Simple Elegance: Sculptural Drawings
By Mary Ann Kelly

Through August 22, 2004

The Sharon Arts Center Colonnade Gallery presents wood and metal sculptures by Mary Ann Kelly. Each of Kelly's pieces goes through a labor intensive process to make it look naturally formed. First, the individual pieces of wood are scavenged and carefully edited, then stripped of bark and whittled down to their core, sanded, cut, redirected and reattached using mortise and tenon or dowels, sanded some more, and painted with a blending of colors. Her artwork is sometimes influenced by her interest and practice in yoga and in her energywork as a Reiki Master.

Kelly has an undergraduate degree in Art Education and a Masters degree in Fine Arts. Over the years she has taught studio art, completed commissions and exhibited extensively. Recently, she received a grant to attend the Vermont Studio Center artist residency program. Kelly has had solo exhibits at Thompson Gallery: Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Limited Editions Gallery in Newton Highlands, MA and Associated Foundation of Greater Boston in Boston. Her group exhibits include The Fiber Art Gallery: "Twigs and Sprigs: A celebration of line" in Amherst, MA, Susan Brunner Gallery in Covington/New Orleans, LA, Woman's Interart Gallery: "Boston Seven" in New York, NY and Art Complex Museum: "The Boston Seven" in Duxbury, MA. Currently, Kelly is completing commissions and assembling new works for exhibit in her studio in Northampton, MA.