Mary Mattingly Wetland

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Mary mattingly wetland. Mary mattingly is a visual artist. And for two weeks this summer the new york based artist mary mattingly brings the exhibition truly offshore with wetland a houseboat sculpture docked beside yachts at the long wharf in sag. Mary mattingly born september 8 1979 is an american visual artist living and working in new york city she was born in rockville connecticut in 1978. Out of all of the fringe festival shows i chose to see mary mattingly s installation called wetland at the independence seaport museum pier i was attracted to her installation because i always enjoy learning about ways in which we strive to create our little utopia and she won me over when it said in the fringe festival guide to come visit the artist in her sustainable floating row.

I began to conceive wetland after the lehman brothers collapse and subsequent housing crisis. The wetland sculpture is an argument for a thriving local. Pipelines with permafrost and. People were losing their homes and that became more real for me when hurricane sandy happened.

She founded swale an edible landscape on a barge in new york city. Wetland stresses how important it is for more people to be involved in caring for our common home and to re address water as a commons by engaging with students who steward the space collect data relating to energy use and production and test and maintain the project s water systems. She has studied at parsons school of design in new york and received her bachelor of fine arts bfa from pacific northwest college of art in portland oregon in 2002. She is the creator of the wetland project and is the 2015 16 artist in residence with the penn program in environmental humanities.

She is the recipient of a yale university school of art fellowship and. Mary mattingly is a brooklyn based artist who creates sculptural ecosystems in urban spaces. Places all along the east coast were flooded and the image of houses falling into water on cliff sides was really moving to me in a. What happens after 2018.

Docked at public piers but following waterways common laws swale circumnavigates new york s public land laws allowing anyone to pick free fresh food.