For King, the figure is an appropriate medium for the exploration of structure, form and surface. In King's presentations, the tension between regarding the body as the vessel of ones existence, and a projection of an ideal is brought to focus.

The sculptures included in the show consist of multiple castings of clay male and female torsos. Calling on her background as a painter, King goes on to adorn these castings with a variety of surface treatments. The works attract through the richness of surfaces yet moves beyond mere decoration through both their formal and ritualistic dimensions.

In King's drawings, the underlying structure of the body is reflected in her use of essential and dynamics marks. As with the sculptures, the work wonderfully balances the formal, the decorative, the metaphysical, and the ritualistic.

M. J. King was born in Boston and studied art at The Art Institute of Boston, The New York Studio School, and the School of Visual Arts. She has exhibited in both of these cities and in Japan and has received awards for her work from the Amos Enos and Ariel Galleries of New York and The Art Institute of Boston. She has also worked as a scenic and decorative painter and in digital animation and design.