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“We
aware that houses are inhabitable spaces, so, when contemplating
their image, we transcend the geometric, inert box and
enter its inner reality, hidden from us. The concept
of simultaneous inner and outer worlds is a theme explored
in these house paintings.” |
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Reconstructing Space
Mixed Media
Image Size 15 x 16
Framed 15.5 x 16.5
$1,350
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“The shapes and forms
of the buildings have been reduced to simple geometric
elements that shift in and out of the picture space as
one moves visually along the horizon. The detail has been
minimized to draw attention to the vast space created by
these simple forms.” |
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Through It All
Mixed Media
Image Size 36 x 42
Framed 37 x 43
$3,600
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Golden Hour
Mixed Media
Image Size 12 x 11.75
Framed 12.5 x 12.25
$1,100
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“We have all witnessed the magical moments
when the sun begins its descent and the whole atmosphere
is infused with golden light. One only needs to be present
to absorb the mystery.” |
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Final Glow
Mixed Media
Image Size 15 x 16
Framed 15.5 x 16.5
$1,500
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“Twilight is the most
mysterious time of the day. Especially, just before total
darkness engulfs the landscape. This is one of those moments.
The clarity is gone and shapes begin to merge into oneness.” |
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Night Remembered
Mixed Media
Image Size 24 x 25
Framed 24.5 x 25.5
$2,400
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We Gather
Mixed Media
Image Size 24 x 22
Framed 24.5 x 22.5
$2,200
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“There are times for solitude, and there
are times we gather with our closest friends. These can
be times of joy or times of sorrow. These buildings have
stood together through it all.” |
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Essential Elements
Mixed Media
Image Size 11.75 x 11
Framed 12.25 x 11.5
$1,100
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Secure
Mixed Media
Image Size 12 x 12.5
Framed 12.5 x 13
$1,100
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In the Blueness
Mixed Media
Image Size 13 x 12
Framed 13.5 x 12.5
$1,100
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Together
Mixed Media
Image Size 14.5 x 15
Framed 15 x 15.5
$1,250
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“Poetic painting requires
the distillation of the subject matter to its essential
elements. In this painting, I have concentrated on the
relationship of these two structures. One can draw several
allusions from this relationship, perhaps mother and child.
There is a nurturing quality to the larger house that shelters
the smaller one yet allows it to shine.” |
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Harmonic Intervals
Mixed Media
Image Size 11.75 x 12
Framed 12.25 x 12.5
$1,100
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“Painting resembles music in many ways;
there is a structure and a rhythm. Finding the perfect
balance between shape, color and atmosphere creates pictorial
harmony. This painting is orchestrated in a way that every
note plays an integral part in the harmony of the painting,
similar to a small ensemble of voices each holding their
part of the whole.” |
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Color Notes
Mixed Media
Image Size 12 x 10.75
Framed 12.5 x 11.25
$1,100
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“Color is a way to inject
emotion into the most ordinary subject matter. I have observed
this structure in many different atmospheres. The colors
may not be representational of an actual observation, but
the feeling evoked by their vibrations comes the closest
to evoking the experience of the original encounter. One
feels the intensity of the last rays of sunlight as the
heat of a summer night departs.” |
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Lavender Haze
Mixed Media on Panel
Image Size 29 x 28
Framed 29.75 x 28.75
$2,400
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“What keeps attracting
me to this cluster of buildings is the way their geometry
appears to shift over time. The sun travels a different
path each day, yet is the same each year. Things change,
yet remain the same. Houses evoke metaphors of the human
body and soul. In this image, there is something mysterious
and dreamlike in the atmosphere around this house; it has
a vaporous quality that allows the space to breathe.” |
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Shadow Play
Mixed Media on Panel
Image Size 22 x 24
Framed 22.75 x 24.75
$1,900
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The Space Between
Us
Mixed Media on Panel
Image Size 24 x 26
Framed 24.75 x 26.75
$2,200
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Remembered Light
Mixed Media on Panel
Image Size 16 x 15
Framed 16.5 x 15.5
$1,450
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Lavender Light
Mixed Media on Panel
Image Size 11 x 12
Framed 11.75 x 12.75
$1,100
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Perfect Balance
Mixed Media on Panel
Image Size 24 x 26
Framed 25.5 x 27.5
$2,200
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Equilibrium
Mixed Media on Panel
Image Size 19 x 22
Framed 20.5 x 23.5
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Once I knew
Oil and Wax Medium on Board
Image Size 26 x 24
Framed 27 x 25
$2,650 |
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“After a storm, the simple
structures of the houses that surround me become symbols
of survival. There is a sense of hope and endurance evoked
by this small simple structure alone beneath the vast turbulent
sky.” |
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|  Mary
Moquin lives
on Cape Cod with her husband and young daughter. Her
summers are
spent in a remote dune cottage on Sandy Neck, a peninsula
in Barnstable. There is no electricity or plumbing and
the only access is by four wheel drive or boat. Most
of her work is inspired from the time spent
there.
