About the Artist

Molly grew up steeped in the industrial landscape, in Cleveland, Ohio. She’s a graduate of Bennington College and participated in SUNY’s Studio Semester in New York. She has lived in Seattle, Washington, since 1992. Molly is a gallery artist at studio e gallery in Seattle, is part of the King County Art Collection, and has shown her work at many other venues in Seattle and throughout the United States, including in New York City, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

"Magai" rhymes with "why."

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Artist’s Statement

In my work, I capture the landscape created by the continuous growth of industrial and transportation infrastructure. Through them I express my interests in both the act of perception and the struggle between human beings and the natural world - in particular, the slow Armageddon of climate change.

Structures like freeways, container stacks, and shipping cranes are made for human convenience. The industrial landscape, crisscrossed with roads, power lines, and train tracks, grows in an unplanned way. Its unpredictability is interesting. It can resemble the natural landscape in its many-layered complexity. And, of course, nature is still present. For example, the trees next to the highway were planted as a windscreen, and to hide the industrial view, but they are still just trees, ancient life forms of astounding complexity. They survive here, and may seem to bless or threaten our enterprises. Painting both its natural and man-made elements, I work to make this landscape visible in both its destructiveness and its beauty.