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WINFISKY GALLERY, SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY, SALEM, MA






WHITE COLUMNS ONLINE, NEW YORK, NY

A GOOD JAWN




November 19, 2022 – January 27, 2023

Curated by Brittany Adeline King

“A Good Jawn” comprises twelve works chosen from White Columns’ Curated Artist Registry.

VIEW EXHIBITION

WHITE COLUMNS
91 Horatio Street
New York, NY 10014





MARQUEE PROJECTS, BELLPORT, NY

Mere Reflection: Mary Bucci McCoy, Debra Ramsay, Jon Rollins



March 19 – April 17, 2022

MARQUEE PROJECTS
14 Bellport Lane
Bellport, NY 11713







MONTSERRAT COLLEGE OF ART, BEVERLY, MA

NEXT NOW: Montserrat Faculty Biennial





January 25 – March 6, 2021

Curated by Nathan Lewis

Montserrat Gallery
Montserrat College of Art
23 Essex Street
Beverly, MA 01915




GALLERY 263, CAMBRIDGE, MA

CHASING LIGHT




May 20 – June 19, 2021

Online exhibition of 31 artists from across New England who utilize light as material or subject matter.

Curated by Leah Triplett Harrington

Gallery 263
263 Pearl Street
Cambridge, MA 02139



GRAY CONTEMPORARY, HOUSTON, TX




June 27 – August 1, 2020

• Gallery's percentage of sales donated to Black Lives Matter Global Network •

Gray Contemporary
3508 Lake Street
Houston, TX
Tu–Sa 12–5



MUSEUM ST. WENDEL, ST. WENDEL, GERMANY

Breathe

June 28 – August 18, 2019

Curated by Arvid Boecker

Museum St. Wendel, St. Wendel, GERMANY

 


GRAY CONTEMPORARY, HOUSTON, TX

Vis-a-vis

Essay by Linda Leslie Brown >

Press Release >

Gray Contemporary
3508 Lake Street
Houston, TX
Tu–Sa 12–5

 


 

THE NEON HEATER ART GALLERY, FINDLAY, OH

The Temperature: Dozer   The Temperature: Dozer

The Temperature in a nine-month-long exhibition in parts which takes the temperature of the art world and the socio-political climate. The Neon Neater has curated monthly themed exhibitions using the ideas and signifiers that the work brings with it, connected by a loose conceptual narrative that is unfolding throughout the run of The Temperature. As current issues and recent elections have shifted the landscape, The Neon Heater asks: "who are we now, what is our role as artists?" In addition to the curated exhibitions at The Neon Heater, the gallery has partnered with numerous artist-run spaces around the country to expand this narrative for a total of 24 exhibitions.

curated by Ian Breidenbach and Emily Jay

The Neon Heater Art Gallery
400 1/2 South Main STreet, Rm. 22
Findlay, OH

 




Aqua Art Miami 2018

Elizabeth Clement Contemporary, Booth 210.

Aqua Hotel
1530 Collins Avenue
Miami, FL


 

THE CULTURAL CENTER AT ROCKY NECK, GLOUCESTER, MA

Landfall

A contemporary survey of affect and effect relating to the contentious environments we occupy.
The artists span a wide range of media, backgrounds, and interests.

Curated by Nathan Lewis

The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
6 Wonson Street
Gloucester, MA

 


Color Affinities

"Color as you experience it — working from memory or imagination, the three abstract painters in Color Affinities are grounded in their experience, in their everyday encounters, in nature, in architecture and in their perception of color. Each explores an individual color sensibility, with close awareness to material and surface....

Mary Bucci McCoy employs an alchemist’s intrigue to her painting process that is influenced by her background in ceramics. As in the firing of ceramic glazes, the element of chance plays a role here as she often combines fluid acrylic and iridescent acrylic paints to achieve her alchemy. One can feel time passing in Bucci McCoy’s spare, elegant paintings that are graced by intermittent color, large areas of white and distinctive mark-making."

