Catch and Release

Exhibition and Release Exhibition
October 6 - December 10, 2018

Luanem Gallery
Menual International School
301 Menual Blvd NE
Albuquerque, NM, 87701

Gallery Hours: By Appointment
Contact director: Cindy Crockett

Mary Ann Strandell, Bamboo Forest Hybrid, Lenticular Media

Videoprism

VIDEOPRISM 2018
Moving Image Exhibition
WILD RIVERS, NM

Curated by Organized by John Wenger
Co-organized by Junius Kerr, Tuscany Wenger, and The Weasel 

September 21 and 22, 2018
Starts at Sundown

Artists include:
Rob Wenger
Bryan Konefsky
Marie Michele
Mary Ann Strandell
Sasha von Dorp
John Wenger
and others

Where:
Outdoor Ampitheater at The Visitor Center
Rio Grande Del Norte National Monument
New Mexico 68, Embudo, NM 87531
575-586-1150

Constructions and Transmissions Exhibition

CLIFF YOUNG Ltd                                                                            

Presents 

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

Opening Reception September 13, 1:30 -8:00pm 

In conjunction with "What’s New/ What’s Now”

Join the WNWN Panel Discussion “Sweet Spot”, 1:15 pm

At Cliff Young Ltd in The New York Design Center, Thursday, the 13th

Cliff Young Ltd

200 Lexington Ave - 505

New York, NY 10016

212-683-8808 

https://cliffyoungltd.com/

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. The exhibition, "Constructions and Transmissions" examines various architectural and chinoiserie themes in my work. The towers, construction sites, Shunga patterns are metaphors of the hyper changing landscape in urbane cities. They are formed by photographing and activating information that comes up through my observations, as a kind of transmission of ideas, in my research, and the structures constantly being built around me. The city, as part the landscape tradition, reverses itself, to a form of de stijl, in the 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 at 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 the scenes of TV’s Madmen reveals a small 1970’s interior that is the backdrop of a floating, collaged narrative. Other lenticular’s take on an abstract structure, another view of architecture. 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.

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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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

LREI

Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School

Art Exhibit and Auction

Pace Gallery

537 West 24th Street

New York, NY

6:00 to 8:00pm

Thursday, April 26, 2018

 paddle8.com/auction/lrei

Mary Ann Strandell, Polygon Red Orb