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Biography

Exhibition Record, 1988-2006

Solo:

Mary Vernon: Recent Paintings, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, 2006;

Mary Vernon: Recent Work, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, 2002;

Mary Vernon: Painting and Collage, Kilgore College Fine Arts Gallery, Kilgore, 2001;

Mary Vernon: New Work, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois, 2000;
Related Publication: Mary Vernon: Painting Landscape with Collage by Dawson W. Carr, The J. Paul Getty Museum.

Mary Vernon: Color Studies for Almaty, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 2000;

Mary Vernon, Midland College, Midland, Texas, 2000;

Mary Vernon: Pientures, Maison des Amis de Chateauneuf, Chateauneuf-en-Auxois, France, 1998;

Mary Vernon, Brookhaven College, Dallas, 1997;
Related Publication: The Being of Painting: Color and Form in Seven Paintings by Mary Vernon by David Newman, Director, Studio Gallery, Brookhaven College Center for the Arts. Web version at maryvernon.com

Mary Vernon, Recent Work, Longview Art Museum, Longview, Texas, 1996;

Mary Vernon, Calhoun, Cowan, and Pulley, Dallas, Fall, 1994;

Mary Vernon: Cars, Meadows Museum, SMU, Fall, 1993,
Related Publication: Mary Vernon: Cars, Samuel K. Heath;

Mary Vernon, Wichita Falls Museum of Art, 1993;

Mary Vernon, Western Texas College, 1992;

Mary Vernon, Irving Arts Center, 1992;

Mary Vernon: Works on Paper, Oak Street Gallery, Denton, 1988.

Group:

Kingdom Animalia, Valley House Gallery, 2006;

5x7 On The Road: Dallas, Dunn and Brown, Dallas, 2006;

Recent: Work by the Faculty of the Division of Art, Pollock Gallery, SMU, 2006;

Shared Visions: Texas Artists Then and Now, Arlington Museum of Art, 2006; Galveston Arts Center, 2006; Related Publication: Janet Kutner, “Generations,” The Dallas Morning News, June 15, 2006, p. G1;

50th Anniversary, Valley House Gallery. Dallas, 2004;
Related Publication: 50th Anniversary, Valley House Gallery, 2004;

Flatbed Press: Texas Grit, William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, 2004;

Selections from the Collection of Tom Wilkinson, Franklin County Art Museum, Mount Vernon, Texas, 2003;

Collection of the United States Embassy Residence, Santiago, Chile, Santiago, 2003;

Recent Work: Faculty Exhibition, Pollock Gallery, SMU, 2003;

Size Does Matter: Contrasts of Scale in Contemporary Art, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, 2003;

Modalities of the Visible: A Survey of Contemporary Art in North Texas, Brookhaven Center for the Arts, Dallas, 2002;

42nd Annual Invitational Exhibit, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, 2002;

I-45 Combined, Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, 2002;

Prelude: Preliminary Studies and Unfinished works, Pollock Gallery, SMU, 2001;

Sunny Days, Starry Nights, Austin, 2001;

Postcards From All Over, IAA Center for the Arts, Irving, Texas, 2000;

World Festival of Art on Paper, Kranj, Slovenia, 2000;

Palette 99, Cain Center, Athens, Texas, 1999;

New Painting and Sculpture, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, 1998;

Dallas Area Art -- Small Works Exhibition, Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, 1998;

Madness at the Mac, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, 1998;

Faculty Exhibition, Meadows Museum, Dallas, 1998;

Faculty Exhibition, Pollock Gallery, SMU, 1997;

Sue Cobb, Mary Vernon, Charlsie Mitcham, Dallas Visual Art Center, 1997;

500X Gallery, Dallas, 1997;

A Space Time: The Fourth Dimension, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, 1997;

Drawings, Cedar Valley College, 1997;

Texas: Natural Wonders, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, 1997;

Memphis College of Art Global Fax/Envelope Mail Exhibit, 1996;

Montserrat College of Art, Global Fax/Envelope Mail Exhibit, 1996;

New York Studio Program, Global Fax/Envelope Mail Exhibit, 1996;

20x20x20 -- A Compact Competition, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1996;

500X Gallery, Open Show, 1996;

Cobb, Mitcham, Vernon, 500X Gallery, 1996;

Greeting Cards and Gift Papers: Artist Designed, Lakeside Gallery, Richland College, Dallas, 1996;

500X Gallery, Dallas, 1995;

Flatbed Group Exhibition, Rachel Harris Gallery, Fort Worth, 1995;

6 X Art, 2613 Thomas Avenue, Dallas, 1995;

Members Invitational, The MAC, Dallas, 1995;

20x20x20, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1994 (Jurors’ Award);

The Eleventh Annual National Juried Art Exhibition, Warehouse Living Arts Center, Corsicana, 1994 (Juror’s Award);

Binary Ground: Contemporary Landscape and Environment, Curated by Kevin Curry, Hickory Street Annex, Dallas, 1994;

500X Gallery, Dallas, 1994;

Contemporary American Art, Part I, Budapest and Székesfehérvár, Hungary, 1994-1995;
Related Publication: Contemporary American Artists, edited by Edit Andras and Katalin Geller, Curated by Beata Szechy.

