*Reaquisition,* ink drawing insitu with 17 artworks, 18’ x 40’. Installed in Windgate Gallery at BAM, 2023
TRANSIT TERRAIN & OTHER SPATIAL NARRATIVES
Bradbury Art Museum Jonesboro, AR June 12- August 30, 2023
Mary Ann Strandell’s exhibition *Transit Terrain and Other Spatial Narratives* includes the following works: a site-specific, ink drawing installation with artworks, oil paintings, new 3D lenticular prints, printed wall images, ink studies, and the 2016 GIF animated film titled, *These Exhaling Sounds (after Rumi*). With references to architecture, popular culture, museums, folklore and the natural world. Her ideas of perception and time explore the paradox of mediated images and context. She blends a rigorous studio practice with traditional and digital technology, and new media. Her work is a form of Neo-Pop Rococo, at once contemporary, moody, and familiar. In her monumental site-specific installation *Reacquisition,* she considers the inter-changing states of historic representation placed within this contemporary moment.
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Bradbury Art Museum

“Breezeway” Installation, August 2021 to March 2022
ArtPort Kingston, NY
Originally installed for UPSTATE WEEKEND ART FAIR 2022

Curated by Laurie De Chiara

My second installation at Artport Kingston titled “Breezeway”combines ink and acrylic drawing, in situ, with a series of oil paintings and 3D Lenticular media. The large drawing is a classic 60s interior, a very retro living room with the TV screen centrally placed. The overall subject is one of comfort, a living space, not exotic but accessible. It is gracious and welcoming.The image serves as a backdrop to our societal relationship to states of quarantine and a place we might demarcate as in-between screen-time and dream-time.

The angles within the room and the picture plane reference modernist architectural feats, such as Meis Van Der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion which was considered an, “ideal zone of tranquility”. Multiple artworks reference screen-time as worlds within worlds- a time capsule. In the installation the lenticular works are comprised of historic architecture references, and other objects relating to the domicile, international trade memes, consumerism and travel.

Mary Ann Strandell's "Transit Portal" installation, combines a 40 foot wall drawing with (12) 3D lenticular print media. She brings together historical spaces of baroque, modernism, and post-modernism. With this she considers the multiple
viewing experience as a portal, akin to our computer/network user-world with the real, the fantastical, and the virtual as a
mash-up of a quarantined social connection.SEE: "Ripple Effect" group exhibition curated by Laurie De Chiara, director of ArtPort Kingston. June 27 - Autumn, 2020

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