MARY HOCKENBERY Photography and Photo-Illustration

Vision
Fine Art Photographer Mary Hockenbery, represented in galleries in the southwestern U.S., in collections internationally, and in many private homes, captures with her lens artifacts of human existence and elements of nature, translating them through her unique world view into images at once striking, symbolic and charming.

Graphic manipulations and interesting textures give a painterly quality to Mary’s thought-provoking and sometimes eerie iconography. Though shooting with a digi...

MARY HOCKENBERY Photography and Photo-Illustration

Vision
Fine Art Photographer Mary Hockenbery, represented in galleries in the southwestern U.S., in collections internationally, and in many private homes, captures with her lens artifacts of human existence and elements of nature, translating them through her unique world view into images at once striking, symbolic and charming.

Graphic manipulations and interesting textures give a painterly quality to Mary’s thought-provoking and sometimes eerie iconography. Though shooting with a digital camera, Mary shoots only with the Manual setting, using her proven skills from the old manual camera days. From an original image or images, Mary builds layers in Photoshop, mixing visual elements, blending and erasing textures (created by herself or others in the online image community), working with color and composition as if on a canvas.

Her photograph Tattoo was selected in 2008 for Tate Modern’s book “Street or Studio,” a history of photographic portraiture that included some of the world’s leading photographers. In 2007, also in England, Mary’s image Arroyo Seating became the signature piece in Norwich Arts Centre’s exhibition and book “Abandoned Chairs,” depicting chairs in unusual settings from photographers around the world. A number of her images have also been published in JPG Magazine. Her images are included in the Flickr Getty Collection.

In addition to her international successes, Mary has won awards in regional shows in Colorado and New Mexico, and shown in juried exhibitions in the Harwood Museum in Taos, the Studio Tour in Dixon, and the High Road Tour in Penasco, all in New Mexico. Her solo shows include “Circus Chimera” at the Embudo Valley Library in Dixon, and the Dog House Coffee Shop in Delta, CO. Group shows include “Abstract” at the Creamery Arts Center in Hotchkiss, and the Delta Fine Arts Annual Show in Cedaredge, CO; Two Traces Gallery in Ranchos de Taos, NM; and “El Corazon” at Eclectic Expressions in Arlington, TX.

Current Galleries
High Road Market Place, Truchas, NM
Creamery Arts Center, Hotchkiss, CO
Planet Earth and the 4 Directions, Grand Junction, CO