Mary McCann
Artist Statement
Ocean floors spread. Tectonic plates move. Continents collide. Subduction thrusts up great mountains. Huge land masses slide past one another. One side drops. Another side rises. Unimaginable heat and pressure squeeze rock and rearrange crystalline structure. Volcanos erupt. Ash and molten rock spew out to reform the landscape. Millions of years pass—the Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic. Transformation after transformation requiring time humans cannot comprehend.
Oddly enough I find this story comforting. There is beauty in the new structure, beauty in the rock, beauty in the fact that we are on this ever changing Earth. And we have no say in how She decides to keep on moving.
In this body of work I am exploring outcomes of events in the geologic story of our planet.
Mary's work has been shown in galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest and is included in public collections.
Commissions:
2012 Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Five oil paintings purchased for permanent collection.
2006 Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Five oil paintings purchased for permanent collection and public use.
2004 Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Five watercolor paintings purchased for permanent collection and public use.
2002 Master Gardeners National 30 Year Anniversary Poster Artist.
1996 Black Hills Audubon Society, Poster Artist
Museums:
2013 Tacoma Art Museum, Franke Toby Jones Annual Juried Show
2011 Bellevue Art Museum, Swedish Hospital MS Center Annual Show
2005 Tacoma Museum of Natural History, "Tall Ships", A Juried Group Show
Public Art and Corporate Purchases:
2015 Public Art Purchase, South Sound Community College, Olympia, WA
2010 Public Art Purchase, Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland, WA
2008 Public Art Purchase, Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland, WA
2006 Public Art Purchase, Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland, WA
2004 Corporate Purchase, Batdorf and Bronson, Olympia, WA
Galleries:
2004 Robert Frey Gallery, Seattle WA, Purchase for Permanent Collection
**** Childhood"s End Gallery, Ongoing Presence 2008-Present
Exposure of Note:
2016 Invitational 45th Anniversary Childhood's End Gallery, Old Friends New Work
2013 American Association of Geologists, Representative Artist for Washington State, Deadwood, SD
2007 Invitational, The Nature Conservancy Conference on Global Warming, Art exhibit, Portland, OR
2006 Featured Artist, Shelton Oysterfest, Shelton, WA
2005 Invitational Artist Show, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA
Selected List of Exhibitions:
2020 Solo Show, Bainbridge Island Performing Arts Center, B.I., WA
2018 Solo Show Washington State Dept of Ecology. Olympia, WA
2018 Northwind Arts Center, Perspectives on Landscape, a juried show, Port Townsend
2018 20th Anniversary Juried Show, Northwind Gallery, Port Townsend, WA
2018 Southwest Washington Annual Juried Exhibition, SPSCC Olympia, WA
2017 Solo Exhibition "Geology" Tacoma Community College at Gig Harbor
2017 Invitational Show Swedish Hospital Annual Art Show
2017 Invitational Childhood's End Gallery 45th Anniversary, Old Friends New Work
2016 Fourteenth Annual Juried Local Art Exhibition, The Gallery, Tacoma Community College
2016 Southwest Washington Juried Exhibition, SPSCC, Olympia WA
2016 Allsorts Gallery Three Artist Show, Olympia, WA
2015 Peninsula Art League 13th Annual Juried Show, Gig Harbor WA
2015 Thirteenth Annual Juried Local Art Show, The Gallery, Tacoma Community College
2015 Southwest Washington Juried Exhibition, SPSCC, Olympia, WA
