Mary Carroll Nelson
1408 Georgia NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110
(505) 268–1100
mcn50@comcast.net
EDUCATION
University of New Mexico, MA Art Education, Further Graduate studies
Barnard College, Columbia University, BA Fine Arts
LISTINGS
Who's Who in American Art, 1978 - 2006
Who's Who in American Women, 1979-2007
Who's Who in the West, 1980 - 2002
Who's Who in America, 2000-2008
Who's Who in the World, 2008
ARTIST
Symbolic mixed media, dimensional, layered paintings
2008:
Second Award, Masterworks Minatures, Albuquerque, NM; Illumination, Fort Myers, FL
2007:
Exploring Multiple Dimensions, The New Mexico Experience, The Albuquerque Museum, Masterworks, Minatures, Albuquerque, NM
2006:
Rock, Paper, Scissor, Art Center at Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos, NM; Soul Shrines, NMSU Corbett Center, Las Cruces, NM; Art of Space, Museum of Fine Arts, Las Cruces, NM; Making Connections, San Rafael, CA; ¡Celibracíon!, Albuquerque, NM; Connections, We Are All One, Lexington, KY
2005:
Masterworks, Albuquerque, NM; Honoree, Get the Lead Out, Los Alamos, NM
2004:
Masterworks/Miniatures, Albuquerque, NM; first award, A Colored Pencil Panorama, Albuquerque, NM; Bravos Award for Excellence in Art, Albuquerque Arts Alliance, 2004.
2003:
Masterworks/Miniatures, Albuquerque, NM; Originals 2003—Traces of the Journey, New Mexico Women in the Arts, Albuquerque Museum, NM; Pencil Premier, Albuquerque, NM; Fire in the Heart, Ashland, OR.
2002:
Dartmouth St. Gallery 20th Anniversary Show, Albuquerque, NM; Expressions of Creation, Chico, CA; Landscape and Memory, Sedona Art Center, AZ.
2001:
Shadow and Light, S. Broadway Cultural Ctr, Albuquerque, NM; Selections from the Society of Layerists in Multi–Media, U of CO Colorado Springs, CO; Tides of Change, Rockport Ctr for the Arts, TX; Earth Spirit, Miami U, Oxford, OH.
2000: Layerists in Multi-Media/Affirming Wholeness, Weyrich Gallery, NM; The Artist as Shaman, FL; The Birth of Wisdom, NM and Gordes, France; Alchemy, NJ and CT; Musings for the Millennium, OH.
1999: Bridging Time & Space, the Power of Image and Word, CA.
1998: Agora Gallery, NYC; Celtic Connections, MA.
1997: Guardian Spirits, Marlborough, England; Milagros Pequeños, Weyrich Gallery, Albuquerque, NM. Honorée, ¡Magnifico!, Albuquerque, NM, 1997.
1994: The Layered Perspective, Walton Arts Center and the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR; Crossings, Bradford College, MA, CO, NM, CT.
1992: Art is for Healing & The Universal Link, U of TX Health Science Ctr, San Antonio, TX.
1991: Layering, A Gathering of Voices, Marin County Civic Center Art Gallery, San Rafael, CA; Layering, Fuller Lodge Art Center, Los Alamos, NM.
1990: Lightworks, Dartmouth Street Gallery, Albuquerque, NM; The Artist as Shaman, Cleveland; Layering Level to Level, Coshocton, OH.
1987: New Mexico '87: A Fine Arts Competition, New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts; Layering/Connecting, Zanesville, OH and Wheeling, WV.
PUBLICATION OF ARTWORKS
AMERICAN ARTIST, 1986, 1991
WATERCOLOR AND COLLAGE WORKSHOP, Gerald Brommer, 1988
LAYERING, video, 1990
LAYERING, AN ART OF TIME AND SPACE, 1991
CONTEMPORARY WORK IN COLLAGE, Gerald Brommer, 1994
CREATIVE COLLAGE TECHNIQUES, Nita Leland and Virginia Lee Williams, 1994
COLLECTOR'S GUIDE, ALBUQUERQUE, 1995
ONE SOURCE, SACRED JOURNEYS, Gary Markowitz, 1997
PRIME TIME, Albuquerque, May, 1998
GALLERY GUIDE, ART NOW, NYC, June-July, 1998
REVIEW, THE CRITICAL STATE OF VISUAL ART IN NEW YORK, June 1998
ARTIS SPECTRUM, vol. 11/4, 1998
BRIDGING TIME & SPACE, ESSAYS ON LAYERED ART, 1998
THE HEALING POWER OF ART, Barbara Ganim, 1999
CELEBRATE YOUR CREATIVE SELF, Mary Todd Beam, 2002
THE ART OF LAYERING: MAKING CONNECTIONS, 2004
FOUNDER
The Society of Layerists in Multi–Media (SLMM), 1982, a national network of artists who express a sense of holism.
CURATOR
LAYERING, AN ART OF TIME AND SPACE, Albuquerque Museum, 1985; SHRINES AND SACRED PLACES, Keynote Exhibition, New Mexico Arts & Crafts Fair, 1988; ARTISTS OF THE SPIRIT, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR, 1994.
JUROR
Masterworks, 2005; One Percent for Art, Selection Jury, San Mateo Park Wall, 2000–2001; New Mexico Art League Small Paintings Exhibition, Judge, 1999; New Mexico Arts & Crafts Fair; New Mexico State Fair Professional Exhibition, 1999; Five Counties Juried Show, Roswell, NM; ARTFest, Santa Fe Festival of the Arts "Introductions"; 50th Anniversary AMERICAN ARTIST, National Art Competition, 1986; Metro Albuquerque High School Art Competition, Selection Jury One Percent for Art, Selection Jury Presbyterian Hospital, Taos Open, 1992.
CIVIC
Albuquerque Arts Board, 1984—1988, Chairperson, 1987—1988
SPEAKER
Harvard–Radcliff Symposium, New Mexico Landscape, Taos, 1984; Harwood Foundation, Southwest Art History Conference, Moderator, 1987; Lecturer, Albuquerque Museum, 1985, 1986; Zanesville Art Center, Zanesville, OH, 1986, 1987; Elderhostel; New Mexico Art League, Univ. of New Mex. Continuing Educ., lecturer; National; panelist, Conference Association of Art Therapists, 2001, Albuquerque; presenter, Crop Circles, International Association for New Science, Ft. Collins, CO, 2001.
COORDINATOR
THE BIRTH OF WISDOM, Taos, 2000; ARTISTS OF THE SPIRIT, Fayetteville, AR, 1994; symposium, Consultant–Coordinator, AFFIRMING WHOLENESS, THE ART EXPERIENCE, A Symposium sponsored by SLMM in cooperation with the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 1992; ART AND HEALING, A Conference sponsored by AMERICAN ARTIST, SLMM, and the Robert Lee Blaffer Trust, New Harmony, IN, 1990. Also, SLMM Tours to Mexico, 1996; England, 1997; and Spain, 2003.
LINKS:
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INTERNET
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