Mary Bucci McCoy & Aimee Terburg

Gray Contemporary is pleased to present Mary Bucci McCoy & Aimée Terburg.  Opening Reception Saturday, July 9th, 5pm-9pm.  On view through August 20th.

Mary Bucci McCoy’s second solo exhibition with the gallery showcases a selection of her intimate, subtly nuanced, materially rich abstract acrylic paintings from the past three years.

Painted on vertical rectangular and oval panels roughly the scale of the human head, the paintings invite the viewer into a focused, self-reflexive encounter. Rectangular gray and silver paintings obliquely reference mirrors, while oval paintings bring to mind the art historical format of the cameo portrait. Through color, marks and materiality the work references the body and the forms and processes of the natural landscape; though small in scale, each painting points to the enormity of the human being and the universe.

Bucci McCoy’s distinctive and varied handling of acrylic paint is influenced by her background in ceramic sculpture. Acceptance of chance, negotiation between spontaneity and restraint, somatic and physical awareness, presence, and a sense of time and timing are critical to the realization of each work.

In the Second Gallery is an installation of three paintings by Aimée Terburg. The selected work is part of a series titled Divisibility, which will be shown in full in her upcoming solo exhibition in September. This will be the first exhibit of Terburg’s work at Gray Contemporary.

A brief description of the Artists:

Mary Bucci McCoy (b. 1962, New Brunswick, NJ) currently lives and works in the Boston area.

Recent solo exhibitions include CG2 Gallery, Nashville, TN (2015); Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX (2015); and Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA (2015). She has exhibited in numerous other venues including Rhode Island College, Providence, RI; Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA; FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA; AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH; and the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA.

Awards include a merit-based grant from the Vermont Studio Center in support of her month-long residency (2015); the Luz Dorrien Faculty Development Award, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA (2015); and a Painting Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (2012).

She holds a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University and a BA in English  from Tufts University. She has also studied ceramic sculpture at l’Ecole des Arts Decoratifs in Geneva, Switzerland (now Haute École d’Art et de Design Genève).

Aimée Terburg (b. 1971) lives and works in Groningen, the Netherlands. She received her BFA for autonomous painting and graphic arts Cum Laude at Art Academy Minerva in Groningen (NL).

Recent exhibitions include: Gallery Hein Elferink, NL (2016); Transmitter, New York City (US debut, 2015); Studio 1.1, London, UK (2015); Gallery Crelan, Brussels, BE (2015); ruimteCAESUUR, Middelburg, NL (2015); Dosenfabrik, Hamburg DE (2014); Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen, NL (2014); Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2014); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK (2014); ParisCONCRET, Paris, FR (2014).

Her art was nominated for the International Solo Award of the Spring Exhibition, Copenhagen, DK (2014); the biennial Nordwestkunst Price, DE (2013); the J.K. Egberts Award, NL (2007). Terburg’s work was included in the ‘Summer Exhibition Illustrated 2014’ of the Royal Academy of Arts, London among 177 artists and art collections of the Coöperative bank Crelan (BE), Dutch Gasunion (NL), Foundation ‘FB Oranjewoud’ (NL) and private art collections.

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Pictured above: Mary Bucci McCoy, Terra Incognita.