Mary Blakemore (b. 1982) works in sculpture, writing, and photography engaging themes of change, regret, and the irreversible nature of existence. Blakemore graduated with a BA from Cornell University where she studied Literature and Poetry. In 2008, Blakemore published Gallery Girls, a collection of photo-based webcomics which satirizes the New York contemporary art world. Blakemore’s zine Some of It May Feel Special but None of It Is Unique (2021) brings together a selection of her poems with black and white photography. Blakemore has exhibited at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, CoWorker Projects and Carracci Art.

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PAST EXHIBITIONS

Group show, “Means of Approach” JULY 2024, Azikiwe Mohammed, Gloria’s @ ADS Warehouse, Newburgh, NY

Group show, “Nightswimming”, MAR 2023, Clarence Johns, Carracci Art, New York, NY. 

Group show, “Crafting Reverence”, APR 2022, Clarence Johns, Carracci Art, New York, NY. 

Art Fair, SPRING/BREAK Art show, SEPT 2021, 3 sculptures curated by Ambre Kelly & Andrew Gori, New York, NY 

Solo presentation, “Telephone”, APR 2021, Nathan Langston, Virtual show (due to Covid)

Group show, “Hot Hands”, JULY 2014  Kara finnerty, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY 

Book signing, “GALLERY GIRLS”, NOV 2013 Paul Kasmin Gallery Shop, New York, NY

Solo Presentation, NOV 2013 Video installation, Curated by Yulia Topchiy CoWorker Projects, New York,NY 

Group Show, MAR 2013  Installation “Chains (No. 1 Panta rhei)”, SPRING/BREAK Art show, New York, NY

artnet news THE LAST MAGAZINE  Hyperallergic

ARTIST STATEMENT:

I feel everything. How can I visualize fragility as a strength.  Reverse heaviness with lightness.  And make delicate materials weighted.  Maybe you can feel it too.  I take hair strands of aluminum and braids them into tough rope. If I knit heavy low gauge steel and place it horizontally it takes on the feeling of water flowing.   Glue and resin do the same.  Thin wire manically intertwined is hard to break.  Every time I touch these sculptures they change, they oxidize and can’t go back. Like panta rhei.  I can repair but I can only move forward like a river and touch everything and everything touches me.  If I feel too much, you feel too little.