Mary Bucci McCoy
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By means of art, the incommunicable gains expression without ceasing to be a mystery. — Michel Seuphor


I approach paintings as focalizing, multivalent sites for connection, interaction, and relationship. I use non-objective painting to subtly address philosophical and existential questions of presence and experience through resolutely material interrogation. The work originates with intuitive questions or curiosity rather than with a preconceived idea.

The making of my work demands the reconciliation of contemplation and decisiveness, action and stillness, stasis and flow, movement and arrest, intention and acceptance to investigate painting as porous, radical, profoundly physical evidence of human presence and facture in the context of an evolving relationship to place, time and the body. I find resonance between my work and the experimental musical work of John Cage, choreography of Deborah Hay, and sound work of Bill Fontana.

I am interested in the simultaneously residual and latent qualities of the hand made art object — its double role as the record of the maker’s experience and the basis for the viewer’s experience — and the continuing relevance (or even possible radicalness) of that in technologically-mediated contemporary life.

The exposed directness of my painting corresponds to the immediacy of the viewer’s connection with the work. The direct, sensual intimacy of the material, marks and facture of all my work invites the viewer into an experiential dialogue, offering a site of mediation between inner and outer balanced on the fulcrum of the marks.