Key Projects
4129 41st Street, #2G
Long Island City, NY



BOECKERCONTEMPORARY, HEIDELBERG, GERMANY

Absolute



 

THE CURATOR GALLERY, NEW YORK, NY


Louder Than Bombs

 


 

JOHNSON GALLERY, GLEN URQUHART SCHOOL, BEVERLY, MA

Mary Bucci McCoy: By Way of Blue

Firmament

October 31 – December 15, 2017

Johnson Gallery (Lower School)
Glen Urquhart School
74 Hart Street
Beverly, MA


 

NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS, IPSWICH, MA

Explorations
Montserrat College of Art Faculty

Cipher

June 16 – August 15, 2017

 


GRAY CONTEMPORARY, HOUSTON, TX

Combined
Gallery Artists

Lexicon

January 14 – February 18, 2017

Gray Contemporary
3508 Lake Street
Houston, TX
Tu–Sa 11–5



JANE DEERING GALLERY, GLOUCESTER, MA

Terra Recognita

Jane Deering Gallery
19 Pleasant Street
Gloucester, MA

Exhibition hours:
Sa–Su 12–5, and by appointment (978.810.8294) or by chance



Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) V.2

curated by Jeffrey Cortland Jones

Speculation No. 1

December 10–11, 2016
Angelika Studios, 2nd Fl.
Block A,
Commercial Square
Leigh St., High Wycombe, UK

October 15–22, 2016
Boeckercontemporary
Viktoriastraße 12
Heidelberg, Germany

September 2–22, 2016
Corridor
1001 E 2nd Street
Building 100, 2nd Floor
Dayton, OH

Other venues include: Apothecary, University of Tennessee Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN; Volunteer State Community College, Nashville, TN; Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL; and CLASS ROOM, Coventry, England. 

 


GRAY CONTEMPORARY, HOUSTON, TX

Mary Bucci McCoy

Terra Incognita
Terra Incognita, acryilc and sand on panel,
10.5 x 8.5 x 1", 2016

July 9 – August 20, 2016

Opening reception: Saturday, July 9, 5–9 p.m.

Gray Contemporary
3508 Lake Street
Houston, TX
Tu–Sa 11–5

 


DIVISIBLE, DAYTON, OH


Louder Than Bombs

curated by Douglas Witmer


Louder Than Bombs

Divisible
1001 E 2nd Street
Building 100, 2nd Floor
Dayton, OH

 


1285 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS ART GALLERY, NEW YORK

Drishti: A Concentrated Gaze

curated by Patricia Spergel and Elizabeth Heskin

Drishti Installation View

April 11 – July 1, 2016

1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery
1285 Avenue of the Americas, Ground Floor 
New York, NY

More info

 

 


CG2 GALLERY, NASHVILLE, TN

Mary Bucci McCoy: New Work

Salvus

October 3–30, 2015

CG2 Gallery
1201 4th Avenue South, Suite 104
Nashville, TN

www.cg2gallery.com



CENTRAL BOOKING, LOWER EAST SIDE, NEW YORK

Going Big

curated by Susan Carr and Suzan Shutan

Going Big

July 30 – August 28, 2015


Central Booking

21 Ludlow Street
New York, NY
Thurs–Sun 12–6

 


GRAY CONTEMPORARY, HOUSTON, TX

Mary Bucci McCoy: Residuum

Residuum

June 26 – July 24, 2015

Gray Contemporary
7026 Old Katy Rd. Suite 253
Houston, TX

www.graycontemporary.com


MONTSERRAT COLLEGE OF ART, BEVERLY, MA

Pop-up:
NO SHAKE, NOT HERE
...

curated by Robert Moeller

Fool's GoldspacerSleight

June 8–12, 2015

Reception: Thursday, June 11, 7–9 pm

Montserrat College of Art Gallery
23 Essex Street, Beverly, MA


KINGSTON GALLERY, BOSTON, MA

Mary Bucci McCoy: New Work

Pull

April 29 – May 31, 2015

Work resulting from my February residency at the Vermont Studio Center.

Learn more here: "Only the Essentials: A Studio Visit with Mary Bucci McCoy," Thinking About Art Out Loud, April 21, 2015

Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Ave. #43
Boston, MA
www.kingstongallery.com

 


CG2 GALLERY, NASHVILLE, TN

Survey Exhibition

Work by gallery artists

Subtext

March 7–27, 2015

CG2 Gallery
1201 4th Avenue South, Suite 104
Nashville, TN

www.cg2gallery.com




CG2 GALLERY, NASHVILLE, TN

Inaugural Exhibition

Introducing gallery artists

Verge

February 7–28, 2015

CG2 Gallery
1201 4th Avenue South, Suite 104
Nashville, TN
www.cg2gallery.com


GRAY CONTEMPORARY, HOUSTON, TX

Gallery Artists
Mary Bucci McCoy
Lucinda Cobley
Jonathan Cowan
Jeffrey Cortland Jones
Erin Lawlor
Tim McFarlane
Jesse Stilwell
Douglas Witmer

December 13, 2014 – January 9, 2015

Gray Contemporary
7026 Old Katy Rd. Suite 253
Houston, TX

www.graycontemporary.com

 


