ARTIST BIO

Mary Ma is a rising sophomore at Princeton University who is perpetually infatuated with art. She loves visiting museums, checking out local exhibits, and painting in her free time. Though she mainly works in oil, Mary also dabbles in watercolor, acrylic, charcoal, pencil, fabric, and even digital 3D design. 

 

Mary’s process involves her memories and dreams. In her works, she explores her subconscious, mining her memories and dream journals for details to reconstruct. She chooses not to use references while painting in order to avoid the limitations that physical objects can impose on her flow of emotion. She draws directly from her memories and descriptions of her dreams, evoking the subconscious with her paintbrush, not the tangible.