Reception

CLIFF YOUNG Ltd Reception
Thursday February 14, 2019
Noon to 5:00pm
                                                                           

Mary Ann Strandell: 

Constructions and Transmissions

Paintings and 3D Lenticular Media

Curated by Leslie Zarra Young, Marichu Custodio 

and Jeff Oakes

September 13- February 15, 2019

Reception: February 14, 2019, Noon to 5:00pm

Link: Exhibition Catalogue

Cliff Young Ltd

200 Lexington Ave - 505

New York, NY 10016

212-683-8808 

https://cliffyoungltd.com/shop/fine-art-2/ 

Cliff Young LTD is pleased to present Mary Ann Strandell,  "Constructions and Transmissions", a solo exhibition of paintings and 3D lenticular print media in our Lexington Ave showroom. "Constructions and  Transmissions" exhibition examines various architectural and chinoiserie themes in my work. The towers, construction sites, and Shunga patterns are metaphors of the hyper changing landscape in urbanity. They are formed by photographing and activating information that comes up through my observations, as a kind of transmission of ideas, in both my research, and the structures constantly being built around me. The city, as part of the landscape tradition, reverses itself, to a form of 'de stijl', in my studies of the urban construction sites.  These works are two fold: painterly on the one hand, and digitally montaged as lenticular media, on the other. 

A couple years ago I began painting Apple store interiors and Period Rooms from The Met as a way to consider huge shifts in historic and technologically rich spaces. I started painting Hudson Yards construction sites since it’s inception, often walking between my Chelsea studio and the Hudson River ferry. The partially built structures reveal a mass intensity, in a way that the completed buildings do not, and my work performs this moment.  Some of the pairings allude to a sense of the buildings being built, and yet one can feel them as dissolving; they are dynamic structures. 

The Los Angeles works take on a both intimate and expansive space. The "Beverly Hills Vista" is a view from a top floor office building which brings on a vertiginous play between patterned oil markings, and the expanded horizon. The "Megan Draper “ lenticular series, transformed from hand painted-scenes of TV’s Mad Men reveals a small 1970’s interior as the backdrop of a floating, collaged narrative; with looming drones, butterflies, and museum porcelains. Other lenticular print media combine drawn structures embedded in abstract repetitive pattern, as another architectural sequencing. The descriptive, discursive nature of these works are less about the actual places I have rendered, and more about considerations of time and the theatre of change.


 

Hudson Yard Blue Kimono,
3D Lenticular Media, 28"x22"   

"Fold Wave", 30x30",
archival pigment print