New York

New Large Prints and Works on Paper
In conjunction with Print Week NYC, 2016

Suite 303 Projects
526 West 26th Street
Suite 303
New York, NY 10001

Thursday November 3rd, 4th, 5th

November 3rd_ 2:00to 6:00pm
POST OPENINGS:
November 3rd_8:30pm to midnight(LMK)


November 4th from 3:00 to 7:00pm
November 5th from 3:00 to 6:00pm

Transit Pink Green / Trestle, 70x68", 3d Lenticular print on Sintra, 2016

Mary Ann Strandell, The Hearst Library/Lunaria, 54x40, gouache on print 2016

Mary Ann Strandell, Garden Faust, 3D Lenticular print on Sintra, 42x32", 2016

Omaha

The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art
Annual Gala Exhibition and Auction
October 14 to October 28, 2016

Exhibition two artworks:
1. Tidal w Staircase, 74 x 43.5”, 3D Lenticular Print, 2014

Strandell,  Boyer Chute, 30x 40, oil on paper, 2016

Outdoor Studio site, Boyer Chute, NE, 2016

Notes on the artwork, Boyer Chute: 
On Labor Day, 2016 I had the opportunity to paint on the outskirts of Omaha, NE. I returned to a site that I had found 20 years ago when I was a resident at The Bemis Center. 
At that time I took many back-road drives along the Platte and Missouri Rivers, following odd junctures and finding places to sketch or paint. Many of the trials leave markers, of other intrepid folk,  few have been artists. I have stopped along these old water paths over time, to note changes. In 2010 I followed the game reserves, and routed myself to the Wildlife Reserve of Chute Boyer. I knew I wanted to get back there and work on site again.
The last day of summer, 2016, I made my way back. It was extremely hot, and buggy. It was difficult to focus, as I was covered from head to toe with protective gear, leaving room only for my eyes and my two gloved hands to operate the timely possibility of this painting. My oil paints melted and oozed as I built and reconsidered this gorgeous little paradise. Some of the dripping and over wrought paint still held up within the painting; some of it I feathered back by dry brushing. I reworked again in the constant hope of sustaining a sense of drama and structure in this work that seemed out-of control. 
When I got back to my hosts in Dundee neighborhood (thank you Lorin Fergusson), I was able to re-work the painting and ultimately leave it to dry. I look forward to seeing the piece properly framed, courtesy of the Jean the framer, with the large array of works at the Bemis Center For Contemporary Art, on October 28, 2016. - Mary Ann Strandell

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts                            
724 South 12th Street Omaha, NE 68102                        
Admission and Parking: FREE                                        
Phone: 402.341.7130                                                         
Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 11AM–5PM 
The Bemis Center For Contemporary Art

Berlin

“Meet Us Here”, a group exhibition to experience

De Chiara Projects- Salon Space Mitte

September 12- 30

Artists: Summer Wheat, Delia Gonzalez, Rachel Urkowitz,

Lisa Kirk, Micki Pellerano, Mary Ann Strandell, Tine Steen,

Rachel Phillips, Dustin Schenk, and more.

Private View Tours begin September 12 th

Meeting Point: Central Mitte

(contact laurie@dechiaraprojects.com to arrange)

Mary Ann Strandell, California Dwelling, 3D Lenticular 

Surprise and discovery are the inspiration behind “Meet Us Here” the upcoming group exhibition of

international artists at De Chiara Projects: Salon Space Mitte. Everything begins with a meeting point.

Participate in a truly private view during the upcoming Berlin Art Week, http://www.berlinartweek.de/en.

With art overload, to see, process, and experience this is an opportunity to let go and temporarily go on

an unknown art path which can be exhilarating.

CONCEPT: Only a meeting point is provided for each group, there is very little information provided

about the exhibition, the artists, or the location only once you “meet us here”, does the entire

experience unfolds. Visitors will not know where they are going, what they will see, just follow

“your” art guide. Everyone can be a guide, just gather a group of curious art goers and the

mysterious adventure begins. It is about discovery and seeing artworks on your own terms with a group of people.

Who Runs the show: The exhibition is run by the visitors, YOU and your colleagues/friends are in

charge. The initial guided tours will be led by selected guests of the artists and gallery followed up by

word of mouth promotion: tour leaders will invite and bring friends on the next tour. Each tour is

unique. Open to all, the only requirement is that you create a shared experience and bring others to

guide them through the exhibition.

