June 4 - June 30, 2022
Mary Anne Arntzen
Andy M. Clark
Matthew Russo
MONO PRACTICE is pleased to announce Incongruent Animation, a group exhibition featuring the work of Mary Anne Arntzen, Andy M. Clark, and Matthew Russo. Incongruent Animation examines the act of slowing down natural observations and its effect on visual language. The Suspension between abstraction and visual perception of worldly objects makes for a playfulness of imagery and customization of emotional rapport. The works are situated around incongruences of the natural world and the artists’ imagination; a subjective evaluation of a situation is at odds with reality.
The exhibition will run from June 4 through June 30, 2022. The gallery opens Thursday & Saturday, 1-5 pm.
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Mary Anne Arntzen was born in Riverside, California and lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2010, she received a Master of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute college of Art. Notable exhibitions include the Walters Art Museum (Baltimore), The Painting Center (NYC), and Resort Gallery (Baltimore). Mary Anne has completed residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, and the Wassaic Project. In addition to her painting practice, Mary Anne is a conservation technician for textiles at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Andy Martinelli Clark (b. 1996, Rockville, MD) is an artist and occasional critic whose writing has appeared online in BmoreArt and Artforum. His visual art consists of process-driven paintings and works on paper whose enigmatic yet tangible signifiers echo the incongruent nature of our world. Clark regards his paintings, drawings, and prints as fictional constructions—each with their own distinct attitude, spacial propositions, and formal idiosyncrasies.
His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore, MD; Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Hyattsville, MD; and at VisArts, Rockville, MD, among others. Clark received a BFA in 2019 from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he studied painting and printmaking. Clark lives and works in Montgomery County, MD.
Matthew Russo was born in Worcester, MA. He currently lives and works in Washington, D.C. as a Studio Technician, Educator, and Artist. His work actualizes theoretical research into physical Sculptures, Paintings and Drawings. He uses abstraction as a language to dissect the relationships between objects, materials, and their roles in our experiential reality. In 2018 he earned his BFA in Painting from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts. In 2020 he graduated with his MFA degree from American University in Washington, D.C. He currently is a fellow in the Hamiltonian Fellowship program in Washington, D.C. Russo has Exhibited his work recently at Dodomu Gallery in Brooklyn, NY and at But, Also in Washington, D.C.