500X Gallery, 1993;

The First, Paul Rogers Harris and Ray Hetzel, Dallas, 1993;

Dare: A to Z, Dallas, 1993;

Art in the Metroplex, Fort Worth, 1993 (Mr. & Mrs. John L. Clardy Sr. Award);

City Room Garden, University of Houston, 1993; Texas A&M College of Architecture, 1993; University of Texas at Arlington, 1993-94; California College of Arts and Crafts, 1994;

15x15x15, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1992;

500X Gallery, Dallas, 1992;

Faculty Exhibition, Pollock Gallery, SMU, 1992;

Images of Nature, Martin-Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio, 1992;

500X Gallery, Dallas, 1991;

Faculty Exhibition, Meadows Museum, Dallas, 1990;

Faculty Exhibition, Pollock Gallery, SMU, 1988;

The Blues, Brookhaven College, 1989;

Works on Paper, Gerald Peters Gallery, 1989;

SMU Salon, Crescent Gallery, Dallas, 1988.

Gallery Representation: Valley House Gallery, Dallas

Bibliography

Kevin Vogel, 50th Anniversary, Valley House Gallery, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, 2004.

Ambassador William Brownfield, The United States Embassy, Santiago, Chile, Art In Embassies Program, United States Department of State, Washington, DC., 2003.

Mike Daniel, “Mary Vernon at Valley House,” The Dallas Morning News, October 18, 2002, Guide, p. 56.

Dawson W. Carr, “Mary Vernon: Painting Landscape with Collage,” published online, 2000.

“Portrait of an Artist,” SMU Research, Volume 7, 2000.

David Newman, “The Being of Painting: Color and Form in Seven Paintings by Mary Vernon,” publushed online, 1997.

“Meadows School of the Arts,” SMU Research, Volume 3, 1996.

Andras and Katalin Geller, editors, Beata Szechy, curator, Contemporary American Artists, Hungarian Multicultural Center, (Dallas, Oakland California, and Budapest), 1994.

Samuel K. Heath, Mary Vernon: Cars, Meadows Museum of Art, Southern Methodist University, 1993.

“Mary Vernon,” High Profile, Dallas Morning News, August 30, 1987, p. 5E.

Faculty Exhibition Catalogs

Assemble: SMU Art Faculty Exhibition, Division of Art, SMU, 1998.

SMU Division of Art Faculty Exhibition, Meadows Museum, SMU, 1994.

Faculty in Art, Division of Art, SMU, 1989.

Education

B. F. A. 1965 University of New Mexico Art History

M. A. 1967 University of New Mexico Art and Art History

Undergraduate study: 1961 to 1963: University of California, Berkeley

Areas of Specialization: Painting and drawing; history of sculpture

Academic Appointments and Professional Experience

Professor of Art, Meadows School of the Arts, SMU; Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor

Publications: Writing

“Hestia,” The Olympians, Continuum Publishing, New York, 1996, p. 93.

“Artists’ Angels,” The Angels, Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, 1994, p. 211.

“Fixing Upon the Dark,” The America Papers, Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, 1991, p. 44.

“The Color Red,” What Makes a City: Crisis and Carnival, The Institute Newsletter, Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, 1988, p.40.

Morocco Bound, Travel guide, Dr. Pepper Travel series, 1978.

Through the Vienna Woods, Travel guide, Dr. Pepper Travel series, 1979.

Review of Basil Taylor, Constable: Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolours, (New York, Praeger), 1973; Eric Adams, Francis Danby: Varieties of Poetic Landscape, (New Haven: Yale), 1973; and Alexander M. Ross, William Henry Bartlett, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 1973, Victorian Studies, Indiana University, Volume XVIII, Number 2, December, 1974, p. 231.

Illustration

Drawings in James Hillman, Anima: An Anatomy of a Personified Notion, Spring Publications, 1985.
Drawings in Italian edition: James Hillman, Anatomia du una nozione personificata, Adelphi Edizione, 1989.
Drawings in Japanese edition, 1990.

Chapter headings in Charles Boer, translation of Ovid's Metamorphosis, Spring Publications, 1989.

Covers:

The America Papers, Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, 1991.

Barbara Anderson's First Fieldwork, Waveland Press, 1990.

Texas International Festival, Events Calendar, 1989.

