She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Brazil, Europe, and the U. S. Click here to read more about Mary's INDIVIDUAL and GROUP EXHIBITIONS, and lectures/SLIDE PRESENTATIONS.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My work in both objects and site installations has focused on the use of non-art materials as the conduit for the content. Word and image share equal importance and the material acts as a metaphor to reinforce the meaning.
Word play and the examination of language in all its richness are the genesis for the work. The source material ranges from such diverse references as the Bible, the Thesaurus and Shakespeare, to the evocative names for cosmetic colors. The work examines how language describes, organizes, and categorizes things. These primary functions of language and their linkage to the object is what I explore and amplify in my work
-- Mary Dritschel
She has been the recipient of several AWARDS and GRANTS, including the Fulbright Senior Scholar Grant, and a major State of Illinois Arts Council Grant. Learn more about her achievements…
"Repression
versus freedom, submission versus rebellion. Her work shivers with an anguished
eroticism…"
--
Nina Ffrench-Frazier, The New York Westsider
Click here to read her extensive BIBLIOGRAPHY.
She
graduated Cum Laude
in 1976 from North Texas University with an MFA.
Read more about her EDUCATION
and EXPERIENCE.
Her work has been represented in SELECTED PUBLICATIONS in the U. S. and Brazil, and several pieces are held in private and public COLLECTIONS in both countries. Click to read more…
”Her
art fascinates us because of its unsettling character, its intelligence and
by its use of feminine references. The condition of a woman, her body and
her circumstances constitute a partial viewpoint in her work...it is always
broached with extreme objectivity. At the same time, her sense of humor, her
effusive vitality, appears to conflict with what one might perceive as ”the
peculiar meek property of the fragile sex.”
-- Aracy Amaral,
Estado do São Paulo
”O Cotidiano Feminino Transformado em Arte”
"Metaphors,
fantasies and similes comprise the sexual, political and aesthetic statements
by Mary Dritschel. (She) evidences a knowledge and control of craft and a
fine sensitivity to shape and materials."
-- Hedy O’Beil,
Arts magazine
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As an INDEPENDENT CURATOR, Mary has conceived, curated, and produced several exhibitions in Brazil and in the United States over the last twenty four years. She was also a VISITING ARTIST at numerous Institutions in both countries. Read more…
Mary
Dritschel retains all rights to her art and installations that are presented
in this website. No
work may be copied or used in any shape or form
without prior written consent. Copyright 2004 Mary Dritschel.
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From
Painted Ladies I, II, III
Collage of museum post cards and paint chips. 9”
x12”
Click the image to view all three works.
You can tour Mary's ONLINE GALLERY to view her work.