GRAY CONTEMPORARY, HOUSTON, TX

Long Loud Silence
Mary Bucci McCoy and Erin Lawlor

Long Loud Silence

Long Loud Silence

Gray Contemporary
7026 Old Katy Rd. Suite 253
Houston, TX

www.graycontemporary.com

 


KINGSTON GALLERY, BOSTON, MA

Ground Cover: Contemporary Abstraction between Figure and Ground

curated by William Kaizen

Stacey Alickman
Linda Leslie Brown
Mary Bucci McCoy
Mira Cantor
Julie Graham
Jennifer Moses
Rose Olson
Lynda Schlosberg
Viriditas
Viriditas — acrylic on plywood, 9 x 6 x 1", 2013

September 3–28, 2014


Second Saturday Event:
"Abstraction and Contemporary Art"
Curator William Kaizen in conversation with Peter Kalb, Brandeis University and Martha Buskirk, Monsterrat College of Art


Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Ave. #43
Boston, MA
www.kingstongallery.com


FPAC GALLERY, BOSTON, MA

Reconfiguring Abstraction: Lisa Russell and Mary Bucci McCoy

Curated by James Montford

August 7 – September 18, 2014

Returning   Emergence



FPAC Gallery
300 Summer Street
Boston, MA
www.fortpointarts.org

 


GRAY CONTEMPORARY, HOUSTON, TX

Aloe Vera

Aloe Vera

Gray Contemporary
7026 Old Katy Rd. Suite 253
Houston, TX

www.graycontemporary.com


KINGSTON GALLERY, BOSTON, MA

Mary Bucci McCoy: New Paintings

April 2–27, 2014

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Left: Way, acrylic mixed media on panel, 16 x 16 x 1.5", 2014
Center: In Green, acrylic on panel, 10.5 x 8.5 x 1", 2013
Right: Crux, acrylic mixed media on plywood, 9 x 7 x 1", 2013

Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Ave., #43
Boston, MA

www.kingstongallery.com

Press Release

"Bucci McCoy’s delicately toned and textured paintings read like haiku: swift, elusive, ripe."
— Cate McQuaid, "Shows That Paint Outside of the Lines, and One That Sticks to the Script", The Boston Globe, Wednesday, April 9, 2014.
Read the review here.

"Bucci McCoy's small paintings hinge on the materiality of the paint, how it flows, how it dries, and how her spontaneous actions impinge upon it. Color matters, but the works are catalyzed by substance." — Cate McQuaid, in "Arts: The Week Ahead," g Style, The Boston Globe, Thursday, April 3, 2014



THE CULTURAL CENTER AT ROCKY NECK, GLOUCESTER, MA


SouthEnd by NorthEast: An Invitational

curated by Adriana Gigi Mederos

August 29 – September 22, 2013

South End x NorthEast
Left: Absolution, acrylic on plywood, 10 x 6 x 1", 2012
Right: stream, acrylic on Okawara paper, 12 x 17", 2010


The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
6 Wonson Street
Gloucester, MA




KINGSTON GALLERY, BOSTON, MA

Gifted

curated by Deborah Davidson

September4–29, 2013

As One   Within
As One, acrylic mixed media on plywood, 10 x 6 x 1", 2013

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Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Ave., #43
Boston, MA


TIGER STRIKES ASTEROID, PHILADELPHIA, PA

Ice Water Flyswatter:
Abstract painting on holiday in the Philadelphia summer

Alain Biltereyst (Belgium)
Mary Bucci McCoy (MA)
Donald Martiny (NC)
Cary Smith (CT)
Mark Wethli (ME)
Paige Williams (OH)
With a special poem/drawing by Ian White Williams
commissioned for the show

curated by Douglas Witmer

August 2 – September 1, 2013

And
And — acrylic on panel, 24 x 26 x 2.875", 2013


Tiger Strikes Asteroid
319A North 11th Street, Suite 2H
Philadelphia, PA

Hours: Sa–Su 2-6 pm and by appointment
www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com


KINGSTON GALLERY, BOSTON, MA


Mary Bucci McCoy: In All

January 4–27, 2013

After All
After All — acrylic on panel, 10 x 6 x 1", 2012

Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue, #43
Boston, MA

www.kingstongallery.com


GALLERY DELLA-PIANA, WENHAM, MA

Ways and Meanings
abstract work by 11 artists

November 23, 2012 – January 10, 2013

Gallery Della-Piana
# 152-REAR Main Street
Wenham, MA


KINGSTON GALLERY, BOSTON, MA

Big HUGE small works
Kingston Gallery Members and Associates

December 5–23, 2012

Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue, #43
Boston, MA
www.kingstongallery.com