Why?: The dialogue starts with the intention to have an unknown artistic encounter, a shared

experience, and discussions with others viewing the exhibition. Traditionally we bring preconceived

notions to the art context, with the exhibition text, artist images, or being guided by art expert.

“Meet Us Here” will not provide explanations or answers, but rather will invite you to see it through

your own eyes and create dialogue. Everyone has a unique entry point: themselves.

Opening Times: The space will be open flexible hours to accommodate requested

Meet Us Here

De Chiara Projects - NY/Berlin

www.dechiaraprojects.com

laurie@dechiaraprojects.com

+1. 646.339.7080
+49. 0171.414.3954

Closing Reception in San Francisco

'TRANSFER Download' celebrates with a Closing Reception

Friday, September 9th
6:00 to 8:00pm

Meet up in Dogpatch at Minnesota Street Project
(special thank you's to Kelani Nichole and Harvery Moon)

Artists Include:
CLAUDIA HART – ‘Empire’
MARY ANN STRANDELL – ‘Tromploi’
ROSA MENKMAN – ‘DCT: Syphoning’
PHILLIP DAVID STEARNS – ‘Polar Visions 002’
RICK SILVA – ‘Vibes Accelerationist’
ROLLIN LEONARD – ‘Spinning Pinwheel of Death’
LATURBO AVEDON – ‘Pardon oiur Dust’

Mary Ann Strandell, "Tromploi and Other Spatial Anxieties", 3-channel Video, 2016

THIS SUMMER, TRANSFER INSTALLS AN OUTPOST IN SAN FRANCISCO 
inside the media gallery at the Minnesota Street Project– the NYC-based gallery 
presents an immersive three-channel audio-visual exhibition, designed to 
engage the newly launched Dogpatch-based contemporary art space.
-Kelani Nichole, Director
The ‘TRANSFER Download’ features a selection of new and existing works spanning themes of technology and the body, architectural space reimagined 
through moving images, and urban/glitch landscapes
Minnesota Street Project
1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA  94107 

Open Tuesday – Saturday from 11am-6PM and by Invitation 

http://minnesotastreetproject.com/visit 

From July 30 – September 7th TRANSFER welcomes groups and parties for private viewings in the MSP media gallery and the surrounding great hall. Contact the director@transfergallery.comto arrange a private evening or weekend tour for your friends or colleagues.

TRANSFER _located at 1030 Metropolitan Avenue in Brooklyn, NY 11211 . The NY gallery is open Saturdays from 12–6PM, but you can make an appointment anytime by emailing the director@transfergallery.com

Sunday Salon TRANSFER Download

Join us in the afternoon on Sunday, August 14th for a Sunday Salon  
with TRANSFER artists sharing their studio practice:

Claudia Hart
Rosa Menkman
Harvey Moon
Mary Ann Strandell

Salon conversations run 30 minutes each, hosted on the steps of Minnesota Street Project's indoor atrium. 
Presentations begin with a look into the artists studio, followed by conversation –open discusion 
from the audience is encouraged.

First salon starts at 4PM, come early for a seat! Drinks and snacks in-between each conversation.

Sunday, August 14th from 3-6PM
Minnesota Street Project
1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 

Mary Ann Strandell_Tromploi. 3-Channel,  Video Installation, 2016

Mary Ann Strandell_Tromploi. 3-Channel  Video Installation, 2016

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
This summer, TRANSFER installs an outpost in San Francisco inside the media gallery at the Minnesota Street Project – the NYC-based gallery presents a hyperlinked immersive three-channel audio-visual exhibition, designed to engage the newly launched Dogpatch-based contemporary art space.

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July 30th – September 9th, 2016 in San Francisco

Minnesota Street Project
1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA
Open Tuesday – Saturday from 11am-6PM and by Invitation

http://minnesotastreetproject.com/visit

http://minnesotastreetproject.com/visit

Transfer Gallery DOWNLOADS 

Transfer Download

Transfer Download
TRANSFER at Minnesota Street Outpost 

JUNE 30 TO SEPTEMBER 9, 2016 

Opening Reception July 30, 6-10 pm
closing recpetion september 9th  

THIS SUMMER, TRANSFER INSTALLS AN OUTPOST IN SAN FRANCISCO 
inside the media gallery at the Minnesota Street Project– the NYC-based gallery 
presents an immersive three-channel audio-visual exhibition, designed to 
engage the newly launched Dogpatch-based contemporary art space. 
-Kelani Nichole, Director
The ‘TRANSFER Download’ features a selection of new and existing works 
spanning themes of technology and the body, architectural space reimagined 
through moving images, and urban/glitch landscapes.

