Mary Ann Strandell Current Exhibitions

Friday, December 11, 2015

Gallery Talk for Parallax Exhibition

Gallery Talk for Parallax Exhibition
"Constructs of Time and Space" by Mary Ann Strandell
Wednesday, December, 16th, 5:30 to 7:30pm
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
2004 Baltimore Ave, KC, MO 64108

RSVP:
maurawright@sherryleedy.com
or call 816-221-2626
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

Salon Portfolio/Miami

Salon Portfolio/Miami
With Suite 303 Projects, NYC
Mary Ann Strandell
New Lenticular Prints
Saturday, December 5, 2015
11am to 2:30pm

The Court Yard Apartments
1536 Jefferson Ave
South Beach, Miami, FL

Mary Ann Strandell: Blue Pool Wave/ Fragonard,
63x48", oil on 3D Lenticular, 2015

Monday, November 30, 2015

Parallax: Exhibition Catalogue

Mary Ann Strandell: PARALLAX
November 6- January 16, 2016

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

2004 Baltimore Ave.
Kansas City, MO 64108
Phone:(816) 221-2626

Link to Exhibition Catalogue
http://sherryleedy.com/main/

"The Moon", detail, 60" x 48", oil on canvas, 2015

Mary Ann Strandell's, Parallax solo exhibition explores the use of optics and ideas of perception in a new installation of painting and lenticular media at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art. Her subject matter of architecture, nature, and history are considered within a utopic and dystopic contemporary canon. With painting inventions and re-considerations, she scrutinizes the use of digital tools and screens that reshape our framework of pictorial dialogues in drawing, mapping and form as a hybridity of the anaolog and digtal.

"I'm interested in the parallel constructs along different lines of sight", with crossovers of private and public space. The experience of intimacy and immensity interacting with, and making form that dissolves and reoccurs simultaneously." She activates the surface and depth of images in her painting process, as well as the moving images within the optics of the lenticular media. Relating to location, and staging, "I consider the ephemeral and transitory nature of both figuration and abstraction."
This new work allows a “time travel” of the eye; shifting images into moving parts. Adjustments of figure/ground allow linear structures to be built or re-built, in a paradoxical descending or ascending manner- especially in the recent works of the NY @Apple Store staircase, with their vestige homage to Marcel Duchamp's stop-motion studies. The new oil paintings in Parallax converse with Strandell's complex lenticular media, shifting both of these adage systems into an algorithm with optics, that change as the viewer's observational points move.

Mary Ann Strandell, Stairs as Ghost, 3D Lenticular 40x32"

Mary Ann Strandell, "The Moon", oil on canvas, 60x48"

Mary Ann Strandell, "Scope (Royal)", oil on canvas, 60x48"

Mary Ann Strandell, Tiki Fox Red, 3D Lenticular Print

Mary Ann Strandell, Yellow and Blue w Interior, oil on 3D Lenticular

Mary Ann Strandell, Double Drunk (w Stairs), 3D Lenticular

Mary Ann Strandell, "The Study (with Lunaria)", oil on canvas, 36x36"

Parallax Exhibition, Mary Ann Strandell, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

The Bemis Auction

The Bemis Auction and Exhbition
November 11- 21, 2015

The Auction Benefit: Saturday November 21st
5:45 to 9:00pm. Get tickets in advance.
The Bemis Center For Contemporary Art, 724 South 12th Street, Omaha NE
The Bemis Auction and Exhibition
Paddle 8

Mary Ann Strandell, Bamboo Forest/Hokaaii, Lenticular Tritych, 2015

Monday, August 31, 2015

Parallax

PARALLAX
Solo Exhibition Mary Ann Strandell
November 6- January 16, 2016
Opening Reception: November 6th
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

"The Moon", detail, 60" x 48", oil on canvas, 2015

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
2004 Baltimore Ave.
Kansas City, MO 64108
Phone:(816) 221-2626

http://sherryleedy.com/main/

Mary Ann Strandell's, Parallax solo exhibition explores the use of optics and ideas of perception in a new installation of painting and lenticular media at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art. Her subject matter of architecture, nature, and history are considered within a utopic and dystopic contemporary canon. With painting inventions and re-considerations, she scrutinizes the use of digital tools and screens that reshape our framework of pictorial dialogues in drawing, mapping and form.

"I'm interested in the parallel constructs along different lines of sight", with crossovers of private and public space. The experience of intimacy and immensity interacting with, and making form that dissolves and reoccurs simultaneously. She activates the surface and depth of images in her painting process, as well as the moving images within the optics of the lenticular media. Relating to location, and staging, "I consider the ephemeral and transitory nature of both figuration and abstraction."
This new work allows a “time travel” of the eye; shifting images into moving parts. Adjustments of figure/ground allow linear structures to be built or re-built, in a paradoxical descending or ascending manner- especially in the recent works of the NY @Apple Store staircase, with their vestige homage to Marcel Duchamp's stop-motion studies. The oil painting in Parallax converse with Strandell's complex lenticular media, shifting both these adage systems into an algorithm with optics that change as the viewer's observational point move.

Artist's Web Site

Parallax Exhibition, Mary Ann Strandell, at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

Thursday, July 2, 2015

#BemisPainters: 1985-2015

Exhibition #BemisPainters: 1985-2015
July 16 to October 10, 2015
Opening Reception, July 16, 6 to 8pm
Curated by Ellina Kevorkian, Artistic Director, Residency Program

The Bemis Center For Contemporary Art
724 S 12th St, Omaha, NE 68102

Mary Ann Strandell, Vigil or The Promise of Gravity, oil, 48x60", 2008

Link: #BemisPainters

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts presents #BemisPainters, 1985–2015, an exhibition that celebrates nearly 35 years of paintings by artists-in-residence.

Bemis Center was established in 1981 by artists for artists, and has since the beginning been devoted to supporting the creative impulse and advocating for experimentation beyond the expectations of any discipline. Richard C. Cox, visual artist and one of the show’s featured alumni, says his Bemis residency “provided a dedicated and uninterrupted period of intensive study resulting in an important step forward in the development of my work.” The #BemisPainters, 1985–2015 exhibition will reveal – through an installation of more than 30 works of art – that painting by Bemis artists-in-residence is an ever-changing genre that eludes definition.

These painters offer contemporary points of view by for example, incorporating other disciplines and traditions into their painting. Disparate influences and responses travel across periods in time and can be seen in the diversity of content and materials in painting, such as in the use of wallpaper by Hyun Soo-Choi, embroidery thread on canvas by Amanda Valdez, and other surface applications of paint.

The title of the exhibition references hashtagging, a form of online metadata used to assign content to specific themes. In this exhibition, the hashtag describes various motifs, themes, and painterly considerations that form a constellation of inspiration and ideas highlighting painting’s formal and conceptual possibilities.Artistic Director for Residency Programs Ellina Kevorkian says, “The allusion to internet categorization and the web’s limitless access to art research speaks to Bemis Center’s own expansive and systematized archive, where descriptive meta tags attempt to categorize and address painting’s vast pluralism.”

Ellina Kevorkian

Artistic Director, Residency Programs

Bemis Center for Contemporary Art

Monday, June 22, 2015

Moving Wall West

The Moving Wall West, 30x192", 3D Lenticular on Dibond, 2015

Commission Installation

The Polsinelli Law Firm, LA, CA

Mary Ann Strandell, Lenticular Installation Commission LA, 2015

Mary Ann Strandell, Moving Wall West, 30 x 192", 3D Lenticular Print , 2015

Recent Commission
(detail) Moving Wall West, 3D Lenticular Print on Dibond

Permanent Collection, Los Angeles, CA

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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