Mary Grigonis
Mary Grigonis is an American painter and artist.
Personal Life[edit]
Mary Grigonis was born in Brazil in 1954, and raised in Ghana. She studied at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence, and the University of Virginia.[1][2] She lives in Washington, D.C..
Work[edit]
Mary Grigonis's work is in private collections throughout the U.S. and Europe. Grigonis specializes in oil paintings done from life. She works on site, and often in unusual settings. She has painted outside throughout the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, from Anacostia to the Washington National Cathedral, and internationally from France to Siberia. She has painted in train stations, subways, airports, museums, and construction sites. "The more chaotic, the better," said Grigonis.[3]
A description of her paintings in a Washington Post article stated: "All are painted in rich, earthy hues reminiscent of 19th century landscape painters such as Constable, but with Grigonis's own sketchy style that hints at details without actually describing them."[4]
Grigonis has used references to Dutch master Johannes 'Vermeer, sometime featuring the women from Vermeer's paintings transposed into Washington settings, such as the Metro station escalators.[5]
Grigonis has been represented by Burton Marinkovich Fine Art in Washington, DC's Dupont Circle,[6] and reviewed widely. She contributed to CentroNia's Arts Galas,[1][2] and worked as a visual consultant with Dr. Allen Salerian.[2][7]
Mary Grigonis was one of the artists who contributed to the Cultural Tourism DC "Art on Call" project,[8][9][10] a city-wide effort to restore abandoned police and fire call boxes and use them to display art created specifically for those boxes by local Washington D.C. artists.
Exhibits[edit]
Mary Grigonis has exhibited at Georgetown University Hospital, the Washington Studio School,[11] the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Willow Street Gallery,[12] the Children's National Medical Center,[13] the Numark Gallery,[14] the Puck Building in New York, the Bayly Museum in Charlottesville, and Galerie Vieille du Temple in Paris, France.
In 2009, Mary Grigonis participated in Women Artists/Women Healing: Multicultural Artistic Narratives of Trauma and Survival, a five-part narrative series featuring literary readings, performances, exhibitions and facilitated discussions, which was funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.[15]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Mary Grigonis Studio". Retrieved 8 January 2021. blogspot page written by Mary Grigonis
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "WAWH Biographies". Retrieved 10 January 2021. - Event website
- ↑ The more chaotic, the better
- ↑ "QUIET CELEBRATIONS OF HOME LIFE By Mary McCoy, Washington Post, April 21, 1994". The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 January 2021. - WAPO website
- ↑ "IN HER OWN LANGUAGE, By Ferdin and Protzman, Washington Post October 22, 1998". Retrieved 10 January 2021. - WAPO website
- ↑ Burton Marinkovich website
- ↑ Alen_J._Salerian
- ↑ Grigonis Call Box painting at Macomb St and Wisconsin Ave NW, called "Cathedral Heights Business District"
- ↑ Cultural Tourism DC Art on call project
- ↑ Historic Call Boxes In Downtown D.C. Will Be Transformed Into Art Celebrating Women
- ↑ "GALLERIES, By Michael Welzenbach, December 21, 1991". Retrieved 10 January 2021. - WAPO website
- ↑ "VISUAL ART, by Mary McCoy, Washington Post, April 23, 1992". The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 January 2021. - WAPO website
- ↑ "QUIET CELEBRATIONS OF HOME LIFE". The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 January 2021. - By Mary McCoy, Washington Post, April 21, 1994
- ↑ "COLOR AT THE CORE, by Ferdin and Protzman, Washington Post, October 15, 1998". Retrieved 10 January 2021. - WAPO Website
- ↑ "Women Artists/Women Healing: Multicultural Artistic Narratives of Trauma and Survival". Retrieved 8 January 2021. - Event website
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