Marian Picard

Architecture major

A multi-media visual artist from Tacoma, Washington, I have a background in glass art, printmaking, and film. As an Architecture major at Wellesley College, much of my art revolves around how people perceive, occupy, and shape space, while my research and writing mostly investigate the mutual shaping of communities and urban landscapes.

Precarity

ink on Stonehenge and Masa paper

Jewett Hallway Galleries

white line drawing of architectural forms on black background

Today, the majority of Boston’s fire escapes are not up to code. Precarity captures the precarious nature of these condemned structures that remain omnipresent in our urban spaces. Stencils of five fire escapes from different areas of the city, ranging from wealthy to underserved neighborhoods, are printed in black. Untethered from their buildings and rendered in paper, the stencils become limp and mangled after one use. The resulting impressions aim to highlight the fragility of these iron appendages' existence and the constant danger their lack of maintenance poses.

hands peeling white lines away from a black ground

5 white on black prints of fire escapes hung on a gray fabric wall; at left, a black form protrudes from the wall with black cutout fire escape forms hanging from it

curled and bent black cutout hanging fire escape forms in front of several white on black prints of fire escapes

close up on a spiral staircase section of a black cutout hanging fire escape in front of several others

to see more work by Marian: @mpic.art

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