You are invited to an Artist Talk by Mary Vernon about her solo exhibition "Mary Vernon: Paintings" on Saturday, December 13, 11:00am, at Valley House Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
Mary Vernon served as professor in the Departments of Art and Art History at Southern Methodist University for 50 years, beginning in 1967. Her drawing, painting, and color theory courses fostered the careers of countless artists and curators and inspired many more. In 2016, Meadows School of the Arts established the Mary Vernon Painting Prize in her honor. Now Professor Emerita of Art, Vernon works full-time in the studio. Her fourth booklet, Stories, has been published in conjunction with this exhibition.
About the paintings in this exhibition, 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. I ask a question, and memory answers it."
Preview available paintings at
https://www.valleyhouse.com/exhibition/Mary_Vernon.pdf
Watch Mary Vernon's 2021 Artist Talk at
Watch Mary Vernon's 2019 Artist Talk at
PLEASE NOTE: Seating is first come, first served, and you are welcome to arrive early. The gallery will open at 10:00am on Saturday, December 13. Valet will park cars beginning at 10:00am, or you may self-park across the street.
The exhibition "Mary Vernon: Paintings" will be on view through January 10, 2026, at Valley House Gallery, 6616 Spring Valley Road, Dallas, Texas. Gallery hours are 10:00am to 5:00pm, Monday through Saturday. Call 972-239-2441 or visit
https://www.valleyhouse.com for information and holiday hours.
Image:
Mary Vernon, "Owl Song," 2024, oil on Yupo, 60 x 120 inches (photo by Teresa Rafidi)
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