Mary Ann Strandell Current Exhibitions: August 2019

Friday, August 2, 2019

Exhibition: Late Summer Showcase

LATE SUMMER SHOWCASE

A group exhibition of new work from gallery artists

August 2nd - August 24, 2019

Opening First Friday _ August 2nd 7:00-9:00pm #crossroads

Fred Nelson, Mary Ann Strandell, Beth Lo, Marcus Cain,

Cathy Logan, Roger Shimomura, Ky Anderson,

Carol Stewart, Anne Austin Pearce, Karen Kunc

Mary Ann Strandell,
"Hudson Yard/ Construe",
3d Lenticular Media

Mary Ann Strandell,
“Hudson Yard / Kimono / Zaha”,
28x22”, 3d Lenticular

Mary Ann Strandell, “Poly River Blue”,
32x32”, 3d Lenticular Print Media

Mary Ann Strandell,
Transit Bird Shawnee,
42x32, Lentiuclar Media

Mary Ann Strandell, oil painting,
"Missouri River-August,
30" x 30", 2017

SHERRY LEEDY CONTEMPORARY ART
2004 Baltimore Ave

Kansas City, MO, 64108

816-221-2626

sherryleedy@sherryleedy.com

allisonking@sherryleedy.com

LINK:Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

Press: Best American Poetry Blog

The Best American Poetry July 28, 2019

Summer studio shots with Mary Ann Strandell... [by Katie Peyton Hofstadter]

Mary Ann Strandell, "Tower/construction/Tribeca", 2019

This month, I am locked in the shimmery construction sites of Mary Ann Strandell. I snapped these process shots in her studio, and then we planted a geranium border in her garden. Her husband Michael Rees also creates fantasies: giant AR-enabled inflatables into which you can project your dreams or nightmares.

I like her paintings at this stage, when it looks like they could collapse. The light is gnawing at the western edge of the scaffolding; the light is smashed into the sixth floor balcony. It is drippy with life juices. At this moment, the painting still believes it can grow up to be an astronaut. (Is the painting female? Will there will be a space suit in its size?)

Mary Ann Strandell, "Tower/cell", oil on canvas, 2019

LINK: The Best American Poetry_ by Katie Peyton Hofstadter

Review of "Afflatus" by Elizabeth Johnson

21 Jun 2019 _ Afflatus _ 5-50 Gallery _ Reviewed by Elizabeth Johnson

Afflatus, or divine inspiration, gathers a score of current artists who reuse classical stories or old master techniques, making the point that art history unifies taste broadly, organically, and randomly.

The work sorts into four categories, and several artists qualify for more than one. Alex Melamid, Suzanne Unrein, Janice Nowinski, Barbara Friedman, Sherie Franssen, Deborah Brown, and Kyle Staver convey Old Master rigor with morphing and flourishing style. Michael Mapes, Amy Hill, and Julie Heffernan stretch time by luxuriating in prodigious detail. Mary Ann Strandell, Sydney Cash, and Michael Rees separate from the subject to create space. And Betty Tompkins, Linda Griggs, Kathleen Gilje, Alexander Gorlizki, Charles Browning, Yonadav Greenwood, and Ruth Marten devise tangential narratives through reversal or replacement.

Like burgeoning nature, "Afflatus" evades consummation. Tasked with reinventing the tree, the artists start with the leaves, forget the trunk and roots, and dazzle with bits and pieces.

LINK: Delicious Line Review of Afflatus

Exhibition	Afflatus
Start date	22 May 2019
End date	23 Jun 2019 (40 days ago)
Presenter	5-50 Gallery link
Venue	5-50 51st Avenue, Long Island City, NY, USA map
Image	Michael Mapes, Dutch Agatha, 2019, 20 x 20 x 3.5 inches, courtesy of 5-50 Gallery
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Press for Afflatus Exhibition

Jul  8  _ Art Out: 5-50 Gallery Presents "Afflatus" _ Art Out

June 23rd marked the end of “Afflatus” at the 5-50 Gallery. The exhibition included twenty artists’ works, with their own modern twist on classical works, strengthening connections from the past and the present. 

