Mary Mattingly Ball Garden

Through photography sculpture installation and performance mary mattingly imagines a dire post apocalyptic future.

Mary mattingly ball garden. On september 7th wanderlust. A year of public water 2020. 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. What happens after 2018.

Eipa mary mattingly everything at once 2017 from mary mattingly on vimeo. In mattingly s imagination humans are forced to live nomadically scavenging the wreckage of civilization and living by their wits. Courtesy robert mann gallery new york. Mary mattingly is a brooklyn based artist whose work explores issues of sustainability climate change and displacement.

Actions traces journeys 1967 2017 opens at university of buffalo s ub art gallery. She is the recipient of a yale university school of art fellowship and. Pipelines across permafrost 2020. 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.

There was september s report from un scientists on the acceleration of climate change and the near certainty that these developments are man made. News from the ecological front has been alarming of late. 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.

Pull detail 2013 chromogenic print 30 inches square. 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. 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.