Aline Mare began her career in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, coming out of a background of theatre, experimental film, and installation art. In the mid-seventies she lived in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where she worked with influential artists such as Richard Foreman (Pandering to the Masses, 1975) and Robert Frank (Keeping Busy,1975), Meredith Monk and Richard Serra She was an early member of Collaborative Projects, a collective formed in the late 70s in downtown New York where she participated in blockbuster exhibitions including “The Times Square Show”. She performed in a multi-media partnership, Erotic Psyche, a film and music extravaganza exploring the body and the senses, which toured extensively in Manhattan and Europe throughout the 1980s. She completed undergraduate work at SUNY Buffalo’s Center for Media Studies and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute, where she produced the film Saline’s Solution, a series of installations and performances that dealt with abortion from a feminist point of view, which garnered support and awards internationally, exhibiting at The Cinematheque in SF, The Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Since moving to Los Angeles in 2013 she has had dozens of private shows and exhibited in several galleries, locally and in Europe. She has received several grants and residencies including Fourwinds in Aureille, France, a 2015 Sino-American art tour in Shanghai, Starry Nights in New Mexico, Headlands Center for the Arts, Kala, Film Arts Foundation, New Langton Arts in SF and a New York State Residency for the Arts. Her work is included in several private collections in the Bay Area, New York City, China, and Los Angeles. She continues to expand her work, concentrating on mixed media and installation, exploring the body and metaphors of nature and its transformative relationship to the human psyche and the state of our planet.

Exploring mythic lore and legend since my early years as a performance artist and experimental filmmaker in downtown New York; goddesses, crones, and demons have nurtured my imagery. The human body, the earth, nature, life, death and the phenomenon of transformation have always been at the root of my work. With my recent mixed media series printed large scale on illuminated glass and metal, I have continued to create my own mythic narrative, adding images of mica, crystals, gold and other elements to suggest powerful geological forces of subduction and change. Reinterpreting sculptural works from Greek and Roman antiquity photographed on recent trips to Europe: the ruinous state of the sculptures- an arm or leg missing, a broken-off head- gives them a deep emotional resonance. They convey both the passage of time and the collapse of the physical world, speaking of power through the senses, igniting and illuminating the known and unknown. I am seeking to find a language of the body that conveys these ancient mythic narratives through the lens of natural history and the human endeavor to comprehend the world around us. It is through metaphor and inference that I seek a new cosmology in which our deep connection to natural processes and our need to reestablish our sacred bond with the earth are expressed.

Exhibition:

Mythology/Matriarchy