About

Mary Mooney creates dynamic, luminous paintings that shift with changing light and viewer perspective. Each work begins as a meditation on emotion, and paint is viscerally and “binaurally” blended straight onto the surface of the work. Abstraction is a process of simplification where all identifying details are removed and we see what information and emotion remains. Mooney believes our shared emotional landscape connects us, like mycelium, and views abstraction as a bridge to that ephemeral realm of connection. The shared visual language of color, texture, and sensation evokes parallel individual feelings within a group of viewers. Like Jung defined the “collective unconscious,” Mooney believes within our unconscious mind lies memory and experience common to all humankind.

She is currently designing/building sculptures using light and sound to subliminally regulate the nervous system through harmonic resonance.

Mary Mooney holds an interdisciplinary BFA from Denison University, where she focused on large-format abstract painting and site-specific installation work.

Her work is collected internationally, and is included in various public and private collections, notably Denison University, Elizabeth Suzann Studios, Cedar & Moss, and Sean Brock’s flagship restaurant, Audrey.

Mary lives and works in East Nashville, where she lives with her partner Nathan and their dog, Bridgette. She is presently self-represented.