She is a cultural practitioner who is invested in ritual, the quotidian, and syncretic relationships rooted in a basis of research and socially implicit trans-physics.
[2] Mary Valverde was born in Queens, NY and has continued to live and work in New York for most of her life.
Her compositional pieces register, itemize and catalog patterns as well as study of ways that works of art are empowered to fill space, the individual as a whole and its psychology.
[9] The concept of time and space is very present in her work, which is translated through the creation of marks and prints in her drawings, photographs, installations and performances.
Valverde writes: “There is a consistent balance of action and restraint, freedom and limitation, and attraction and resistance that plays out in all of my work.
I employ the innate qualities of malleable and ephemeral materials (sometimes ink, string, fabric, cotton, wire, oil, water, coffee, cocoa butter etc.)