2015 6th Annual Swedish MS Art Show, Seattle Center Armory, Seattle, WA
2015 EAFA Annual Juried Abstract Show Seattle, WA
2015 "Peripheral Vision," No Boundaries Traveling Group Show
2014 Tacoma Community College 12th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Tacoma, WA
2014 Annual Show Swedish MS Center, Seattle Center Armory, Seattle, WA
2014 "Who is God", International Juried Show, Museum Contempo, Shelton, WA
2014 Childhood's End Gallery, Spring Arts Walk, A Group Show, Olympia, WA
2014 "Living Metaphors", No Boundaries 2014, A Juried Show. Seattle, WA
2013 "Beginnings and Beyond", Highline Community College Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013 "Beginnings and Beyond", Burien Community Center, Burien, WA
2013 American Association of State Geologists, Representative Artist, Deadwood, SD
2013 Fourth Annual Swedish MS Center Art Show, Seattle Center Armory, Seattle, WA
2013 "Beginnings and Beyond" Shoreline City Hall, Shoreline, WA
2013 "Beginnings and Beyond". Normandy Park City Hall, Normandy Park, WA
2013 "Beginnings and Beyond", No Boundaries 2013 A Juried Show, Robert Frye
Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 Brom Wikstrom Brothers Gallery, No Boundaries Juried Show, Seattle, WA
2012 Federal Way City Hall, No Boundaries Juried Show Federal Way, WA
2012 Annual Miniature & Small Painting Juried Show, Gallery North, Edmonds, WA
2012 Childhood's End Gallery, Olympia, WA
2012 Normandy Park Arts Commission, No Boundaries Juried Show
Normandy Park, WA
2011 Childhood's End Gallery, Olympia, WA
2011 Robert Frey Gallery , No Boundaries Annual Juried Show, Seattle, WA
2010 Childhoods End Gallery Group Show, "Divergent Paths", Olympia, WA
2010 Traver Gallery, Group Show, The Art of Living With MS, Seattle, WA
2009 Childhood's End Gallery, Olympia, WA
2009 Olympia Arts Walk, Dual Show, Marie Hassett and Mary McCann, Batdorf and Bronson, Olympia WA
2009 Kenneth J. Minneart Gallery, Annual Juried Show, Olympia, WA
2008 Washington Center for Performing Arts, Arts Olympia Juried Show.
2008 Olympia Arts Walk, Newbury Bay, Olympia, WA
2008 Childhood's End Gallery, Olympia WA
2008 Kenneth J. Minneart Gallery, Annual Juried Show, Olympia, WA
2007 Invitational Art Show, Nature Conservancy International Conference on Global Warming, Portland Oregon
2007 Women Painters of Washington, Inaugural Open Juried Show, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
2007 Dual Show, Marie Hassett & Mary McCann, Batdorf and Bronson, Olympia WA
2006 Featured Artist, Shelton OysterFest, Shelton WA
2006 Olympia Arts Walk, Art House Designs, Group Exhibition, Olympia, WA
2006 Olympia Arts Walk, Selected Works, Fireside Books, Olympia, WA
2005 Art House Designs, Olympia, WA
2005 Art of the Olympic National Forest, National Forest Headquarters, Olympia, WA
2005 Gallery One, Invitational Artist Show, Ellensburg, WA
2004 Art House Designs, Olympia, WA
2004 Solo Exhibition, "Paint Olympia-Love Olympia," Batdorf and Bronson, Olympia,WA
2004 East Shore Gallery, Bellevue, WA "Beyond Disability," a Juried Show
2004 Art House Designs, Olympia, WA, "Five Counties." Olympia Art League, a Juried Show
2004 Arts Olympia, Annual Exhibition
2003 VSA Arts of Washington, a Juried show. "No Boundaries 2003-2004. Traveled to eight galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest.
2003 Olympia Arts Walk, "Secrets of the Old," Orca Books, Olympia, WA.
2003 "Paint Ellensburg," Gallery One, fundraising Event, Ellensburg, WA.
2002 Solo exhibition, "Secrets of the Old," Batdorf and Bronson, Olympia, WA.
2002 "Joyful Places," Henderson House Gallery, Tumwater, WA.
2002 "Paint Ellensburg," Fundraising Event, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA.
