Gallery Artists: Mary Lang

For eight years now I have photographed water, and as a result, have spent hours and days watching water in all its mystery. I am drawn to water as subject matter because of what the photographs then show me about the intrinsic nature of phenomena: reflections which dissolve, the ungraspable edge of a wave, confusion between what’s on the surface and what lies beneath it –intangible, impermanent, and luminous.

I have photographed water in the vast landscape of Crater Lake National Park, a powerful place beyond imagination, as well as from ferry boats, from docks, from the edge of a river or a puddle. One of my favorite locations is within a half-mile of my house, visited daily while walking my dog along the Charles River, a landscape that is completely familiar to me. Yet I have returned, year after year, to Nehalem Bay, Oregon because of what the water there has taught me.

Mary Lang holds a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Pratt Institute. She teaches photography at Middlesex Community College and Buddhist meditation at Shambhala Centers in Boston and around the country. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, the Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS and Fidelity Investments in Boston, as well as numerous private collections.

Her work has been reviewed in The Boston Globe and Art New England, and published in The Shambhala Sun and Buddhadharma magazines.

To see more of Mary Lang’s work, visit her website www.marylang.com

Title: Esplanade, Boston, 2006
Medium: photograph

Title: Near the Pump House I, 2007
Medium: photograph

Title: Twilight, Jack Lake, Alaska, 2006
Medium: photograph

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