ARTIST’S
STATEMENT
Mary Joy Stone is a realist in a sense, not that she tries to capture
the exact nature of a place, but rather a memory of it that evokes
a suppressed emotional response to a deja vu experience of being there
before. She takes that emotional approach to capture the illusion of
color and shape. Painting the southwestern landscape covers the full
realm of her emotions. The morning light exudes a crisp and clear calmness.
By afternoon she is vibrantly energetic. With evening comes a peacefulness,
a satisfaction as the orange light casts a warm glow over everything.
She paints from her own sketches or photos so that she can use her
artistic license to arrange and edit in order to create that magic
moment where the viewer will say, “Yes, I’ve been there,
done that, and it is just as I remember.”
EXHIBITIONS/GALLERIES
Denver Junior Symphony Show Home Benefit, Denver, CO, April, May, 2000.
Mill Atelier Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Holiday Miniature Exhibit, August
to December,
1998, and another miniature exhibit April to June, 2001.
Parade of Homes, 1998, (Sunshine Builders Home, Payne Interiors), through
Panache
Gallery, Kittredge, CO.
Aurora Fox Performing Arts Theater, Aurora, CO. 5-women show, April,
May, 1997, and
a one-woman show November and December, 2000.
Abend Gallery Fourth, Filth, Sixth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh and
Tweith Annual
Holiday Miniature Exhibitions, Denver, CO, 1994-1996, 1999-2002, and
an Invitational
Show, summer of 2000.
Arts at Georgetown, Georgetown, CO. 1996 to present.
Running Creek Gallery, Elizbeth~, CO, September, 2001 to present.
JUTUED SHOWS/AWARDS
El Dorado Gallery Miniature Exhibits, Colorado Springs, CO 2001 and
2002, Honorable
Mention Award.
National Greeley Art Exhibit, May, 2002. Honorable Mention Award.
Artists of Colorado IV, V, VI Exhibits, Denver, CO. April, 2001, and
1999, Honorable
Mention Award, Denver Botanic Gardens, and June, 1998 at Colorado History
Museum.
Gateway to the Rockies Exhibits, Aurora, CO. Best of Show, October,
1999, 1998 and
1996 Honorable Mention and Artists’ Choice Awards, National Miniature
Shows, 1996-
2001, several Second and Third Place Awards.
AFFILIATIONS/MEMBERSHIPS
Colorado Pastel Society Colorado Artist’s Guild Art Students
League of Denver
EDUCATION
Studied at State University of New York, science major/art minor, and
pastel and oil painting at The Art Students League of Denver and
workshops with master artists including: Quang Ho, Doug Dawson, Rick
Stoner, Jay Moore, Tony Ortega, Dinah K. Worman, Albert Handell,
Kevin Weckbach and Dale Chisman.
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