Bio

Mary Bianchi has recently moved to Baltimore to resume a painting practice after a period of focusing on teaching. Her work can be divided into early and current work, with a significant amount of time in between devoted to other mediums.

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 is influenced by printed patterning in the use of stenciled forms, but still comes from a love of spontaneous gesture, along with a search for form in the act of making the painting. The relationship between readymade shapes and spontaneous gestural painting, the conflict between the two and the resolution thereof is her focus. Any representational imagery is always highly repetitive and artificially produced, resulting in an overall reliance on abstraction.