Gallery Artists: Mary Bucci McCoy

My work locates, activates, and investigates simultaneous intermediary spaces defined by dialectical relationships: figure/ground, organic/geometric, fluid/static, connection/isolation, 2-d/3-d, emotional/physical. This engagement of the work with "emptiness", together with the intimacy of the work, invites the viewer into a dialogue between interior and exterior spaces, offering a site of mediation between inner and outer. Contextualizing the act of painting and myself as a painter in a fluid understanding of space, matter, and humanity as multidimensional, multifaceted, and interconnected, I obliquely raise philosophical questions of place, human connection and identity through resolutely material interrogation.

Within any given piece, my paint carries gesture, history, and reference. It carries the record of the movement of my finger, hand, arm - or speaks of another kind of formative event that occurred within the arena of the painting. Or in contrast, it raises questions about the story of its appearance. Through color, form, or feel it points to the natural world or the human body. Or it may reference something within the painting itself.

Mary has had solo exhibits at the Artists Foundation, Boston, MA; Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA; and Salem State College, Salem, MA. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibits including "The Algorithms of Art", Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH; "Consequences of Geometry" at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA and Merrimack College, Andover, MA; and "Industrial Strength", Emmanuel College, Boston, MA.

She holds a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University joint program and a BA in English from Tufts, and has studied at l'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Geneva, Switzerland.

www.buccimccoy.com

Title: So Close
Medium: acrylic on plywood panel
Size: 16" x 16" x 3"

Title: At Once
Medium: acrylic and graphite on plywood panel
Size: 8" x 8" x 3"

Title: shift
Medium: acrylic on Okawara paper
Size: 12 x 17"

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