In mary iverson’s mix media paintings, shipping containers collide into the environment

shipping containers collide with the environment in mary iverson's mix media paintings

MARY IVERSON DETAILS THE CLASH BEHIND GLOBALIZATION & THE ENVIRONMENT

Mary Iverson, a seattle-based landscape artist, creates artworks that show the conflict between globalization, and the environment. The result is a combination of found photography and intersecting lines. Shipping containersThe artist uses oil, acrylic, and ink to create a vision for post-apocalyptic scenarios.

‘my paintings explore the balance between the environment and industrial activities, inspiring conversations about our complicated relationship with nature,’ reads the artist’s profile.

All images by Mary Iverson

SHIPPING CONTAINERS INVADE WELL-KNOWN SCENARIOS

Mary iverson’s paintings depict well-known scenarios where shipping containers have invaded. Her paintings inspire discussions about climate change, from the port in Seattle to the pyramids of Cairo.

‘iverson’s shipping containers can be seen as metonymic stand-ins for a whole system of distribution for objects that we deal with every day,’ said justin lincoln in an excerpt from the catalog statement for Egress The sheehan gallery is located in WA. ‘these paintings, until recently, left us with little clue of what they might contain. they are like scientific conceptual “black-boxes” which are put into place to sidestep our actual material understanding. We might only have a vague idea of what these containers might contain or how they might be used. This is directly analogous to the distribution of data over the net. the analog and digital worlds of things echo each other.’