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| Female Icons | 2006, 22 x 30” mixed media & collage on Arches paper |
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MaryMaughelli’s work is art about art and relies on images from art history especially the
Venus figure from Botticelli and Titian as well as the Aphrodite figure which are compared to
and interwoven with contemporary images of women. The paintings are about identity, the
body, the human female figure and its strengths and weaknesses. Through the juxtaposition
of the figure from the past and present together with symbols, a more unique view of the
body results which rellies on personal associations rather than on descriptive imagery ex-
clusively.
Mary Maughelli is a Professor Emerita of Art from California State University, Fresno where
she taught art for 35 years. She earned her BA and MA from the University of California
at Berkeley in 1957 and 1959 respectively. While there she was awarded the Fulbright
Fellowship to Florence, Italy in painting for two years. She has exhibited extensively
nationally and internationally including 14 years at AIR Gallery in New York. |
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