Mary Lacy
Mary Lacy is an emerging artist based primarily in New England and originally from Jericho, Vermont. She began her career as a muralist and in 2017 she did a nine-city mural tour, sponsored by Benjamin Moore, in her bucket truck, that took her everywhere from NYC to the Mississippi Delta and Gallup, New Mexico. Much of her mural work juxtaposes the natural with the man made, bringing a sense of imagination and wonder back into our concrete and physical surroundings. She has organized countless community art projects and has overtime expanded her art practice to incorporate ceramics, tiles, wood, and other mixed media materials. Recently, she has been spending more time in her studio where she explores more personal subject matter, looking inward at the beauty, strength, and fragility of the human body. Her work can be viewed in galleries, public spaces, private collections, and corporate offices.
Artist Statement
Digging deep into the fertile thematic ground of anatomy and somatic memory, Mary Lacy’s most recent mixed media mosaics are an intimate exploration of a universal lived experience: the dichotomous wonders and limitations of the human body.
Lacy breaks down, traces, and realigns the networks of muscle groups, bones, organs, and connective tissues that make up the physical body across a series of exploratory drawings and ceramic and cement mosaics. Probing the liminal spaces where the emotional and the corporeal collide, she reaches for beauty. Superimposing memory, pleasure, possibility, and pain on these anatomical structures, the works in this exhibition signal a personal shift in the artist’s relationship to her own body and its seemingly inexplicable peculiarities. Surrendering to the physicality of her chosen medium, ‘Anatomy Of’ is where art and health converged over a pelvis.
“Beauty beckons freedom, approaches it, tastes and remembers it, reaching for freedom with tendrils asymmetric an awake.” -Bahar Orang, ‘Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty’
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