Marceline Mason
Marceline Mason, 'Two Pines on Dragon Highway', 2024, Oil on Panel, 122 x 107cm
Marceline Mason’s paintings explore the psychological terrain of nocturnal landscapes, where natural forms become mirrors for inner states of mind. In her recent work, the human presence has largely receded, giving way to quiet, uncanny scenes of rivers and night waters. These paintings emerge from lived moments of observation, reflections on solitude, memory, and the shifting thresholds between the real and the dreamlike. Mason views the environment as an extension of the mind, where atmosphere and emotion converge. The subtle glow on water, the silhouette of a bird, or the slow diffusion of light across a surface become points of meditation. Each revealing an underlying tension between presence and disappearance. Through deliberate stillness and layered tone, her paintings invite a sustained gaze, offering spaces of reverence and introspection in response to the changing natural world.
Marceline Mason is a Detroit-based painter whose work explores the psychological terrain of nocturnal landscapes, where natural forms become mirrors for inner states of mind. Her recent paintings focus on quiet, uncanny scenes of rivers and night waters, evoking the reflective tension between presence and disappearance. Through layered tone and atmosphere, Mason creates meditative spaces that invite reverence and introspection in response to the shifting natural world.
Mason received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2017 and her BFA from West Virginia University in 2015. Her work has been exhibited at venues including Reyes Finn Gallery, Playground Detroit, MOCAD, Belle Isle Viewing Room, 333 Midland Annex Gallery, and M Contemporary Gallery. She was a finalist in the Yeck Young Painters Competition and recipient of the Denis Dedirot Artist Residency Grant at Château d’Orquevaux in France.
Her work has been featured in publications such as Detroit Home Magazine, Real Art Detroit, Detroit Metro Times, and Midbrow.