Mary Visser

Ceramic tile and cast concrete sculpture commissioned through Women & Their Work in memory of Cathy Carrington and Adriana Visser.

About the Artist

Mary Hale Visser Professor of Art and Brown Chair holder teaches sculpture and computer modeling at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Visser’s artwork has appeared in more than 125-juried exhibitions and has received awards such as the “1990 Design Excellence Award” from the City of Austin Design Commission for her sculpture “Color At Play”, a Mellon Technology Fellowship, and a Mundy Fellowship for her research in rapid prototyping sculptural forms.

Body language is essential to her work and solid modeling allows her to incorporate the delicate gestures, subtle contours and complex structure of the body into a detailed rhythm of forms and gestures. Visser has moved perceptually from viewing and using the human form as a sculptural form to one of using the human being as a metaphor for spiritual interaction that changes the community, thus, the spirit as it were being bodily present in the world. She is drawn to record these events, these examples of this human spirit. It is this elusive spirit that drives all human beings to create. It is this life force that she pursues in using the human body to recreate the individual effort.