About the Artist
A native of Western Massachusetts, Mary T. Konieczny is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work depicts organic subjects within ambiguous landscapes, using sketch, marker, and acrylic paint. Inspired by her career in film, television, and commercial marketing, the series Pop Concessions magnifies images of food featured throughout popular culture, exploring how images of food can harness an audience’s relationship with media, initiating a sense of idealism, consumerism, and nostalgia.
Mary holds a Bachelor of Arts from Fordham University and studied creative writing, visual arts, and film at various institutions including Syracuse University London Center, the UCLA Extension Writing Program, and Cooper Union Continuing Education. Mary has worked in development and production in television, documentary film, and commercials, and worked for over a decade in the Entertainment Marketing Division of Walt Disney Television, working with the Post Production teams on hundreds of WDT Campaigns for ABC, Hulu, Freeform, FX, Searchlight Pictures, National Geographic, ESPN, Disney+, and Disney Corporate.
Mary attended the 2025 Artist Residency Project at the School of Visual Art, where her work was featured in the SVA Exhibition, “Fluid and Flux”.
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About Pop Concessions
Pop Concessions experiments with how food is utilized through visual storytelling in film, television, and all popular media.
The magnification of food within a visual scene comments on how intensely modern audiences scrutinize and interpret media. From criticizing creative oversights (like forgotten Starbuck cups) to hunting for cultural “Easter eggs”, our communal absorption of media has become increasingly amplified and often divisive.
Overwhelmed by societal pressure, global discord, and the abundance of content, audiences fixate on the minute details in media to stabilize their thoughts, like locking focus on a distinct notch on a wall in the effort to maintain balance.