Mary Toscano’s latest work, In Solution, is a series of four landscape drawings—A house
partially sunk in a pond, a man-made swimming pool with a cavernous void at the bottom, a
stone monument with water flowing over its base, a shoreline with a lone chair and no
beachgoers. Each drawing contains detailed renderings of worn, rusted, broken objects pulled
from the water and muck of these new, fictional shorelines.

In Solution explores ideas of how we attempt to understand or recover a past we no longer have
access to. A feeling of things falling apart. Of being in suspension. Of meaning being divorced
and redefined once all context is lost.

We live in the aftermath of one disaster while a new disaster unfolds around us. But which
disaster is which in this layered cake of heat, water, drought, disease, uprising, misinformation,
disinterest, and disconnection?

In addition to In Solution, several pieces of Toscano’s previous large drawing work, A Meeting of
Our Parallels have been reassembled for this exhibition. The 15-foot-long piece was originally
shown at the independent Salt Lake City gallery God Hates Robots, and viewers were invited to
purchase slices of the work by the linear inch. Each cut was determined by the patron, creating
an interactive work where the audience participated in the work’s “destruction,” while at the
same time creating more than a dozen shards that are forever linked in this unique community.