Bio

Mary Bianchi has lived in Baltimore for close to a decade, having moved here to resume a painting after many years of teaching. Her work can be divided primarily into two bodies of work, created in different cities at different times in her life.

Early work often employs plant materials and a much more primal gesture, as well as a larger scale. It was influenced by the environs of upstate New York where she attended graduate school at Cornell University’s School of Art and Architecture.

Her current work employs stenciled forms, but still connects to the previous work via a love of spontaneous gesture, and visible process. The relationship between readymade shapes and the human mark, the conflict between the two and the resolution thereof is her focus. Any representational imagery is artificially produced, resulting in abstraction.