MARY ELMER-DEWITT The works in this show were selected from a larger exhibit in which I considered the influence my mother and two grandmothers had on my artwork and on my identity as a maker. One grandmother’s cut-glass compote inspired the compote series and the underlying grid of her needlepoints inspired a series of woven paintings. I borrowed the hydrangeas and color palette from a silk screen made by my other grandmother and the more quilt-like pieces were inspired by my early sewing experiences with my mother. Mary Elmer-DeWitt is a native New Yorker who currently lives in Brooklyn. She is a graduate of NYU (BA) and Pratt Institute (MA) where she has been a professor in the Art and Design Education Department since 2004. She began painting in 2008 and is a member of Atlantic Gallery in Manhattan and Park Slope Windsor Terrace Artists in Brooklyn. NY. Two-person show: Atlantic Gallery, NY, NY, 2024 Group Exhibitions: The Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ, Big Small Show, 2024 The National Collage Society’s 40th Annual Exhibit, 2024 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Small Works Show, 2023 Atlantic Gallery, NY, NY Members Group Show 2024 Atlantic Gallery, NY, NY, Connections Vll 2023 Ossam Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Park Slope Windsor Terrace Spring Show, 2023 MS Rezny Gallery, Lexington, KY not (2) Big Exhibition, 2013
