BIOGRAPHY

Mary Ann Strandell

Mary Ann Strandell is a painter of note. Her work examines the intersection of nature and technology in our participation of society. Through combining a gamut of places and objects as content markers she considers the collapse of historic space between the baroque, modernism and the post-moderne. The imagery originates in canyon sites of the SW, urban construction sites, architecture, aspects of nature, and historic museum objects. These subjects are explored with drawing, painting, and 3D lenticular media. The works begin as singular paintings and evolve into lenticular's complex montage-system, translating hand drawn images into multi-layered, optical fabrications.

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, the Univeristy of Delaware, and many more. 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 2020-21 Strandell was one of 10 artist commissioned by the UBER Corporation for a site-specific work. it is titled “Transit Ramp”, based on over 30 ink drawings of the construction of the UBER building, along wth embedded imagery of oil painting (on site) of San Francisco Neighborhoods, interlaced with mapping striations recalling a modernist grid. Also commissioned in 2021, a site specific, twenty-seven foot, 3D Lenticular Media Installation for the Children’s Mercy Research Institute (Kansas City, MO). Other notable commissions include a thirty-four foot 3D Lenticular Media as a 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 (Summer/ Fall): “The Arc Line" Solo at Juliette Yuan&Associates, NYC (August _ Oct); Artist in Residency at P98a, Berlin, Germany (postponed); The Crossroads Hotel: Summer Solo "Prism Forest: Mary Ann Strandell" curated by Hesse McGraw, (TBA), KC, MO.

Strandell's 2018-19 exhibitions include Constructions and Transmission: Paintings and 3D Lenticular Media, Curated by Leslie Zarra Young, Marichu Custodio and Jeff Oakes is at Cliff Young ltd. in New York, NY; IN/SIGHT at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO. She exhibited works in MULTINATIONALS, at De Weiger Museum, Deurne, Netherlands from January to 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. Mary Ann 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 solo exhibition, Parallax opened with Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, KC, MO. Parallax explores notions of optics and perception within the contemporary canon of utopia and dystopia. 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 48' sumi ink drawings. 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.