ROSEFINCH / Mary Manning

5 x 7.5 inches, glossy c-print, 2017

Edition of 100 signed and numbered copies.

Rosefinch, an image taken by Mary Manning in New York City in 2017, is a photograph, a statement, a record, and a call to attention. At the same time, the small size of the printed photo suggests that it's rightful place may not be on a gallery wall, but inside one's home as an intimate and personal reminder of the everyday-ness of one's politics, of one's personhood, and the need for tender community.

Mary Manning (b. 1972, Alton, IL) is an artist living and working in New York City. They began taking photos of their everyday encounters while living in San Francisco in the 90’s. Their subjects include dance performances, the plastic partition between street and inside a bodega, trees, lovers, weather. She weaves together the invisible relationships that happen between visible subjects.

In 2017 they had a solo exhibition at Cleopatra’s Gallery in Brooklyn. Other recent exhibitions include group shows at Situations, NY; Andrew Edlin Gallery, NY; The First and Only East Hampton Biennial, NY; and the CANADA booth at Frieze New York 2017 curated by Marc Hundley. Their solo exhibition, If the Stadium Were Empty I Would Be Able To See More Clearly took place at Jackie Klempay, Brooklyn, in 2014.

Peradam Press published their first book, First Impressions of Greece, in 2014. They have run the website Unchanging Window since 2006.