Mary Ann Peters investigated the influences of her Lebanese heritage on her visual vocabulary. Including observations from travels in Lebanon and Syria, she used the information to make a series of large-scale drawings that was the blueprint for an installation titled "impossible monuments." She is noted for large sited drawings in both public and private settings. Most recently her work has focused on the overlap of contemporary events with splintered histories in the Middle East.
Discipline:
Visual Art – painting
Mary Ann Peters
Discipline:
Visual Art – painting
Region: Seattle, WA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2010
More:
www.maryann-peters.com
Studios
Cheney
Mary Ann Peters worked in the Cheney studio.
Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…