Mary Ann Strandell Current Exhibitions: June 2018

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Delicious Line

Authored Review PUBLISHED in Delicious Line:

Melanie Daniel:Late Bloomers

Asya Geisberg Gallery

Reviewed by Mary Ann Strandell

Melanie Daniel's rainbowtopia paintings of patterned scenarios recall James Ensor's Theatre of Masks from 1908. In the Ensor, costumed revenants prance on a stage of the absurd. Daniel's narrations are theatrical lessons for do-it-yourself survival in a near future of phantasmagoric characters.

Props from hippie colonies figure into the scenes. The sole craftsman of Hothouse Artist (all are 2018) sculpts objects beside a geodesic dome. In Little Eden, a figure dreams near graffiti-ridden rocks under a canopy of palms.

Goat Love in a Digital Age shows the refuge of a band of islanders who coexist with goats that balance on tree limbs under a patchy lavender sky. Their long shadows on the stark yellow ground bind the group to this isolated place. While the artisans in Daniel's worlds relay lessons on how to manage in this imminent future, her fiery compositions and brushwork offer a brilliant chroma that invites the viewer to enter a transformational and inventive makerspace.

Exhibition	Melanie Daniel: Late Bloomers link
Start date	17 May 2018 (34 days ago)
End date	23 Jun 2018 (in 3 days)
Presenter	Asya Geisberg Gallery link
Venue	537b West 23rd Street, New York City, NY, USA map
Image	Melanie Daniel, Goat Love in a Digitla Age, 2018, oil on canvas, 54 x 48 inches, courtesy of Asya Geisberg Gallery
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Saturday, June 16, 2018

IN/SIGHT

In/Sight Exhibition
In conjunction with The KC Biennial 2018 Open Spaces
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art presents:

IN/SIGHT
September 7 to October 20, 2018

Opening Reception Friday, September 7th, 7 to 9pm

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
2020 Baltimore Ave.
Kansas City, MO 64108
email: sherryleedy@sherryleedy.com | phone: 816-221-2626

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

Mary Ann Strandell, Transit Trail Bottoms, Lenticular Media, 42x64", 2018

Artists:

Tom Huck, Judy Onofrio, Mary Ann Strandell, Roger Shimomura,

Sara Sense, Tom Jones, Ana Maria Hernando, Patty Carroll,

Art Miller, Anne Austin Pearce, Tanya Hartman, Marcus Cain,

Ky Anderson, Billy Hassell, Cary Esser, Norman Akers,

Brandon Reese, Annie Helmericks-Louder, Vincent Falsetta

PRESS RELEASE:

“I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are super-sensitive. They keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust types realize that there is any danger whatsoever. “ - Kurt Vonnegut

Artists are the cultural equivalent of the proverbial canary in the coalmine. As sentinel species, artists are out front, alert, and hypersensitive to the world around them. They re-contextualize almost everything, and in so doing reveal surprising ways of thinking about art, our world, and the status quo.

Artists speak in the language of art using color, form, line, and material to discover something new, unexpected and true. Form and meaning are inseparably bound and content ranges from nuanced visual poetry to bold calls to action and everything in between.

The exhibition, IN/SIGHT, focuses on artists and artwork that demonstrate the broad range of engagement with material and content taking place in Kansas City and the region.

Complete and Great

In honor of the writer Willa Cather
The Willa Cather Foundation presents
Complete and Great Exhibition
June 1- June 30, 2018
Red Cloud Opera House
413 North Webster Street | Red Cloud, NE 68970
Phone: 402-746-2653 | Toll Free: 866-731-7304
www.WillaCather.org | www.VirtualCather.org

Mary Ann Strandell, Songbirds/Grand Library

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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