August 28, 2006
Meet the Flockers: Mary Jeys
When my father got a job at an academically significant university, my parents moved our family to a historically significant suburb of Boston, Massachusetts from Houston, a not unsignificant city in Texas.
After years of Montessori training, my parents switched me into public school, a transition I’m still recovering from. (what? you can’t major in pouring skills?) I spent all of my years in middle school on ice as a figure skater. I still have a box of medals somewhere from the small singles and major precision competitions. Precision figure skating, for those who don’t know, is a sport where roughly 20 girls do routines as a group in formation. It is scored the same way as Olympic figure skating is: judged on a 6.0 point scale with points for technical and artistic merit. This sport is international, although not Olympic. I traveled as far west as Alaska and as far east as Finland for these competitions.
Following my college graduation, I moved to Dublin, Ireland for 5 months in 2001. Two days before my first international sculpture group show at Dublin Castle that nasty September business occurred. It was still an awesome installation, if under-documented.
I have worked at Hunter College working as the program assistant to a socially engaged media and experimental arts Masters program, Integrated Media Arts in the Department of Film and Media.
I’ve been showing my work in New York, New Jersey and Texas. In 2008, I co-organized and video curated a symposium on propaganda at the CUNY Graduate Center called Where the Truth Lies and created a project campaign for John McClane (Die Hard series) in 2008.
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thanks for suggesting this. I think it’s been pretty cool.