About Mary Anne

Baltimore City
 
I paint self-contained worlds populated with nameable an unnameable objects. In these paintings, I seek solutions to self-generated problems, working intuitively until a resonant moment emerges.  My visual vocabulary borrows from architecture, textiles and cartoons.  Thickly painted impasto, transparent glazes, immediate brushstrokes and slow build-ups of marks coexist on each canvas. Saturated colors and patterns oscillate between harmony and discord, like reams of fabric piled on a… more

Starbursts



  • Siren
    Siren
    72"x72", oil on canvas, 2017
  • Dead Reckoning
    Dead Reckoning
    72"x72", oil on canvas, 2017
  • Circus House
    Circus House
    Circus House, 2018, 66"x66", oil on canvas
  • Circus House (detail)
    Circus House (detail)
  • Seam
    Seam
    Seam, 2018, 66"x66", Oil on canvas
  • The Hollywood Version
    The Hollywood Version
    The Hollywood Version, 2018, 36"x36", Oil on canvas

Summer Feelings


  • Summer Feeling
    Summer Feeling
    14"x14" Oil on panel, 2016
  • Ritual Magic
    Ritual Magic
    14"x14", oil on panel, 2016
  • Minor Illusion
    Minor Illusion
    14"x14", Oil on panel, 2017
  • Access Point
    Access Point
    14"x14", oil on panel, 2017
  • Poor Men Want To Be Rich, Rich Men Want To Be King
    Poor Men Want To Be Rich, Rich Men Want To Be King
    14"x14", oil on panel, 2016
  • Aperture
    Aperture
    14"x14", oil on panel, 2016
  • Long Game
    Long Game
    Long Game, 2018, 14"x14", Oil on canvas
  • A Ghost
    A Ghost
    14" x 14", Oil on panel, 2018
  • Invisible Mirror
    Invisible Mirror
    10"x 10", Oil on panel, 2018
  • Soft Power
    Soft Power
    14" x 14", Oil on panel, 2018

Building Blocks

  • Bad Priestess
    Bad Priestess
    24"x24", Oil on canvas stretched over panel
  • Transfer
    Transfer
    24"x24", Oil on canvas stretched over panel
  • No One Here Takes Me Seriously
    No One Here Takes Me Seriously
    24"x24", Oil on canvas stretched over panel
  • Announcement!
    Announcement!
    24"x24", Oil on canvas stretched over panel
  • Shatter
    Shatter
    18"x18", Oil on canvas stretched over panel
  • Medium
    Medium
    18"x18", Oil on canvas stretched over panel
  • Building Blocks
    Building Blocks
    30"x30", Oil on panel
  • Atrium
    Atrium
    24"x24", Oil on canvas stretched over panel

Squares and Nearly Squares

A selection of work created in 2014. In this series I am interested in frames, color, and contrast between flat abstraction and suggestions of illusionistic space.
  • Flyover
    Flyover
    Oil on panel, 18"x18"
  • Catchall
    Catchall
    Oil on panel, 18"x18"
  • New Moon
    New Moon
    Oil on panel, 18"x18"
  • Orange Thatch
    Orange Thatch
    Oil on canvas, 20"x22"
  • Red Thing
    Red Thing
    Oil on canvas, 18"x20"
  • Pull Through
    Pull Through
    Oil on panel, 18"x18"
  • Pointy Elbows
    Pointy Elbows
    18"x18", Oil on panel
  • Love Letter 2
    Love Letter 2
    18"x18" Oil on panel
  • Lost Link
    Lost Link
    16"x16", Oil on panel
  • Extra Support
    Extra Support
    30"x30", Oil on panel

Crossed Wires

  • Trap Door
    Trap Door
    Oil on Canvas, 14"x14"
  • Trash Day
    Trash Day
    Oil on Canvas, 18"x24"
  • Love Letter
    Love Letter
    Oil on Canvas, 12"x12"
  • Tough Love
    Tough Love
    Oil on Canvas, 18"x24"
  • Next Door
    Next Door
    Oil on Canvas, 18"x24"
  • Reflection
    Reflection
    Oil on Canvas, 13"x13"
  • Twine
    Twine
    Oil on Canvas, 12"x12"

See Through

This body of work continues to push a play of space and color through literal mark making and mundane, patterned materials. My paintings frame subjects that are often about looking and looking through a surface.
Studying the industrial character of my city, my work often starts from the visual obstructions found in my neighborhood--latticed garden fencing, windowpanes, and decorative cinderblocks. My paintings, like these structures, are made of intertwined bands, diagonal ties crossing, creating surfaces perforated by geometric absences. These forms provide an open system for exploring linear marks, which function as barriers while opening up portholes into areas of color and atmosphere beyond. The patterns in my paintings shift across the surface and between paintings, slowly changing as they accumulate. I use those forms as starting points, distilled into games with color, line and abstract form.
  • Installation
    Installation
    Installation shot of 2013 'See Through' show with ICA Baltimore, located at the D Center.
  • Heavy Heart
    Heavy Heart
    Oil on Canvas, 72"x48"
  • Trip Wire
    Trip Wire
    Oil on Canvas, 13"x14"
  • Ursa Minor
    Ursa Minor
    Oil on Canvas, 38"x33"
  • All Day
    All Day
    Oil on Canvas, 38"x31"
  • I'm With Stupid
    I'm With Stupid
    Oil on Canvas, 24"x48"
  • Bang Bang Bang
    Bang Bang Bang
    Oil on canvas, 84"x23"
  • How to make a perfect circle
    How to make a perfect circle
    Oil on canvas, 72x60"
  • New Friend
    New Friend
    Oil on Canvas, 43"x48"
  • View Finder
    View Finder
    Oil on canvas, 44x48"