I am interested in neighborhoods and communities and how they evolve over time. Growing up in one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas of the country- a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, I spent much of my youth surrounded by constant new construction. I have a nostalgic attachment to strip malls, highways, housing subdivisions, business parks, and back roads. With my most recent work, I want to explore the phenomena of living life in suburban America. I am fascinated by the generic quality of life, commercial sprawl, and mass traffic. With all of these elements, I want to create a visual language that illuminates a sprawling movement as well as the tension between the city, the suburb and natural undeveloped landscape. Through layering of different imagery, I want my work to be a map like palimpsest that shows what was, what is, and what is yet to come.

Mallory received a BFA in Fine Art from Moore College of Art & Design in 2011. A North Carolina native, Mallory moved to Philadelphia to pursue an education in fine art; at Moore Mallory’s interests in painting, printmaking and sculpture have to continued to progress.