Mary Tremonte
2004
About the Project
In 2004 Artists Image Resource worked with Mary Tremonte on a series of large scale painted prints.
Large sheets of paper were surfaced with color and image and text components were screen printed and hand painted onto the fields. Four or five variable printed paintings were made of each of four or five image structures, each approximately 40 x 60".
Printers
Mary Tremonte, Heather White, Ian Short, Robert Beckman
About Mary Tremonte
Mary Tremonte is an artist, educator, and DJ based in Pittsburgh, with a piece of her heart in Toronto. A member of Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, she works with "printmaking in the expanded field," including printstallation, interactive silkscreen printing in public space, and wearable artist multiples such as queer scout badges. As DJ Mary Mack she strives to make safe(r) spaces on dance floors for embodying a body politic with pleasure. With Justseeds and independently Mary has exhibited, presented lectures and workshops, and performed in Pittsburgh, Toronto, throughout the United States, and internationally. Formerly the youth programs coordinator at The Andy Warhol Museum, she values art education as a means of empowerment and social change.
Mary recently completed Dirt Is Beautiful, a public art project in collaboration with Grow Pittsburgh, through Pittsburgh Office of Public Art’s Environment, Health, and Public Art Initiative. She was an artist in residence with Literacy Pittsburgh, through OPA’s initiative to pair artists with organizations that support immigrants and refugees in the region, resulting in creative projects that better connect newcomers with the Pittsburgh region and one another.
Mary is co-organizer, with artist V Adams, of Queer Ecology Hanky Project, an exhibition of over 120 artist-made bandanas on the theme of queer ecology. The project has been exhibited at Women’s Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY), Maine College of Art and Design (Portland, ME), Irma Freeman Center for Imagination (Pittsburgh), and The Future (Minneapolis, MN), Zygote Press (Cleveland, OH), and the Quarter Gallery at University of Minnesota, as part of Queer and Trans* Ecologies Symposium. Upcoming exhibits are at Plains Art Museum in Fargo, ND (Summer/Fall 2024) and SNAP in Edmonton, AB (January/February 2025).
Exuberant Possibilities, an artist book that delves deeper into the project, was completed in late 2021 and is available through Booklyn.
Through her work Mary aims to create temporary utopias and sustainable commons through pedagogy, collaboration, visual pleasure and serious fun.
To see more about Mary Tremonte and her work visit: marymacktremonte.org
Artist Statement
What is the radical and transformative potential of love? From Emma Goldman to bell hooks to zine writers, I did a lot of reading and thinking about love, and combined quotes with brush and ink drawings of animals to create these large scale silkscreen prints. The hand-painted and screenprint-layered backgrounds echo the scavenged blueprint paper that I was also printing on a lot at the time - not archival! These prints represent an accumulation of collecting, of source material and writing on love and compassion.