Mary Ann Strandell, Tromploi, GIF to video, 2016

 






Artists Include:
CLAUDIA HART – ‘Empire’
MARY ANN STRANDELL – ‘Tromploi’
ROSA MENKMAN – ‘DCT: Syphoning’
PHILLIP DAVID STEARNS – ‘Polar Visions 002’
RICK SILVA – ‘Vibes Accelerationist’
ROLLIN LEONARD – ‘Spinning Pinwheel of Death’
LATURBO AVEDON – ‘Pardon our Dust’

Minnesota Street Project
1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA  94107 

Open Tuesday – Saturday from 11am-6PM and by Invitation 

http://minnesotastreetproject.com/visit 

From July 30 – September 7th TRANSFER welcomes groups and parties for private viewings in the MSP media gallery and the surrounding great hall. Contact the director@transfergallery.comto arrange a private evening or weekend tour for your friends or colleagues.

TRANSFER _located at 1030 Metropolitan Avenue in Brooklyn, NY 11211 . The NY gallery is open Saturdays from 12–6PM, but you can make an appointment anytime by emailing the director@transfergallery.com

Raid Envy

Lichtundfire presents: RAID ENVY
Curated by D. Dominck Lombardy
July 13 - August 12, 2016 Opening Reception: July 13, 5:30 - 8:30 pm

Exhibition Artists:
Todd Bartel
Ross Caudill
Karlos Carcamo
Augustus Goertz
Bodo Korsig
D. Dominick Lombardi
Mary Ann Strandell
Joan Waltemath

Mary Ann Strandell, Orange Float, 3D Lenticular on Sintra, 32x32", 2012

Exhibition Catalogue 

by D. Dominick Lombardy 

LICHTUNDFIRE

Gallery address:
175 Rivington Street
New York, New York USA 10002

 http://www.lichtundfire.com/

Director: Priska Juschka 

Gallery Hours:
Wed-Sat: 12-6 pm | Sun: 1-6 pm

917-675-7835

info@lichtundfire.com

 

Embedded Landscape

Embedded Landscape  
June 4 - August 26, 2106
     Opening Reception: Saturday, June 4th, 5 to 8pm
April Price Project Gallery 
Artists include:
Cindy Dominguez
Elaine Roy
Mary Ann Strandell
Susan Zimmerman

Mary Ann Strandell, "Hudson Yard/Scaffolding",
acryllic on pigment print, 60"x 40", 2016

April Price Project Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition 
with four artists whose work brings together the visual 
language of embedded space. Implying a mechanism or 
position with in a framework that is both active and passive,
distant and intimate, yet integral as a discourse.  
Artists Cindy Dominguez, Elaine Roy, Mary Ann Strandell,  
and Susan Zimmerman work with painting,
drawing, photography, along with printing, and mixed media.
The spatial intersections of these artists work come 
together in the exhibition Embedded Landscape.


Co-curated by April Price and Mary Ann Strandell










April Price Project Gallery 
201 Third Street NW 
Suite G, Hyatt Regency Hotel Lobby
Albuquerque, NM 87102 
Hours: 12:30 to 5:30 Tuesday -Saturday or by appointment.

Courtesy parking in the Hyatt Garage on Copper Street

Ph- 505-573-0895

Back to April Price Gallery Blog

april.designstudionm@gmail.com          
http://aprilpriceprojectsgallery.blogspot.com

From the pages of Carrier and Company

"From the pages of Carrier and Company's new tome

comes an UWS apartment brought respectfully up to date"

page 47, March 2016  @ www.aspiremetro.com 

Text Jennifer Qual, Photography Eric Piasecki/Otto,
Interior Design Carrier and Company,
Architect Gordon Kahn, Artwork Mary Ann Strandell

Mary Ann Strandell, "Koenig / Oracle II", 48" x 33.75", ink, conte,
gouache on pigment print on somerset velvet, 2011-13

Review #2 on Shaky Ground Exhibition

ARTES MAGAZINE

New York’s Lesley Heller Workspace, ‘Shaky Ground’: Seeing Nature in New Ways 

February 4, 2016  Jeanne Wilkinson :

Curator D. Dominick Lombardi uses the work of fourteen artists to form a narrative of 
anxiety and contemporary malaise: that is, we’re all on ‘shaky ground.’ Collectively, 
the work is neither illustrative nor does it serves as propaganda for any particular issue 
or message—it’s subtler than that. In his catalog essay, the curator explains how each 
piece fits within the premise, but it’s an interesting challenge to consider the artwork, 
deciphering the “shaky ground” message on its own merits...

