Mary Lucier

PROVENANCE: Courtesy of the Artist

Silver Mist is a photograph derived from a series of high definition video works called
Leaving Earth. It was shot on an early spring morning following a devastating storm
near her upstate New York studio.

Mary Lucier has been known for her contributions to the form of multi-monitor, multi-channel video installation since the early 1970’s. Since 1971 her mixed-media work has consistently explored the theme of landscape as a metaphor for loss and regeneration and, more recently, trauma as experienced and articulated in more obliquely narrative modes. Her video work has been shown in major museums around the world where it now resides in numerous collections, such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Reina Sofia, the Stedeljik Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Columbus Museum of Art, among others. She has been the recipient of many awards and fellowships, notably Anonymous Was a Woman, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Fellowship, Creative Capital, USA Artists, and the Japan-US Friendship Commission. She lives and works in New York City and Cochecton, NY.