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Marcy Chevali
I build my work as re-presentations of emotional situations in my life. The materials I use and the way they interact become metaphors and diagrams. I choose ordinary materials for certain qualities that accurately portray the situations with which I am concerned. Often, additional attributes of the materials become unexpectedly significant. My work is wrapped, covered, bound, enclosed, hidden, surrounded. Paradoxically, it is often transparent, translucent or with gaping holes, revealing the walls of an empty room. When looked through, my pieces alter perspective, cause things to appear distorted, cloudy, tinged or steeped.
In building and transforming these autobiographical narratives, I hope that I can understand and rework the situations. I think of the results as obsessive gestures of hope.
I have recently begun to and will continue to explore emotional, ambiguous dichotomies such as function and insignificance, need and disposal, contained and non-contained. Things that quickly shift and adopt opposite meaning interest me. I will consider subtle patterns of everyday life and recognize things that persist and those that fade away. I will continue to shape and reshape these
emotions until I understand them. I expect to continue to develop these themes using techniques of shape, repetition, and accumulation. I would like to make installation work which could relate more to the human body. I would like to build experiences that move though narrative, lingering and developing within the viewer, rather than moments that pass quickly.
Marcy Chevali was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She received a BFA from The Ohio State University and explored the spatial metaphors of her emotions while earning a MFA from Maine College of Art. Her work has been shown at venues such as Aicon Gallery, AC
Institute, The ICA at MECA, and The Gallery of Contemporary Art and Sacred Heart University. During the pauses from tangling or untangling thread, she twists images into short videos as part of the collective afternoon girls.
