Mary Obering

Mary Obering was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1937. She attended Hollins College in Virginia in the fifties and then went to graduate school at Radcliffe to study psychology. Art had always been a passion of hers, and by the time she was in her thirties, she realized that it had to be more than a mere hobby. She enrolled at the University of Denver and earned her MFA in 1971. The following summer while traveling with her daughter in Italy, she met the minimalist sculptor Carl Andre. They quickly became friends, and when she moved to New York shortly thereafter, Andre facilitated her introduction to the city’s thriving art world. Obering continues to divide her time between New York and Italy, spending the spring and fall at her home in Santa Maria di Leuca and the winter and summer at her Soho loft. She has exhibited internationally at galleries and museums for forty years, and her work can be found in the collections of such major institutions as the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the Detroit Institute of Art, the Muse de Arte (Costa Rica), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York).

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