September 11, 2014
Since spending several summers abroad in her early college years, Mary Flynn-Gillies’ eyes were opened to a world with authentic age and tangible history. If only in a heavily layered billboard or architectural facade, time was evident and history chronicled. Scenarios were imagined and interactions from years past were found within the peeling and cracked surfaces.
This fascination with weathered integrity has found a comfortable home in her two-dimensional work. Her desire is to achieve this sense of time and history in her work by using tattered, stained, and once cherished found papers as the foundation for her imagery. Causing one to ponder “How many previous lives has this assemblage touched through its individual components?”
Her imagery at first glance is ageless but at closer inspection is interjected with modern thought and often times whimsy… bringing together the inspiring dynamic of past versus present.
Windermere is located at 4526 California Ave SW