Limited edition
fine art prints
exhibition statement
Digging deep into the fertile thematic ground of anatomy and somatic memory, Mary Lacy's most recent mixed media mosaics are an intimate exploration of a universal lived experience: the dichotomous wonders and limitations of the human body.
Lacy breaks down, traces, and realigns the networks of muscle groups, bones, organs, and connective tissues that make up the physical body across a series of exploratory drawings and ceramic and cement mosaics. Probing the liminal spaces where the emotional and the corporeal collide, she reaches for beauty. Superimposing memory, pleasure, possibility, and pain on these anatomical structures, the works in this exhibition signal a personal shift in the artist's relationship to her own body and its seemingly inexplicable peculiarities. Surrendering to the physicality of her chosen medium, 'Anatomy Of' is where art and health converged over a pelvis.
“Beauty beckons freedom, approaches it, tastes and remembers it, reaching for freedom with tendrils asymmetric and awake.”
- Bahar Orang
‘Where Things Touch:
A Meditation on Beauty’
about the artist
is a mixed media artist and muralist based in Vermont and Western Massachusetts. Through both her work with the figure, and now its internal physiology, she explores the dualities and conflicts bound in one's ever evolving relationship with the body. Memories manifest in physical forms and pain contends with possibility. Probing the liminal spaces where the emotional and the corporeal collide, she reaches for beauty.
