Mary Ann Strandell Current Exhibitions: April 2022

Friday, April 29, 2022

Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats

ecoartspace presents:

Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats
at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center

Curated by Sue Spaid and Organized by Patricia Lea Watts

May 7—June 4, 2022

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 7, 3-5pm

Closing Reception: Saturday, June 4, 4-6pm

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Mary Ann Strandell_Porcelain Flowers DRIFT, 3D Lenticular_48x34_2022

The exhibition’s title, “Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats,” found inspiration in the show's largest artwork, Claire McConaughy’s painting Fragile Rainbow (2021). In her words, McConaughy’s sanguine waterscape addresses “interconnection, loss, transformation, and hope.” Her title is especially relevant for this heterogeneous exhibition of artworks by ecoartspace members based in the New York City region whose paintings, sculptures, photographs, and installations evoke “connection, loss, transformation, and hope.” These artists are especially conscious of our indebtednessto living beings in our midst and human beings’ obligation to appreciate and protect organic and inorganic matter alike.

Ordinarily, human beings, especially urbanites, find it difficult to situate themselves as embedded in their habitat. This exhibition aims to inspire visitors to view one’s environment as habitat and to realize one’s contribution to habitat. When we walk in the woods, we become part of the forest.

To create this sensorial experience, works were selected that amplify habitats’various voices from birds to bladderwrack, clouds, cochineals, compost, coral reefs, cows, deer, flowers, fungi, human beings, jellyfish, knotweed, lichens, mangroves, metals, minerals, mugworts, mushrooms, plastic, rainbows, rivers, roots, rust, seeds,shells, soil, the sun, rivers, trees, watersheds, and worms. Idyllic landscapes stride landscapes riddled with plants eager to migrate and unpredictable outcomes. Similarly, imagery evoking bleached corals find resolution in a biomorphic sculpture meant to substitute for coral reefs.

Artists:
Elizabeth Albert, M. Annenberg, L.C. Armstrong, Nancy Azara, Jeannine Bardo, Jude
Norris - Bebonkwe, Lois Bender, Jean Brennan, Michele Brody, Diane Burko, Pamela
Casper, Margaret Cogswell, Elisabeth Condon, Katie De Groot, Kate Dodd, Rosalyn
Driscoll, Eliza Evans, Rachel Frank, Alice Garik, Tessa Grundon, andrea haenggi, Mara
Haseltine, Kristin Jones, Natalya Khorover, Jennifer Kotter, Laurie Lambrecht, Rita
Leduc, Stacy Levy, Lenore Malen, Claire McConaughy, Lauren Rosenthal McManus,
Emmy Mikelson, Patricia Miranda, Seren Morey, Carol Padberg, Tracy Penn, Aviva
Rahmani, Leah Raintree, Laziza Rakhimova, Bonnie Ralston, Lisa Reindorf, Eleni
Smolin, Anne-Katrin Spiess, Priscilla Stadler, Linda Stillman, Mary Ann Strandell, Debra
Swack, Sandra Taggart, Kate Temple, Deborah Wasserman, Riva Weinstein, Linda
Weintraub, Stephen Whisler, Marion Wilson, Chin Chih Yang, Millicent Young

Exhibition Dates: Saturday, May 7 to Saturday, June 4, 2022
Public Opening Reception: Saturday, May 7, 3-5pm
Public Closing Reception: Saturday, June 4, 4-6pm
Organized and Produced by ecoartspace: Patricia Lea Watts

Williamsburg Art and Historical Center

135 Broadway . 2nd Floor

Williamsburg, NY 11211

Gallery hours are Friday, Saturday and Sunday from Noon to 6pm.

Admission is Free.

For more information visit www.wahcenter.net

or call 917-648-4290 or 917-974-6096

or email: wahcenter@earthlink.net

Properties of Illusion in the Candy Store

Artport Kingston Presents:

Properties of Illusion in the Candy Store

Curated by Laurie DeChiara

April 30- May 29 . Reception: Saturday, April 30, 6-8 pm

“The art of a great painting is not in any one idea, …but in the great network of relationships among its parts... What counts is what we make of them.”  ― Marvin Minsky, from The Society of Mind

Mary Ann Strandell_Mens Shirt Department_Saks

Mary Ann Strandell _ Schminke Haus

Mary Ann Strandell_1939 FLW House

ARTISTS: Ellen Harvey, Suzanne Unrein, Vittoria Chierici, David Scher, Polly Shindler, David Soman, Kirstin Lamb, Stefan Saffer, Suzy Spence, Mary Ann Strandell, Emily Andrews, Danielle Klebes, Jenny Laden, Lowell Boyers, Lynn McCarty, Dave Bradford, Ruby Silvious and others

As painting is a direct communication for viewers’ consumption, “Properties of Illusion in the Candy Store” is a feast of visual delight. The exhibition references the range and power of painting as an artistic practice to express ideas and emotions with certain aesthetic qualities in a two-dimensional visual language. Painting captures a moment, that creates a feeling of a visual experience. A view with a message, an illusion is what the artist has created to connect to characteristics of the perceiver. Artworks are visual doors open for us to find properties within a field of carefully placed possibilities and thoughts. What makes us stop, look and discover? How do we match the painted illusion with our vast internal image bank? How do we navigate paintings to find our path of understanding or emotional journey?

Often an artistic journey begins for an artist in a personal space of exploration where a thought process evolves as a raw material of ideas. The individual painting style is a developed “voice” reduced to brushstroke, pigments choices, or gesture, engaging in a dialogue based in a language; figurative, conceptual, abstract, expressionism, documentary, narrative, or surrealism all depending on the artists’ communication. The goal is to capture a moment in time to depict an expressed thought.

“Properties of Illusion in the Candy Store” is an open invitation to explore the range of artists and styles – to find the magic. From dark intensity to bright and cheerful, the artists provide a spectrum of sensory experience for the viewer to process. Each painting is a path, a journey, or a quest. Unlike candy a great painting does not just provide a short sugar boost but it can refresh our system of believe and observation in reoccurring boosts of discovery and renewal.

ArtPort Kingston, 108 East Strand Street, Kingston, NY

ArtPort Kingston is a commerical contemporary art gallery housed in the historic Cornell Steamboat Building along the Rondout Creek in Kingston located at 108 E Strand. ArtPort’s aim is to be a destination for art experiences and unconventional interaction between contemporary art and a wide range of audiences.

Contact: Laurie De Chiara, ArtPort Director/Curator, info@artportkingston.com, www.artportkingston.com

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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