
Mary DeVincentis
Mary DeVincentis paints eerie netherworlds, celestial panoramas, and earthly pastorals that often feature a lone woman and a cast of anthropomorphized animals and flora. Her cartoonish female subjects—self-portraits, essentially—walk lonely roads or float through the air, at times communing with nature in sunny meadows and crepuscular forests. The atmospherics are of ethereal somnambulism and introspection: Think Aesop’s Fables meets Edward Gorey with a hint of roofied-out foreboding à la the 2019 folk-horror film Midsommar. The artist’s exhibition here, “Walking with Ghosts,” extended this