Mary Ann Unger, Artist (Portfolio)

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At the drawing table, East 3rd Street, New York City, 1977

 

Mary Ann Unger, Artist is a boxed portfolio of photographs by Geoffrey Biddle of the noted sculptor, his late wife. This collective portrait is comprised of thirty 16 x 20 inch archival pigment prints on Hahnemühle paper in a signed edition of ten.

Unger was best known for large-scale works evoking the body, bandaging, flesh, and bone, and for recurring themes of growth, regeneration, care, and support. Her oeuvre also includes small bronzes, works on paper, and public art commissions. She died from breast cancer in 1998; she was 53 years old.

In her New York Times obituary, Roberta Smith wrote that “(Mary Ann Unger’s) works occupied a territory defined by Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois. But the pieces combined a sense of mythic power with a sensitivity to shape that was all their own, achieving a subtlety of expression that belied their monumental scale.”

 

Loft view, East 3rd Street, New York City, 1977

 

Kitchen table, Wallkill, New York, 1988

 

Portrait, Four Corners, American Southwest, 1996

 

Studio, East 3rd Street, New York City, 1989

 

Studio tour, East 3rd Street, New York City, 1991

 

Studio, East 3rd Street, New York City, 1989