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Bio/Artist Statement

Seattle based fine artist, maëry lanahan, has been honing her skills as an abstract oil painter for the past several years. Exploring a complex inner landscape, her work offers an insight into the artist's quest for identity. She uses non representational color and form to illustrate emotions, archetypes, psychological exchanges. 

For lanahan, painting is like looking into a windowpane and seeing the reflection of her self, the context in which she lives, and the fusion of these two. Using the canvas as a sounding board, she explores the human condition by extracting basic color and form from recurring memories. 

Many of her works oscillate between two and three dimensional, and figuration and abstraction, an attempt to create a reality which is parallel to but separate from the real world. 

lanahan explains, ‘Because I choose when to show gravity, perspective, color and light, I am able to emote through them. I glaze thin layers of oil paint to create rich and luminescent shapes that interrelate based on the concept at hand. In some ways it is like the cloud watching we do as children. We tend to see in the clouds what is already within us. In this way, my art is about discovery.’ 

 

CV

Schooling

1998-2000 The Ohio State University 

1996-1998 Antioch College

1995 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 

 

Exhibitions + Awards

2022

-Tether The Star Series at Ryan James Fine Arts, Kirkland, WA

-Juried Exhibit Edmonds Arts Festival, Edmonds, WA

-Edmonds Art Studio Tour

2021

-Juried ICON Exhibit, Lynn Hansen Gallery in Seattle, WA

-Juried Exhibit Edmonds Arts Festival, Edmonds, WA

-Edmonds Art Studio Tour

2019

-Juried Exhibit Edmonds Arts Festival, Edmonds, WA

-First Place Juried Exhibit, Gallery North in Edmonds, WA

-Edmonds Art Studio Tour

2018

-Honorable Mention, Juried Exhibit Gallery North in Edmonds, WA

2017

-Juried Exhibit Edmonds Arts Festival, Edmonds, WA

2004-2022

-Exhibits at various neighborhood “Art Walks” -Seattle area

2004

-Solo Exhibit “Suspiration” Edison College -Piqua, Ohio

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In addition to visual art, I'm also a singer/songwriter. Currently releasing songs under the name "Tether the Star". https://tetherthestarmusic.com

 Recordings of original work available on iTunes and streaming on Spotify:

"Let Me Try" single by Tether the Star, 2021

"Grow Away" single by Tether the Star, 2021

”Live Underwater” album by maëry Lanahan, 2003

”Lessen” album by maëry Lanahan, 2000

”The First One” album by maëry Lanahan, 1996

 

also contributed to these recordings:

”Go Crazy, POP!” Nicky Kay and His Fabulous Kay-Tones, Atom Records, 2005

”Into the Loud” by Nick Kizirnis, Atom Records, 2004

”Migrations” by Tristen Shields, Data Was Lost Records, 2004

https://tetherthestarmusic.com

For current uploads of original songs and covers go to soundcloud.

https://soundcloud.com/maery-lanahan

To watch më in the studio tune into my live stream over on Twitch.

https://www.twitch.tv/maerylanahan

 

This is from a studio tour from 2020: