About the Artist
Mary Iverson (Seattle) is a painter and public artist. Her work portrays the clash between globalization and the environment, offering visions of container ships as they collide with national parks in surreal, post apocalyptic scenarios. In 2011, her work was profiled in Juxtapoz Magazine and Hi Fructose Magazine. She is represented by galleries in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Copenhagen, Singapore, and Munster, Germany. She teaches painting and drawing at Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon, WA, where she is a tenured faculty member. Her studio is in Building C in Ballard, a vibrant community of artists.
CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS 2013-2014
Cornish College of the Arts Alumni Gallery Seattle WA: March 18 - May 25, 2013. Opening reception March 29, 5-7pm
Breeze Block Gallery Portland OR “Wider Than a Postcard” May 2 – June 1, 2013. Group exhibition. Opening reception Thursday May 2, 6pm.
Gallery 309 Philadelphia, PA "LAX/PHL" May 11 - June 7. Curated by Thinkspace Gallery
Beyond Eden Art Fair Los Angeles, October 12-13, 2013, with Thinkspace Gallery
Davidson Galleries Seattle WA: November 2013, solo show. Opening reception Thursday, November 7, 6-8pm.
Thinkspace Gallery Culver City CA, August 16 - September 6, 2014: two-person show with Stephanie Buer. Opening Reception: Sat, August 16th 6-9PM. 2014.
Shooting Gallery San Francisco CA: October 2014: solo show
EDUCATION
2002 MFA Painting, University of Washington
1995 BFA Cornish College of the Arts magna cum laude
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Shooting Gallery San Francisco CA: April 13 - May 4, Opening reception Saturday April 13, 2013, 7-11pm. Project room installation.
Chandran Gallery Singapore, Opening reception January 19 6-8pm.
2012
Sheehan Gallery Whitman College, Walla Walla WA, “Egress,” October 15-Dec 16
Gallery FB69 Munster, Germany, "Collide" August 31-November 3
Shooting Gallery San Francisco CA, “Calamity” February 11 – March 5
2011
Gallery B15 Copenhagen DK, "Geometry" August 5 - September 4
2010
Davidson Galleries Seattle WA, “Sublime” October 7-30
Park Life San Francisco CA, “Frontier,” Jan 1 – 31
2009
Kittredge Gallery University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, January 21-February 27
2008
Davidson Contemporary Seattle WA, “Amass” September 5-27
2006
Davidson Contemporary Seattle WA, “Contain” June 30 – July 29
Kimball Art Center Park City, UT September 27-November 27
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
Thinkspace Gallery Culver City, CA "In Our Wake" February 9-23
2012
Breeze Block Gallery Portland OR "Space/Form" September 6-29
Thinkspace Gallery Culver City, CA "Wild at Heart" May 26 - June 9
Thinkspace Gallery Culver City, CA “Picks of the Harvest” March 3-24
2011
White Walls San Francisco CA, “Linear Empires” February 12 – March 5
Seattle Art Museum Seattle WA "Seattle as Collector" May 11–October 23, 2011
2009
Museum of Northwest Art La Conner, WA “Representing Abstraction,” October 10 – January 3
2007
Davidson Contemporary Seattle, WA “In Between,” July 6-2
Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery, Seattle WA, “City Light/City Art,” June 1 – 30
2006
Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery “Recent Acquisitions: Seattle Public Utilities Portable Works Collection”
2005
Davidson Galleries Seattle WA “Natural Selections, Contemporary Landscape Painting” June 1 – July 2
Davidson Galleries Seattle WA “Contemporary Works on Paper” May 1-31
COLLECTIONS
City of Kent Art Collection, Kent WA
City Of Missoula Art Collection, Missoula MT
CBIC, Seattle WA
Evergreen Hospital, Bellevue WA
Evergreen Shipping Lines, Taiwan
Group Health Cooperative, Seattle WA
King County Art in Public Places Program
Lake Washington Technical College, Redmond WA
Madrona-Sally Goldmark Library, Seattle WA
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond WA
Nordstrom, WA, CA, FL, NV, NC, MN, TX Northwest Career and Technical Academy, Mount Vernon WA
Puget Sound Energy, Bellevue WA
Safeco Insurance, Seattle WA
Seattle City Light 1% for Art Portable Works Collection
Seattle Public Utilities Portable Works Collection
Sherman Elementary School, Tacoma WA
Shoreline Community College, Seattle WA
Starbucks Corporation, Seattle WA
Tacoma Power, Tacoma WA
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle WA
Washington State Art Commission Portable Works Collection
Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2012 GAP Grant, Artist Trust, Seattle WA
2009 Individual Artists Project Grant, 4Culture, Seattle WA
2006 GAP Grant, Artist Trust, Seattle WA
2005 Parents’ Choice Award Silver Medal for Fine Art Studio: Painting
2001 Seattle Collects 2001 Portable Works Collection, Seattle Arts Commission
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2008-Present Art Instructor, Tenured Faculty, Skagit Valley College, Mt. Vernon, WA
2004–2008 Faculty, Northwest College of Art, Poulsbo, WA
2002-2005 Adjunct Faculty, University of Washington
PUBLIC ART
2012 Seattle Art Interruptions, Mural sequence, Seattle City Light % for Art and Seattle Department of Transportation
2007 City of Missoula, City Council Chambers Project, Mural, Missoula Arts Commission
2007 Electric Gallery, an installed temporary mural for Seattle City Light and Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs
2005 Titus Railroad Park, Outdoor Mural, Kent, WA, City of Kent Arts Commission, City Art Collection
2003 Seattle Arts Commission, Emerging Public Artist Roster Training Program
PRESS
2013
Seattle Magazine "Mary Iverson's Container Cult," Brangien Davis, May 2013 print issue
Juxtapoz New Contemporary Gingko Press, 2013
Juxtapoz Magazine “Infuences” March issue
2012
Kontur 3 "Mary Iverson, Collide" Martin Lehmann, Sommer 2012
Westfalium "Im Spinnennetz des Fortschritts," 9 September 2012
2011
Hi Fructose Magazine Profile in Issue #21 (October)
Juxtapoz Magazine Profile in August issue
2009
Seattle Times Nancy Worssam "Abstract, Representational Combine in Satisfying Show in La Conner," October 30, 2009
Skagit Valley Herald Elliott Wilson, “New Exhibit of Works at MoNA Mixes Literal, Abstract,” October 05, 2009
Tacoma News Tribune Rosemary Ponnekanti, “UPS Gallery Exhibits Offer Study in Contrasts,” February 2, 2009
Tacoma Weekly Dave R. Davison, “Port Inspires Art of Iverson,” January 29, 2009
2008
Rivet Magazine The Space Issue, cover art, February 2008
2007
The Missoulan Jamie Kelly, “The Ambiguity of Art,” November 3, 2007
KUOW Weekday with Steve Scher, “Puget Sound Artists,” Produced by Katy Sewall, July 18, 2007
Seattle Metropolitan Magazine Wilson Diehl, “Art Industry,” July 2007
2005
Seattle Post Intelligencer Regina Hackett “Artists Muse on America with Mostly Positive Results,” November 11
Seattle Post Intelligencer Judy Wagonfeld, “Artists Turn the Physical into the Emotional in Natural Selection,” June 17
2001
New American Paintings: M.F.A. 2001 Lisa Phillips, “Juror’s Notes”
Communication Arts Illustration Annual 2001
Marine Digest 2001 Pacific Northwest Ports Handbook, cover art