UPCOMING
Mary Bucci McCoy: Manifest
February 29 – April 2, 2012
Opening reception: Friday, March 2, 5:30–8 pm
Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue, #43
Boston, MA
www.kingstongallery.com
Lisa Russell & Mary Bucci McCoy: Distillation
April 5–25, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 5, 5–8 pm
Bannister Gallery
Rhode Island College
600 Mount Pleaseant Avenue
Providence, RI
RECENT
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Annual Members Exhibit
August 31 – October 2, 2011
Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue, #43
Boston, MA 02118
617.423.4113
www.kingstongallery.com
22 Artists
A Street Gallery
4 Clarendon Street
Boston, MA
June 4–30, 2011
Hours: Tu–Sat 10–6; Th 11–7
Seeing in Color
Diane Ayott, Mary Bucci McCoy, Rose Olson, Catalina Viejo Lopez De Roda, Kellie Weeks
curated by Setheyny Pen
   
March 10 – April 2, 2011
119 Gallery
119 Chelmsford Street
Lowell, MA
www.119gallery.org
Dialogues
Gallery Artists and Invited Guests
left: David McCoy — Wave 3
right: Mary Bucci McCoy — Wish |
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January 5–30, 2011
Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue, #43
Boston, MA 02118
617.423.4113
www.kingstongallery.com
Mary Bucci McCoy: Trace
December 1, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Kingston Gallery (Back Gallery)
450 Harrison Avenue, #43
Boston, MA 02118
617.423.4113
www.kingstongallery.com
"This small exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Mary Bucci McCoy offers an intimate engagement with works that are
deceptively modest in their size and apparent lack of painting complexity. Bucci McCoy is becoming an increasingly important
intellectual and artistic presence in Boston..."
— David Raymond, Art New England
Read the Nov/Dec 2010 Art New England review by David Raymond
Read the Dec. 17, 2010 Making the Art Seen profile of Mary
 
Works in exhibit (click images to view enlargements):
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| Verge, acrylic on panel, 24 x 24 x 1.5", 2010 |
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Trace, acrylic on plywood panel, 8 x 8 x 3.5", 2010 |
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up, away, acrylic on kozo paper,
9.5 x 10.75", 2010 |
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early on, acrylic on kozo paper,
9.5 x 10.75", 2010 |
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stream, acrylic on Okawara paper,
12 x 17", 2010 |
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Papyrus
curated by Chiharu Aizawa
 
September 17 – November 21, 2010
AG Gallery
107-A North 3rd Street
Williamburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211
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Mary Bucci McCoy: New Paintings
curated by James Montford
"The Bannister’s hallway gallery features Massachusetts painter Mary Bucci McCoy (who teaches at Montserrat College of Art in Massachusetts, where I also happen to teach). She paints acrylic abstractions in moody, narrow ranges of color. For example, So Close (2008) features single daubs of olive green, hot orange, and burgundy on a creamy, rusty pink ground. It’s hyper-conscious, precise action painting — registering the difference between oval daubs and rectangular daubs, between a thinly painted oval and a carefully controlled glop. This carefully considered messiness can feel a might bit finicky, but often it feels just right."
— Greg Cook, "Review: 'Our Founders' at the Pac, and 'New Mastery' at RIC", The Providence Phoenix, September 22, 2010
September 9 – October 28, 2010
Hall Space Gallery
Roberts Hall (Central Campus)
Rhode Island College
600 Mount Pleasant Avenue
Providence, RI
401.456.9765
www.ric.edu/bannister
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Twenty10
Annual Members' Show
shift
September 1–26, 2010
Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue, #43
Boston, MA 02118
617.423.4113
www.kingstongallery.com
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This Collective Pull: A Mass Collaboration
work by 16 Massachusetts artists
February 6–28, 2010
fivesevendelle Project Space
57 Delle Avenue
Boston, MA
www.fivesevendelle.com
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Mary Bucci McCoy: Paintings
   
January 6–31, 2010
Kingston Gallery
450 Harrison Avenue, #43
Boston, MA 02118
617.423.4113
www.kingstongallery.com
View slide show of works in exhibit
"It's easy to get intimidated by Mary Bucci McCoy's artist statement — there's a poem in French, free use of the backslash, and we think we caught the word 'dialectical' in there somewhere. Her work itself, on the other hand — elevated or impressed blocks painted with minimalist abstractions — is warm and inviting, to the point that you'll be tempted to touch the thick splotches of paint. Must be that dialectic or sumthin'. After a few sips of wine and the welcoming atmosphere of the Kingston Gallery, you'll be nodding at that art like your B.A. was worth a damn."
— Weekly Dig, 12.23.09–1.6.10
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The Algorithms of Art
curated by Debbie Disston, Director, The McIninch Gallery
January 19 – February 15, 2009
The McIninch Gallery
Robert Frost Hall, 1st Floor
Southern New Hampshire University
2500 N. River Road
Manchester, NH 03106
800.668.1249
www.snhu.edu/art
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September 2 – October 16, 2008
McCoy Gallery
Rogers Center for the Arts
Merrimack College
315 Turnpike Street
North Andover, MA
978.837.5000
www.merrimack.edu
Review: Anne Krinsky, "Diane Ayott, Mary Bucci McCoy, and Rose Olson:
Consequences of Geometry", Art New England, Dec/Jan 2009
"Bucci McCoy's acrylics on wood conflate the sensuality of paint and flesh...The thoroughly nonobjective Hot Melt, and eight-inch square pinkish panel, improbably invokes a Tom Wesselmann nude."
Read full review >
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December 16, 2007 –
February 24, 2008
The Art Complex Museum
189 Alden Street
Box 2814
Duxbury, MA 02331
www.artcomplex.org
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In Substance
new work by Mary Bucci McCoy
works on mdf + site-specific wall drawing
June 2 – July 7, 2007
Artists Foundation
@ The Distillery, Main Gallery
516 East Second Street
South Boston, MA 02127
www.artistsfoundation.org
This exhibit included the first four works of the Élan vital series on one wall, and on the opposite wall Core and Periphery. On the center wall was a 88 x 110" site specific wall drawing, Light/White Investigation No. 1 (see installation slide show below). This piece — incorporating latex paint, the gallery lighting, marker, acrylic paint, and a spherical map pin — was created over the course of a week in response to the work on either side. |
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Industrial Strength
three person exhibit curated by Kathleen Bitetti
January 10 – February 15, 2007
Lillian Immig Gallery
Emmanuel College
Boston, MA
"...these three artists represent some of the most interesting conceptual reasoning as to why they are using these materials. They are masterfully using these materials to comment on and question such relevant issues as gender roles, contemporary popular culture, war, the unrelenting discussion of craft vs. fine art, and/or the age old question of what differentiates a 2-d work from a 3-d work. Geometry and geometric shapes, as well as references to history of abstraction, are also present in all of their works.Mary Bucci McCoy, who works primarily in 2-d, is showing selections from two series of work: her 2006 Roundelay series and her 2005 Oblique Derivation series. ... Bucci McCoy’s minimal based-works celebrate the MDF material and she brilliantly uses the material’s organic color as the dominant color..."
—excerpt from exhibition essay by curator Kathleen Bitetti
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