| Background: |
Mary L. Proctor, a black woman who had been running a junk and
odds and ends store in rural north Florida, suddenly turned to making art. Told
by God that "the door is the way," she began to paint on an old door lying in
her yard. Then another. And another. In February of 1996, a scant year later,
"Mary L Proctor: The Door Paintings," her second one-woman show, was presented
at Tricia Collins-Grand Salon, a gallery in New York's Soho. |