Opening Reception: Gallery Exhibition by Mary Mattingly

Join us on Thursday, March 19, 2026 from 6:30 — 8:30pm for the solo exhibition opening of MFTA Artist-in-Residence Mary Mattingly, an artist who co-builds floating food forests, photographs fictional worlds, and is determined to keep imagining utopia.

Mattingly founded Swale, an edible landscape on a publicly-accessible barge in New York City. Swale’s more permanent platform, Floating Garden, will launch in 2026 in Medina, NY. Recent public art projects include Ebb of a Spring Tide, a water clock resembling a deconstructed apartment building at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, Limnal Lacrimosa, a listening room for water in Glacier National Park, and Public Water, a campaign and water cleaning system with +More Art in Brooklyn. Mattingly has exhibited sculpture and photography at the Cuenca, Istanbul, and Havana Biennials, as well as the Gangwon Triennale and institutions such as Storm King, the International Center of Photography, the Seoul Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Palais de Tokyo.

Thursday, March 19, 2026 l 6:30 — 8:30pm
At the Materials for the Arts Gallery
33-00 Northern Blvd, 3rd fl.
Long Island City, NY 11101