Mary Kenealy (b. 1953) is a Connecticut-based painter whose practice is rooted in abstraction drawn from nature, landscape, geometry, architecture, and the accumulation of personal experience over time. Working almost exclusively on paper, she has spent the last thirty years concentrating on watercolor — a medium she uses in a fundamentally reductive way, applying dark transparent washes over lighter, more opaque color and then lifting pigment with water. She paints, in her own words, with water itself. At the center of her recent work is the shape of a vintage General Electric kitchen clock — a stylized twelve-petal flower — which she populates with silhouettes of found objects: aluminum pull tabs, spent cap gun rings, toy bubble wands, letter fonts, and plastic charms. Her ongoing series LOVE is all you need (2023–) builds on this vocabulary, incorporating Robert Indiana's iconic stacked LOVE form alongside hearts, circles, overlapping shapes, and other symbols of connection and care. The result is work that is at once playful and rigorous, intimate in scale and expansive in implication. Kenealy received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (1974) and her MFA from the Yale School of Art (1977). Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Yale University Art Gallery, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, among others. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Artist's Fellowship and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.