Mary Ciani

Flayed Cliffs, Scars, Oil, Blood, painting 40" x 30", 2024.

Please visit maryciani.com to see an Art of Warning which includes the Deluge Paintings, Postcards from the Future, and Flood Drawings. Most paintings are vertical format 4' x 3', but this is one that kept growing! Black Oil, Snowmelt Shattering Rocks, 2020-2024, paint on canvas, four 4' x 3' canvases, totaling 4' x 12'.

I need help with modifying my existing Squarespace webpage at maryciani.com Do you know someone locally you would recommend? Thank you. (I haven't done color correction yet on this 4-canvas image. Yes the colors, which are the same, seem to vary across photos.)

I haven't posted much art lately. This is from a series of 150 drawings, one a day, over the hot summer of 2022. I drew instead of painting because I was traveling escaping the hellish summer. The series is called Postcards from the Future, and drawn of Fabriano archival watercolor paper. They were only drawn with black and/or red very fine tip or brush professional markers.

Advice about Bastards. My poem set to AI music. Enter Mary Advice about Bastards. On youtube. It is Fabulous: Advice from Goddesses!

Exhibiting two works in Transmissions, a one-day show at Canopy in East Austin, Saturday, April 6th.

Red Sun, Dark Sky, Shadowed Oil and Snowmelt, 48" x 36", and also Black Sun, Flying Gold Maps, archival print of digital painting, 28"" x 22". (Shown in next Facebook message.)

The show celebrates the eclipse of the sun which will take place two days later. Come by if you are in Austin!

Second work in Transmissions show at Canopy in East Austin on Sat. April 7th. Black Sun, Flying Gold Maps, archival print of digital painting 28" x 22". Come by if you are in town :-)

Exhibiting two works in Transmissions, a one-day show at Canopy in East Austin, Saturday, April 6th.
Red Sun, Dark Sky, Shadowed Oil and Snowmelt, 48" x 36", and also Black Sun, Flying Gold Maps, archival print of digital painting, 28"" x 22". (Shown in next Facebook message.)
The show celebrates the eclipse of the sun which will take place two days later. Come by if you are in Austin!

Blood Falls, Black Oil Divides. 20" x 16", Golden paints on canvas. 12.12.23

Glad you found me here, but my art can be found at maryciani.com. Happy New Year!

Oil, Gold, and Blood Flow Into Our Blue and Green World. Gold somehow has now joined oil and blood in these apocalyptic paintings. Leaning against an oak tree in the backyard. Golden paints on canvas, 30” x 24”, 10.5.2023.

Oil, Remaining Snow, Fog, August 1, 2023.
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To friends and anyone else finding this: I am sorry that I have not spent much time on the care and feeding of this website. But I continue to paint. Art Website: maryciani.com

A Postcard from the Future:

Deluge, Black Oil, Blood, Winds Rising,
4' x 3', finished 3.11.2022.

I like the freedom, the motion, in this one.

Usually I paint in silence, just the birds outside, or the rain on the metal roof over the patio – or Suzanne's music, or raucous music Zachy (7) introduced to me, or news, but this time I listened to two interviews with artists while I painted: Paul Chan, and Rick Lowe. I had known and was moved by their work decades ago – Chan's in Austin where he projected works like shadows on the floor of a gallery in the Blanton, and Lowe's in Houston, while I was studying there for an MFA, when he was the creator and driving force behind Project Row Houses. I had lost track of them through the years and it was good to hear them talk about their ideas and their work.

I didn't watch these YouTube talks, except for a few minutes of introduction, but listened while I painted. Something about the way Rick moved into new work, moving from the figure to activism, later walking to know a city, finding people and playing dominoes with them, creating ideas, and now, later, returning to painting, using his own ideas, doing paintings based on these ideas tangentially. And Paul's moving from animation, tired of screens, moving to another unexpected way to explore motion – strange sculptured figures, Breathers he calls them, integrating his personal experience as an asthmatic child trying to breathe, and simply exploring new ideas intuitively.

Both talked about motion. Their voices seemed to change the way I worked. I painted some strokes with my eyes closed, just feeling the motion. Something I used to do more a while ago.

The painting is still of deluge, another painting in the series.

You can see most of my work at:
maryciani.com website.
Sorry I have not been posting here recently.

I've posted new work
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Three Deluge Paintings are on exhibition at the Brazos Valley African American Museum through July 17. The 4' x 3' paintings are lined up telling a story from left to right just to the right as you enter the museum. The first painting is Deluge, Falling Blue Waters, Green Sky, the second is Deluge, Shattering Ice, Black Oil and Blood Invade Our Blue World, and the last is Deluge, Blue Falls and River Invaded by Black Oil and Blood. The paintings complement the excellent Smithsonian exhibition about water – Water/Ways – on exhibit at the museum. Open Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, and Saturdays, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Closed Sunday and Monday. Thanks go to Oliver Sadberry, Curator of the Museum, for suggesting I exhibit these works.