Afflatus serves as an homage to long standing techniques, while celebrating modern art. The exhibited artists draw lessons on techniques and compositions, while creating something rich with humanity. Continuing this tradition, the artists in Afflatus make a strong connection between past and present. Themes of feminism, politics, and even punk rock all walk alongside these recreations of these paintings, reminding viewers of the timelessness of century-old work. 

The exhibition was curated by Suzanne Unrein and Amy Hill. Exhibited artists included Deborah Brown, Charles Browning, Sydney Cash, Sherie Franssen, Barbara Friedman, Kathleen Gilje, Alexander Gorlizki, Yonadav Greenwood, Linda Griggs, Julie Heffernan, Amy Hill, Michael Mapes, Ruth Marten, Alex Melamid, Janice Nowinski, Michael Rees, Kyle Staver, Mary Ann Strandell, Betty Tompkins, Suzanne Unrein.

photos by © Andrés Mercado

LINK: Musee Magazine_5-50 Gallery

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Mary Ann Strandell Statement +Bio

Statement:
Strandell’s works are a movable terrain between image, media and their myriad histories. Her ideas of perception and time explore the paradox of mediated images through painting, 3d lenticular, moving-image and installation. Using imagery of cultural memes, she bring into the minds-eye a query of location, placement and source. Drawn from the internet and her own photography, the works arc to include a mash of notable mid-century and modernist buildings, New York City construction sites, renditions of period rooms and porcelain objects from the ancient and contemporary trade routes. There is a constant process of visual translation in her work. From the site-made photo documenting oil paintings, to the 'staged for the archive’ internet image, or the casual note of found photography, these speculative transcriptions are set in motion. Her primary sources of traditional oil painting and drawings are often re-engineered from single planar views into the multivalent 3d lenticular media.

Bio:
Mary Ann Strandell is an artist living in the NYC area. Born in Watertown, SD, she graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts and Art History from the University of South Dakota, cum laude. She finished an MA in Studio Art, and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. She also studied Psychology at Syracuse University, and Political Science in The Study Abroad Program, Great Britain/USD. She was awarded an Internship as a conservator of ethnology from the W. H. Over Museum, SD, and a Fellowship from Tamarind Institute, NM. Strandell has taught at Washington University in St. Louis, The Kansas City Art Institute, The NY Institute of Technology, Montclair State University, The University of Notre Dame/Taos Program, and The University of South Dakota. Strandell has been a visiting artist at MCAD in Minneapolis, a visiting printmaker at Future Arts Research, Tallahassee, FL, William Paterson University, NJ. She has lectured at SVA, Pratt Institute, San Francisco Art Institute, The Nelson Atkins Museum, and many other institutions.

She is the recipient of an individual National Endowment for Arts in Painting Arts Midwest, an Arts and Humanities Grant, and a Geraldine R. Dodge Fellowship Grant. Her residencies include Art Omi International, The Bemis Center For Contemporary Art, Byrdcliffe Woodstock, and The Menaul School (Albuquerque, NM). She has held solo exhibitions at Panorama Art (Cologne, DE); The Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA); The North Dakota Museum of Art (Grand Forks, ND); Michael Steinberg Fine Arts (New York, NY); Deborah Colton Fine Arts (Houston, TX); Byron C. Cohen Gallery (Kansas City, MO); Elliot Smith Contemporary Art (St. Louis, MO); and Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (Kansas CIty, MO). Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including at De Weiger Museum (Deurne, Netherlands); FIAC (Paris, France); The Chelsea Art Museum, (New York, NY); Saint Louis Contemporary Art Museum (St. Louis, MO); Transfer Gallery, Minnesota Street Projects (San Francisco, CA); El Museo Cultural de Sante Fe (NM), Kinz and Tillou Fine Art (Brooklyn); Arena Gallery; and Lesley Heller Workspace; and Bitforms (NYC); Gateway Projects, (Newark, NJ), among others.

