Bradbury Art Museum

 Bradbury Art Museum Opens:

DELTA NATIONAL SMALL PRINTS EXHIBITION 2021

Opening Reception: January 21, 2021  5 to 6:30 pm 

January 21 - February 17, 2021

 

 

Delta National Small Prints Exhibition is an overview of innovations in contemporary print media. Works were selected by Charlotte Dutoit, founder and director of Justkids Global Creative House. Organized by Hilary Brooks, Curator at Bradbury Art Museum.   I'm thrilled to have three of my works included in the exhibition

Mary Ann Strandell, "Conversation Pit I" 3-d Lenticular Media, 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Ann Strandell, "Foxes and a Pool", 3-d Lenticular Media, 2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Ann Strandell, "Conversation Pit II", 3-d Lenticular Media, 2020

 

 
2021 DNSPE

 
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2713 Pawnee
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Battery Journal Publishing

Onward into the new year! 2021

 

BATTERY JOURNAL

Uni-Verse Poetry - Prints - Proofs by Visionary Humans

BatteryJournal.org 

Editor-in-chief Anna Ehrsam

 

I'm thrilled to be part of the new edition of BATTERY JOURNAL.

Anna Ehrsan's razor-sharp eye, and ideas in science, art +culture is

not be missed.  

Co-edited and organized by Anna Ehrsam and Katherine Jackson.

They are scheduling more readings, studio visits, and other events 

through the winter and into the spring. Please contact Anna or Katherine 

to schedule an event.

Uni-Verse Poetry - Prints - Proofs by Visionary Humans unites the poems and visual art of 82 contemporary artists to create a portrait of diversity, multiplicity, and oneness. 

 

 

Mary Ann Strandell, Hudson Yards Black with Kimono,

3D Lenticular Media, 20” x 14”, 2019 @maryannstrandell

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Open Book. Anna Ehrsam on left; Standell on right, and you tube

 

 

 

 

 

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LINK to You Tube Zoom Salon with Anna Ehrsam, Katherine Jackson, Gennifer Levey and the writers and artists.

   

 Link to BATTERY JOURNAL

New York, NEW YORK, September 20, 2020 – In times of crisis, art and poetry provide philosophical and spiritual insights, catharsis, and healing. For millennia, artists and poets have been the visionaries whose work possesses the power to capture the full range of human experience, from the horrors of war to the ecstasy of transcendent love. The vision behind this collection is to create a vast wealth of powerful expression that is both deeply enmeshed in the specificity of history and at the same time, an enduring, crucial, human constant. The artists and poets chosen for this book create an intersectional, multi-generational poesis, from David Ferry, who is 96, to Adelaide Holden, 6. Each poem is paired with a visual work, creating an interweaving of human witness that grows exponentially as the book progresses. This is a book to return to over and over, not always starting at the beginning, but finding new vibrant pathways through its proliferating interconnections.

Some of the poets and artists in the book are Tom Sleigh, Rosanna Warren, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Gail Mazur, Alan Shapiro, Roger Bonair-Agard, Elaine Equi, Mel Chin, Deborah Kass, Susan Bee, Michael Joaquin Grey, and Michael Rees.

Following are comments about the book: 

“This book is a joy, a rare marvel, a true feast for the senses.” – Rowan Ricardo Phillips, poet, author of Living Weapon, 2013 Whiting Award winner, and professor at Williams College

“Many spreads in this volume embody Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s belief that ‘as long as there is poetry, there will be an unknown, as long as there is an unknown there will be poetry,’ by pairing works of art and poetry that at first look may be unknowable, but create synergy that stole my consonants: “Ooooh!” The oldest and youngest poets bounce off each other eloquently—96-year-old David Ferry, National Book Award winner, paints a stark evocation of a Walker Evans photograph, while Grace MacNair so accurately describes ‘The starlings—/out-swung in sheets’ in ‘The Shape of Air.’ Go spend good time with this volume, as it artfully makes the unknown more knowable.” – Tina Kelley, poet, author of Rise Wildly, and winner of a 2003 Washington State Book Award and a staff Pulitzer Prize at The New York Times

Bemis Exhibition and Auction

The 2020 Bemis Exhibition and Auction

October 1 - 30th 2020

The Bemis Center For Conteemporary Art

724 S. 12th Street, Omaha, NE

Check out my new work for the auction:

"Woodman Tower Construction Transit"

3D Lenticular Media, w acrylic 

42 x32" 2020  (framed)

 

 

Art statement;

Every time I venture to Omaha, I search for the tower

marked WOODMAN. The urban core surrounds it.

It was more indelible after Alexander Payne's, About Schmidt.

