Mary Powers Holt's Gallery

Mary Powers Holt

marypowersholt@verizon.net
http://www.marypowersholt.com

STATEMENT

My recent work is involved with the dramatic impact of the landscape and my focus is on recording its abstract patterns of light and color. An emotional undercurrent is important to my imagery and my use of paint is mostly expressionistic within this framework. Personal and unconscious experience influences my compositions of form and color. The landscape is a launching point for my imagination and walking in it and interpreting the experience through painting a form of meditation. I paint primarily on Linen or Canvas and I studied painting at the PA Academy of the Fine Arts. I later studied Art History at the University of Pennsylvania through the joint B.F.A. Academy Certificate program.

EDUCATION
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Foundation Design, 1978-79
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Four Year Certificate in the Fine Arts, 1983
The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA B.F.A. 1989.
Concentration in Art History.

EXHIBITIONS
Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE “Crossing Lines” Juried by Darsie Alexander, Chief Curator of the Walker Center, Feb. 27th to May 24th 2009

Barnstone Gallery, Philadelphia Tri-State Artists Equity Select Exhibition, 388 W. Pothouse Rd., Phoenixville, PA 19460 November 7, 2008 – January 16, 2009.

Hun Gallery International 2008, 12 West 32nd St. New York, NY Feb.1st-29th 2008.
Blank Canvas Benefit, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, Dec. 2007, 2008.

The Fine Arts People Gallery, 305 N. Pottstown Pike, Exton PA 19341, 2007, 610-363-6721.
Nov. 1-31st 2007 “Visions and Vistas” – Four person show

Salon des Amis Gallery, Malvern, PA “Academy Women” Invitational Show, April-June 2007.

Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, 21st International Juried Show, Feb. 9 - March 30, 2007
Juried by Laura Hoptman, Curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art

Wayne Art Center, National Spring Open Juried Exhibition 2006, May 5- June 12, 2006.
Juried by Donald Kuspit, Art Critic and Professor of Art History, SUNY

Philadelphia Tri-State Artists’ Equity, 56TH Fall Exhibition, November 6, 2005 to January 12, 2006 – Juried by Rochelle Toner Awarded “Honorable Mention”.

Wayne Art Center, National Spring Open Juried Exhibition 2005, April 9 – May 2, 2005
Juried by Ro Lohin and Kevin Wixted.

Philadelphia/Tri State Artists Equity 52nd Anniversary Exhibition at the Noyes Museum of Art, October 5, 2001 to January 6, 2002. Juried by Timothy Hawkesworth.

104th Annual Members’ Exhibition Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Historic Yellow Springs, PA. September 9 – October 7, 2001. Juried by Susan Moore, Painter. Awarded the Catherine Gibbons Granger Award for painting.