Mary Vernon Artist Talk at Valley House Gallery

Описание: Mary Vernon gave an Artist Talk about her exhibition "New Work" on Saturday, October 5, 2019, at Valley House Gallery in Dallas, Texas.


Mary Vernon recently retired as Professor of Art at Southern Methodist University where she began her 50-year teaching career in 1967, now giving all of her time to her second career in the studio. Born in Southern New Mexico, Vernon was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.


"The really good artists around now, of whom Vernon is one, take their virtuosity as a gift, and give it away as a gift to our powers of sight and our capacity for joy. They don’t take it entirely seriously—it’s like dancing with a god, or wrestling with an angel—but they respect it too. They’re on such good terms with it that they’ll josh it a bit so it doesn’t put on airs. Mary’s outrageous sense of humor is everywhere in her work, but it’s not lightweight—it’s as serious as a Shakespeare comedy." —Frederick Turner


A comprehensive 104-page catalogue of Mary Vernon’s paintings from 2014 to 2019 has been published in conjunction with this exhibition. A booklet, "Stories," is available as well.


This is Mary Vernon's seventh solo exhibition of paintings at Valley House Gallery.


View Mary Vernon's work on the Valley House website at http://www.valleyhouse.com/thumbnails...


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


Learn more about Mary Vernon:


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...


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


Watch the Art After X video of Mary Vernon’s Artist Talk about her 2015 exhibition at    • Mary Vernon at Valley House  


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/