February 18, 2004
Mary Bero - Wish You Were Here
Mary Bero creates small embroideries and slightly larger prints. A description of her work at Kevin Quandt Fine Art (and also at Kelly Rae Theiss Gallery) says it all: "The reason one is drawn to her tightly constructed and highly stylized work is that she has the power to pull them off. They are tribal, urban, and indiginious, they have the look and feel of relics that were from a time past, but once view up close one realizes that the are too surreal to be from any other time but the present. Her work combines paper, thread, and cloth together and separately, they present worlds of calm and schizophrenia meshed together. Bero's work can be broken down by subject matter into three group: portraits of faces resembling tribal mask, surreal landscapes, and works combining both."
A handout from Mobilia Gallery has a wonderful quote from Bero: "Her work relies a great deal on intuition and spontaneity: 'Mistakes are my greatest inspiration.'"
Posted by sfenton at February 18, 2004 08:46 AMThe piece shown "Wish you were here" was purchased by the Minneapolis Institute of Art in spring of 2003.
Posted by: kevin at February 20, 2004 07:12 PM