KINGSTON GALLERY, BOSTON, MA

XXX
Kingston Gallery at 30


September 5–30, 2012

Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue, #43
Boston, MA

www.kingstongallery.com


RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE, PROVIDENCE, RI

Lisa Russell & Mary Bucci McCoy: Distillation

April 5–27, 2012

Lisa Russell/Mary Bucci McCoy

Bannister Gallery
Rhode Island College
600 Mount Pleaseant Avenue
Providence, RI
www.ric.edu/bannister/apr_12.php




KINGSTON GALLERY, BOSTON, MA


Mary Bucci McCoy: Manifest


February 29 – April 1, 2012

Toward (East)spacerDeep DownspacerImplicit
Left to right: Toward (East), acrylic on panel, 24 x 24 x 3", 2011; Deep Down, acrylic mixed media on panel, 16 x 16 x 3", 2012;
Implicit,
acrylic on panel, 8 x 8 x 3.5", 2011

View catalog here, or to request a print copy please send me an email.

Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue, #43
Boston, MA

www.kingstongallery.com

 


KINGSTON GALLERY, BOSTON, MA

Still
Annual Members Exhibit

August 31 – October 2, 2011

Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue, #43
Boston, MA 02118
617.423.4113

www.kingstongallery.com



A STREET GALLERY, BOSTON, MA

22 Artists

A Street Exhibit

June 4–30, 2011

A Street Gallery
4 Clarendon Street
Boston, MA

 


119 GALLERY, LOWELL, MA

Seeing in Color
Diane Ayott, Mary Bucci McCoy, Rose Olson, Catalina Viejo Lopez De Roda, Kellie Weeks

curated by Setheyny Pen


So ClosespacerSleeperspacerSince


March 10 – April 2, 2011

119 Gallery
119 Chelmsford Street
Lowell, MA
www.119gallery.org



KINGSTON GALLERY, BOSTON, MA

Dialogues
Gallery Artists and Invited Guests

Dialogues Installation View
left: David McCoy — Wave 3
right: Mary Bucci McCoy — Wish
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January 5–30, 2011

Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue, #43
Boston, MA 02118
617.423.4113

www.kingstongallery.com


KINGSTON GALLERY, BOSTON, MA

Mary Bucci McCoy: Trace

Trace

December 1, 2010 – January 2, 2011

Kingston Gallery (Back Gallery)

450 Harrison Avenue, #43
Boston, MA 02118
617.423.4113

www.kingstongallery.com

"This small exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Mary Bucci McCoy offers an intimate engagement with works that are
deceptively modest in their size and apparent lack of painting complexity. Bucci McCoy is becoming an increasingly important
intellectual and artistic presence in Boston..."
— David Raymond, Art New England


Read the Nov/Dec 2010 Art New England review by David Raymond

Read the Dec. 17, 2010 Making the Art Seen profile of Mary

Trace installation viewspacerTrace installation view

Works in exhibit (click images to view enlargements):

Verge spacer Trace
Verge, acrylic on panel, 24 x 24 x 1.5", 2010   Trace, acrylic on plywood panel, 8 x 8 x 3.5", 2010



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up, away, acrylic on kozo paper,
9.5 x 10.75", 2010
  early on, acrylic on kozo paper,
9.5 x 10.75", 2010
  stream, acrylic on Okawara paper,
12 x 17", 2010




AG GALLERY, BROOKLYN, NY

Papyrus

curated by Chiharu Aizawa


Papyrus card Papyrus images

September 17 – November 21, 2010

AG Gallery
107-A North 3rd Street
Williamburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211

 


RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE, PROVIDENCE, RI

Mary Bucci McCoy: New Paintings

curated by James Montford

"The Bannister’s hallway gallery features Massachusetts painter Mary Bucci McCoy (who teaches at Montserrat College of Art in Massachusetts, where I also happen to teach). She paints acrylic abstractions in moody, narrow ranges of color. For example, So Close (2008) features single daubs of olive green, hot orange, and burgundy on a creamy, rusty pink ground. It’s hyper-conscious, precise action painting — registering the difference between oval daubs and rectangular daubs, between a thinly painted oval and a carefully controlled glop. This carefully considered messiness can feel a might bit finicky, but often it feels just right."

