Mary Jeys (b. Houston, TX) is a multi-media artist and activist.
SmartSpaces screened Explosion in NY (2008) by Francisca Caporali and Mary Jeys in the open-player group exhibition of video artists in 2009 in the windows of 160 Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Explosion in NY investigates the premise that the New York landscape is part of everyone’s imagination; and that this same landscape has been damaged and destroyed in every possible way by Hollywood producers. Caporali and Jeys play with this imaginary city, presenting the landscape in a more documentary format, while showing the destructions and explosions in a very pictorial way.
Jeys has worked to promote social change including through a non-profit documentary production company, Aubin Pictures, Inc.; Hunter College’s Integrated Media Arts MFA program; and the School of Visual Arts with CUNY Graduate Center who sponsored and hosted Where the Truth Lies, a conference on propaganda. She has participated in creative research opportunities including The Laundromat Project’s Create Change Professional Development Fellowship and LMCC’s Swing Space in New York. She has received grants from FEAST in Brooklyn and Macktez. As a guest speaker, she has been invited to talk at Parsons The New School for Design’s MFA program in Transdisciplinary Design and The Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program’s Fix It Yourself Lectures. The artist received her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin.
- Project: open-player
- Artist Website: www.maryjeys.com