Swale Mary Mattingly

Mary mattingly was born in 1978 in rockville connecticut and lives and works in new york.

Swale mary mattingly. Swale was founded in 2016 by artist mary mattingly through a grant from a blade of grass. Mary mattingly an artist whose work focuses on the ecological spaces and resources that people share will have a new communal setting to explore in 2020. Department of agriculture as having little to no access to fresh food and produce have been a primary concern to artist mary mattingly. Through photography sculpture installation and performance mary mattingly imagines a dire post apocalyptic future.

Her project swale a floating garden. Combining a visual art practice with environmental activism and education mattingly wrote a manifesto that opens with the statement art can transform people s perceptions about value and collective art forms can reframe predominant ideologies. The 130 by 40 foot platform hosts swale 2016 a floating food forest created by mattingly that migrates throughout the city by month and season fig. Called swale the project was co conceived by mary mattingly an artist who creates sculptural ecosystems in urban spaces.

You have helped us create a viable ecosystem on swale. We will also send you a 20 x 24 signed photograph by mary mattingly from paper created on swale and an 18 x 24 original sketch of. In mattingly s imagination humans are forced to live nomadically scavenging the wreckage of civilization and living by their wits. Growing or picking food on new york s public land has been illegal for almost a century for fear that a glut of foragers could destroy an ecosystem.

You and five friends are invited to a private dinner on swale. Photo courtesy of katarina kiefert. Mary mattingly swale 2016 ongoing. Swale is a provocative public artwork and a floating edible landscape on a reclaimed barge that launched in 2016.

Photo courtesy of katarina kiefert. Your name will be featured on the sculpture and the printed matter surrounding the project. These linked movements moving away and drawing near taking and yielding space are made explicit by swale which through its nautical presentation raises the. Mary mattingly born september 8 1979 is an american visual artist living and working in new york city she was born in rockville connecticut in 1978.

In the summer of 2016 swale launched at concrete plant park in the south bronx one of the largest food deserts in the united states. New york s food deserts areas described by the u s.