I recently sat down with Mary at her Dallas studio where we discussed early inspirations, Berkeley in the «60s, her love of art history, the evolution of the Meadows collection, her impact on generations of art students, her love
of yupo and a run - in with Georgia O'Keefe.
Not exact matches
All
of the works are painted on the Japanese plastic paper «
yupo» which allowed the artist to travel with her materials and upon return mount them to board.
One
of her most recent works («Albers» House») is a 36 - foot - long oil painting on
yupo which was featured in a retrospective at the Grace Museum in Abiliene.
Sara Leibman's Seasons
of Trees depicts the beauty
of the earth primarily in oils, but sometimes incorporating media that includes collage and
yupo paper.
Saccoccio's work first caught my eye in a 2013 group exhibition called Let's Get Physical, curated by the painter Rick Briggs at Ventana 244 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where she showed a grid
of four paintings in gouache and ink on
yupo paper, dominated by drips and spatters and networks
of bleeding color.