An excerpt:  
Mary Ann Strandell in Trestle, Rock, Dam (2011) gives us a picture book blue sky 
world of chirping birds and butterflies surrounding a railway trestle that appears 
to be tilting, disconnected to anything of substance, as if the story-book lives we 
make up for ourselves maybe aren’t all that stable. That, in fact, they might topple 
and dissolve into fragments at a moment’s notice.

Read the full article here:

Mary Ann Strandell: Trestle, Rock, Dam,
48 x 36", oil on canvas, 2011

Shaky Ground

Curated by D. Dominick Lombardi

Lesley Heller Workspace, NYC

January 8–February 14, 2016
54 Orchard Street, NYC 10002
212-410-6120
Gallery hours Wed. – Sat. 11-6, Sunday 12-6 

Review #1 of Shaky Ground in Culture Catch

 January 14, 2016 - 01:51 — bradleyrubenstein
"High Anxiety" By Bradley Rubenstein
Review: Shaky Ground in Culture Catch  Link to Culture Catch 
Link to: Lesley Heller Workspace 

Shaky Ground

Curated by D. Dominick Lombardi

Lesley Heller Workspace, NYC

January 8–February 14, 2016

It is traditionally assumed that the art object is a record of history, whether the history of the artist, of its time, or merely an object left over after the fall of a civilization. While the writing of a period is open to the influence of retelling, interpretation, or the vagaries of translation, the visual object, by its very nature, promises us the stability of meaning inherent in its "objectness." How, then, in an age where perpetual war, disintegrating environmental conditions, and rapidly accelerating technologies, do we expect our artworks to function? What kinds of anxious objects will best represent to future generations our story? D. Dominick Lombardi poses these questions, and a group of artists at Lesley Heller’s Workspace seek to answer them in the exhibition Shaky Ground.

Lombardi’s choice of artists is interesting. There is no sense of Orwellian dystopia here, no flickering video monitors, chattering sound installations, nor intercessional performance art; rather, painting, sculpture, and handmade objects dominate. If there is an iconic piece to this exhibition, it is Arcady Kotler’s Painless Necklace (2006), a chain of prescription drugs strung like pearls, reminiscent of Damien Hirst, but with a twist. Fashion for the “ladies who lunch,” who, indeed, never eat but socialize dazedly with Klonopin-soaked eyes while their husbands raid our retirement funds.
Painting plays an important role in our understanding of any historical period -- our understanding of Robspierre’s Terror would be less rich if David hadn’t stage-managed it. Lombardi’s choices of painters suggest Margaret Atwood more than Orwell. In The Handmaid’s Tale Offred surveys Fred’s office, noting of the varnished, faux-naïve Americana portraits that “the art of the future resembled nothing so much as the art of the past.” One piece in the show by Roman Turovsky, Stadt 24 “Pulaski Skyway” (2011), (image top) pictures an eerie dystopian landscape of decay. Though the paint handling resembles Kossoff or Auerbach, artists who indeed revel in decay, Turovsky imbues this painting with a sense of horror. It calls to mind Cormac McCarthy’s The Road; one can almost see the teeming lines of refugees crossing the bridge to Jersey City.

Another painter in the show, Dennis Kardon, has always focused on the body as the site of his painterly explorations. His The Consultation (2005) (image above right) is a meditation on the body and perhaps also the body politic. With nods to Peter Saul and Jim Lutes, a group of people sit around an Eames table. A man in a black business suit, his head an elephantine mass propped up by a bamboo sick, is surrounded by mysterious figures: a Julian Schnabel-like man in pajamas, a woman who is tentatively touching the grotesque face, and a blue track-suited figure who turns its back to us. The creepy mysteries of the action are belied by the banality of the scene; a cat brushes the Elephant Man’s leg, the mysterious figure pisses, and a scatter of notes lies on the table.
Other notable works which present variations on a theme are Lombardi’s Call of Nature (2015), a trip scene of a one-eyed tree and a deer; Anna Ortiz’s Coast (2013), which shows a plume of smoke à la SoCal’s methane leak; and Mary Ann Strandell’s Trestle, Rock, Dam (2011), a beaten-up, post-apocalypse landscape painting.
Lombardi’s show poses interesting questions, and his artists provide, on the whole, thoughtful responses. Anxiety may be the current state in which we live, but then again, these artists suggest, When wasn't it? - Bradley Rubenstein
Mr. Rubenstein is a painter, story teller, and smart culture aficionado.