Artist’s
Statement
I
paint the peace I find around me in the rhythms of the
landscape,
rhythms like those
found
in music and poetry. Each brush stroke counts,
each color counts and, in the end, each piece strives
to portray
the truth of the original inspiration. I feel there
is almost a sacred presence to the buildings depicted
in my work. Geometrical shapes work beneath the
images. Often,
the triangle, to me, becomes the perfect meditation.
The more I paint the landscape, the more I feel the connection
with the human form. Trees take on human gestures;
and just as muscle and flesh are connected to the underlying
structure of the skeleton, so the swells and valleys
of the
dunes connect to the underlying structure of the earth.
And, just as music and poetry have the power to enter directly into the soul,
so too do I want the experience of viewing my paintings. They are not
to be analyzed or understood, but to be felt deeply, as a shared encounter
with
the landscape as I have witnessed it.
Artist's Reflection:
There have been moments in my life,
when I have felt completely connected to something larger,
part of a unified whole that exists somewhere beyond the
immediate appearance of everyday reality. As a young child,
I experienced this sense of connectedness for hours at
a time while leisurely exploring my rural surroundings.
As I have grown older and busier this feeling of unity
eludes me, beyond my memory, like a name I can’t quite
remember. I am left with a sense of separation and a longing
to recapture this feeling of completeness that came so
naturally in my youth. Through the process of painting,
I search to rediscover the source of this unity.
The landscape is the sanctuary I have found that brings
me the closest to reuniting myself with this larger force.
In silent meditative places, I listen for the echo of something
I am certain I once heard clearly. Through the experience
of painting the landscape and contemplating the natural
rhythms and phenomenon I witness, I seek to fill the void
created by my lingering sense of separation. The houses,
trees, and landscapes depicted in my paintings become metaphors
for existence. They express a way of being in the world.
Ways that I have experienced at different times in my life.
Through my choice of materials, composition and color,
I seek to enforce my belief in the reality of the universe
as a single significant whole and awaken this feeling in
those that are receptive to it. |
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Education
- MFA 2009, UMass, Dartmouth, MA
Mary Moquin's Thesis
- BFA
1987, Southeastern Massachusetts University,
No. Dartmouth, MA. Graduated magna cum laude
- Additional Studies at Swain School
of Design, New Bedford
- Chatham Creative Art Center,
The Cape Cod Conservatory, Castle Hill
- Continued
studies with Lois Griffel, Tim Thies, Selina
Trieff, Anne Leone, Cynthia Packard
Collections
- Tom Hamilton, of Aerosmith
- Anne Thompson, Television
News Journalist, NBC
- Rockland Trust Co.
- Rosenfield, Holland and
Raymond P.C.
- Clare Cole, CPA, 199 Rocky Meadow St., Middleboro,
MA
- Cape Cod 5 Cent Savings Bank
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Juried Regional, National & International
Shows
- Boston Young Contemporaries College of Fine Arts,
Boston University 2009
- Northeast Prize Show 2009 Cambridge, MA Juror:
Willikam Stover, Curator, MFA Boston
- Art
of the Northeast, USA, 2003 Silvermine Guild
Gallery,
New Caanan CT
- All New England Juried Show South Shore Art
Center, Cohasset, MA
25th Annual Red River Exhibit Plains Art Museum,
Moorhead, MN
- 3rd Biennial International Print
Exhibit Somerstown Gallery, Somerstown, NY
Images of 4 Women Printmakers South Shore Art
Center, Cohasset, MA
- Boston Printmakers Exhibition
Art Complex, Duxbury, MA
- Women Creating 2002
CMFA Dennis, MA
- Old Selectmen's
Gallery Solo Exhibition 2000- Miles to Go Before
I Sleep
- Brewster Ladies Library Four Friends
and a Paintbrush, 2001
- Old Selectmen's Gallery
Solo Exhibition 2001- The Journey Continues
- Old
Selectmen's Gallery Solo Exhibition 2003 - Expressive
Realism
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