Mary Ann Wakeley

July 2025 Update
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Mary Ann Wakeley is a mixed media painter. She was born in Philadelphia. She currently lives and works in a suburb outside of Philadelphia.
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Each time I start a painting it feels like travelling through another dimension--a feeling dimension that is made up of colors and forms floating in space. I have always enjoyed moving things around and changing things up, in whatever space I inhabited or worked in. This restlessness is what prompts me to experiment with different forms of expression. I have had minimal schooling in art and design choosing to paint because it is so freeing. I go through periods of painting abstracts and may switch off to explore nature or animals or faces or areas of a room and then return to abstracts. Sometimes I take long breaks and work creatively on the spaces of my home--rearranging furniture and art to change up the environment, finding new ways to use old things. I call it travelling at home because that is how it feels.

Titles rarely apply to my work anymore. People enjoy relaying what they see in my paintings and no two people see the same thing. It is interesting how viewers project onto an artw...

1989--1994

Life drawing and design concepts at Philadelphia College of Textiles & Sciences

Life drawing and sculpture at
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Group Exhibit/Collaboration, Consenses, Martha's Vineyard, MA 2014-2016
Gallery 25N "Pure Abstraction" Online Exhibit
Solo Exhibit, Pulse, Luxe 218 Indianapolis, IN 2012
LightSpaceTime exhibit 2012, "L'envers" -- first place all categories
Premier Exhibit, Guy Lyman Fine Art, New Orleans, LA 2010
Beacon Art Shortwave Gallery, Stone Harbor, NJ
Group Exhibit, Three Ravens Gallery, Ardmore, PA 2010
Group Exhibit, World of Imagination, Vol. 2, APW Gallery, Queens, NY 2009
Group Exhibit, Papercuts & Gluesticks, Rocky River, OH 2008
Group Exhibit, Three Femmes, Tyme Gallery Havertown, PA, 2004