Bio: Mackey’s work explores the visual urban experience. She wanders around the semi-industrial parts of her favorite cities – San Francisco, New York and London - sketching and photographing buildings, piers and warehouses. She enjoys incidents of inadvertent beauty: collisions of paint, sign writing, posters and graffiti.

Mackey’s process parallels the visual fragmentation she sees in the city. She works on several wood panels concurrently, building up layers of paint, posters and stencils before combining the panels into a larger piece. Compositional consideration begins when several panels are placed together on the studio floor and the idea for a larger painting emerges. This process, with its fragmentation, spontaneity and acceptance of accident, becomes in itself an extension of the chaotic and colorful urban environment by which it is inspired.