

Mary mattingly is a visual artist. She founded swale an edible landscape on a barge in new york city docked at public piers but following waterways common laws swale circumnavigates new york s public land laws allowing anyone to pick free. In 2015 she completed a two part sculpture pull for the international havana biennial with the museo nacional de bellas artes de la habana and the bronx museum of the arts. Available for sale from storm king art center benefit auction mary mattingly the gualcarque river 2020 chromogenic dye coupler print 68 14 in.

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. 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. Last library mary mattingly is the cu art museum s 2020 artist in residence. Mary mattingly born 1978 is an american visual artist living and working in new york city.

Mary mattingly s residency is presented in partnership with the ann arbor summer festival s festival footprint initiative established with generous support from toyota. About the artist mary mattingly is a visual artist focused on questions of ecology and sustainability and the katowitz radin artist in residence of 2020 at the brooklyn public library. Mary mattingly a teacher in the program said the theme was suggested by carol padberg a lover of the park river and nomad 9 founder and director. She is the recipient of a yale university school of art fellowship.