Mary Zehngut's early training in drawing yields carefully depicted observations from real life, often layered with a narrative psychological or spiritual component. Her work veers off from straightforward representational presentations into dream content, symbolic juxtaposition, and surrender to surreal innuendo. Over the last couple of years she has been exploring new dimensions of abstraction.
A graduate of Tyler School of Art, Mary frequently paints with her husband William Zehngut, an expressionist painter of landscapes, still lifes and portraits. They share a studio space in Long Island City, where one can witness the ongoing and dynamic interplay and dialogue.
E X H I B I T I O N S
2017 Westbeth Gallery, “In this House of Sky”, Work by 12 Artists, New York, NY
2015 Schmidtberger Fine Art Gallery, William J. Zehngut and Mary Zehngut, Recent Work
2014 Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Small Works Show, Long Island City, NY
2014 LIC Arts Open, Long Island City, NY
2014 Nature: Beauty & Destruction; Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Curate NYC; Dr. Thomas Köhler, Director Berlinische Galerie, Curator
2010 Voice of Fire; Long Island City Artists; Karen Fitzgerald, Curator
2008 “Linguiduct” Trans-positions along the 59th St Bridge, Long Island City Artists, NY; Judith Champa, Curator
2006 Some Serious Business, Bethlehem, PA; Mick Chapuk, Curator
2005 “Reading, the Shared Hallucination” Book Show, Lafayette College, PA
2004 “Housedress” Unwearables, Lafayette College, PA
2002 The Unbearables Show, Tribes, NY, Deborah Rabinsky, Curator
1999 Summer Show, Centrespace Gallery, Easton, PA
1995 Page 14, 450 broadway gallery, NY
1992 Lever House, Street Painters and Friends show, NY
1987 tête-à-tête, Ashawag Hall, East Hampton, NY
1986 “Artists Take Liberties” On the Wall Gallery, NY
Head Show, Six Two Six Gallery, NY
1985 Brooklyn Small Works Show
1984 Works on Paper Exhibition, Southwest Texas State University, Judy Pfaff, Curator
1981 Rutgers National 81 Works on Paper, Camden NJ
G A L L E RY
Centrespace Gallery, Easton, PA – Founder and director, 1998-2001
Shows Curated:
“Paintings, Poems, Prayers” Karen Fitzgerald, Carole Schille, Cheryl Koralik, 1998
“The Rose Show” Joan Easton, Luis Espinosa, Marco Duran, Lilian Engel, Isadore LaDuca, 1998
“Rust” works by Murray Hochman, 1999
I N S T A L L A T I O N S
"Physical Sentences" – 2003
"Housedress: A Sheltering Dream" – January 2004
"Reading: the Shared Hallucination" – January 2005
"I Stand Here Ironing" – August 2006
“Linguiduct” – 2008
“Toolbox” – Space Gallery, Karen Fitzgerald, Curator, 2009
B O O K P R O J E C T S
1982 - 1986 “The ‘B’ Book”, collaboration with Brian Randall, published by Warner Books
1994 “Artlife”, collaboration with Sean Harvey, poet, and artists Michael Dalcerro,
Patricia Dahlmann, William Zehngut, 1996
E D U CAT I O N
Baruch College, CUNY, Master in Arts Administration
Tyler School of Art, BFA
OxBow Summer School of Painting and Sculpture, Saugatuck Michigan
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture