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MAC BALL RIVER SONGS

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MAC BALL RIVER SONGS

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MAC BALL RIVER SONGS

I was lucky in 2020 during the COVID pandemic to be able to focus on two shows of my work. The first exhibit, in New Orleans last March, featured paintings made in the early months of the crisis. Titled Stillness was a series of small landscapes painted in an isolated rural setting.

The world seemed to be spinning out of control. The news got odder and scarier every evening, and potentially catastrophic societal change was palpable and threatening. At the same time, being isolated, I spent all my time with my family doing what people have always done: important things like walking, talking, cooking, thinking, reading. We only heard natural sounds; no airplanes were flying over us. It was delightfully quiet. I painted landscapes that I found beautiful and reassuring, scenes that I felt were timeless, scenes one could hold on to.

Late in 2020 and into 2021, I began to feel relieved. Donald Trump just disappeared one awful day, and the drama and hatred seemed to off with him. Multiple vaccines are now defeating the deadly contagion, and life is starting to feel normal again. It is now time to take our masks off, masks of all kinds. As Duncan Phillips, founder of the Phillips Collection, wrote in his book A Collection in the Making after the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic: “Art offers two great gifts of emotion—the emotion of recognition and the emotion of escape. Both emotions take us out of the boundaries of self.”

This second post-COVID show of work continues in the vein of my November 2019 exhibit at Page Bond Gallery: an examination of movement and stasis in coastal and riverine settings, inspired by the Zen gardens of Kyoto and by the incomparable Bitterroot River in western Montana. The paintings, borne out of a fascination with beauty, color, and composition, express optimism about the future, and they erased some boundaries in me.

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Bitterroot 90, 2021 Oil on canvas 40 x 40 inches p 30 - 31 5

Bitterroot 115, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches $7800 framed 6

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Bitterroot 116, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches $7800 framed 8

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Bitterroot 117, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches $7800 framed 10

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Bitterroot 107, 2021 Oil on canvas 40 x 60 inches $7200 framed 12

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Bitterroot 112, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 40 inches $7200 framed 14

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Bitterroot 113, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 40 inches $7200 framed 16

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Bitterroot 118, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 40 inches $7200 framed 18

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Bitterroot 120, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 40 inches $7200 framed 20

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Bitterroot 122, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 40 inches $7200 framed 22

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Debouch, 2021 Oil on canvas 40 x 60 inches $7200 framed 24

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Moored Boats, 2021 Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches $5500 framed 26

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The Lake House, 2021 Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches $5500 framed 28

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Bitterroot 90, 2021 Oil on canvas 40 x 40 inches $5000 framed 30

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Bitterroot 111, 2021 Oil on canvas 40 x 40 inches $5000 framed 32

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Acadian Oaks, 2021 Oil on canvas 36 x 36 inches $4200 framed 34

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A Cloud of Starlings, 2021 Oil on canvas 36 x 36 inches $4200 framed 36

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Bitterroot 102, 2021 Oil on canvas 36 x 36 inches $4200 framed 38

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Mud Flat Oyster Bank Breakwater Midden, 2021 Oil on canvas 36 x 36 inches $4200 framed 40

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Bitterroot 104, 2021 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches $3800 framed 42

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Bitterroot 114, 2021 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches $3800 framed 44

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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 46

The Historic New Orleans Collection Iberia Bank Lambeth House Senior Living Plauche Maselli Parkerson, LLC

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