Mary Yess

Mary Yess received her MFA in painting from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (NY), where she studied with George McNeil. Yess served on the boards of the Trenton City Museum, the Trenton Arts Commission, and the Mercer County Cultural & Heritage Commission. Over the course of her career, Yess has participated in numerous exhibits. She is a former member of Muse Gallery in Philadelphia, and her work is included in private and public collections. One of her mixed media paintings was purchased by the Trenton City Museum for its permanent collection.

Yess has curated a number of shows throughout NJ, served as a juror for many shows, and was a member of several NJ State Council on the Arts review and public art selection panels. While Executive Director of Artworks, Yess curated or co-curated over a dozen shows of artists from the tri-state area.

For over 40 years, I have been drawing and painting old industrial buildings from all over the U.S., but mostly along the NJ Route 1 corridor. I think that these buildings are not only monuments to the creativity and ingenuity of the early industrial period in U.S. history; but that each one of them is aesthetically valuable, a true American Versailles. For the “Oxford Codex” series, I incorpora...

MFA, Pratt Institute (New York, NY)
BA, Millersville University (Millersville, PA)

Selected Exhibitions
• Art All Night, Virtual Selects Exhibition, Artworks, August 2020
• Art All Day, Trenton Artists Workshop Association invitational, Trenton Free Public Library, November 2018
• Airing Out the Attic: Selections from the Fine Arts Collection, Trenton City Museum, July-September 2018
• Left of Central: Later 20th Century Visual Arts in the Capital City, MCCC, W. Windsor, NJ, January-February 2014
• Ellarslie Open 32, Trenton City Museum, Purchase Award and Mixed Media Best in Show, May 2015
• Mercer County Artists, Mercer County Community College, W. Windsor, NJ, February 2015
• Extra Innings: An Exhibit on the Art of Baseball, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ, April-May 1995
• Merit Award, Mercer County Artists ‘89, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ, summer 1989
• NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition, The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, summer 1987
• Purchase award, Mercer County Artists ‘85, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ, summer 1985
• Grand Show of Small Work, MUSE Gallery, Philadelphia, 1985
• Art in Architecture/Architecture in Art, two-person exhibition, Mercer County Community College, December 1984
• Park City, solo exhibition, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia...