Mary Vernon Artist Talk at Valley House Gallery

Описание: Mary Vernon gave an Artist Talk about her exhibition "Paintings" on Saturday, December 11, 2021, at Valley House Gallery in Dallas.


Mary Vernon served as Professor of Art at Southern Methodist University for 50 years, beginning in 1967. Now retired from teaching, she works full-time in the studio. About the paintings in this exhibition, Mary Vernon states:


"The long tradition of landscape painting is one of conceptual positions and ideas revealed through images recalling the world. Still-life, as an intimate form of landscape, explores the same concerns. Color, the major actor in my painting, transforms my geometric plan. Geometric structure determines the field, color occupies it, navigating through the structure, making space, asserting the presence of things waiting on our recognition. We see that color, within a structure, does what the poet Charles Tomlinson claims—

"Brings the mind half way to its defeat,
Among these overlappings, half-lights, depths,
The currents of the air, these hiddenesses.""


Mary Vernon was born in Southern New Mexico, educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. "Paintings" is Mary Vernon's eighth solo exhibition at Valley House Gallery.


View Mary Vernon's work on the Valley House Gallery website at https://www.valleyhouse.com/thumbnail...


View the exhibition on Artsy at https://www.artsy.net/show/valley-hou...


Learn more about Mary Vernon:


Watch Mary Vernon's Artist Talk about her 2019 exhibition at Valley House Gallery at    • Mary Vernon Artist Talk at Valley House Ga...  


Watch an interview by Jeff Levine about Mary Vernon's 2017 exhibition at Valley House Gallery on the modmedia channel at    • Most Extraordinary Live+Work+Play Building...  


Watch Mary Vernon’s Artist Talk about her 2015 exhibition at Valley House Gallery, filmed by Art After X, on the Urban Art & Antiques channel at    • Mary Vernon at Valley House  


Watch an interview with Mary Vernon about her 2017 exhibition "Painting is Drawing" at The Grace Museum in Abilene at https://vimeo.com/236664014


Watch a time-lapse video of the installation of The Grace Museum exhibition at https://www.thegracemuseum.org/exhibi...


Listen to an interview with Mary Vernon about her 50-year teaching career on the SMU Meadows School of the Arts 50th Anniversary blog at https://blog.smu.edu/meadows50/2019/0...


Join the effort to endow the Mary Vernon Painting Prize at SMU Meadows School of the Arts and read about Mary Vernon's 50 years of art and teaching at https://www.smu.edu/Meadows/NewsAndEv...


Listen to Mary Vernon interviewed by Craig Gould on the weekly podcast Outside of New York that features in-depth discussions with members of the art world who live and work outside of New York at http://outsideofnewyork.com/331/


Read Frederick Turner's review on Glasstire of the 2019 exhibition "Conversation: Landscape Paintings as Movement at Rest" at the Bath House Cultural Center at https://glasstire.com/2019/09/09/land...


Read Michael Frank Blair's review on Glasstire of Mary Vernon's 2017 exhibition at http://glasstire.com/2017/10/08/mary-...


Read an article about Mary Vernon by Gail Sachson in Patron magazine at http://www.valleyhouse.com/2017-04-Ma...


Read an article about Mary Vernon by Julie England in Prime Women at https://primewomen.com/career-and-bus...


Find more on the Valley House Gallery website at http://www.valleyhouse.com/