Mary Kocol is a fine art and editorial photographer based in Boston. She’s a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and several Massachusetts Local Cultural Council grants. Editorial clients include The New York Times Magazine, Boston Magazine, and Doubleday. Kocol is represented by Gallery NAGA on Newbury Street in Boston.
Mary Kocol’s photography has received acclaim for its transformation of ordinary domestic and street scenes, located often in her residence in Somerville, Massachusetts, into dramatic, richly colored compositions that convey an uncanny sense of both day and night. By photographing at dusk, with prolonged exposures, Kocol creates a melding of daytime and evening that transforms the mundane into the fantastic.
In addition to her medium format (6×9) work, Kocol shoots with a plastic lens toy camera, producing images in which she uses the camera’s imperfections and its vagaries of focus. Examples of her photography are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Meet Mary on Sunday, February 2 at 1 pm at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive in Boylston, for a gallery talk and reception, or visit Tower Hill through February 23 to see the exhibit. Free with admission to the garden.
