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Item Name: Print
Title: Nimbus Infield
Maker: Mary Shannon Will
Year: 1983
Country: Canadian
Materials: lithograph
Measurements: in frame: 51 cm x 41 cm
ID Number: ART 184
Legal Status: ART RENTAL
Extended Label Info: Mary Shannon Will was a long-time member of the Calgary arts community, known for her sensuous ceramic sculpture and vibrant abstract painting. She used bright colours and created elaborate surface textures by layering pointillist dots and dashes. This artwork is part of a series of prints that she began in the 1980s using a subjective system of rules and chance to guide her use of colour and pattern. Her interest in conceptualism and the development of this system began with a summer spent at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and research into the work of John Cage. Her first body of work created in this way was a series of abstract geometric ceramic sculptures (1978–1985). To create their glowing, glazed surfaces Will built up layers of solid and graduated colour, precisely patterned with hundreds, sometimes thousands, of tiny dots and dashes. Though inspired by conceptual systems, she never allowed them to override her personal responses to the process or materials: “Beauty was her endgame.” (Alberta Foundation for the Arts) Mary Shannon Will (1944-2021) born in Sampson, New York in 1944. Her childhood was spent in Seattle, Washington. Her family then moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where she completed high school. After a year at Coe College, a liberal arts college in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, she studied ceramics at the University of Iowa (1964–1967), the Tuscarora Pottery Summer School (1966–1967), and the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque (1970–1971). In 1971, Mary and her husband (also an artist) moved to Calgary, where he taught at the university, and she set up her ceramics and painting studios. Over her long career, Mary Shannon Will took annual trips to New Mexico, splitting her time Calgary and Albuquerque. She taught at Emily Carr College of Art & Design, in Vancouver, B.C., and at Tuscarora Pottery in Tuscarora, Nevada. Her works are held in numerous private and public collections, including the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Canada Council Art Bank, Edmonton Art Gallery, Glenbow, and the University collections of Calgary, Lethbridge, and Alberta.
Title: Nimbus Infield
Maker: Mary Shannon Will
Year: 1983
Country: Canadian
Materials: lithograph
Measurements: in frame: 51 cm x 41 cm
ID Number: ART 184
Legal Status: ART RENTAL
Extended Label Info: Mary Shannon Will was a long-time member of the Calgary arts community, known for her sensuous ceramic sculpture and vibrant abstract painting. She used bright colours and created elaborate surface textures by layering pointillist dots and dashes. This artwork is part of a series of prints that she began in the 1980s using a subjective system of rules and chance to guide her use of colour and pattern. Her interest in conceptualism and the development of this system began with a summer spent at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and research into the work of John Cage. Her first body of work created in this way was a series of abstract geometric ceramic sculptures (1978–1985). To create their glowing, glazed surfaces Will built up layers of solid and graduated colour, precisely patterned with hundreds, sometimes thousands, of tiny dots and dashes. Though inspired by conceptual systems, she never allowed them to override her personal responses to the process or materials: “Beauty was her endgame.” (Alberta Foundation for the Arts) Mary Shannon Will (1944-2021) born in Sampson, New York in 1944. Her childhood was spent in Seattle, Washington. Her family then moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where she completed high school. After a year at Coe College, a liberal arts college in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, she studied ceramics at the University of Iowa (1964–1967), the Tuscarora Pottery Summer School (1966–1967), and the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque (1970–1971). In 1971, Mary and her husband (also an artist) moved to Calgary, where he taught at the university, and she set up her ceramics and painting studios. Over her long career, Mary Shannon Will took annual trips to New Mexico, splitting her time Calgary and Albuquerque. She taught at Emily Carr College of Art & Design, in Vancouver, B.C., and at Tuscarora Pottery in Tuscarora, Nevada. Her works are held in numerous private and public collections, including the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Canada Council Art Bank, Edmonton Art Gallery, Glenbow, and the University collections of Calgary, Lethbridge, and Alberta.