Mary Stewart
Contact:
Phone: 850.644.5754
Office Location: FAB 414
mstewart3@fsu.edu
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Area(s) of Teaching:
Foundations courses (2D, 3D and Time Design; Drawing), Printmaking, Bookarts
School:
Indiana University-Bloomington
Statement
My artwork deals with cyclical conceptions of time, memory and knowledge.
Learning Series, an installation of twelve 82x42" mixed medium drawings, is the most extensive result to date. Recurrent images of train stations, clocks, ocean, boundaries, and gates suggest the connections between memory and knowledge described by Socrates in the Plato’s dialogues. Twelve drawings are shown on four walls, surrounding the viewer with a series of triptychs, each consisting of three titles: Learning to Sink, Learning to Swim, Learning to Breathe. As the viewer scans the room, the repeated titles create a cycle of death, transition and renewal.
Work:
Learning to Sink #2
Mixed medium drawing
82 x 42"
Learning to Swim #2
Mixed medium drawing
82 x 42"
Learning to Breathe #3
Mixed medium drawing
82 x 42"