Wednesday Oct 7, 2020
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM EDT
Wednesday, October 7, 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm
free
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Artist talk Online: Mary O'Malley
Wednesday, October 7, 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm
Join the online Zoom conversation with Mary O'Malley the 2019 runner up of the Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant given by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. The conversation will include O'Malley works on view and her studio practice.
This free live online conversation will be held on Zoom (limited to the first 49 participants). Reservations required.
Mary O'Malley received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts, New York City in 2005, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston in 1997.
Her work has been exhibited widely at galleries and other venues across the US, most notably at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA, the Fitchburg Art Museum in Fitchburg, MA, and Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, MA.
She has been the recipient of multiple grants, including the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant, the St. Botolph Foundation’s Grant-in-Aid Award, and the Berkshire Taconic Artist’s Resource Trust Grant. Her work has been featured on Design*Sponge, in Uppercase Magazine, and twice in the publication New American Paintings. Her work is held in numerous private and public collections, including at the U.S. Embassy in Dubai through the U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies Program.
A Massachusetts native, O’Malley currently lives and works on the Seacoast of New Hampshire.
O’Malley states: My work begins with a fascination with nature combined with a love of pattern, decoration, and ornamentation. In my highly detailed work on paper, I morph nature with the decorative, creating an alternate “natural” world where flora and fauna, dense patterning, and a maximalist sensibility come together to create a new world of hybrid chandeliers, curious bouquets, and abundant gardens. Boldly decorative and unapologetically pretty, these imagined worlds are characterized by symmetry, bold color, and shimmering metallic detail that conjure a fantastical and idealized view of nature.
Image credit: Mary O'Malley, Menagerie #1, 2020, gouache and gold ink on paper, artwork dimension: 30” x 22.5”
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