The construction site rendered in ink, of the1971 structure 

is embedded into the layers of this 3d Lenticular Media. It is 

part of a long line of works that envelope my interest in unfolding 

the views of the subtext, the bones of time. There is memory 

imbued within the bones of the building, the place, the architecture 

that in and of itself has veracity. These time-drawings arc to reel

in the strength of what is becoming,  before our societal 

eyes have shaped it. There is a second construction site in the work. 

It is the famous World War I memorial in Kansas City.

My rendering of it reveals the inner construction, built in 1926. 

There are five additional tower buildings within the framework 

of this lenticular. Two of them are cell towers within the city 

limits of Omaha. These many drawings reverberate within the

mapping and geometric forms that interweave a nuanced grid. 

The optical lense surface of the lenticular allows the many layers 

to activate with the viewer's movement.

   

 View The Artwork at Bemis Auction

BUY IT NOW till OCT 24. OCT 24 - 30 ON-LINE BIDDING

LINK - RSVP  Free and Open To All. RSVP required to recieve Zoom lofin details

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTPORT KINGSTON

Altered Presence
August 29- October 4th

ARTPORT KINGSTON
108 East Strand Street
Kingston, NY  12401

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Life as we know it has been altered worldwide. What used to be “normal” had to change, we all had to adjust and still do. Life is about multi-tasking and adapting to whatever comes our way. Nature taught us the ability to germinate and grow under more or less adverse conditions so once more we learn how to reinvent ourselves constantly.
 
ArtPort’s exhibition “Altered Presence” explores the idea of transformation, from material, conceptual, mechanical or physical. Showing works that seem to alter their appearances, reshape their presence and react to their context.     
Curated by Director: Laurie DeChiara

Artists: Sophi Kravitz, Suzan Shutan, Mary Ann Strandell, Roxanne Faber Savage, Stefan Saffer, Jordan Tinker, Susan Jennings, Susan Rowe Harrison, Karlos Carcamo, Dan Devine,
Michelle Weinberg, Melinda Hackett and others

Gallery Open: Saturdays and Sunday 12-5pm or by appointment—-ArtStream Open: 24/7
We are taking safety precautions to keep our community safe to prevent the spread of COVID-19 

ArtPort is a newly established cultural space in the historic Cornell Steamboat Building along the Rondout Creek in Kingston, NY. ArtPort’s aim is to be a destination for art experiences and unconventional interaction between contemporary art and a wide range
of audiences. A family friendly platform for art exhibitions, performances, workshops and community gatherings.
ArtPort’s genesis illustrates why the endeavor is so unique. First came the Historic Kingston Waterfront Restoration Project, organized to create a Riverwalk destination
for locals and tourists along eight tenths of a mile of Rondout Creek waterfront. Then came the Fleet Obsolete Restoration project -- a not for profit organization dedicated to the restoration of historic WWII PT Boats at the Riverwalk. Both of these projects have been created to celebrate 400 years of maritime industry
legacy on the Rondout Creek.  Now the HKWR vision has grown to include ArtPort, arts programming inspired by the environmental, cultural and historical heritage of the Creek. ArtPort’s first public event opened the holiday season 2019 with a
festive exhibition “Snowflake Waltz”, a visual exploration celebrating the traditions of the winter holidays.  All are invited to come take a stroll through a world of trees
filled with unique decorations.  Artists and makers near and far are sharing their
creations to transform the Cornell Building into a magical wonderland.

Link Artport Kingston : https://www.artportkingston.com/
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uqYH1ch9BE#action=share
https://www.newsbreak.com/new-york/kingston/news/2049980076446/photos-video-altered-presence-show-opens-at-artport-in-kingston

Floating Steps Exhibition

Mary Ann Strandell: Floating Steps 

August 22 - October 25, 2020

JY&A Juliette Yuan & Associates 

163 92nd Street #4

New York, New York  10128

 

LINK: Floating Steps Exhibition

 

Mary Ann Strandell: Floating Steps

August 22, 2020 - October 25, 2020

 

J. Yuan & Associates llc is pleased to present Floating Steps, a solo exhibition by American artist Mary Ann Strandell. 

Strandell is known for her lush paintings of architectural structures and nature subjects, at times combined with objects of cultural trade.  Presented as a virtual exhibition the selection of works in Floating Steps reveal the fluid and mediated configuration of observed reality, with a certain fidelity to appearance. The liminal presence of the these painted environs, both the interior and city-scape views, connote a sense of time with floating spatial elements that embody the pictorial plane. Experiencing these works in the rising relevance of today against the backdrop of quarantine as a new normal, posses a silent omnipotence. 

