Her work was on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the Looking At You exhibitions in 20. McKenzie’s book, A Painterly Approach, in 1987. Her paintings are in numerous private collections. She is represented in many public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Brooklyn Museum, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Museum of the City of New York, the National Academy, and the New-York Historical Society. Her teachers were Robert Philipp, Robert Brackman, José Cintron, Daniel Greene, and Burton Silverman. She studied at the Art Students League of New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Cooper School in Cleveland, and the National Academy. She has said, “When I paint someone, I am less concerned with likeness than with the character or spirit of that person.” There is always a subtle mood to her work. She is able to match her impressions with a concern for the formal aspects of pictorial construction. Mary Beth McKenzie always works directly from life, with many of her subjects being friends and family. The workshop focuses on these and other methods of doing monotypes with demonstrations and live models. In the second method (dark-field), a fairly thick layer of ink or paint is spread or rolled evenly over a nonabsorbent surface, such as Plexiglas, plastic or glass, and the image is wiped away or extracted from this dark tone. When the paper is removed, the image will be reversed. When paper is pressed to this surface, provided the paint or ink is still wet, the image transfers to the paper. Paint or ink is applied directly to a clean non-porous surface such as Plexiglas, plastic or glass. The process of making a monotype is relatively simple: The first method is similar to painting on canvas (light-field). Because monotypes must be done quickly, the application of paint is bold and loose and can be very expressive. A monotype is a painting or drawing that has been printed on paper.
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