Sea, Space and Doubt: Artist Mary Weatherford On Inspiration and Conversation
about 11 months ago (02/07/2024)
An Interview with Artist Mary Weatherford | Observer Not long ago, artist Mary Weatherford opened a show of new paintings at Gagosian 980 Madison Avenue, “ Sea and Space ,” which probes the depths of these concepts alongside their real natural beauty. Weatherford (b. 1963) has long been one of our finest painters, included in the once controversial, though in retrospect, basically correct survey at the Museum of Modern Art, “The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World.” Roberta Smith has praised her work as featuring “verve and an ecumenical historical awareness.” The artist in her studio with “The Flaying of Marsyas—3500 Spectra” (2021–22).