Wednesday, November 6, 2013

VIBE EXHIBITION


SUITE 303 presents:
V I B E 
A pop-up exhibition organized by Mary Ann Strandell

Artists: Carla Gannis, Joy Garnett, Paul Loughney, Michael Rees 
Friday November 8, 2013 6-10pm
Saturday November 9, Brunch 10:30am . Open to 6pm

 

VIBE exhibition is a grouping of four artists whose work exemplifies a vibration of change and experimentation. These works are utterances in the field of their working practice. Their various configurations of media combine modalities of collage, sumi ink, digital printing, 3D printing, augmented reality and new media. Inspired by the prospect of extending my conversation with other artists' work within a studio salon, this show brings an intimate conversation between works into actual experience, a vibe of sorts  (as opposed to a representation: the blogosphere). VIBE is the first pop-up show organized in the studio/suite of artist Mary Ann Strandell. 

Carla Gannis's work invites the audience to look into the space of our unconscious self. It's a fleeting measure, a spatial dynamic in velocity and it's impossible stasis. In her piece, Re(presented) Oct 09 [Tortoise Shell Glasses], the corporal self has a blurred presence mediated and momentarily grounded in the drawing's gaze.The tortoise shell glasses place the audience in real time while the techno-color op motion allows us to traverse into a hyperspace, a 21st century platonic environment.

Joy Garnett 's series of ink washes interweave the machine of culture with lyrical gestures about industrial feats as far-reaching as the controversial Three River Gorges Dam in China. Garnet uses an ancient chinese painting technique to adress a painful contemporary and political reality. Her responses to a stream of internet sourced images are piqued as facts are abused in a metaphorical play. The paintings further subvert this dynamic through her luscious use of ink and oil painting.

Paul Loughney's collage and montage studies carve out a mediated space that is both eerie and gorgeous. It is like anticipating the outcome of an Alfred Hitchcock film. The audience knows and recognizes the place, the pulp, the lighting, and yet Loughney turns the dial enough and places us in a mis-reality between some very private thought and an unforeseen outcome.

Michael Rees's augmented reality works combine physical sculpture, printed image, 3d rendering, and an interactive app to form a sculptural drawing that brings the audience into a complex semiotic. The confluence of contrasting images read as paradoxical signage with a diagrammatic use of dark humor. With iPhone in hand, a kinetic shift of the virtual space overlaps the target image: two distinct image groups form a conflicting mis en scรจne, a comedy of errors.

-mary ann strandel 11.03.2013

SUITE 303 is part of Strandell's movable studio life.

VIBE Exhibition _Installation Nov.
 2013




Tuesday, November 5, 2013

The Miniature Exhibition, The Albuquerque Museum

The Miniatures and More Exhibition
October 26 - December 5, 2013

Opening Reception: October 26   6-9pm
Second Reception: November 21 5:30 to 9pm

The Albuquerque Museum

2000 Mountain Rd NW
Albuquerque, NM 87104
(505) 242-4600


Mary Ann Strandell: Three works

Mary Ann Strandell, Orient Blue with Stairs, 17"x 13", Lenticular Print

Mary Ann Strandell, Orient Blue with Monkey, 17"x 13", Lenticular Print 

The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art

The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art
Benefit Exhibition
October 12 to October 26, 2013

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 South 12th Street
Omaha, Nebraska 68102


Mary Ann Strandell
Red Wave
45" x 34"
3D Lenticular Print on Sintra
2013
edit. 2/5
Mary Ann Strandell, Red Wave, 2013

Urban Suburban Exhibition September 1 to October 26, 2013

Urban Suburban Exhibit and Benefit
September 1 to October 26, 2013


Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art
Epsten Gallery | Museum Without Walls | ARTicipation
5500 West 123rd Street (at 123rd & Nall Avenue)
Overland Park, KS 66209


Mary Ann Strandell, Orange Wave, 24 x 30", 3D Lenticular Print on Sintra, 2013 edit. 2/5



"The Moving Wall" Commission for The Polsinelli Law Firm, Kansas City, MO 2013

Commission:

Mary Ann Strandell
The Moving Wall
74" x 234" , 3D Lenticular Print on Sintra
Commissioned by The Polsinelli Law Firm,
Kansas City, MO. Installed September 2013







Thursday, June 6, 2013

Collecting in the Cross Roads: Works from The Haenisch Collection


Upcoming Group Exhibition: Opening Friday, June 7, 2013, Kansas City, MO

Mary Ann Strandell"Plaid Orange", 44"x 44", 3D Lenticular Print on Sintra, 2006
Collecting in the Cross Roads
Works from The Haenisch Collection

June 7 to July 26, 2013

Opening Event: June 7,  4:00 to 6:00pm

THE BOX GALLERY
Commerce Bank Building
1000 Walnut Street  Suite 211
Kansas City, MO  64108