Maggie Mailer/YELLOW DANCE NO MUSIC
Bio
Maggie Mailer’s work explores landscape as the overlap between inner and outer states of being. Her work engages painting, words, and movement as terrain in which the creative process and human activity walk and talk together. Projects include This is Not a Picnic, a roving installation under the umbrella of Picnic Pavilion at The 58th International Venice Biennale, in which an unstretched painting-as-picnic cloth moved throughout the city of Venice as an alternative picnic space, in a city where picnic-ing is illegal. Previous projects include founding The Storefront Artist Project, an ephemeral Artist Residency program in Pittsfield Massachusetts which ran from 2002 - 2012 and presented artists at work in real time as a continual public performance. The project is credited with jumpstarting the revival of the city of Pittsfield, and has been used as a model for the regeneration of other cities across the country.
Mailer’s paintings are represented by GUT Gallery in Dallas, Texas. She has received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, A.R.T. Grant. Her work has been featured in The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, and Art New England.
Born in 1971 in New York, Mailer studied Architecture and Fine Arts and received a BA in English Literature from Columbia University in 1993.
YELLOW DANCE NO MUSIC is the Collaborative Practice Umbrella of partners Maggie Mailer and John Wendling, at 8 POINTS STUDIO
