About MacKenzie Peck
CONTACT
info (at) mackenziepeck (dot) com
BIOGRAPHY
Born on Saturday, February 14, 1987 in Connecticut, MacKenzie Peck grew up with an affinity for the smell of rotting leaves and the look of moonlight reflecting off fresh snow. She earned a BFA, magna cum laude, from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2009. Peck has exhibited with Washington Projects for the Arts, Metro Gallery, and Maryland Art Place. She is passionate about perception, mortality, and the limitations of artistic pursuits among many other things. The artist recently completed a one year residency at The Creative Alliance at the Patterson in Baltimore which culminated in a two-person exhibition titled "Time Bandits" in 2012. On the heels of a brief stint in Berlin, MacKenzie is currently living in South Carolina where she is focusing on writing, long distance collaborations, developing a series of short films, and the first annual Institute For Days Spent Making retreat.
ARTIST STATEMENT
1. Use technology to facilitate the discovery of the self through a hallowed relationship with nature.
2. Assign value to experiences of small phenomena using methods of documentation that are repetitive and direct.
3. Create objects, provoked by an innate fear of death, that possess and perpetuate small memories not preserved in books. These small memories are fragile and vanish with us.
4. Collage together experiences, memories and histories as a way to emphasize the deficiencies of human perception, the shortcomings of technology, and the inadequacy of art making.
5. Sustain a sincere pursuit to achieve enlightenment and posses the sublime.
6. Essay a futile ambition to reproduce excerpts of the human experience with identical vividness and complexity.
SELECTED RECENT PRESS
"Sisyphean Labor," Cara Ober
"Time Bandits: Time Bandage," Mina Cheon
LINKS
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Institute For Days Spent Making
"Time Bandits," The Creative Alliance at the Patterson, 2012
info (at) mackenziepeck (dot) com
BIOGRAPHY
Born on Saturday, February 14, 1987 in Connecticut, MacKenzie Peck grew up with an affinity for the smell of rotting leaves and the look of moonlight reflecting off fresh snow. She earned a BFA, magna cum laude, from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2009. Peck has exhibited with Washington Projects for the Arts, Metro Gallery, and Maryland Art Place. She is passionate about perception, mortality, and the limitations of artistic pursuits among many other things. The artist recently completed a one year residency at The Creative Alliance at the Patterson in Baltimore which culminated in a two-person exhibition titled "Time Bandits" in 2012. On the heels of a brief stint in Berlin, MacKenzie is currently living in South Carolina where she is focusing on writing, long distance collaborations, developing a series of short films, and the first annual Institute For Days Spent Making retreat.
ARTIST STATEMENT
1. Use technology to facilitate the discovery of the self through a hallowed relationship with nature.
2. Assign value to experiences of small phenomena using methods of documentation that are repetitive and direct.
3. Create objects, provoked by an innate fear of death, that possess and perpetuate small memories not preserved in books. These small memories are fragile and vanish with us.
4. Collage together experiences, memories and histories as a way to emphasize the deficiencies of human perception, the shortcomings of technology, and the inadequacy of art making.
5. Sustain a sincere pursuit to achieve enlightenment and posses the sublime.
6. Essay a futile ambition to reproduce excerpts of the human experience with identical vividness and complexity.
SELECTED RECENT PRESS
"Sisyphean Labor," Cara Ober
"Time Bandits: Time Bandage," Mina Cheon
LINKS
Resume
Blog
Vimeo
Institute For Days Spent Making
"Time Bandits," The Creative Alliance at the Patterson, 2012
