TRANSIT TERRAIN and OTHER SPATIAL NARRATIVES

TRANSIT TERRAIN and OTHER SPATIAL NARRATIVES

July 13 to August 30, 2023

Opening Reception, July 13: 5:30 - 7:00pm

Artist Talk, August 30, 10am 

Bradbury Art Museum

201 Olympic Drive 

Jonesboro, AK  72401

https://bradburyartmuseum.org/transit-terrain 

Co-Curated by Madeline J McMahan

Bradbury Art Museum

 

LINK: More Info 

 

TRANSIT TERRAIN and OTHER SPATIAL NARRATIVES

Co-curated by Madelaine Jennings McMahan 

Mary Ann Strandell’s solo exhibition Transit Terrain and Other Spatial Narratives includes the following works: a site-specific, ink drawing installation with artworks, oil paintings, new 3D lenticular prints, printed wall images, ink studies, and the 2017 GIF animated film titled, These Exhaling Sounds (after Rumi).

In Windgate Gallery is a contemplative, site-specific installation titled Reacquisition. This monumental installation brings an image of the Palais Paar Viennese period room from The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City with an array of counter-active lenticular prints and lush oil paintings placed upon an in-situ, handmade ink drawing.  The configuration of this main installation considers the inter-changing states of historic representation placed within this contemporary moment. The static image of the ink rendered Palais Paar Viennese period room is an appropriated classical Rococo boiserie. It is collectively known as a place to gather, converse, negotiate, and entertain. 

The boiserie represents locations of soft political intrigue and various dalliances in the meeting places of heads of state, such as in Davos, or Versailles, or the White House. Through these representations and trajectories of historic place, we traverse.  In films these salons set a tone, in history museums they transport the viewer. In our post-technological society, these places for gathering are transposed and replaced by our hand-held devices with texts, time-chats and desktop interactions. In Reacquisition, we experience a multi-verse of stimulus and connectivity in a nano-second. This process of motion and containment is a paradoxical read on content and experience. These antique sites of the conduct of power are balanced against our fragmented and contemporary moment. My installation slows down this experience to see our oldest technology, ink drawing, overlayed by renderings of architectural icons such as the 3D lenticular of The Apple Store Staircase, and Richard Neutra's California modern interior, as well as a Frank Lloyd Wright Taliesin. Additional pieces include works from my various series: Mad Men, The Porcelain Flower, Bamboo Forest, and the Miners Shaft. 

Using paintings and 3d lenticular prints, the exhibition continues to depict the material culture of architectural structures and natural settings combined with antique porcelain objects. These works share an observed reality with a certain fidelity to appearance. They are worked back into with oil drawing and a built up surface blur heading towards stationary focal points. “This long held process of mine is translated into the medium of 3D lenticular prints. With this medium, I create a multi-layered collage with computer software to determine an interplay of embedded imagery. Once the proofing is finished, fabrication includes high tech printing with an optical lens surface that allows the layers to move, activated by the viewer. Of these works, curator Juliette Yuan wrote, ‘The liminal presence of these painted environs, both the interiors and cityscapes, connote a fractured space-time continuum embodied by the pictorial plane.’” -Mary Ann Strandell, 2023

Bradbury Art Museum
201 Olympic Drive 
Fowler Center
Jonesboro, AK  72401
July 13 to August 30, 2023

 

“B” Dry Goods

Summer Group Exhibition

First Come…

“B” Dry Goods

679 Franklin Ave.

Crown Heights

Brooklyn, NY 11238

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LINK: "B" Dry Goods

Upstate Art Weekend

Group Exhibition

UPSTATE ART WEEKEND

Joy Ride 

Artport Kingston

Cornell Steamboat Building

108 East Strand Street

Kingston, NY 12401

and

ARTBUOY

274 East Strand Street

Kingston, NY 12401

 

 

