Mary Hart Recent Paintings

A native of Connecticut and current Portland resident, Mary Hart’s diminutive paintings require the viewer to come close to reflect on the intimacy of the subject, seducing the eye while engaging the mind. Her recent work could aptly be called natural philosophy, realistic articulations of individual objects from nature that are inevitably abstract.  Mary Hart reaffirms that painting is a stimulus to the mind as well as to the eye.

Mary Hart received an MFA from Bard College and a BA from Dartmouth College. Her work is included in the permanent collections of Simmons College, Bates College and Xerox Corporation.