Artists We Love: Servane Mary

About Servane Mary

Born

1972

Works in

New York, USA

Themes & Inspiration

Portraits, Women, Emotion

Techniques & Media

Painting

Movement & Styles

Figurative Painting

Influences

Marlene Dumas, Gerhard Richter, Elizabeth Peyton, Karen Kilimnik

Represented by

Martos Gallery

Figurative painter Servane Mary is known for her deeply touching psychological portraits, and her delicate, distinctive signature palette. Inspired by images found on the Internet and magazines, Servane has an eye for selecting images that have or will make it to our collective unconscious, from celebrity to world misery, and back.

The central theme is emotion: What's behind the subject's eyes? The thoughts of Servane's figures wash over their faces as do the tempera and ink pigments that glaze her paintings.

Born in 1972, Servane Mary studied at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs. After graduating in 1999, Mary's feminine portraits made its debut during "Women on the Verge" at Alona Kagan Gallery in New York (2005). Soon to follow, DF2 Gallery in Los Angeles hosted her first solo exhibition "Double Happiness" (2007). Since then, Servane Mary's work has been showcased at many international galleries including Martos Gallery, New York and Galerie Maisonneuve, Paris.