Thursday, November 8, 2012

WBUR: Golden Age: Mary O'Malley's Dazzling Drawings

Mary O'Malley's untitled drawing.

BEVERLY, Mass. - Mary O'Malley"s dazzling designs have often seemed part jellyfish, part flower, part chandelier - all built from shimmering veils of silvery dots and dashes that glow against black paper. Her new abstract patterns add a new inspiration: "I like to think of them," the Beverly artist writes, "as organically growing architecture."

"I started becoming really interested in architecture, specifically Buddhist and Hindu temples, and that led me to the discovery that the structure of many Hindu temples is based on fractal geometry, which relates to my other work with its connection to patterns in nature," she says in an email...

http://www.wbur.org/2012/11/08/mary-omalley-drawings
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