2002 VSA Arts of Washington Juried Show. "No Boundaries 2002," Traveled to eight Galleries across Wa., Ore., and Mont.
2001 "Personal Journeys," Arts Walk, Washington Center for Performing Arts, Olympia, WA
2001 "Paint Ellensburg," Fundraising Event, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA.
2001 Solo Exhibition, "I-90," Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA.
1999 Selected Postcard Artist, "Paint Ellensburg," Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA.
1999 Solo Exhibit, "Scenes From My Sketchbook," Alki Cafe and Bistro, Seattle, WA.
1998 Solo Exhibit, "Scenes From West Seattle," Alki Cafe and Bistro, Seattle, WA.
1998 "Paint Ellensburg," Fundraising Event, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA.
1996 Metropolis Gallery, Seattle, WA.
1996 "Three Sisters at Ben Moore's," Olympia Arts Walk, Olympia, WA.
1994 Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts Juried Show, Port Townsend, WA.
1993 Arts of the Terrace 15th Annual Juried Show, Mountlake Terrace, WA.
1992 Arts of the Terrace 14th Annual Juried Show, Mountlake Terrace, WA.
Publications:
2010 Featured Artist 2010 Calendar Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland, WA
2009 South Sound Women Artists 2009: A Sense of Place
2005 University of Oklahoma Press, Illustrations and Jacket Cover, "A Room for the Summer", author, Fritz Wolff.
Affiliations:
Arts Olympia
Olympia Art Guild
Artist Trust
Awards:
2015 Southwest Washington Juried Exhibition Purchase Award, South Sound Community College
Education:
1974 Bachelor of Arts Degree, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
1996 Joan McKesson, Watercolor Workshop, Whidbey Island, WA
1998 Ned Mueller, Workshop, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2005 Don Gianluca, Italian Master Iconographer, Intensive Workshop, Cottonwood,
Idaho;
2012 Jordan Wolfson Workshop, Kathy Gore Fuss Studio, Olympia, WA
2013 Helen O'Toole Residency, Kathy Gore-Fuss Studio, Olympia, WA
Artist Statement
Ocean floors spread. Tectonic plates move. Continents collide. Subduction thrusts up great mountains. Huge land masses slide past one another. One side drops. Another side rises. Unimaginable heat and pressure squeeze rock and rearrange crystalline structure. Volcanos erupt. Ash and molten rock spew out to reform the landscape. Millions of years pass—the Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic. Transformation after transformation requiring time humans cannot comprehend.
Oddly enough I find this story comforting. There is beauty in the new structure, beauty in the rock, beauty in the fact that we are on this ever changing Earth. And we have no say in how She decides to keep on moving.
In this body of work I am exploring outcomes of events in the geologic story of our planet.
Mary's work has been shown in galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest and is included in public collections.
Commissions:
2012 Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Five oil paintings purchased for permanent collection.
2006 Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Five oil paintings purchased for permanent collection and public use.
2004 Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Five watercolor paintings purchased for permanent collection and public use.
