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“We
are aware that houses are inhabitable spaces, so, when
contemplating their image, we transcend the geometric,
inert box and enter its inner reality, hidden from us.
The concept of simultaneous inner and outer worlds is
a theme explored in these house paintings.” |
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Conflicted
Oil, cold wax, oil crayon
on panel
24 x 25
framed 25.5 x 26.5
$2,400
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Inseparable
Oil, rice paper, oil crayon, cold wax on panel
36 x 44
framed 37.5 x 45.5
$3,400
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Remembered
Oil, oil crayon, cold wax on panel
25.5 x 24
framed 27 x 25.5
$2,400
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Regenerate
oil, oil crayon, encaustic
on mounted canvas
11.5 x 12.5
$1,100
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Enlightened
oil, oil crayon, encaustic
on mounted paper
12.5 x 11.5
$1,100
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Enheartened
oil, oil crayon, encaustic
13 x 12.5
$1,100
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A Space Apart
mixed media
24 x 22.5
framed 25.5 x 23.75
$2,400
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Points of View
oil, encaustic on
mounted paper
9.5 x 9.75
$650
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Devoted
oil, encaustic
8.75 x 9
$475
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First Blush
Oil, encaustic on
mounted paper
9.5 x 9.25
$650
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Seeker
oil on panel
18 x 24
framed 19.5 x 25.5
$1,650
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Call and Response
oil and oil pastel on panel
10.75 x 16
framed 12.5 x 17.5
$1,100
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Beside Me
oil and oil pastel
on mounted paper
17 x 15.5
framed 18 x 16.5
$1,200
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Almost There
encaustic, oil, oil crayon
on panel
16 x 20
framed 17.5 x 20.5
$1,500
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Alight
oil on panel
24 x 24
framed 25.5 x 25.5
$2,200
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Seeking Clarity
mixed media on panel
26 x 24
framed 27 x 25
$2,400
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Altered States
encaustic, oil and collage
12.5 x 11.5
$1,100
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Golden Hopes
oil on panel
12 x 24.5
framed 15.75 x 28
$1,400
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Above and Beyond
oil on panel
12.75 x 13.25
framed 16.5 x 17
$1,200
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The Dimming
oil on panel
11.5 x 12.5
$1,100
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Grounded
oil on board
36 x 36
framed 37 x 37
$3,200
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Final Glow
mixed media
15 x 16
framed 15.5 x 16.5
$1,500
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“Twilight is the most
mysterious time of the day. Especially, just before total
darkness engulfs the landscape. This is one of those moments.
The clarity is gone and shapes begin to merge into oneness.” |
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Essential Elements
mixed media
11.75 x 11
framed 12.25 x 11.5
$1,100
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Secure
mixed media
12 x 12.5
framed 12.5 x 13
$1,100
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Color Notes
mixed media
12 x 10.75
framed 12.5 x 11.25
$1,100
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“Color is a way to inject
emotion into the most ordinary subject matter. I have observed
this structure in many different atmospheres. The colors
may not be representational of an actual observation, but
the feeling evoked by their vibrations comes the closest
to evoking the experience of the original encounter. One
feels the intensity of the last rays of sunlight as the
heat of a summer night departs.” |
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Lavender Haze
mixed media on panel
29 x 28
framed 29.75 x 28.75
$2,400
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“What keeps attracting
me to this cluster of buildings is the way their geometry
appears to shift over time. The sun travels a different
path each day, yet is the same each year. Things change,
yet remain the same. Houses evoke metaphors of the human
body and soul. In this image, there is something mysterious
and dreamlike in the atmosphere around this house; it has
a vaporous quality that allows the space to breathe.” |
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Shadow Play
mixed media on panel
22 x 24
framed 22.75 x 24.75
$1,900
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Remembered Light
mixed media on panel
16 x 15
framed 16.5 x 15.5
$1,450
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Lavender Light
mixed media on panel
11 x 12
framed 11.75 x 12.75
$1,100
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Equilibrium
mixed media on panel
19 x 22
framed 20.5 x 23.5
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|  Mary
Moquin explores a sense of the prevailing unity found in the eternal rhythms of nature. She is drawn to the regenerative solitude of the timeless spaces she depicts. Moquin has had a connection with the landscape since she was a small child. She was raised on the remnants of a 50-plus-acre farm and explored miles of old work paths that led to secluded places. Mary reveled in the sense of peace found in the silence and solitude afforded by these special spots.
Mary Moquin now lives on Cape Cod and spends the summer in a remote dune cottage on Sandy Neck, with no modern conveniences and only accessible by four-wheel drive or boat. It is here that she continues her intimate connection with the landscape. Most of her work is inspired by the contemplative time she spends there.
