Mary Wagner Art

Group Art Gallery Show Memorial Day Weekend 2022

Mixed Media Series of Organic Geometric Artworks

Ink Blot Painting Gallery Updates

My ink blot paintings are mixed media artworks on paper or canvas— a combination of two opposing styles of work. An expressionist spatter meets a super-controlled geometric line drawing. The expressive ink blot figure, which is somewhat reliant on chance circumstances, splashed over a highly planned, almost mechanical ink line drawing–changing the perception of both. INK BLOT PAINTING GALLERY…

“North American Review” Spring 2022 Featured Artist

Updates to the Minimals drawing gallery on my website.

Refreshed the Minimals drawing gallery on my website, marywagner.com, with a few more drawings. The additions include some of my recent drawings Cadence, Torso, Pathways and Three Figures On A Plane. Constructing a website gallery: A few simple rules I keep in mind when putting together and updating a gallery of artwork: Style. The overall feel of the artwork fits the style of the gallery. In…

The sketchy part of drawing cardioids...

Planning the color sequence of lines in a spiral drawing.

Featured in “Artdose Magazine Weekly”

Big thank you to Frank Juarez for the feature in Artdose Magazine weekly. Read the article and sign up for the newsletter. Discover loads of great artist’s and happenings in the Wisconsin art world and beyond. About Frank Juarez, publisher Frank Juarez brings two decades of art education and arts management experience organizing local and regional art exhibitions, community art events,…

Spirals Galaxies and Black Stars, a bevy of new geometric drawings.

Lately I’ve been drawing a lot of 14 x 11 inch drawings — all spirals and stars. A smaller size variation on my Celestial Queen and Dark Star drawings which are 20 x20 inches. All of these latest drawings form a series of sorts which I’ve titled “Spirals and Stars” as they group into two style categories. The circumference matters in this series of ink drawings. These spirals and stars are all…

Analog Drawing Machine Fun— Triple Gears.

Every once in a while I feel the need for disruption from my usual circular motion. Mixing it up a bit always seems to trigger some new ideas for drawings or new thoughts on how to work within the extremely tight circle my analog drawing machinations keep me in. So I put a few roadblocks in my path — in the form of a extra wheels pinned down inside the static outer wheel. Take a look at the…

“Bouquet In Black” abstract floral still life.

My ongoing obsession with drawing flowers continues. I suppose this one might be called surreal flowers or perhaps a naive/outsider style since my technique is not quite art school legit. The biggest challenge with these floral drawings is choosing just the right figures and sizes to make up the arrangement. I sketch out and plan all of the primary figures in advance on a planogram with…

Auction To Help My Friend Kathleen Beat Cancer.

Please help my friend Kathleen beat cancer by bidding on art, collectibles, dining, services, workshops and more, all donated by friends & family for this auction–including a couple of my artworks. The images shown are just a few of the over 60 things available. And please share this post with anyone who may be interested in supporting a worthy cause, as Kathleen has recently been diagnosed with…

Homage to a colorful sunrise

There is nothing like a beautiful rosy, pink, purple and red sunrise over the water. The glow is amazing. This drawing “Morning Glory” is inspired by those magnificent sunrises. Which I’m lucky to say I see often having a lake out my window. Below is a time-lapse process video of “Morning Glory” in the makings. https://vimeo.com/586904972 Four ink colors were used in this drawing to create the…

“Eclipse” drawing process video

My latest large-scale drawing is “Eclipse” ink on paper, 55×55 inches. I’m fascinated by eclipses, especially our little moon blocking out our blazing sun, and all that courtesy of orbital paths—my drawing practice almost exclusively relates to orbits. In particular orbits of ink lines around a central point. Recording process “Eclipse” was drawn over a three day period, the drawing consists of…

“Slaughter of Trees” artists’ book collaboration with CUBA and Marshall Weber.

Totally thrilled about my bit in this amazing collaboration featuring the dynamic duo of graffiti ‘Godfather” CUBA (AKA Clarence Robbs) and artist/poet Marshall Weber. My large-scale spiral drawings serve as the back-drop for the incredible calligraphy by Cuba that transforms Weber’s intense word poetry on climate change catastrophe into a visual sensation. The 12-foot expanse when opened is a…

I don’t often draw representational art but flowers seem to be a fitting subject matter for my particular style of drawing. “Black Flowers” is a botanical inspired drawing of a bouquet of black flowers in a blue vase. “Black Flowers” ink on paper, 14×11 inches. The most challenging and rewarding part of floral drawings is figuring out what particular figures to use in the construction of each…

“Solo” ellipse drawing now available as a print

I’ve been asked many times if I’ll ever make my “Solo” drawing available as a print. And I can now say “Yes!” it is available as an archival quality print on natural rag paper. I chose the natural rag paper as it most closely resembles the tone of the bristol board the drawing was originally drawn on. Minimal Maximal “Solo” is one of an ongoing series of minimal maximal drawings distilling the…