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Mary Jane Montalto
New York NY US
Updated: 2025-08-31 17:44:33

STATEMENT OF WORK

My work reflects on a trajectory from the early mechanical processes of computing to the seamless interfaces of the present.
I investigate how reliance on computers and smartphones has reshaped perception. The software that structures photography conditions not only how we capture and store images, but also how we remember and see the world. I am drawn to the slippages between perception, memory, and technological mediation—and to how painting can open a space to reconsider them.

The physical surface becomes a way to resist the frictionless smoothness of the screen. By translating digital images into a slow, tactile medium, I reassert the role of touch, materiality, and duration in visual experience. Traces of erasure and accumulation echo the instability of digital memory while grounding it in matter. These paintings create a space where the digital and the embodied meet, and where perception itself can be reexamined.