RIPPLE EFFECT

Exhibition: Ripple Effect

ArtPort Kingston, Kingston NY
The Cornell Steam Boat Building
Opens June 27, 2020 

Ripple Effect is a group exhibition curated and organized by Laurie De Chiara,
director of ArtPort Kingston.  The exhibition is part of an evolving series
of topical conversations and installations within the cultural landscape of today's Covid world.
"The Ripple Effect, passing messages and information along for more people to experience. In our current times of unknown and unrest, perhaps the power of art can provide alternative perspectives.  Our world has changed, thus we have created an exhibition of dialogues influx.  Changes in the exhibition will occur regularly with new artists added and different configurations of installations.  We can not be stagnant, shifts and transitions keep us from becoming complacent. Every time you return something might have changed to give a different perspective." - Laurie DeChiara

Exhibition artists: Mary Ann Strandall, Susan Jennings, Will van Roden, Dasha Bazanova, Undine Brod, Gabe Brown, Melissa Dadourian, Jeila Gueramian, Miwa Koizumi, Ann Mailey,  Ruby Palmer, Traci Talassco, Clare Torina, Christine Stiver, Julie Hedrick, Samantha Strand, Roberta Ziemba

Mary Ann Strandell, Transit Portal Installation (partial view), ArtPort Kingston

Mary Ann Strandell's installation, "Transit Portal" is part of the Ripple Effect Exhibition.  'Transit Portal" consists of a hand-painted, forty foot sumi-brush wash drawing with twelve 3d lenticular print media, mounted throughout the large ink drawing. Strandell brings together three historical spaces: the baroque, modernism, and post-modernism. Strandell considers the multiple viewing experience to that of ones daily experience on-line;  the many search windows we navigate on our personal computers. The base drawing portrays an echo of a specific historic room designed as a formal gathering place for social connecting, and story telling- the Salon's of Europe passed.
The ink drawing of The Fragaonard Room from the Frick Museum is based on a 1940's photograph. Intrigued by the lack of internet documentation of this Period Room, as the on-line access is only a virtual tour, Strandell activates issues of time, the hand drawn, and the mediated experience of now.
The array of lenticular media vary in their picto-graphic and algorithmic references.  The three dominant lenticular works have a central image of the 1970's "conversation-pit", the retro sunken couch; hand-painted in oil, and transferred to lenticular. Within the lenticular media float imagery from pop culture including kitsch elements, design decor, auction-house items, spudnik lamps, California pools, and more. Other lenticular works depict moving images of birds, ancient vases, and the odd references to porcelain objects, along with the ghosts of Hokusai woodcuts. "Transit Portal" installation is a mediated chamber of time-travel.

ArtPort Kingston
108 E. Strand Street
Kingston, NY 12401
917-796-5390
The Cornell Steam Boat Building 
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ArtPort Kingston, NY
Hours: Sat/Sun 12-5 pm

Reschdeuled Exhibition

"The Conversation"
Mary Ann Strandell
June 4 - August 22, 2020

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
2004 Baltimore Avenue
Kansas City, MO  64108

Sherry Leedy
Director  _sherryleedy@sherryleedy.com  

LINK to Catalogue:
Exhibition Catalogue: Mary Ann Strandell; The Conversation

 
My SLCA exhibition The Conversation, was to open April 2nd. It was postponed due to the global pandemic. During quarantine I addressed new works and revised others. The two 2019 Lenticular prints are based on the 'conversation pit' sofa's, the sunken couch styles from the late 60’s and early 70’s. The funky retro nature of this style, along with “PIT" drove me to consider the semiotics of such. I think, figuratively, of the pit we fall into as we converse in our society today; in lieu of rampant fake news and a social media driven by sensation and ego. The additional 3d Lenticular works are all based on architecture from NYC and KC. Each contain a veneer of layered ink drawings that represent a different version of their full final presence as architecture. They began as oil paintings, and ink drawings, then transversed into collage, then engineered into the quotidian space of lenticular.

The oil paintings are of structures, landscape and various references to nature. Since I work consistently between painting and printmaking, and between analogue and digital I am ultimately interested in the concept of the "mediated image". Influenced by The Picture Generation, Rauschenberg and Richter, I am concerned with topics of appropriation, authenticity, and the surge of cultural memes, I find there is a great territory of instability and power in images and their possible meanings. All the oil paintings in The Conversation exhibition are based on photos. Some came from the internet, or field guide studies, and most of them I took with the intention of translating them in to painting.
I hope you all get a chance to see the show, virtually or in real time. Sherry Leedy and Allison King are at the gallery in the Crossroads from Tuesday to Saturday 11:00 and to 5:00pm. Just swing by, knock on the door. Of course wear a mask and take your time…. There are two other
terrific solo shows at SLCA. @hungliuartist Hung Liu's handworked prints of oil paintings, and @anneautinpearce Anne Austin Pearce’s complex collage's of painted organic abstractions. Be safe out there...!

Artist Mary Ann Strandell is known for her lush paintings and innovative lenticulars. Her ability to synthesize the past with the future and create a new dialogue between art history, technology, science, nature and architecture, makes her artwork unique, original and unforgettable. Strandell’s exhibition, The Conversation, explores her evolving narratives, combining her interests in architecture, nature and chinoiserie. Often the mix of visual languages in Strandell’s work weaves the energy of nature together with that of the city, each playing off the other. In addition, there are singular works in painting, such as a close-up of a magnolia blossom or tulip, framed tightly, as an exuberant expression of spring. The paintings often re-appear in Strandell’s lenticular’s as disassembled and layered components that support, enrich and continue The Conversation.

LINK to Catalogue:
Exhibition Catalogue: Mary Ann Strandell; The Conversation 

Sherry Leedy
Director
sherryleedy@sherryleedy.com                            

 Allison King
Assistant Director
allisonking@sherryleedy.com  

 Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
2004 Baltimore Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri 64108
phone: 816-221-2626

Hours: 11am – 5 pm Tuesday – Saturday by appointment.