Mary Tidy-Coyle is a nationally showing/published artist and curator. She is originally from Philadelphia, PA, where she received her BFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Currently Tidy-Coyle lives and works in West Palm Beach, FL, where she is a professor at Palm Beach State College teaching drawing, painting and art history – while continuing to produce and show her work.
In her artwork she is a creator of fiction- a storyteller, giving her audience just enough to compose their own narratives. As artist, filmmaker and actor she adorns many disguises in her video work. By inserting herself into an invented world her performance as ‘actor’ allows for the re-invention of self, commenting on issues of identity and gender. In her constructed & painted works she continues juxtaposing people, places and things, further creating an unknown narrative; leaving her audience to muse.
Education:
2009-2011 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA, MFA
2003-2008 Tyler School of Art – Temple University, Philadelphia PA, BFA Painting, Magna Cum Laude
Awards/Honors/Publications
2013 All Along The Watchtower review
2008 Recipient of the Allen Koss Memorial Senior Portfolio Award in Painting
Exhibitions:
2016
3 Year Extravaganza!, ArtHouse429, West Palm Beach FL
2015
CANVAS Outdoor Museum: Local Showdown Kick-Off Exhibition, ArtHouse429, West Palm Beach FL
2 Year Extravaganza!, ArtHouse429, West Palm Beach FL
2014
Sea-ing Vintage, ArtHouse429, West Palm Beach FL
Language Art, Cornell Museum of Art, Delray Beach FL
ADORN: the art that surrounds us, ArtHouse429, West Palm Beach FL
EXPOSURE: the fine art of photography, ArtHouse429, West Palm Beach FL
DETOUR: the fine art of folk, outsider and street art, ArtHouse429, West Palm Beach FL
2013
All Along The Watchtower, Pterodactyl, Philadelphia PA
Love. Sex. Unity. Respect. , Magoski Arts Colony, Fullerton CA
Art Inter/National, Boxheart Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
2012
Intension, Bridge Club of Center City, Philadelphia PA
2011
Containment Policy, Pterodactyl, Philadelphia PA
Liminality and the Ephemera To Enter and Exit, Mark and Unmark, The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum at Ursinus College, Collegeville PA
110th Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA
Venus Delta, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA
2008
The Struggle Within, Tyler School of Art -Temple University, Elkins Park PA