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  • CROWD. Silk, thread, wire, 26x30x10, 2009.
    CROWD. Silk, thread, wire, 26x30x10, 2009.
  • TEXT. Oil and wire on wood, silk and burlap, 26x30x10, 2009.
    TEXT. Oil and wire on wood, silk and burlap, 26x30x10, 2009.
  • TRUCK. Watercolor on wood, 24x54, 2009.
    TRUCK. Watercolor on wood, 24x54, 2009.
  • QUELL. Oil, wire and silk on wood and paper, 20x50x12, 2009.
    QUELL. Oil, wire and silk on wood and paper, 20x50x12, 2009.
  • NORTHWESTER. Oil on wood and screen, 14x24x8, 2009.
    NORTHWESTER. Oil on wood and screen, 14x24x8, 2009.
  • OPEN SPACE. Oil on silk, silk on wire, 5x24x5, 12x24x10, 2009.
    OPEN SPACE. Oil on silk, silk on wire, 5x24x5, 12x24x10, 2009.

Mary Beth Hassan

Biography 

Mary Beth Hassan is an MFA candidate in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, with a focus on painting.

Statement 

The selection of work shown in the first six images represents painting as a means of manipulating materials. I am exploring the genres of figurative, landscape, and still-life images and piecing together another view of painting. This allows the work to move off the wall, and stir up a less static view of the world.

The second collection of work dwells on the traditional genres in painting, landscape, portraiture, and still life. I have explored how these traditionally unique categories merge and converge as they become depictions of daily life.

Landscapes encompass not only nature but also the lens through which one views nature. Portraiture takes on a generalized function, which can be described by gesture and emotion. In the last series of paintings, organic forms some Karst stones from the Missouri landscape, are the building blocks of the figures of my children. Seated on a chair, this still life element is transformed into portraiture that speaks of our past.

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