Strandell frequently denotes architectural wonders in New York City, including the three-story, glass staircase in the Apple Store, Chelsea; and construction sites, including Hudson Yards development project on the west side of Manhattan. Her vibrant and dynamic representation of these locations reminds one of the pensive beauty of empty cityscapes while simultaneously arouses contemplative re-imagination of one’s experiences related to the place. Her painting, “56 Leonard Street” depicts the shell construction of Herzog & de Meuron’s Tribeca masterwork. It’s off-kilter design painted with Strandell’s loose brushwork simultaneously poses a visual dialectic of a downward dissolution or an upward building in process.  In her rendering of modern living rooms, the mid-century sunken coach, called a conversation pit, collides with icons from other eras and cultures—such as a sputnik lamp, 15th-century Chinese vase, cocktails, and kitsch porcelain, alluding to the long-existed, complex process of global exchange. By engineering her paintings and drawings into 3D lenticular media, Strandell disassembles integral spatial concerns down to a cumulation of transitory imageries, interweaving multiple layers of visual narratives. The lenticular lens optical surface becomes an allegory of the computer screen, where hand adjustment is replaced by physical vantage points, activated by the viewer where meanings coalesce and converge. -Curator Sheryl Wu

 

 

Mary Ann Strandell, "56 Leonard", 48x36", 2019

 

 

Mary Ann Strandell, "Scope / Royal", 60x48", 2015

Mainframe Studios

Art Of Our Time Exhibition

Friday, August 7th, 2020

5:00 - 8:00pm RSVP 

Mainframe Studios

900 Keosauqua Way

Des Moines, IA  50309

info@mainframstudios.org

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•Mainframe Studios director Siobhan Spain states, “We were really interested in inviting artists from near and far to help demonstrate the fact that we’re all in this together, and that artists can play a vital role in our nation’s resiliency when given the opportunity.”

•Featuring works created in response to the extensive challenges facing the world today, “Art of Our Time”, an invitational show, benefits Oakridge Neighborhood Services, and Community Support Advocates. These organizations have been serving the area’s most vulnerable residents by providing for the basic need of safe, affordable housing for over 50 years. Community Support Advocates with its award-winning Momentum Art Program provides transformational programming

for artists with disabilities and mental illness.

•Sales also benefit those creating the work, with the understanding that artists warrant support for their vital role in helping us process, reflect, heal and progress.

Organized by Mainframe Studios, Olson Larsen Galleries and Yellow Door Gallery. Organizers are not taking a percentage of sales.

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Siobhan Spain

Molly Spain

Sarah Spain

Andrea Ferrigno

RSVP:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-of-our-time-tickets-112851206998?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing

Organized by Mainframe Studios, Olson Larsen Galleries and Yellow Door Gallery. Organizers are not taking a percentage of sales. 

Tangerine Food Company will be providing food and drink options for purchase outside and in The Big Room event.

The list of committed artists include Alexandre Arrechea, Susan Chrysler White, Jeanine Coupe Ryding, Kim Dingle, Jennifer Drinkwater, Laurel Farrin, Andrea Ferrigno, Benjamin Gardner, Tatiana Giacinti, Jen P. Harris, Courtney Kenny Porto, Kathranne Knight, Dennis Koch, Jacob Kuperman, Bill Luchsinger, Robert Moore, Margo Z. Nahas, Hugo Nakashima-Brown, Oyoram, Catherine Reinhart, Gyan Shrosbee, Jim Shrosbee, Erin Shirreff, Annick Sjobakken, Joe Sola, Josh Sorrell, Molly Spain, Mary Ann Strandell, Karen Strohbeen, Laura Travnicek, Olivia Valentine, and Jay Vigon.

KC STUDIO Exhibition Reveiw

 KC STUDIO
“Mary Ann Strandell: The Conversation,” Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

• by Elisabeth Kirsch
• July 6, 2020
• Visual , Visual Art Reviews

Mary Ann Strandell has always been a time traveler, with specific interests in architecture, nature, animals and the decorative arts. All these subjects are part of “Conversation,” and they all chatter together, regardless of their respective timelines, and even if their dialogues seem hermetic.
Verdant paintings of birds, tulips, magnolia trees, and parks — all of them bursting with life— are situated next to historic edifices such as the Western Auto and Power and Light buildings in Kansas City. There are also mid-century modern living rooms (conversation pits) filled with decorative objects such as sputnik lamps, floating 18th-century chinoiserie and strange animals. Strandell has long used lenticulars in her artwork, which add a three-dimensional floating quality to some of her images. Ghostly blueprints also hover over some architectural pieces.
Strandell’s migrations take the form of memory journeys and are thought forms as much as actual reproductions of places and things. Some bring pleasure, some are strange, and others make us wonder what came before and what will follow. There’s really no such thing as time or space in Strandell’s art; she creates the constancy of nature and beauty while also showing the beginning of everything human-made while hinting at its ultimate demise.

Hung Liu: Seedlings,” “Anne Austin Pearce: Path” and “Mary Ann Strandell: The Conversation” continue at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore Ave., through Aug. 22. Call to make an appointment, 816.221.2626. For more information, www.sherryleedy.com.

SEE THE FULL REVIEW:  Three Solo Shows