Mary mccleary biography
Mary McCleary: Bio. Born in Houston, Texas in , Mary Fielding McCleary received her B.F.A., cum laude in printmaking/drawing at Texas Christian University and her M.F.A..
Mary McCleary
American art historian
Mary McCleary (born 1951) is a contemporary American artist currently living and working in Nacogdoches Texas, where she is Stephen F.
Austin State University Regent's Professor of Art Emeritus.[1] She is primarily known for her "multi-layered, extremely complex, and detailed" figurative 3-D collages[2][3]
Background
Born in Houston, she received her B.F.A.
Mary McCleary (born ) is a contemporary American artist currently living and working in Nacogdoches Texas, where she is Stephen F. Austin State.
in printmaking and drawing from Texas Christian University and her M.F.A. in graphics from the University of Oklahoma.[4] From 1975 to 2005, she taught art at Stephen F. Austin State University.[5]
Style and influences
McCleary began making collages in the 1970s.[6] In a 2009 interview in The Houston Chronicle she states: "I was a print maker all through school, and when I got out of college and started teaching, my work shifted, because for the first time I wasn't accountable to a teacher.
Somehow the work evolved ove