Mary Ann Strandell, Transit Pink Tall, Wall Fabric with 2 3d prints

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Ann Strandell, Drift III, 3d Lenticular Print, 20"x14"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Porcelain Flowers with Vase II, 3d lentiuclar print

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LINK:ARTPORT KINGSTON

Summer Hours:

Fridays 3 to 5pm + Sat-Sun: 12-5pm 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats

ecoartspace presents: 

Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats
at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center

Curated by Sue Spaid  and Organized by Patricia Lea Watts

May 7—June 4, 2022

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 7, 3-5pm 

Closing Reception: Saturday, June 4, 4-6pm

 

@ecoartspace

 

 

 

Mary Ann Strandell_Porcelain Flowers DRIFT, 3D Lenticular_48x34_2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The exhibition’s title, “Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats,” found inspiration in the show's largest artwork, Claire McConaughy’s painting Fragile Rainbow (2021). In her words, McConaughy’s sanguine waterscape addresses “interconnection, loss, transformation, and hope.” Her title is especially relevant for this heterogeneous exhibition of artworks by ecoartspace members based in the New York City region whose paintings, sculptures, photographs, and installations evoke “connection, loss, transformation, and hope.” These artists are especially conscious of our indebtednessto living beings in our midst and human beings’ obligation to appreciate and protect organic and inorganic matter alike.

Ordinarily, human beings, especially urbanites, find it difficult to situate themselves as embedded in their habitat. This exhibition aims to inspire visitors to view one’s environment as habitat and to realize one’s contribution to habitat. When we walk in the woods, we become part of the forest.

To create this sensorial experience, works were selected that amplify habitats’various voices from birds to bladderwrack, clouds, cochineals, compost, coral reefs, cows, deer, flowers, fungi, human beings, jellyfish, knotweed, lichens, mangroves, metals, minerals, mugworts, mushrooms, plastic, rainbows, rivers, roots, rust, seeds,shells, soil, the sun, rivers, trees, watersheds, and worms. Idyllic landscapes stride landscapes riddled with plants eager to migrate and unpredictable outcomes. Similarly, imagery evoking bleached corals find resolution in a biomorphic sculpture meant to substitute for coral reefs.

Artists:
Elizabeth Albert, M. Annenberg, L.C. Armstrong, Nancy Azara, Jeannine Bardo, Jude
Norris - Bebonkwe, Lois Bender, Jean Brennan, Michele Brody, Diane Burko, Pamela
Casper, Margaret Cogswell, Elisabeth Condon, Katie De Groot, Kate Dodd, Rosalyn
Driscoll, Eliza Evans, Rachel Frank, Alice Garik, Tessa Grundon, andrea haenggi, Mara
Haseltine, Kristin Jones, Natalya Khorover, Jennifer Kotter, Laurie Lambrecht, Rita
Leduc, Stacy Levy, Lenore Malen, Claire McConaughy, Lauren Rosenthal McManus,
Emmy Mikelson, Patricia Miranda, Seren Morey, Carol Padberg, Tracy Penn, Aviva
Rahmani, Leah Raintree, Laziza Rakhimova, Bonnie Ralston, Lisa Reindorf, Eleni
Smolin, Anne-Katrin Spiess, Priscilla Stadler, Linda Stillman, Mary Ann Strandell, Debra
Swack, Sandra Taggart, Kate Temple, Deborah Wasserman, Riva Weinstein, Linda
Weintraub, Stephen Whisler, Marion Wilson, Chin Chih Yang, Millicent Young

Exhibition Dates: Saturday, May 7 to Saturday, June 4, 2022
Public Opening Reception: Saturday, May 7, 3-5pm
Public Closing Reception: Saturday, June 4, 4-6pm
Organized and Produced by ecoartspace: Patricia Lea Watts

 

Williamsburg Art and Historical Center

135 Broadway  . 2nd Floor

Williamsburg, NY 11211

 

Gallery hours are Friday, Saturday and Sunday from Noon to 6pm. 

Admission is Free. 