2002 Master Gardeners National 30 Year Anniversary Poster Artist.
1996 Black Hills Audubon Society, Poster Artist
Museums:
2013 Tacoma Art Museum, Franke Toby Jones Annual Juried Show
2011 Bellevue Art Museum, Swedish Hospital MS Center Annual Show
2005 Tacoma Museum of Natural History, "Tall Ships", A Juried Group Show
Public Art and Corporate Purchases:
2015 Public Art Purchase, South Sound Community College, Olympia, WA
2010 Public Art Purchase, Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland, WA
2008 Public Art Purchase, Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland, WA
2006 Public Art Purchase, Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland, WA
2004 Corporate Purchase, Batdorf and Bronson, Olympia, WA
Galleries:
2004 Robert Frey Gallery, Seattle WA, Purchase for Permanent Collection
**** Childhood"s End Gallery, Ongoing Presence 2008-Present
Exposure of Note:
2016 Invitational 45th Anniversary Childhood's End Gallery, Old Friends New Work
2013 American Association of Geologists, Representative Artist for Washington State, Deadwood, SD
2007 Invitational, The Nature Conservancy Conference on Global Warming, Art exhibit, Portland, OR
2006 Featured Artist, Shelton Oysterfest, Shelton, WA
2005 Invitational Artist Show, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA
Selected List of Exhibitions:
2020 Solo Show, Bainbridge Island Performing Arts Center, B.I., WA
2018 Solo Show Washington State Dept of Ecology. Olympia, WA
2018 Northwind Arts Center, Perspectives on Landscape, a juried show, Port Townsend
2018 20th Anniversary Juried Show, Northwind Gallery, Port Townsend, WA
2018 Southwest Washington Annual Juried Exhibition, SPSCC Olympia, WA
2017 Solo Exhibition "Geology" Tacoma Community College at Gig Harbor
2017 Invitational Show Swedish Hospital Annual Art Show
2017 Invitational Childhood's End Gallery 45th Anniversary, Old Friends New Work
2016 Fourteenth Annual Juried Local Art Exhibition, The Gallery, Tacoma Community College
2016 Southwest Washington Juried Exhibition, SPSCC, Olympia WA
2016 Allsorts Gallery Three Artist Show, Olympia, WA
2015 Peninsula Art League 13th Annual Juried Show, Gig Harbor WA
2015 Thirteenth Annual Juried Local Art Show, The Gallery, Tacoma Community College
2015 Southwest Washington Juried Exhibition, SPSCC, Olympia, WA
2015 6th Annual Swedish MS Art Show, Seattle Center Armory, Seattle, WA
2015 EAFA Annual Juried Abstract Show Seattle, WA
2015 "Peripheral Vision," No Boundaries Traveling Group Show
2014 Tacoma Community College 12th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Tacoma, WA
2014 Annual Show Swedish MS Center, Seattle Center Armory, Seattle, WA
2014 "Who is God", International Juried Show, Museum Contempo, Shelton, WA
2014 Childhood's End Gallery, Spring Arts Walk, A Group Show, Olympia, WA
2014 "Living Metaphors", No Boundaries 2014, A Juried Show. Seattle, WA
2013 "Beginnings and Beyond", Highline Community College Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013 "Beginnings and Beyond", Burien Community Center, Burien, WA
2013 American Association of State Geologists, Representative Artist, Deadwood, SD
2013 Fourth Annual Swedish MS Center Art Show, Seattle Center Armory, Seattle, WA
2013 "Beginnings and Beyond" Shoreline City Hall, Shoreline, WA
2013 "Beginnings and Beyond". Normandy Park City Hall, Normandy Park, WA
2013 "Beginnings and Beyond", No Boundaries 2013 A Juried Show, Robert Frye
Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012 Brom Wikstrom Brothers Gallery, No Boundaries Juried Show, Seattle, WA
