Installation view of four 2020 pencil drawings.
On my website you’ll find drawings and mixed media collages. Although the imagery itself is often wholly abstract, current events in America are a common subject and inspiration.
I rely heavily on gesture when composing my images. My go-to collage materials are glass, newspaper, and wire. In most of my text drawings I use colored pencil to layer streams of handwritten text across the paper, and then I contour the marks with ink. The text itself is stream of consciousness writing that continues until the image is complete. In the spring of 2020 I began a new, ongoing series of pencil drawings that feature abstract landscapes. You can learn more about these recent works here.
Contact: negro.mary@gmail.com
Instagram: @negromary
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b. 1988, New Haven, CT. Lives and works in New York.
Education
M.A. Art Market Principles and Practices, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, 2014
B.A. Art History and Visual Arts, Fordham University, 2010
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Mary Negro, Community Arts Network of Oneonta, Oneonta, NY
2020 Unfolding, online exhibition, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn
Select Group Exhibitions
2023 Art Show: Bedford Fundraiser, St. Matthew’s Church, Bedford, NY
2022 Brooklyn Utopias, Old Stone House & Washington Park, ArtsGowanus, Brooklyn
2021 Lines & Other Forms, dōdōmu gallery, Brooklyn
2021 Take It or Lose It Marketplace, Collar Works Fundraiser, Troy, NY
2021 There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in..., New York Breeze, The Bronx
2021 Embody, The Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven
2019 Synapses, The Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College, New York
2019 Fridge Art Fair, NU Hotel, Brooklyn
2018 Processing, Old Stone House & Washington Park, Brooklyn
2018 Sequence, Bushwick Open Studios, Gowanus Swim Society Moving Truck, Brooklyn
2018 Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself, Curated by Krista Saunders and Carolina Peñafiel, New Cigar Factory LIC, Queens
2018 Fridge Art Fair, NU Hotel, Brooklyn
2017 Trestle Art Benefit, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn
2017 Gowanus Emeritus, 313 Butler Gallery, Brooklyn
2017 Good-buy Gowanus, Gowanus Open Studios, Gowanus Swim Society Moving Truck, Brooklyn
2017 Marked Urgent, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn
2016 Winter Art Benefit, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn
2016 Tell Me More: Jen Dwyer, Natalie Fisk & Mary Negro, academic, Long Island City
2016 Natural/Unnatural, Square Dot Plus Studio, Brooklyn
2016 Brooklyn Art Space Salon, Curated by Krista Saunders, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn
2016 ArtWorks, Presented by Arts Gowanus, Gowanus Loft, Brooklyn
2016 BKLYN Design, Booth 29, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn Expo Center
2015 Winter Art Sale Benefit, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn
2015 Necessary Construct, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn
2015 ArtWorks, Presented by Arts Gowanus, Site:Brooklyn
2015 Take II, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn
2014 GRAB BAG, Curated by Will Hutnick & Polly Shindler, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn
2014 Winter Art Sale, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn
2014 Arts Gowanus: Gowanus Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Submerged, September, Governors Island Art Fair, NY, NY
2014 Brooklyn Art Space Summer Salon, Brooklyn Art Space, Brooklyn
2014 betterArts Festival, Redwood, NY, Featured artist
2014 Gowanus Swim Society pop-up show, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn
2014 Spring Equinox, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn
Residencies
2022 Ox-Bow School of Art, Conversations in Practice
2014 betterArts, Redwood, NY
Curatorial Projects
Remains to Be Seen:
Meg Hitchcock, Michael Kukla, David Opdyke, Armita Raafat and Esther Ruiz 111 Front Street, Brooklyn, 4/2014
Talks/Lectures/Events
Put Your Anxious Energy to Work for You: 9 Art Admin Tasks You Can Do Right Now, workshop hosted by the Old Stone House & Washington Park, Brooklyn, 4/25/2020
The Price is Right, Panelist, The Old Stone House & Washington Park, Brooklyn, 1/20/2019
Terms of Use: The Creation and Experience of Digital Art, Event Organizer, 11/12/2013
Writing
Put Your Anxious Energy to Work for You: 9 Art Admin Tasks You Can Do Right Now, collaboration with Suzy Kopf, BmoreArt, 5/21/2020
The World isn’t a Monochrome: In the Studio with DeShawn Dumas, artcritical, 05/27/2013
The Color of Light: A Studio Visit with Greg Goldberg, artcritical, 04/13/2013
Holding Their Own: Suzan Frecon’s Works on Paper, artcritical, 02/20/2013
Jill Nathanson at Messineo Art Projects/Wyman Contemporary, artcritical, 12/05/2012
Professional Affiliations:
2012 - 2020, Founding Member of GSS Art Collective
2012 - 2017, Board Member, Trestle Gallery, 501c3
2012 - 2015, Managing Director of Trestle Gallery, 501c3
2012 - 2015, Registration Coordinator/Volunteer/Board Member, Arts Gowanus