April 9 - May 5, 2024

📍Salon 21, 52 Greene Street, Floor 3, New York, NY, 10013
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This collection of drawings is an expression of Mary’s encounters with the natural world at the intersection of architecture and the idea of ‘home.’ The works on paper are a hopeful and ambiguous collection of observations created to awaken the imagination and provide a sense of grounding, comfort, and growth. In the words of Paul Cezanne, Mary aims “to make visible how the world touches us.”

Trained as an interior designer, Mary uses this creative lens to depict intimate renderings of domestic scenes and moments. Arrival celebrates Scottish interiors and landscapes, the rituals and objects of home, whilst reflecting on the seasonal nature of change both within ourselves and the world around us. Through enhancing motifs, playing with scale, celebrating color, and intensifying light and shadow, her works become striking, atmospheric depictions of her memories.

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Kate Mary

Kate Mary is an artist living and working in Glasgow, Scotland. Her practice consists of largely two-dimensional drawings and paintings. These are detailed, idealized representations of places, collaged together to form immersive and calming visions of escapism. Mary is influenced by memories of local and far-flung journeys she makes, and the architecture, light, and pattern within them. Her work explores and responds to our built environment, capturing moments of intrigue in order to create intimate and otherworldly scenes. The pieces included in the exhibition are inspired by the French Riviera in particular. In the past year, Mary has exhibited in London, Seoul, Tusson, France and Glasgow. In addition, she has completed two residencies: Delphian Gallery Open Call Residency and Print Club London’s Screen printing program and was long-listed for the Jackson’s Painting Prize 2023.