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RIVER SONGS / NEW PAINTINGS
Front and Back Cover Image: Laurie Fisher, Float 2 , 2020, Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches
MAC BALL RIVER SONGS / NEW PAINTINGS THURSDAY, AUGUST 26 - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
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RIVER SONGS / NEW PAINTINGS River Songs / New Paintings by Mac Ball culminates two bodies of work completed over the pandemic timeline. Much in keeping with his previous 2019 solo exhibit with Page Bond Gallery, these new abstract landscape paintings glean inspiration from nature and the environment in Ball’s native Louisiana, coastal South Carolina and the Bitterroot River in Montana. A March 2021 show in Louisiana titled Stillness reflected the quiet and slowness experienced during the early pandemic, with little land or air traffic to distract from the sounds of pure nature in the marshy topography of the Gulf Coast. His recent compositions also examine the phenomena of “movement and stasis in coastal and riverine settings” and take inspiration from the Zen rock gardens of Kyoto and the Bitterroot River of western Montana. Ball’s newest works are born of a concern for the effects of climate change as evidenced by the recent wildfires, smoke, intensely high temperatures and drought experienced in the northwestern region of the United States this summer. In tune with the sustainable urban design initiatives and coastal storm water projects undertaken by his architectural firm, Ball’s concerns also extend to the deleterious effects of mining and industry on valuable and ecologically sensitive rivers and other bodies of water. “We must be better stewards of the natural environment, or it will no longer yield the power and beauty that we all love, admire, and depend upon,” Ball states. His works are a call to action, as their colorful abstractions invite viewers to consider the environment as a system of checks and balances, where every element plays its part in a larger, synchronized construct. Ball earned his BA in Studio Art and English from the University of North Carolina / Chapel Hill, in 1975, and went on to complete his M. Arch. at the Yale School of Architecture in 1978. Alongside his career as an architect, Ball has participated in both group and solo exhibitions since 1993. He is a co-founder and Consulting Principal of Waggonner & Ball Architects in New Orleans and was elected to the College of Fellows (FAIA) at the American Institute of Architects in 2011. He recently took 2nd Prize in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s Louisiana Contemporary 2021 exhibit. His work is in the Historic New Orleans Collection, and various corporate collections, including Capital One Bank, and the Bayou District Foundation/Columbia Parc, as well as in the private collections of the former Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Deputy Director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. 4
Bitterroot 122, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 40 inches p 14 - 15
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Bitterroot 115, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches $9000 6
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Bitterroot 116, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches $9000 8
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Bitterroot 112, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 40 inches $8000 10
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Bitterroot 113, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 40 inches $8000 12
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Bitterroot 122, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 40 inches $8000 14
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Bitterroot 123, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 40 inches $8000 16
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Bitterroot 124, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 40 inches $8000 18
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Bitterroot 125, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 40 inches $8000 20
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King Tide, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 40 inches SOLD 22
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Four White Lines, 2019 Oil on canvas 36 x 48 inches SOLD 24
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Moored Boats, 2021 Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches $6000 26
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The Lake House, 2019 Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches SOLD 28
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Approaching the Bridge, 2021 Oil on canvas 40 x 40 inches $5500 30
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Bitterroot 111, 2021 Oil on canvas 40 x 40 inches $5500 32
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Acadian Oaks, 2020 Oil on canvas 36 x 36 inches SOLD 34
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A Cloud of Starlings, 2020 Oil on canvas 36 x 36 inches SOLD 36
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Bitterroot 67, 2019 Oil on canvas 36 x 36 inches $5200 38
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Mud Flat Oyster Bank Breakwater Midden, 2020 Oil on canvas 36 x 36 inches SOLD 40
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Bitterroot 114, 2021 Oil on canvas 40 x 30 inches $5000 42
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Bitterroot 105, 2021 Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches $4000 44
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Bitterroot 106, 2021 Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches $4000 46
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Bitterroot 91, 2020 Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches SOLD 48
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ADDITIONAL WORKS AVAILABLE
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Bitterroot 117, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches $9000 52
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Bitterroot 83, 2020 Oil on canvas 60 x 40 inches $8000 54
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Bitterroot 118, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 40 inches $8000 56
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Bitterroot 90, 2020 Oil on canvas 40 x 40 inches $5500 58
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Lives and works in New Orleans, LA Education 1978 MArch, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT 1975 BA, Studio Art and English, University of North Caroline, Chapel Hill, NC Select Exhibitions 2020 Stillness, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2019 Islands/Bitterroot Suite, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2016 Wish You Were Here, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2013 Modern Life, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2012 Recent Paintings, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA Select Group Exhibitions 2021 GLEAN, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2020 Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA 2010 James Stirling At Yale: Student Work, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT 2009 Make it Right: From Concept to Community, Contemporary Art Center 2008 Mac Ball: Recent Paintings, Uptown gallery Group Show 1999 Art by Architects, Contemporary Art Center 1995 Ten Years Out, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT 1993 - 1998 Birdhouses by Architects, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA Related Professional Experience 1989 - now Principal and Founder, Waggonner & Ball Architects, LLC 2011 Elected to College of Fellows (FAIA), American Institute of Architects 1985 - 1989 Associate, Eskew, Vogt Salvato & Filson Architects 1978 - 1979 Roth and Moore Architects, New Haven, CT Select Collections Bayou District Foundation/Columbia Parc Capital One Bank Collection of Alise O’Brien, Architectural Photographer Collection of E. John Bullard, Former Director, New Orleans Museum of Art Collection of George Shackelford, Deputy Director, Kimball Art Museum 60
The Historic New Orleans Collection Iberia Bank Lambeth House Senior Living Plauche Maselli Parkerson, LLC
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RIVER SONGS / NEW PAINTINGS THURSDAY, AUGUST 26 - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2021 PAGE BOND GALLERY 1625 WEST MAIN STREET RICHMOND, VA 23220 TEL 804 359 3633 www.pagebondgallery.com CATALOG LAYOUT BY MADISON DALTON COVER: MAC BALL, BITTERROOT 116, 2021, OIL ON CANVAS, 60 X 48 INCHES
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