Places all along the east coast were flooded and the image of houses falling into water on cliff sides was really moving to me in a.
Mary mattingly wetland.
The wetland sculpture is an argument for a thriving local.
Docked at public piers but following waterways common laws swale circumnavigates new york s public land laws allowing anyone to pick free fresh food.
And for two weeks this summer the new york based artist mary mattingly brings the exhibition truly offshore with wetland a houseboat sculpture docked beside yachts at the long wharf in sag.
She is the recipient of a yale university school of art fellowship and.
Along the lines of displacement 2018.
I began to conceive wetland after the lehman brothers collapse and subsequent housing crisis.
Wetland stresses how important it is for more people to be involved in caring for our common home and to re address water as a commons by engaging with students who steward the space collect data relating to energy use and production and test and maintain the project s water systems.
She founded swale an edible landscape on a barge in new york city.
Mattingly erhielt ein stipendium an der yale university school of art in norfolk connecticut 2001 studierte am pacific northwest college of art in portland oregon und der parsons school of design in new york wo sie ihren bachelor of fine arts bfa erlangte 2002.
Pipelines with permafrost and.
A year of public water 2020.
She is the creator of the wetland project and is the 2015 16 artist in residence with the penn program in environmental humanities.
People were losing their homes and that became more real for me when hurricane sandy happened.
Mary mattingly born september 8 1979 is an american visual artist living and working in new york city she was born in rockville connecticut in 1978.
Ein weiteres stipendium erhielt sie an der skowhegan school of painting and sculpture in madison maine.
Mary mattingly is a brooklyn based artist who creates sculptural ecosystems in urban spaces.
Out of all of the fringe festival shows i chose to see mary mattingly s installation called wetland at the independence seaport museum pier i was attracted to her installation because i always enjoy learning about ways in which we strive to create our little utopia and she won me over when it said in the fringe festival guide to come visit the artist in her sustainable floating row.
