The Art of Mary Westring

Mary Westring's  approach to commuters on the NYC subway is isolated to the hands that grip the support poles. Passengers all find themselves staring blankly at the poles between stops and rarely reflect on the many hands that are gripping the poles with them. Mary has taken the time to execute this fleeting moment in a limited edition of finely detailed and beautifully rendered etchings.

Mary has created six unique etchings - three vertical entitled Holding On I, II, III and three horizontal entitled Hanging On I, II, III. She has limited her edition to 15. Ten are printed in a rich sepia color on acid free white rag paper and five are printed in traditional black on acid free white rag paper. Image size is 23-1/4" x 6-1/4", paper size is 29" x 11".

Individually each piece is $400.00. The complete set of six is $2000.00.

Pictured below in order is Holding On I, Holding On II, Holding On III (in black)

Pictured below in order is Hanging On I, Hanging On II, Hanging On III (in sepia)

Mary received her training at the University of Wisconsin and the Ruth Leaf Workshop. She was a founding member of the Graphic Eye Gallery in Port Washington, NY and taught printmaking at the L.I. Arts Council at Freeport, NY. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY and works from her studio in Williamsburg, where she also teaches to process of etching. She has had numerous one-woman exhibitions, including two at Figureworks, the Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, Recent Works Gallery in Lancaster, Pa, the Princeton Art Association, the Silvermine Guild of Artists and an exhibit entitled "Hiroshima: Questions" in Sapporo, Japan, where she lived and painted for one year. Her work is in many private and corporate collections.

Following is an example of her former series entitled Children of Conflict. This series confronts the ongoing abduction of children in Uganda who are taken by guerilla war lords for conversion training and labor. Mary and her family have worked for many years to bring attention to this crisis and have set up a site for awareness at http://www.uccef.org/navigation.html

Children of Conflict I
2002
Colored pencil, dry pigment, gesso on paper
22" x 30"
$900.00

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