Wetland Philadelphia Mary Mattingly

Mary mattingly is a brooklyn based artist who creates sculptural ecosystems in urban spaces.

Wetland philadelphia mary mattingly.

September 1979 in rockville connecticut ist eine us amerikanische künstlerin die mit den medien installation performance und fotografie arbeitet. A floating sculpture wetland resembles a partially submerged building that integrates nature with the built environment. Wetland philadelphia pa commission by fringearts. In 2009 mattingly founded the waterpod project a barge based public space and self sufficient habitat that hosted over 200 000 visitors in new york.

Wetland was docked on the banks of the schuylkill river at bartram s garden and is used as a space for classes residencies and public programming. It was utilized by the university of pennsylvania s environmental humanities program until 2017. Sie lebt und arbeitet in new york leben und werk. In august 2014 as part of the philadelphia fringe festival mattingly launched wetland on the delaware river just outside the independence seaport museum.

In 2014 an artist residency on the water called wetland launched in philadelphia and traveled to the parrish museum. In 2014 an artist residency on the water called wetland launched in philadelphia and traveled to the parrish museum. She is the creator of the wetland project and is the 2015 16 artist in residence with the penn program in environmental humanities. In 2016 mattingly led a similar project at the museum of modern art.

Wetland a floating installation designed by the well known new york environmental artist mary mattingly to look like a sinking rowhouse has itself sunk into the schuylkill. Barry bessler is chief of staff at philadelphia department of parks and recreation. Mary mattingly in conversation with philadelphia parks rec s barry bessler january 31 2016 bwiggin leave a comment during a ppehlab at wetland open house at the walnut street dock on the schuylkill river wetland s creator mary mattingly sat down to talk with the chief of staff of philadelphia s parks recreation barry bessler. Inspired by images of semi submerged houses in the aftermaths of hurricane katrina and sandy the houseboat was created as a demonstration project and semi self sufficient.

Wetland is a mobile sculptural habitat and public space constructed to explore resource interdependency and climate change in urban centers. The garden is near the intersection of 54th street and lindbergh boulevard in philadelphia. Artist mary mattingly s wetland partnered with the university of pennsylvania s program in the environmental humanities and bartram s garden.