For more information visit www.wahcenter.net  

or call 917-648-4290 or 917-974-6096 

or email: wahcenter@earthlink.net

Properties of Illusion in the Candy Store

Artport Kingston Presents:

Properties of Illusion in the Candy Store 

Curated by Laurie DeChiara

April 30- May 29    .   Reception: Saturday, April 30, 6-8 pm 

“The art of a great painting is not in any one idea, …but in the great network of relationships among its parts... What counts is what we make of them.” 
― Marvin Minsky, from The Society of Mind 

Mary Ann Strandell_Mens Shirt Department_Saks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Ann Strandell _ Schminke Haus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Ann Strandell_1939 FLW House

ARTISTS: Ellen Harvey, Suzanne Unrein, Vittoria Chierici, David Scher, Polly Shindler, David Soman, Kirstin Lamb, Stefan Saffer, Suzy Spence, Mary Ann Strandell, Emily Andrews, Danielle Klebes, Jenny Laden, Lowell Boyers, Lynn McCarty, Dave Bradford, Ruby Silvious and others 

“The art of a great painting is not in any one idea, …but in the great network of relationships among its parts... What counts is what we make of them.” 
― Marvin Minsky, from The Society of Mind 

 As painting is a direct communication for viewers’ consumption, “Properties of Illusion in the Candy Store” is a feast of visual delight. The exhibition references the range and power of painting as an artistic practice to express ideas and emotions with certain aesthetic qualities in a two-dimensional visual language. Painting captures a moment, that creates a feeling of a visual experience. A view with a message, an illusion is what the artist has created to connect to characteristics of the perceiver. Artworks are visual doors open for us to find properties within a field of carefully placed possibilities and thoughts. What makes us stop, look and discover? How do we match the painted illusion with our vast internal image bank? How do we navigate paintings to find our path of understanding or emotional journey? 

Often an artistic journey begins for an artist in a personal space of exploration where a thought process evolves as a raw material of ideas. The individual painting style is a developed “voice” reduced to brushstroke, pigments choices, or gesture, engaging in a dialogue based in a language; figurative, conceptual, abstract, expressionism, documentary, narrative, or surrealism all depending on the artists’ communication. The goal is to capture a moment in time to depict an expressed thought. 

“Properties of Illusion in the Candy Store” is an open invitation to explore the range of artists and styles – to find the magic. From dark intensity to bright and cheerful, the artists provide a spectrum of sensory experience for the viewer to process. Each painting is a path, a journey, or a quest. Unlike candy a great painting does not just provide a short sugar boost but it can refresh our system of believe and observation in reoccurring boosts of discovery and renewal. 

ArtPort Kingston, 108 East Strand Street, Kingston, NY

ArtPort Kingston is a commerical contemporary art gallery housed in the historic Cornell Steamboat Building along the Rondout Creek in Kingston located at 108 E Strand. ArtPort’s aim is to be a destination for art experiences and unconventional interaction between contemporary art and a wide range of audiences.

 Contact: Laurie De Chiara, ArtPort Director/Curator, info@artportkingston.com, www.artportkingston.com

#MakeUsVisable

 We have the power to

#MakeUsVisible

Curated by @XRE @KatiePeyton @PolinateArt 

In March 2022, digital sculptures of gender diverse figures are juxtaposed against statues of men across the five boroughs of New York City. An interactive map guides viewers to 31 virtual monuments shown in Augmented Reality, while an audio tour tells the stories of each sculpture. Using your smartphone screens, you can reveal the true face of the city.

These digital monuments can be viewed from anywhere in the world on our New York City map, launching on March 1st. Through AR filters, you can place this project’s digital sculptures in conversation with monuments in your local town or city. Share your images with our hashtag to #MakeUsVisible around the world

Let’s transform the sculptural landscape of our cities.

To navigate the experience:  Step 1: Explore the interactive map with your smartphone.

Step 2: Click on the artworks to learn about the artists and what inspired them to create their work.

