Mary Proenza

Website

http://maryproenza.com

Social

Other Social

Email

415-706-4016

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My work explores social, environmental, and personal themes, and starts from a sense that the world is inexhaustibly interesting. I combine perception and other visual sources with memory, imagination, and narrative, and I work back and forth between drawing, painting, printmaking, and writing. I find that an interdisciplinary practice sharpens my vision, illuminates unexpected facets of subjects, and generates new approaches and ideas.

I begin most projects with perceptual drawing and painting. Observation is a consistent spur to my curiosity and imagination, and examining actual structures in real spaces helps inspire compelling pictorial structures and spaces. I further explore images in the studio, dismantling and reassembling them through variations of media, scale, emphasis, light, and color.

Art is communicative and exists on a continuum. Teaching puts me into close contact with those essential aspects, as does writing about the work of other artists.