Mary-Ann Monforton
Mary-Ann Monforton is the long-time Associate Publisher of BOMB Magazine. Her art world engagement has gone full-circle since her arrival in NYC in 1974, armed with a BFA in sculpture. She is known for her involvement with the NY downtown art scene which began around 1978 as a funk/jazz music promoter and continued through the 1980’s as a curators and collector. In 2012 she curated the critically acclaimed mini-retrospective Arch Connelly at the LaMaMa Galleria. 2013 marks her reengagement with a studio practice, which began with a successful application to the Oxbow Art residency from which she has never looked back.
In 2018 she was featured in the documentary Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years Of Jean-Michel Basquiat and co-curated the accompanying exhibition Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat. Ms. Monforton’s work was recently shown at the 2019 Spring Break Art Fair and was featured in the traveling exhibition Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat between May 2018 and March 2019. She has been featured in two 2-person exhibitions: Power Play at LaMaMa Galleria with fellow sculptor Charlotte Beckett in 2018 and with Lawrence Swan at Valentine Gallery in 2017.
Ms. Monforton was born in Windsor Ont. …
Mary-Ann Monforton is the long-time Associate Publisher of BOMB Magazine. Her art world engagement has gone full-circle since her arrival in NYC in 1974, armed with a BFA in sculpture. She is known for her involvement with the NY downtown art scene which began around 1978 as a funk/jazz music promoter and continued through the 1980’s as a curators and collector. In 2012 she curated the critically acclaimed mini-retrospective Arch Connelly at the LaMaMa Galleria. 2013 marks her reengagement with a studio practice, which began with a successful application to the Oxbow Art residency from which she has never looked back.
In 2018 she was featured in the documentary Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years Of Jean-Michel Basquiat and co-curated the accompanying exhibition Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat. Ms. Monforton’s work was recently shown at the 2019 Spring Break Art Fair and was featured in the traveling exhibition Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat between May 2018 and March 2019. She has been featured in two 2-person exhibitions: Power Play at LaMaMa Galleria with fellow sculptor Charlotte Beckett in 2018 and with Lawrence Swan at Valentine Gallery in 2017.
Ms. Monforton was born in Windsor Ont. Canada and raised in Detroit. She was resident of the Lower East Side, during its gallery heyday, from 1977 until 2002. She currently lives in Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn.
Courtesy of the Artist and Derriere L'Etoile Studios