Mary Mattingly Ball Garden

She is the recipient of a yale university school of art fellowship and.

Mary mattingly ball garden.

Actions traces journeys 1967 2017 opens at university of buffalo s ub art gallery. Courtesy robert mann gallery new york. A year of public water 2020. News from the ecological front has been alarming of late.

Mary mattingly is a brooklyn based artist whose work explores issues of sustainability climate change and displacement. There was september s report from un scientists on the acceleration of climate change and the near certainty that these developments are man made. 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. 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 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. On september 7th wanderlust. What happens after 2018. Through photography sculpture installation and performance mary mattingly imagines a dire post apocalyptic future.

Mary mattingly looks beyond the kind of immediate problems addressed by ball and chin toward what she refers to as the posthuman future reflecting her conviction that humanity will survive only. 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. 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. Pipelines across permafrost 2020.

Eipa mary mattingly everything at once 2017 from mary mattingly on vimeo. Along the lines of displacement 2018. 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.