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Endico Watercolor Originals
1386 Kings Highway
Sugar Loaf, NY 10981-0031
Please call for studio hours: 845-469-9272
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"Red Kryptonite" from the permanent collection of: Kentucky Museum Bowling Green, KY
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Endico’s abstract paintings are included in the permanent collections of the Asheville Museum of Art, Kentucky Art Museum as a private and public collections throughout the United States in 21 countries worldwide. This is not surprising considering the quality and character of her work.
Mary Endico's award winning watercolors push the limits of color, design and perspective, as they remain stripped of objective content. As such they present to the viewer a natural gateway and insight into the basic metaphors of conscious aesthetic.
After 17 years working as a full time professional artist using traditional translucent technique, Mary embarked on a journey to combine the studio practices of oil and acrylics (such as scumbling, dragging and rubbing) into her established wet-on-wet watercolor process while retaining pure aqueous materials. In the years since, she has succeeded in enriching the syntax and pushing the boundaries of the watercolor lexicon.
She states, “I choose wet-on-wet watercolor technique as my primary medium because of its dynamic and exciting nature-immediate and unforgiving. As soon as the water is applied the stopwatch is triggered Then every stroke counts against you. Mistakes cannot be re-worked or edited, so careful pre-planning is a must. It is satisfying to succeed with colors that are crisp, clean and un muddied, while maintaining the composition's integrity and, at the same time, expanding the watercolor word-stock."
All Endico originals are painted using museum quality materials and conservation technique to insure the work will survive generations.
Mary Endico has been a professional watercolorist for over a quarter of a century.
In 2001 she was elected to signature membership of the National Watercolor Society and is included in Who's Who in America. Mary graduated from Boston University in 1976 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and also enjoys signature membership to Knickerbocker Artists, the North East Watercolor Society, the Kentucky Watercolor Society, and the Salmagundi Club in New York City. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the North East Watercolor Society.
Her work is exhibited nationally in juried museum and gallery competitions where she has been selected for numerous awards. In her active career Mary has been a guest lecturer, juror and watercolor demonstrator-as well as artist consultant for D'Arches fine art papers. Very early she was published in Art Of Young America.
SELECTED NATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
National Arts Club, National Watercolor Society, Audubon Artists, Knickerbocker Artists, San Diego Watercolor Society, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Club, Hudson Valley Artists, Mamaroneck Arist's Guild, National Exhibition of American Watercolors, Georgia Watercolor Society, Art of Rockland and Orange County Invitational, Pikes Peak Watercolor Society, Pittsburgh Aqueous, Louisiana International, Kentucky Watercolor Society, Midlantic Regional, Pennsylvania Society of Watercolor Painters, Salmagundi Club, Allied Artists, Northeast Watercolor Society and the International Society of Experimental Artists. For an extended listing with awards see: www.endico.com.