Selected public collections include the The Nelson Atkins Museum (Kansas City, MO); The Nerman Museum (Overland Park, KS); The DiRosa Foundation (Napa, CA); Fidelity Inc. (London, UK); The Albuquerque Museum (Albuquerque, NM); Hallmark Collection, Stowers Medical Reserach (Kansas City, MO); Polsinelli Law Firm (Kansas City, MO), and Federal Reserve Bank (Chicago, IL) Barnes Jewish Medical Center (St. Louis, MO), The Aldrich-Kemper Museum (St. Joseph, MO), Art in Public Places NM, (Las Cruces, NM), Brandies Investment (La Jolla, CA) and many others. Writing on her work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Art Critical, Art Papers, Art Slant, The Kansas City Star, The Albuquerque Tribune, White Hot Magazine, and Artes Magazine NY.

In Spring, 2020 Strandell was commissioned for a site specific, twenty-two foot, 3D Lenticular Media Installation for the Children’s Mercy Research Institute (Kansas City, MO); to be completed in January, 2021. Other notable commissions include a thirty-four foot 3D Lenticular Media permanent Installation for the Polsinelli Law Firm, 2013 (Kansas City, MO), and 2016 (Los Angeles, CA)

Mary Ann Strandell's Upcoming 2020 Exhibitions include "The Conversation" Solo with Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, KC, MO (June_ Aug.) “Ripple Effect”, “ArtPort Kingston, NY: ‘The Arc Line" Solo at Juliette Yuan&Associates, NYC (August _ Oct); Artist in Residency at P98a, Berlin, Germany(post-poned); The Crossroads Hotel: Summer Solo "Prism Forest: Mary Ann Strandell" curated by Hesse McGraw, (TBA), KC, MO.

Some of Strandell's 2019 exhibitions include her solo, Rift Valley at APPG in Albuquerque, NM; Afflatus Exhibition, Gallery 5-50, NY, NY; PopUp, 55 Haus, NY; ArtsThrive, The Albuquerque Museum; Art Tech Week Conference NYC; Her solo exhibition, Constructions and Transmissions at Cliff Young Inc. NY; Strata at The Spiva Art Center, MO: and In Good Company at April Price Projects Gallery, NM. The De Weiger Museum Exhibition, MULTINATIONALS, Deurne, Netherlands was up till May 2018.

Her 2017 installation "For Baudelarie" at Sloace...Exhibition, Gallery 524, NYC, was reviewed in White Hot Magazine November, 2017, and presented in John Simon's blog, "Drawing Your Own Path", Episode 11 (2/2/18); Currents New Media 2017 at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe presented Strandell's 16 foot 3D Lenticular Media, Bamboo Forest II, BLUE Exhibition at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art exhibited work from Standell's "Orient Shift" series; Arts In Public Places New Mexico acquired Strandell's "Patterned Algorithmic Interior for NMSU Campus; Her solo Exhibition, The Meme Salon opened at April Price Projects Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, May 30, 2017.

Strandell was awarded two Artist in Residencies in 2017 at The International Menaul School, Albuquerque, NM, and Byrdcliffe Residency, Woodstock, NY. In 2016 Laurie De Chiara Projects NY/Berlin presented her 3D Lenticular work at Berlin Art Week 2016. In September 2016, her 3-channel video, Tromploi and Other Spatial Anxieties, which combines lenticular file formats into a GIF moving-image was part of Transfer DOWNLOADS, organized by Kelani Nichole, at Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco. Her work was also exhibited in Raid Envy at Lichtundfire, NYC; Shaky Ground at Lesley Heller Workspace, NYC; Surface One at ARENA Gallery, New York, NY; and Embedded Landscape at April Price Projects Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.

Her 2015-16 solo exhibition, Parallax opened with Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, KC, MO. Parallax explores architecture and perception, with optical lenticular layers, and oil paintings. Her 2014 solo exhibition Re-Material, at The Second Street Gallery Art Center, Charlottesville, VA was curated by Tosha Grantham. It included groupings of oil paintings and various installations that combined polyglot lenticular media over a 56 foot sumi ink drawing, in situ. This work questioned language and the use of image, archive, ephemera, data storage, with the mediation of hand and computer-generated content.

