Mary Mattingly Wetland

She founded swale an edible landscape on a barge in new york city.

Mary mattingly wetland. A year of public water 2020. Pipelines with permafrost and. Ein weiteres stipendium erhielt sie an der skowhegan school of painting and sculpture in madison maine. 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. She is the creator of the wetland project and is the 2015 16 artist in residence with the penn program in environmental humanities. She is the recipient of a yale university school of art fellowship and. I began to conceive wetland after the lehman brothers collapse and subsequent housing crisis.

The wetland sculpture is an argument for a thriving local. And for two weeks this summer the new york based artist mary mattingly brings the exhibition truly offshore with wetland a houseboat sculpture docked beside yachts at the long wharf in sag. Places all along the east coast were flooded and the image of houses falling into water on cliff sides was really moving to me in a. People were losing their homes and that became more real for me when hurricane sandy happened.

Mary mattingly is a visual artist. Wetland stresses how important it is for more people to be involved in caring for our common home and to re address water as a commons by engaging with students who steward the space collect data relating to energy use and production and test and maintain the project s water systems. Docked at public piers but following waterways common laws swale circumnavigates new york s public land laws allowing anyone to pick free fresh food. 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.

Mattingly erhielt ein stipendium an der yale university school of art in norfolk connecticut 2001 studierte am pacific northwest college of art in portland oregon und der parsons school of design in new york wo sie ihren bachelor of fine arts bfa erlangte 2002.