About Mary...
Mary Johnson was born in Pittsburgh, but moved to Buffalo in 1996. She received her BA in Fine Art at Gordon College in Wenham Massachusetts in 2008. Mary’s work is directly or indirectly explores the idea of memory; whether it is biographical or not.
Objects in her paintings and drawings are often drawn with facets and linear forms that connect to one another. Mary’s works act like fossils; they are remnants of the past. Layers are obscured and then rediscovered, reflecting our own searching and sifting through memories. They are pieces of events, moments and places rapidly sliding, stretching, mapping and exploring against one another. Connections are made between pieces of memories that originated at different points in time to create a whole painting or drawing that discusses bridges formed between one’s various life episodes. The physicality of each piece is integral to it. Therefore, the peeling and rubbing of paint, along with other actions done to, on, under and through the paper to either construct or deconstruct, may be remnants of events but they are also the remapping and re-explorations of the past.
Many of Mary’s pieces can be viewed and purchased at 464 Gallery.
My Work