Her public lecture, Lenticular Prints in a Hyperspace World, was held at The Nelson Atkins Museum Print Society, 2014. Recent exhibitions include, and/or at The Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis; In Good Company, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, reviewed by Elizabeth Kirsch in the KC Star; Delta Print was selected by master printer Ruth Lingen for The Bradley Gallery, Jonesboro, AK; Middlescapes at April Price Projects in Albuquerque, NM. In 2014, some exhibitions include: MAXIMAL/Minimal at Kinz + Tillou in Brooklyn, The Last Brucennial, NYC. Sixteen Sweet at Ivy Brown Gallery, NYC. Through the Looking Glass exhibition, was curated by Rebecca Jampol and Jasmine Wahi, at Gateway Projects, Newark Penn Station, NJ; Electric! at The Newman Museum in Overland Park, KS, and The Miniature Show at The Albuquerque Museum. Strandell's expansive installation of sumi ink with her polyglot lenticular prints was part of, All That Glitters, Newark Solo(s) Projects, curated by Athena Barat.

Current and Upcoming

2019

Creative Tech Week Conference, Video Streaming, NY, NY, May 10-16

Afflatus, Curated by Suzanne Unrein and Amy Hill, 5-50 Gallery, LIC, NY, May22-June

Constructions and Transmissions, February Reception, Cliff Young Ltd, NY, NY

The Highline Open Studio’s, Suite 303 Projects, NY, NY

PopUp, Group Exhibition, 55 Haus, NY, NY

Strata, Curated by Courtney Wasson, Spiva Arts Center, Joplin MO, January 12 - March 16

In Good Company, April Price Project Gallery, 201 Third Street, Suite J, Albuquerque, NM, December 8 - January 31, 2019

2018

EXIST, Curated by Rik Singley, One Art Space Tribeca, NY, NY December 15- January 15, 2019

IN GOOD COMPANY, April Price Project Gallery, Group Exhibition, 201 Third Street, Suite J, Albuquerque, NM, December 8 - January 31, 2019

Preview, Portico Gallery SoHo, Inc., Group Exhibition, 139 Spring Street, NY, NY. October 25 - December 31

Arts Thrive, The Albuquerque Museum, 2000 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM October 20 - December 5

AIR Bemis Auction, The Bemis Center For Contemporary Art, Group Exhibition, Omaha NE, October 12 - 27

Constructions and Transmissions, Solo Exhibition, Curated by Leslie Zarra Young, Marichu Custodio and Jeff Oakes, Cliff Young Ltd, 200 Lexington Ave., #505, NYC, September 13 - February 15, 2019

In/Sight Exhibition, In conjunction with The KC Biennial 2018 Open Spaces, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore St., Kansas City, MO. September 6- October 21, 2018

Jam Session: Musical Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Beach Museum of Art, May 15-August 25, 2018. The Beach Museum of Art, 14th St & Anderson Ave., Manhattan, KS 66506

Multinationals, De Wieger Museum, Deurne, The Netherlands, January 21 - May 13, 2018 Oude Liesselseweg 29, 5751 WN Deurne

Complete and Great, The Willa Cather Foundation, 413 North Webster Street | Red Cloud, NE

Published INTERVIEW 2/2/18 John F Simon's interview with Mary Ann Strandell, Podcast: Drawing Your Own Path, Episode 11. LINK:http://iclock.com/DYOPodcast/?name=2018-02-02_ep11-mary_ann_strandell.mp3

2017

-Other Terrain, April Price Project Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

-Currents New Media, El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, NM

-Holding It Together, Dumbo Arts Festival, Teri Hackett Studio, Brooklyn, NY

-Blue, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

-Post Analogue, Luanem Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

-Dazzling, The Nerman Museum of Art, Overland Park, KS

-KCAI Biennial, Volker Sculpture Building, Kansas CIty, MO

-Arts in Public Places, NMSU, Las Cruces, NM, Rentfrow Building