ARTIST STATEMENT
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For the past ten years, I've made the subject of doubt a primary focus of my work. I continue to explore that idea through the practices of drawing, site-specific installation, sculpture and painting. Regardless of the medium, themes of trust, transparency, and truthfulness remain in tact.
For project-specific statements, please visit the Artwork Section of this site.
BIOGRAPHY
Primarily known for her trompe l'oeil installations, Mary Temple makes cross-disciplinary conceptual artworks that blur boundaries between painting, sculpture and drawing. Informational spin, false documents, and verisimilitude all collude in a body of work that mirrors what may seem like Sisyphean attempts at parsing truth from fiction.
Temple has exhibited her work throughout the US and abroad. Recent solo projects include the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, Rice Gallery, Houston, and Mixed Greens Gallery, NY. Group show venues include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; The Drawing Center, NY; Western Bridge, Seattle, WA; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA; the Sculpture Center, LIC, NY, among many others.
Temple is the recipient of the 2010 Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship, the 2010 Basil Alkazzi Award for Excellence in Painting, and a 2010 Fellow in Painting from NYFA. Her drawing project, Currency, which chronicles world politics on a daily basis is now on view in 3 locations; at SITE Santa Fe, in the exhibition, Time-Lapse, at the DePaul Museum in Chicago, and in a solo project, Witness, at the Dean's Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.
Having recently completed permanent commissions for a school and subway station in NYC, Temple is in the process of working on a large public commission for the Lobby of the Mickey Leland Federal Building, in Houston, TX, scheduled to open in 2013.
Mary Temple was born in Arizona, she's lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY, for the past 15 years.
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For the past ten years, I've made the subject of doubt a primary focus of my work. I continue to explore that idea through the practices of drawing, site-specific installation, sculpture and painting. Regardless of the medium, themes of trust, transparency, and truthfulness remain in tact.
For project-specific statements, please visit the Artwork Section of this site.
BIOGRAPHY
Primarily known for her trompe l'oeil installations, Mary Temple makes cross-disciplinary conceptual artworks that blur boundaries between painting, sculpture and drawing. Informational spin, false documents, and verisimilitude all collude in a body of work that mirrors what may seem like Sisyphean attempts at parsing truth from fiction.
Temple has exhibited her work throughout the US and abroad. Recent solo projects include the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, Rice Gallery, Houston, and Mixed Greens Gallery, NY. Group show venues include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; The Drawing Center, NY; Western Bridge, Seattle, WA; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA; the Sculpture Center, LIC, NY, among many others.
Temple is the recipient of the 2010 Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship, the 2010 Basil Alkazzi Award for Excellence in Painting, and a 2010 Fellow in Painting from NYFA. Her drawing project, Currency, which chronicles world politics on a daily basis is now on view in 3 locations; at SITE Santa Fe, in the exhibition, Time-Lapse, at the DePaul Museum in Chicago, and in a solo project, Witness, at the Dean's Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.
Having recently completed permanent commissions for a school and subway station in NYC, Temple is in the process of working on a large public commission for the Lobby of the Mickey Leland Federal Building, in Houston, TX, scheduled to open in 2013.
Mary Temple was born in Arizona, she's lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY, for the past 15 years.
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