Mary is a multi-media contemporary artist born, bred and based currently in New York City. Perpetually exploring multiple, and distinct lines of creative inquiry, Mary primarily makes comix and narrative drawings characterized by philosophical queries concerning mortality and human relationships. Her most recent work includes the comics “Shorts” published by artist collective WiP Comics, London, and “Anal Fear” published by artist collective Bilderberg Konferenz, Berlin.

Human rights work is another life-long area of dedication for Mary. Mary is Latvian-American, and the child of a WWWII refugee. She sees herself as a global citizen. She has lived in 9 countries. She recently earned a master’s in international migration with a political science thesis on immigrant sanctuary policy in New York City from Malmö University, Sweden. For the purpose of supporting democracy around the globe, Mary occasionally wins appointments to observe elections abroad for an intergovernmental organization as a delegate of the US Department of State. She has observed elections mostly in Ukraine but also in Serbia, the Republic of Georgia and, most recently, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. Mary also works as an election poll worker in New York. In addition, Mary is a long-time, freelance teacher of art, architecture and English as a foreign language. At times Mary teaches art and architecture courses for underprivileged youth and for venues which are accessible to the local community. Mary has taught studio courses in Guatemala, New York City and most recently at Buena Onda Collective in Rockaway, NYC and in Riga, Latvia at Common Ground — a community center for people displaced by Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Mary earned a bachelor of fine art in interdisciplinary visual art at the State University of New York, Purchase College, School of Visual Arts. She did her senior thesis project in woodcut prints under the advisement of renowned, Uruguayan woodcut artist, Antonio Frasconi. Mary was awarded status as a Printmakers’ Associateship at the Ink Shop & Olive Branch Press in Ithaca, NY, USA, and she's exhibited at the National Arts Club with the the New York Society of Etchers. Mary’s art piece, “Deti II”, (installation and video) was the first of an international trend of deti-art installations done by others in support of the victims of the Russian bombing of the theater at Mariupol, Ukraine, including deti-installations at the National Theater of Czechia as well as the National Theater of Poland. Mary has been a member of the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop of the Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts in New York since 2010, and a member of the artist collective WiP Comics, London since 2021.