Mary Ann Strandell

THE VILLAGE VOICE
Best in Show
by R.C. Baker
May 1st, 2006
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Mary Ann Strandell

With pink and orange curves defined by flowing black shadows, Strandell lends her architectural views the weight of Francis Bacon's dissolute portraits. Her figures, sometimes brushily blurred like bad TV scan lines, recall Gerhard Richter; David Salle is channeled through outlined illustrations of plants or human couch potatoes layered over lushly modeled passages. Yet despite these homages to 20th-century painting, Strandell's judicious color contrasts and intelligently dissonant compositions are her own. Michael Steinberg, 526 W 26th, 212-924-5770. Through May 20.

Village Voice


Images from the exhibit MOVEABLE TERRAIN at this link:
http://web.mac.com/mastrandell/iWeb/Site

Mary Ann Strandell is currently in two other exhibits:
1. Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis opened April 7, 2006.
Exhibition titled: Contemporary Masterworks: St. Louis Collects
Curated by Paul Ha, Director, Shannon Fitzgerald, Chief Curator,
and Andrea Green, Curatorial Assistant
http://www.contemporarystl.org/upcoming.php

2. The Westport Art Center, CT., opened April 13, 2006
Exhibtion Titled: Neuroculture: Visual Art & The Brain
Curated by Suzanne Anker & Giovanni Frazzetto
http://www.westportartscenter.org/art.htm

2005 SOLO:
The Moving Wall, Realform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, Curated by David Gibson (REVIEWED BY JAMES KALM IN THE BROOKLYN RAIL)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2005
Op…ish, Samson Projects, Boston, MA curated by Camilo Alveraz,
Beautiful Dreamer, Spaces Art Center, Cleveland, OH. Curated by David Gibson.
Mary Ann Strandell and Lowell Boyers, The Panorama Art/ K99, Cologne, Germany
Lucky Draw, Phillip Du Pury Auction House, NY, sponsored by The Sculpture Center, NY
Scope 2005, NY, Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NY and M Percent Gallery, Cleveland, OH
The Collectors Gallery, The Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
Night Of A Thousand Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY
Michael Steinberg Presents at Sylvester and Co., The Hamptons, NY
Gold Rush, JCCC Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS