Thousand Dreams Pavilion

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Mary Ma shares some recent sculpture work.

I create installation and sculpture that explores dichotomies of time, culture, and nature through the use of non traditional art media and discarded materials such as fabric, plastic and paper. I formulate dreamlike worlds with graphic motifs borrowed from my Chinese heritage and patterns influenced by my background in choreography and experience in a collective society. The repetitive, labor-intensive process casts me as a cultural producer operating a sweatshop of cutting, pasting, sewing, and stitching. Through a practice that becomes a ritual, the result is my own Made-in-China temple.

Mary Ma studied an Undergraduate Major in Chemical Engineering at Shanghai Dong Hua University and a Master of Fine Art (Painting) at the San Francisco Art Institute.