ARTIST STATEMENT
My monotypes focus on brilliant colors and powerful forms. As the colors play against one another the created shapes develop a life of their own. My interest in classical mythology and poetry contributes to the imagery found in the work. I search for that particular shape that stirs the viewer to recognition and denial. The work is dependent on process and painterly markings which create that visual awareness of content…a merge of the subjective and objective intellect.
BIO
Mary Louise Long, a painter and printmaker, lives in Stamford, Connecticut. She has exhibited her work at galleries and museums in the United States. The artist had a solo exhibition of her monotypes at the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ. A recipient of a Painting Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Ms. Long was a Lecturer in Art at Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ, and an instructor in printmaking and painting at the Montclair Art Museum. She is a member of the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT, the Stonington Printmakers, Stonington, CT., Art/Place Gallery, Fairfield, CT, the College Art Association, and the Katonah Museum. She is represented by the Rockwell Gallery, Westport, CT and Southport Galleries, Southport, CT. The artist’s biography is listed in Who’s Who in America 2016.
