On February 28, Mary Ellen Bartley will present her work influenced by and created while in residence at The Center. Bartley will make a set of photographs using books from the Watermill Study Library as subjects. The photographs will be used to create a book of books, whose format and edition are yet to be determined.
Mary Ellen Bartley is an American artist who was born in the Bronx and currently lives and works in Wainscott, NY. Bartley is known for her photographs that explore the tactile and formal qualities of the printed book and their potential for abstraction.
About Mary Ellen Bartley
Mary Ellen Bartley is an American artist who was born in the Bronx and currently lives and works in Wainscott, New York on the eastern end of Long Island. Bartley is known for her photographs that explore the tactile and formal qualities of the printed book and their potential for abstraction. Her work has been exhibited widely in the United States and internationally, including the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY; the Center for Photographic Arts in Carmel, CA; Fototropia Gallery in Guatemala City, Guatemala; and at the galleries where her work is represented: The Drawing Room in East Hampton and Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York. Her first solo museum exhibition opened in the fall of 2014 at the Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, NY.
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