Artist's Biography and Statement

Mary Ann Golya

Mary Ann is from Washington, Crossing New Jersey. She is a graduate of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, 2007, and is currently enrolled in the Masters Program at the Academy.

I am working with the figure, its movement, and the evolving non-representational form I am moving towards. I see the body as always in movement. Even when in a stationary pose, the body is never still. This stationary nature of the photograph and image, its stillness and frozen capture provides me with the impetus to develop other existences about the form and ultimately the feeling of movement…a performed momentum.

I like to bring forth more than just how the female image is saturated with sexuality and objectivity in an image. I feel that I show how I feel and care about the photo-image discourse in gesture, movement and
performativity, and I want the viewer to care too. Looking further into the photo-image, more is seen, even the unseen comes forward, and more changes. I enjoy the looking. I find this transformation, and expansion of the figure my expression process, the moving within the momentum of the figure in the photo-image.

The model moves and I capture the movement of introspection, playfulness, lasciviousness, dominance and submissive, disturbing motions, and ambiguity. I want it to continue in the photo-image, and I bring it into my other disciplines, drawing and oil painting.
My process presents many struggles that I may not overcome or do away with. I welcome these developments.

This "Series - Movement" is ongoing for me.