2012 Federal Way City Hall, No Boundaries Juried Show Federal Way, WA
2012 Annual Miniature & Small Painting Juried Show, Gallery North, Edmonds, WA
2012 Childhood's End Gallery, Olympia, WA
2012 Normandy Park Arts Commission, No Boundaries Juried Show
Normandy Park, WA
2011 Childhood's End Gallery, Olympia, WA
2011 Robert Frey Gallery , No Boundaries Annual Juried Show, Seattle, WA
2010 Childhoods End Gallery Group Show, "Divergent Paths", Olympia, WA
2010 Traver Gallery, Group Show, The Art of Living With MS, Seattle, WA
2009 Childhood's End Gallery, Olympia, WA
2009 Olympia Arts Walk, Dual Show, Marie Hassett and Mary McCann, Batdorf and Bronson, Olympia WA
2009 Kenneth J. Minneart Gallery, Annual Juried Show, Olympia, WA
2008 Washington Center for Performing Arts, Arts Olympia Juried Show.
2008 Olympia Arts Walk, Newbury Bay, Olympia, WA
2008 Childhood's End Gallery, Olympia WA
2008 Kenneth J. Minneart Gallery, Annual Juried Show, Olympia, WA
2007 Invitational Art Show, Nature Conservancy International Conference on Global Warming, Portland Oregon
2007 Women Painters of Washington, Inaugural Open Juried Show, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
2007 Dual Show, Marie Hassett & Mary McCann, Batdorf and Bronson, Olympia WA
2006 Featured Artist, Shelton OysterFest, Shelton WA
2006 Olympia Arts Walk, Art House Designs, Group Exhibition, Olympia, WA
2006 Olympia Arts Walk, Selected Works, Fireside Books, Olympia, WA
2005 Art House Designs, Olympia, WA
2005 Art of the Olympic National Forest, National Forest Headquarters, Olympia, WA
2005 Gallery One, Invitational Artist Show, Ellensburg, WA
2004 Art House Designs, Olympia, WA
2004 Solo Exhibition, "Paint Olympia-Love Olympia," Batdorf and Bronson, Olympia,WA
2004 East Shore Gallery, Bellevue, WA "Beyond Disability," a Juried Show
2004 Art House Designs, Olympia, WA, "Five Counties." Olympia Art League, a Juried Show
2004 Arts Olympia, Annual Exhibition
2003 VSA Arts of Washington, a Juried show. "No Boundaries 2003-2004. Traveled to eight galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest.
2003 Olympia Arts Walk, "Secrets of the Old," Orca Books, Olympia, WA.
2003 "Paint Ellensburg," Gallery One, fundraising Event, Ellensburg, WA.
2002 Solo exhibition, "Secrets of the Old," Batdorf and Bronson, Olympia, WA.
2002 "Joyful Places," Henderson House Gallery, Tumwater, WA.
2002 "Paint Ellensburg," Fundraising Event, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA.
2002 VSA Arts of Washington Juried Show. "No Boundaries 2002," Traveled to eight Galleries across Wa., Ore., and Mont.
2001 "Personal Journeys," Arts Walk, Washington Center for Performing Arts, Olympia, WA
2001 "Paint Ellensburg," Fundraising Event, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA.
2001 Solo Exhibition, "I-90," Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA.
1999 Selected Postcard Artist, "Paint Ellensburg," Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA.
1999 Solo Exhibit, "Scenes From My Sketchbook," Alki Cafe and Bistro, Seattle, WA.
1998 Solo Exhibit, "Scenes From West Seattle," Alki Cafe and Bistro, Seattle, WA.
1998 "Paint Ellensburg," Fundraising Event, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA.
1996 Metropolis Gallery, Seattle, WA.
1996 "Three Sisters at Ben Moore's," Olympia Arts Walk, Olympia, WA.
1994 Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts Juried Show, Port Townsend, WA.
1993 Arts of the Terrace 15th Annual Juried Show, Mountlake Terrace, WA.
1992 Arts of the Terrace 14th Annual Juried Show, Mountlake Terrace, WA.
Publications:
2010 Featured Artist 2010 Calendar Evergreen Hospital, Kirkland, WA
2009 South Sound Women Artists 2009: A Sense of Place
2005 University of Oklahoma Press, Illustrations and Jacket Cover, "A Room for the Summer", author, Fritz Wolff.
Affiliations:
Arts Olympia
Olympia Art Guild
Artist Trust
Awards:
2015 Southwest Washington Juried Exhibition Purchase Award, South Sound Community College
Education:
1974 Bachelor of Arts Degree, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
1996 Joan McKesson, Watercolor Workshop, Whidbey Island, WA
1998 Ned Mueller, Workshop, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2005 Don Gianluca, Italian Master Iconographer, Intensive Workshop, Cottonwood,
Idaho;
2012 Jordan Wolfson Workshop, Kathy Gore Fuss Studio, Olympia, WA
2013 Helen O'Toole Residency, Kathy Gore-Fuss Studio, Olympia, WA
