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Mary Raap

Brooklyn

Artist Statement

Taking the loaded history of painting as a point of departure, my current work begins with weaving my own canvases. This patient labor both creates fields for my own expression and puts to service a practice that has been used for thousands of years to build supports and foundations that are largely invisible in daily life. Building forms that nod to minimalism, to summits, or to grids marking time, my work references the heyday of modernist and post-modern painting while also subverting the gendered conventions of art making by using weaving as meditation on labor and a painting tool.

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Mary Raap's Portfolio

Mary Raap, Shadowboxer, Handwoven cotton and silk, acrylic over canvas, 10 x 8 x 1 in, 2018
Mary Raap, Changing Tide, Handwoven cotton, silk, thread, and acrylic over canvas, 14 x 24 x 1.5 in, 2019
Mary Raap, Fog Veil, Handwoven cotton, silk, and acrylic over canvas, 30 x 32 x 1.5 in, 2019
Mary Raap, False Dawn, Handwoven cotton and silk, acrylic over canvas, 16 x 12 x 1.5 in, 2019
Mary Raap, Toxic Materials, Handwoven cotton and acrylic medium over canvas, 10 x 8 x 1 in, 2019
Mary Raap, For The Others, Handwoven cotton, silk, and acrylic medium over canvas, 20 x 14 x 1.5 in, 2019
Mary Raap, The Slip, Handwoven cotton, silk, and acrylic medium over canvas, 18 x 14 x 1.5 in, 2019
Mary Raap, Landing Gear, Handwoven cotton and silk, acrylic medium over canvas, 14 x 12 x 1 in, 2018
Mary Raap, Night Shift, Edition 1 of 28, Handwoven cotton and acrylic over panel, 10 x 8 x .25 in, 2019

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Artist Biography

Mary Raap is an artist who works at the intersection of painting and weaving. She earned a BFA in painting and printmaking from Iowa State University in 2005 and MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art in 2007. She was awarded a post-graduate fellowship and residency at The New York Academy in 2007-2008. Her work has been exhibited in group shows nationally and abroad including at The Knockdown Center in Queens, Stolen Space Gallery in London, Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, Museo de la Cuidad de Mexico in Mexico City, The Art House in Chicago, and Hunter College’s Times Square Gallery. She was recently featured in Friend Of the Artist publication. Mary lives and works in Brooklyn.

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