Through landscape and memento, my work explores the physicality of grief and the poignancy of multilocal life. What is a ghost, really, but the shadow of someone you loved and lost? Is there a cure for homesickness when you’re already home? I use painting and drawing, along with sewing and sculptural techniques, to consider these questions, choosing materials for their contrast and emotional weight.
Artist’s Bio
Mariah Scee is a Santa Fe based interdisciplinary artist working with paint, textile, and reclaimed materials. Born in Missoula, Montana, she moved to Maine at the age of four, where she was raised by a single mother in an eccentric household of books and rescued pets.
Scee earned a BFA at Rhode Island School of Design and built an award winning illustration and design career in Seattle and Santa Fe before focusing on art. Her work has been included in local and North American exhibitions since that time.
She has adopted a bi-residential lifestyle, splitting time between her home and studio in New Mexico, and the rural community in central Montana where she stewards her late father’s cattle ranch.