— Greg Cook, "Review: 'Our Founders' at the Pac, and 'New Mastery' at RIC", The Providence Phoenix, September 22, 2010

RIC exhibit card


September 9 – October 28, 2010


Hall Space Gallery
Roberts Hall (Central Campus)
Rhode Island College
600 Mount Pleasant Avenue
Providence, RI
401.456.9765

www.ric.edu/bannister




KINGSTON GALLERY, BOSTON, MA


Twenty10
Annual Members' Show

shift
shift

September 1–26, 2010


Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue, #43
Boston, MA 02118
617.423.4113

www.kingstongallery.com




FIVESEVENDELLE PROJECT SPACE, BOSTON, MA

This Collective Pull: A Mass Collaboration
work by 16 Massachusetts artists

February 6–28, 2010

fivesevendelle Project Space
57 Delle Avenue
Boston, MA
www.fivesevendelle.com





KINGSTON GALLERY, BOSTON, MA

Mary Bucci McCoy: Paintings

At OncespacerSo Closespacer


fadespacersee through


January 6–31, 2010


Kingston Gallery

450 Harrison Avenue, #43
Boston, MA 02118
617.423.4113

www.kingstongallery.com

View slide show of works in exhibit

"It's easy to get intimidated by Mary Bucci McCoy's artist statement — there's a poem in French, free use of the backslash, and we think we caught the word 'dialectical' in there somewhere. Her work itself, on the other hand — elevated or impressed blocks painted with minimalist abstractions — is warm and inviting, to the point that you'll be tempted to touch the thick splotches of paint. Must be that dialectic or sumthin'. After a few sips of wine and the welcoming atmosphere of the Kingston Gallery, you'll be nodding at that art like your B.A. was worth a damn."
Weekly Dig, 12.23.09–1.6.10

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SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY, MANCHESTER, NH

The Algorithms of Art

curated by Debbie Disston, Director, The McIninch Gallery

January 19 – February 15, 2009

The McIninch Gallery
Robert Frost Hall, 1st Floor
Southern New Hampshire University
2500 N. River Road
Manchester, NH 03106
800.668.1249

www.snhu.edu/art



MERRIMACK COLLEGE, NORTH ANDOVER, MA

Consequences of Geometry



intro image

View slide show

 

 

September 2 – October 16, 2008

McCoy Gallery
Rogers Center for the Arts
Merrimack College
315 Turnpike Street
North Andover, MA
978.837.5000

www.merrimack.edu

Review: Anne Krinsky, "Diane Ayott, Mary Bucci McCoy, and Rose Olson:
Consequences of Geometry", Art New England, Dec/Jan 2009

"Bucci McCoy's acrylics on wood conflate the sensuality of paint and flesh...The thoroughly nonobjective Hot Melt, and eight-inch square pinkish panel, improbably invokes a Tom Wesselmann nude."

Read full review >

 



ART COMPLEX MUSEUM, DUXBURY, MA

Consequences CoG Installation

 


December 16, 2007 –
February 24, 2008

The Art Complex Museum
189 Alden Street
Box 2814
Duxbury, MA 02331

www.artcomplex.org



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ARTISTS FOUNDATION, BOSTON, MA

In Substance
new work by Mary Bucci McCoy

works on mdf + site-specific wall drawing

June 2 – July 7, 2007

Artists Foundation
@ The Distillery, Main Gallery
516 East Second Street
South Boston, MA 02127

www.artistsfoundation.org

This exhibit included the first four works of the Élan vital series on one wall, and on the opposite wall Core and Periphery. On the center wall was a 88 x 110" site specific wall drawing, Light/White Investigation No. 1 (see installation slide show below). This piece — incorporating latex paint, the gallery lighting, marker, acrylic paint, and a spherical map pin — was created over the course of a week in response to the work on either side.

  In Substance

View installation slide show




EMMANUEL COLLEGE, BOSTON, MA

Industrial Strength
three person exhibit curated by Kathleen Bitetti

January 10 – February 15, 2007

Lillian Immig Gallery
Emmanuel College
Boston, MA

"...these three artists represent some of the most interesting conceptual reasoning as to why they are using these materials. They are masterfully using these materials to comment on and question such relevant issues as gender roles, contemporary popular culture, war, the unrelenting discussion of craft vs. fine art, and/or the age old question of what differentiates a 2-d work from a 3-d work. Geometry and geometric shapes, as well as references to history of abstraction, are also present in all of their works.Mary Bucci McCoy, who works primarily in 2-d, is showing selections from two series of work: her 2006 Roundelay series and her 2005 Oblique Derivation series. ... Bucci McCoy’s minimal based-works celebrate the MDF material and she brilliantly uses the material’s organic color as the dominant color..."

—excerpt from exhibition essay by curator Kathleen Bitetti