Mary Vernon, painter, Dallas
Moderated by George T. M. Shackelford, deputy director, Kimbell Art Museum
Mary Vernon, a painter based in Dallas, has been praised for her acute visual sense and for the virtuosity of her use of materials. Her works “danc[e] with light and color,” in the words of one critic. Over the course of her career, she has exhibited and published widely and has taught generations of artists at the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. Her landscape paintings, reveling in the process of their making, are deeply rooted in her observation of nature.
What does the art of the past mean to the artist of the present? In this ongoing program, moderated by Kimbell staff, artists and architects discuss works in the museum’s collection, share the special insights of the practicing professional, and relate older art to contemporary artistic concerns, including their own.