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A Bag Lady by Any Other Name
Mary Mattingly, “Life of Objects” (2013), chromogenic dye coupler print (via artsy.net) There are many dystopian futures out there. Mary Mattingly’s, recently on view at Robert Mann Gallery, is oddly...
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Mobile “Food Forest” to Float the NYC Waterways in Spring 2016
Rendering for Swale, the floating food forest designed for the New York Harbor (courtesy Mary Mattingly) New York City was once identified as much by tall ships as tall buildings — Walt Whitman...
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The Story of an Installation in a Polluted River and Its Subsequent Removal
Mary Mattingly, “Wading Bridge” (2015) at Des Moines, Iowa’s Raccoon River (all images courtesy Mat Greiner) DES MOINES, Iowa — On June 27th, the third-worst flood in the history of Des Moines, Iowa’s...
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A Houseboat for Artistic Eco-experimentation Docks Among Yachts
Mary Mattingly’s “WetLand” docked at Sag Harbor as part of the Parrish Art Museum’s ‘Radical Seafaring’ exhibition (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) SAG HARBOR, NY — Shortly after the...
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Navigating the Recent Wave of Renegade Seafaring in Art
Swoon, “Hickory” (2009), on view in ‘Radical Seafaring’ at the Parrish Art Museum (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless indicated otherwise) WATER MILL, NY — On the same day the Apollo 11...
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A Floating, Urban Forest Where the Food Is Free
Mary Mattingly’s “Swale” on a rainy day (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) When I arrived at “Swale” — a rusting barge/shipping container mashup docked at Brooklyn...
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Best of 2016: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
(photo of Mierle Laderman Ukeles, “The Social Mirror,” outside the Queens Museum by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) New York is no longer the center of the art world, its art scene is doomed, and...
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How Can Ecological Artists Move Beyond Aesthetic Gestures?
Image via Peter Leth/Flickr New evidence of a Southern Pacific Garbage patch has been found. Longtime combatant of oceanic plastic Captain Charles Moore has published new findings that further detail...
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Mary Mattingly’s Poetry of Things
Mary Mattingly, “Between Bears Ears and Daneros Mine” 2018, chromogenic dye coupler print, 30 x 30 inches, © Mary Mattingly, (all images courtesy Robert Mann Gallery) The title of Mary Mattingly’s...
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The Ghosts of Our Future Climate at Storm King
Allison Janae Hamilton, “The peo-ple cried mer-cy in the storm,” (2018), tambourines and steel armature, 18 feet x 36 inches x 36 inches (image courtesy of the artist, photograph by Jerry L. Thompson)...
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Urban Ecological Consciousness at Wave Hill
Lillian Ball, WATERWASH Bronx River wetland view in May, with recycled glass vortex sculpture for overflow leaving wetland and entering river (photo by Lillian Ball) Curated by Jennifer McGregor and...
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Refuse Transformed: Reuse as Social Repair
El Anatsui, “Metas II” (2014), found aluminum and copper wire, 87 x 110 inches (© El Anatsui, image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York) Founded by philanthropists Shelley and...
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BRIC Presents New Large-Scale Work by Mary Mattingly in What Happens After
Rendering, courtesy of BRIC BRIC is pleased to present Mary Mattingly: What Happens After, an exhibition of large-scale sculpture, photography, and a monumental wall-based flow chart, that poses the...
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Taking Apart the War Machine to See What’s Inside
Installation view of Mary Mattingly’s What Happens After at BRIC House (all photos by Jason Wyche and courtesy BRIC) The military truck at the center of Mary Mattingly’s What Happens After, now on view...
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At Union Studio, Artists Engage in Serious Play Around Notions of Ecology
Union Studio (image courtesy of Jessica Segall) When the 2018 Two Trees’ Cultural Space Subsidy Program awarded Jessica Segall and Mary Mattingly a shared 1,800-RSF DUMBO studio space at below market...
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Mary Mattingly Confronts Climate Change With Utopic Resourcefulness
Mattingly's landscape photographs evoke each site's geologic timeline.
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Artist Mary Mattingly Wants to Know: Where Does Your Water Come From?
Mattingly’s public art project at Prospect Park aims to raise awareness about how to create more equitable and sustainable public water systems.
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