Monday, November 25, 2013

The Barat Foundation Exhibition and Benefit

The Barat Foundation
Group Exhibition and Benefit

Gallery 1 Gateway 1

Newark, NJ 07102

Sunday November 24, 2013

"Monkey / Usonian", 3D Lenticular on Sintra. U/I, 2012

Barat Foundation: p: 973-353-0003
www.baratfoundation.org

Sunday, November 17, 2013

NYC November 20- December 18, 2013

Upcoming Group Exhibition at Designer Showhouse
Holiday House NYC 2013
Opening Night Gala November 20
November 21 to December 18

Holiday House
The Academy Mansion
2 East 63rd Street
NY, NY

At James Rixner Design:
Mary Ann Strandell, "Koenig with Oracle II, 58"x 40", ink drawing on pigment print, 2013

Founded by Evelyn Lauder in 1993, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation® (BCRF), along with breast cancer survivors and advocates will unite to create a designer showhouse benefiting Breast Cancer Research.

Traditional Home® Magazine will serve as the national media sponsor of Holiday House NYC 2013

Holiday House NYC 2013 will be open to the public every Tuesday through Sunday from November 21 - December 18.The Opening Night Gala is November 20, 2013.
The showhouse will be held in the historic Academy Mansion at 2 East 63rd Street between Madison and Fifth Avenues

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http://www.jamesrixner.com

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Kansas City Press

Kansas City Star, Kansas City, MO
November 11, 2013

Commissioned Installation for The Polsinelli Law Firm
Artist: Mary Ann Strandell
http://youtu.be/2Q3W73_DMVQ

Mary Ann Strandell, "The Moving Wall" 3D Lenticular Installation

BUSINESS

After a long struggle, Plaza Vista is open near the Plaza

Looking east from the ninth-floor terrace off the new Polsinelli board room at Plaza Vista, Russ Welsh was savoring the million-dollar view down 48th Street into the Country Club Plaza.

And on a recent chilly November morning, the law firm’s chairman had reason to celebrate.

After two years of construction, it was finally time to enjoy the crisply modern 10-story office tower, its muted contemporary interior brightened by 150 works of art and pierced by a hickory-trimmed spiral staircase dizzily descending from the eighth floor to the second.

The firm’s 450 local employees recently had completed their move from two buildings. The 132-room Hotel Sorella had just opened on the south side of the Plaza Vista development, and all was ready for the final flourish scheduled for today, the formal opening of Polsinelli’s offices.

“It’s been a long time coming but well worth the wait,” Welsh said.

noted :
The ninth floor also is the visitors lobby, and a 21-foot-long artwork by Mary Ann Strandell of New York titled “The Moving Wall” graces one wall. It’s a multilayer painting that’s one of 150 pieces decorating the building, most of them by Kansas City artists. About a dozen were commissioned for the new building.

Full text can be viewed at:

http://www.kansascity.com/2013/11/11/4614859/after-a-long-struggle-plaza-vista.html

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VIBE Exhibition Press, November 2013

VIBE Exhibition Press
FRAULEIN MAGAZINE
GERMANY
November , 2013

http://fraeulein-magazine.eu/allgemein/im-wandel-der-zeit-launch-der-pop-up-show-vibe/

http://www.carlagannis.com

http://www.firstpulseprojects.com/joy.html

http://paulloughney.com/home.html

http://www.michaelrees.com

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 scène, 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

P) 913.266.8413

F) 913.345.2611

C) 816.876.7747

mdc.kcjmca@gmail.com

www.kcjmca.org

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

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