November 11 - January 6, 2024
From Valley House Gallery:
“Valley House Gallery is pleased to present Mary Vernon’s solo exhibition Paintings from November 11, 2023, through January 6, 2024. Join us for the Opening Reception this Saturday, November 11, 5:30pm-8:00pm. The paintings are available to preview this week, 10:00am-5:00pm, at 6616 Spring Valley Road, Dallas, Texas 75254. Mary Vernon will give an Artist Talk on Saturday, December 9, 11:00am. For further information, call 972-239-2441 or visit https://www.valleyhouse.com
Mary Vernon says:
“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. Finding those things is an act of memory for me. 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.”
Born in Southern New Mexico, Mary Vernon was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. 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. Her third booklet, Stories, has been published in conjunction with this exhibition. This is her ninth solo exhibition of paintings at Valley House Gallery.”
Artist talk: December 9, 2023 | 11 am – 12 pm
6616 Spring Valley Road
Dallas, 75254 TX
(972) 239-2441
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