Media Studies - Mary Turner Buchanan

Mixed Media Studies-Mary T. Buchanan

Documentation of research done to support and inform my work as a visual artist.

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Detail-Plaster, dirt, tracing paper, yarn, brush bristles, watercolor paint.

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buchananmt: A visual artist with a focus on fiber. I also work creatively with adults who are memory impaired.

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Although formally trained as a printmaker, Mary Buchanan began to explore quilt-making in 1996, intrigued by the process, history and tradition of the medium. She was subsequently awarded a 3 ½-year, grant-funded residency as part of the Dominion Therapy Program at Westminster Canterbury, Richmond, Va., designed to bring studio art experiences to seniors with memory impairments. The lasting impressions of this tenure continue to inform the content of her work.

Buchanan’s embroidered and quilted textiles function as visual metaphors for the disordered relationships of person, place, and time that accompany Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. She uses both formal and conceptual elements to investigate these degenerative processes by layering, tearing, stitching, dyeing, cutting and repeating imagery, text, and pattern. Fragmented images of empty buildings, sitting rooms and antiquated objects drift into and out of focus. Within these complex compositions, foreground and background become interchangeable, simultaneously obscuring and revealing information to the viewer, evoking the shifting periods of clarity and disorientation associated with memory loss.

Buchanan received her B.F.A., cum laude, in 1993 from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. She has exhibited her work in numerous juried and solo exhibitions, most recently at the Zig Zag Gallery, The Plains, Va., and has taught many textile workshops and classes. Buchanan currently resides and works in Richmond, Va., where she is earning a graduate degree in interdisciplinary studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.