Step 3: Click "View in AR" and the digital sculptures/monuments will appear on your smartphone screen.

Mary Ann Strandell, "Streaming Hildegard" AR_still image

 

 

 

IG of Streaming Hildegard for #MakeUsVisable Exhibition:

LINK to XR Ensemble  https://www.xrensemble.com/

 Full list of participating artists

Mary Ann Strandell: Streaming Hildegard, Augmented Reality over Edwin Booth Monument in Gramercy Park, NYC

Head towards: the main entrance of Gramercy Park at 20th Street (Gramercy Park South) and Irving Place.
The AR work can be viewed  pointing at the Edwin Booth monument about 30 feet away,
or outside the fence of Gramercy Park-by launching Hoverlay ap and searching for strandell-polyglots.
Place your phone: Edwin Booth Statue (in the role of Hamlet) in Gramercy Park
This is: Streaming Hildegard
Created by: Mary Ann Strandell
The artist chose the subject: Hildegard Von Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) worked as a writer, composer, philosopher, medical writer, and medical practitioner. One of the earliest identified composers, she is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history. She is considered a founder of scientific natural history in Germany. Her clairvoyant capabilities channeled valuable knowledge.

Mary Ann Strandell’s interest in the 12th-century mystic and polymath is part of her long-practiced research in herbalism. Hildegard’s work in herbalism informs her current activities of foraging and cultivating plants for nourishment.

“I honor Hildegard of Bingen with my ongoing studio work in painting, 3d lenticular prints, and gifs in this project,” states the artist.

In Streaming Hildegard, these media are interwoven into a moving mélange of blossoms, weeds, and lyrical waveforms, many based on medicinal flora and fauna. It activates upon the monument of actor Edwin Booth, viewed through the gates of Gramercy Park, NYC. Dressed in the role of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Booth gracefully leans out towards the gardens, enclosed in the historic, gated city block. Strandell explains, “I chose this location to activate Streaming Hildegard because of the solace evoked in the view through the courtly iron gates. My participation in #MakeUsVisible celebrates the grandmothers and mothers from my family of origin to my family of choice. I also celebrate my lifelong love of wild spaces, herbal remedies, and medicinal plants. The project premieres new works based on medicinal flora and fauna.”

Special thanks to the artist Will Pappenheimer for technical assistance and his family stories of Gramercy Park.
Music composed by Hildegard Von Bingen, “The Study of Arpeg” circa 1160, is available at @soundcloud #medieval #folk #classical

@maryannstrandell  @willpap24 #StreamingHildegard @gramercypark many thank you's to @xmichaelrees

Mary Ann Strandell (b. Watertown, SD) is based in NYC. Her work examines the intersection of nature and technology, as well as how culture is created through painting, 3d lenticular, installation, and animation. Education: MA and MFA University of New Mexico; BFA cum laude, University of South Dakota; Conservation Internship, W. H. Over Museum; Fellowship, Tamarind Institute. Awards: NEA in Painting; Geraldine Dodge Foundation; Public Artwork Fund-NEA; Arts Humanities Grant, 2022 Fellowship NJSAC. Exhibited: De Weiger Museum, NL; Panorama Art, Cologne, DE: FiAC, Paris;  St. Louis Art Museum; Michael Steinberg, NY; Juan+Associates, NY: Artport Kingston, NY; Minnesota St. Projects, CA. Recent Commissions: UBER Headquarters, San Francisco, CA; Children's Mercy Research Institute, KC, MO. Recent Acquisitions: APS Museum, Shanghai, China; Albrecht-Kemper Museum, MO.

Southampton Art Center

 

Techspressionism: Digital and Beyond

Curated by Colin Goldberg

April 16 - June 4

Southampton Arts Center

25 Jobs Lane 

Southampton, NY 11968

Mary Ann Strandell, "Streaming Flowers One _Blue"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Ann Strandell, "Streaming Flowers Two_Green"

LInk: https://www.southamptonartscenter.org/