Greg Mogenson, God as Trauma, Spring Publications, 1989.

Willelm Heinrich Roscher and James Hillman, Pan and the Nightmare, Spring Publications, 1988.

Linda Fierz-David, translation of The Dream of Poliphilo: The Soul in Love, Spring Publications, Jungian Classics Series, 1987.

Nor Hall, Those Women, Spring Publications, 1987.

Gaston Bachelard, On Poetic Reverie And Imagination, Spring Publications 1987.

Russell Lockhart, Words as Eggs: Psyche in Language and Clinic, Spring Publications, 1983.

Murray Stein, In Midlife, Spring Publications, 1983.

Compact Disc Cover -- John Butcher, Phil Durrant, and Peggy Lee, Intentions, Nuscope Recordings CD 1011 (Santa Theresa and Little City), 2001.

Compact Disc Cover -- Guy, Dick, Raine-Reusch, Gudire, Nuscope Recordings CD1003 (46 and 44; Mesa) 1997.

Compact Disc Cover – Canvas Trio, 16 Moments, Music and Arts CD-999
(Quadrants), 1996.

Compact Disc Cover -- Crispell, Guy, and Hemingway, Cascades, du Maurier International Jazz Festival, Vancouver (View at Nice), 1995.

Selected Lectures and Contributions to Symposia -- 2000 to 2007

2007: "Matisse at the Nasher," with David Bates and Philip Van Keuren.

2005: "Ordering and Reordering: George Bellows at the Dallas Museum of Art," DMA.

2004: "Color: Seeing, Reading, Relating," Lecture Series, Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.

2003: "Texas-Modern," Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile; "Contemporary Art in Texas," UNIACC – University of Arts and Communications, Santiago, Chile; "The Embassy’s Collection," United States Ambassador’s Residence, Santiago, Chile; "Color in Texas Art," Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile; and at Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile;

Visiting Artist, Colorado State University, Lecture: "Color Propulsion;"

"Difficulty in Drawing," Meadows Museum, SMU, in conjunction with Spanish Master Drawings from Dutch Collections, 1500-1900.

2002: "Art as Theft," The City of Imagination: The Future of Beauty, Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture;

"Art as Theft," Keynote address for Eastfield College Festival of the Arts.

2001: "Abstraction and Photography," Envisioning Through a Lens series, Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.

2000: "Cosmopolitanism," North Texas Conference of Educators, University of North Texas;

"Burne-Jones, Pilgrim at the Gates of Idleness," Dallas Museum of Art.

Service to Community and University

Meadows School of the Arts, Ad Hoc Committee on Governance, 2006;
Chair, Bookstore Committee of the Faculty Senate, 2006;
Board of Directors, National Council of Art Administrators, 1992-1995;
President, Faculty Senate of SMU, 1995-1996;
American Airlines Tate Academic Summit Planning Group, 1999-present;
President, Town and Gown Club of Dallas, 2002-2003;
Advisory Board, Pollock Gallery, Division of Art, SMU 1995-present;
Academic Advisory Board, Meadows Museum, SMU, 2003-present;
Executive Committee, Town and Gown Club of Dallas, 2000-2003;
Advisory Board, Herrin House, Dallas, 2001;
Public Art Committee, City of Dallas Cultural Affairs Commission, 1989-1992;
Art In Public Places Committee, City of Dallas, 1987-1989;
Board of Directors, Contemporary Culture, Inc., 1990-present;
Advisory Board, Talented and Gifted Magnet at Townview High School, 1997-1999;
WishboneTM Educational Advisory Board, 1994-95;
Advisory Board, DARE Lecture Series, 1993-1994;
Advisory Board, TheTexas Biennial Exhibition, 1993;
Education Committee of the Board of Trustees, Dallas Museum of Art, 1992-1994;
Advisory Board, The Women’s Center of Dallas, 1992-1995;
Advisory Board, Highland Park Arts, 1991;
Advisory Board, Artreach, 1990-1993;
Advisory Committee, Dallas Area Rapid Transit Art and Design Program, 1990-1996;
Advisory Board, Arts Magnet High School;
Advisory Committee, The Landmark Program;
Advisory Board, L'Architecture et Les Arts Décoratifs Francais;
Advisory Board, The Assemblage;
Board of Directors, Craft Guild of Dallas, 1987-1990;
Board of Directors, Arts District Friends, 1985-1988;
Arts District Foundation Visual Arts Advisory Panel;
Dallas Police Association Police Memorial Committee, 1986;
Trustee, Dallas Museum of Art, 1980-1983;
Programs for Irving Community Television, 1982-1983;
Commentator, KERA Radio and Television;
Utilities Committee, City of Flower Mound, 1977;
Treasurer and Firefighter, Volunteer Firefighters of Flower Mound, 1975-1977.