Moquin uses a mixed media approach often incorporating the use of hot or cold wax. She holds a BFA in printmaking and an MFA in painting. She teaches painting at the Cape Cod Art Association.
Artist’s
Statement
There is a sense of the sacred and a prevailing
unity with the eternal rhythms of nature that I investigate
in my work. My paintings explore the places that I am
deeply connected with and have found renewal in. In the
regenerative solitude of these spaces I have experienced
a sense of wholeness.
I have had a connection with the landscape since I was
a small child. I was raised on the remnants of a once
active 50-plus-acre-farm. I explored miles of old work
paths that led to secluded “special” places that I would
investigate. There were many abandoned outbuildings and
barns that I converted into playhouses and forts. I was
always in search of these special quiet places. I reveled
in the sense of peace found in the silence and solitude
they afforded.
For the last 25 years I have spent my summers in a remote
cottage situated near the point on Sandy Neck, a narrow
peninsula that juts out into Barnstable Harbor. This
special secluded place continues to be my connection
to the landscape and nourishes my psyche in the same
way as the places of my childhood. Pathways remain important
to me as they connect and lead me to these places. The
inner trial leads me through the forest passing trees
that stand as symbols of strength and perseverance.
There is a small group of seasonal homes clustered at the
end of this trail at the tip of the peninsula. Their triangular
shapes are silhouetted against sea and endless sky. Their
shapes invoke a sense of peace and stability. They become
metaphors of meditative existence as they sit in complete
stillness with their peaks set to the heavens. It is here
that I have seen nature stage amazing light shows, dramatic
skies and spectacular cloud formations and felt intensely
connected to the majestic force behind them. It is the
sense of being in this space that I have explored in my
work.
Artist's Reflection:
There have been moments in my life,
when I have felt completely connected to something larger,
part of a unified whole that exists somewhere beyond the
immediate appearance of everyday reality. As a young child,
I experienced this sense of connectedness for hours at
a time while leisurely exploring my rural surroundings.
As I have grown older and busier this feeling of unity
eludes me, beyond my memory, like a name I can’t quite
remember. I am left with a sense of separation and a longing
to recapture this feeling of completeness that came so
naturally in my youth. Through the process of painting,
I search to rediscover the source of this unity.
The landscape is the sanctuary I have found that brings
me the closest to reuniting myself with this larger force.
In silent meditative places, I listen for the echo of something
I am certain I once heard clearly. Through the experience
of painting the landscape and contemplating the natural
rhythms and phenomenon I witness, I seek to fill the void
created by my lingering sense of separation. The houses,
trees, and landscapes depicted in my paintings become metaphors
for existence. They express a way of being in the world.
Ways that I have experienced at different times in my life.
Through my choice of materials, composition and color,
I seek to enforce my belief in the reality of the universe
as a single significant whole and awaken this feeling in
those that are receptive to it. |
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Education
- MFA 2009, UMass, Dartmouth, MA
Mary Moquin's Thesis
- BFA
1987, Southeastern Massachusetts University,
No. Dartmouth, MA. Graduated magna cum laude
- Additional Studies at Swain School
of Design, New Bedford
- Chatham Creative Art Center,
The Cape Cod Conservatory, Castle Hill
- Continued
studies with Lois Griffel, Tim Thies, Selina
Trieff, Anne Leone, Cynthia Packard
Collections
- Tom Hamilton, of Aerosmith
- Anne Thompson, Television
News Journalist, NBC
- Rockland Trust Co.
- Rosenfield, Holland and
Raymond P.C.
- Clare Cole, CPA, 199 Rocky Meadow St., Middleboro,
MA
- Cape Cod 5 Cent Savings Bank
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Juried Regional, National & International
Shows
- Boston Young Contemporaries College of Fine Arts,
Boston University 2009
- Northeast Prize Show 2009 Cambridge, MA Juror:
Willikam Stover, Curator, MFA Boston
- Art
of the Northeast, USA, 2003 Silvermine Guild
Gallery,
New Caanan CT
- All New England Juried Show South Shore Art
Center, Cohasset, MA
25th Annual Red River Exhibit Plains Art Museum,
Moorhead, MN
- 3rd Biennial International Print
Exhibit Somerstown Gallery, Somerstown, NY
Images of 4 Women Printmakers South Shore Art
Center, Cohasset, MA
- Boston Printmakers Exhibition
Art Complex, Duxbury, MA
- Women Creating 2002
CMFA Dennis, MA
- Old Selectmen's
Gallery Solo Exhibition 2000- Miles to Go Before
I Sleep
- Brewster Ladies Library Four Friends
and a Paintbrush, 2001
- Old Selectmen's Gallery
Solo Exhibition 2001- The Journey Continues
- Old
Selectmen's Gallery Solo Exhibition 2003 - Expressive
Realism
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