Mana Contemporary Chicago
2233 S Throop Street Chicago, IL 60608
8th floor 1:30-2:00pm
Join us for the opening of Mana Contemporary Chicago Highlight, featuring Mary Griffin and the work The Big Sky.
Mary Griffin presents a large scale painting, approximately five feet high by seven feet wide, as an installed work. The piece reflects her engagement with painting as a physical performance of gesture, shaped through an active process of navigating multiple forms of expression in the studio.
The work is part of a broader body of large scale paintings that emphasize the bodily dimension of mark making and the accumulation of material. This painting incorporates acrylic paint, a silk bandana embedded within the stretched canvas, and oil pastels. These elements create a layered surface that registers movement, pressure, and material tension within the installed form.