Mary-Ann Beall

Prints & Monoprints
Drawings & Paintings
Sculptures & Installations.

SUSPENDED SPACE :

Mary-Ann Beall was born in Anglet, Basque Country (south of France) in 1959, from an American father and a Basque mother. From 1977 to 1979 she studied art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and at the Academy of Art College,San Francisco. She moved to Paris – France - in 1985, where she currently lived and worked till 2022. She began her career as a visual artist by winning contests for the commissions of the “1% artistique” (a specific French procedure for the commissioning of works to artists that imposes itself on the State, its public institutions and local authorities through the authority of French Ministry of Culture). Beside her commissions for public buildings as a muralist, graphic designer and sculptor, and her private commissions for murals, architectural mosaïcs and design, Mary-Ann Beall initiated her own projects. She developed great skill to create mobile sculptures, interested in the changes of her works through variations of movement, light and shadow. Seeking tactile and luminous contrast, she explores shapes and textures with great freedom. Always in search of a balance between strength and fragility, her...

• Art studies : visual arts : Michigan State University & Academy of Art College, San Francisco, USA, 1977-1979
• Art studies : Antique techniques : whitewash and Fresco ; Dijon, France 1998-2000
• Etching and printing techniques, Paris 2008 & 2017

RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS :
• 2022 Dépayser, Salon du Livre AGORA , BELLÊME France
• 2022 Chemin des Ateliers du Perche, Portes Ouvertes d'atelier, Atelier BEaLL'M, BELLÊME France
• 2021 Portes Ouvertes, Atelier BEaLL'M, BELLÊME France
• 2019 Atelier BEaLL'M, BELLÊME France
• 2016 Lambeaux Vifs, La crypte, BIARRITZ
• 2014 l’interlocuteur : Ossip Mandelstam, KultProekt Gallery, MOSCOU, Russie
• 2013 Une bouteille à la mer, Surfrider Campus, BIARRITZ
• 2012 Small Worlds, Forty7 Gallery, LONDRES, UK – Parcours Whitechapel Gallery : FIRST THIRSDAYS
• 2012 Poétique du Vent , Médiathèque de BIARRITZ (64) –appel à projet soutenu par la Ville pour une exposition thématique
• 2011 L’étrange Pays, PARIS 18ème , Peintures & sculptures. Rencontre avec Natalia Smolianskaïa autour des œuvres de l’étrange pays
• 2010 Entre-deux galerie L’OEIL DU HUIT, PARIS 9ème . Peintures & sculptures
• 2010 Dépaysements espace 9CUBE, mairie du 9ème PARIS. Projet voté en jury de commission, soutenu par la Direction des Affaires Culturelles et la Mairie du 9ème
• 2005 Omni , la maison rouge, fondation Antoine de Galbert PARIS 11ème . Création, installation et cession des droits de représentation d’une sculpture mobile de 4m x 3m pour une ...