"I Never Start with Nothing": Mary Lum on Collage and Constructed Geographies

In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing

03/21/23 • 41 min

In this episode, Caitlin Woolsey (Assistant Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark) speaks with Mary Lum, a visual artist based in North Adams, Massachusetts, about how her intricate collages, paintings, and photographs explore the margins of city life, constructed geographies, and her use of text as image. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship for Advanced Study, and several MacDowell Fellowships, Lum taught at Bennington College from 2005 to 2022. Her work has been exhibited in and commissioned by MASS MoCA, The Drawing Center, and Oxford University, among numerous other venues.

03/21/23 • 41 min

In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing - "I Never Start with Nothing": Mary Lum on Collage and Constructed Geographies

Transcript

Caro Fowler

Welcome to In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing. I am Caro Fowler, your host and Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. In this series of conversations, I talk with art historians and artists about what it means to write history and make art, and the ways in which making informs how we create not only our world, but also ourselves.

Caitlin Woolsey

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