Collaborations > Rescue Tactics

Sherb-ERT
Oil and acrylic on MDF
12" x 12"
2013
RoboCop
Oil on canvas
18" x 18"
2015
Greyhound
Oil on panel
42.5" x 32.5"
2015
Baller-tini
Oil on panel
36" x 48"
2013
Youngstown, 1957
Oil on panel
36" x 48"
2013
Les Pyrenees
Oil and acrylic on panel
12" x 12"
2013
Skittles
Oil on canvas
36" x 48"
2013
Our Room: A Space Odyssey
Oil on canvas
30" x 24"
2012

2012-present

Every painter’s studio has an inventory of failed works. Although these paintings remain hidden away they are necessary to the creative process. Rescue Tactics is a collaborative project in which two painters exchange their discarded works until new resolutions are reached.

Mary F. Coats and Mary Laube received their M.F.A.s from the University of Iowa where they first met during graduate school.