Mal

press releases

Centro Cultural De Los Artistas, Buenos Aires 2003 - Her creations are filled with sensual color, form, and movement. Employing the eclectic use of mixed mediums in an abstract-realism genre, MAL is an artist extraordinare.

Caelum Gallery, NYC 1997 - Philadelphia artist, Mary Ann Leitch plays off strict abstract, geometric forms with a playful use of mixed media, such as semi precious stones, glitter and string. She also balances flat acrylic painting, three-dimensional objects and imagined atmospheric effects. There is a non of the ponderousness that besets so much abstract art. She elevates everyday objects into materials for making art.

Sassafras International Gallery, Phila 1992
Her now famous painting, "Welcome to my Quilt", hangs in Sassafras after fourteen years and still inspires compliments and notoriety. Mary Ann, the once Olde City artist, has traveled through a period of marked transition in style which is evident in her latest work. She has made the successful journey from realism to the abstract using mixed media on canvas. Her show, "The Exploration" series incorporates acrylic medium and a mix of glitter, metallic powders, rhinestones and mineral stones.

Suzanne Gross Gallery, Phila 1979
Using a certain light, a certain positioning of the figure, she establishes a mood. She makes a statement that can be as bold as Warhol, as exotic as Matisse, as titilating as Courbet. Through her aesthetics, Mary Ann expresses the assertive and sensuous aspects of today's women.