Mary Garrish was born in Miami Beach, Florida giving her southern landscapes a true home feeling. She served as the President of the American Impressionist Society from 2005-2007.  Her major interest is Plein Air landscapes, but does do Representational pieces as well.  She paints annually around the world and at her studio.

When asked about leaving a career in surgery for full time painting, Mary replies “I was pulled to art, not pushed from medicine.”   She has devoted intense study in both her studio work and in regular workshop participation with many of the great landscape artists of this era.  Her art hangs in galleries and private collections around the United States.  Mary has been selected to participate in numerous national juried shows, and has had several one-woman shows at both galleries and museums. 

EXHIBITIONS

2019 OPA Eastern Regional Juried Art Show

2019 Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Work-Salmugundi Club

2018 Small Works AIS Show

2017 Art Muse Online Show-Master Finalist

2017 Small Works AIS Show

2017 OPA Fall Online Show-Honorable Mention

2017 Mountain Oyster Exhibition Tucson

2017 Southeast Wildlife exhibition

2016 Southeast Wildlife exhibition

2015 OPA Eastern Regional Juried Show

2015 OPA Juried Salon Show of Traditional Oils

2015 Gilcrease Museum Show

2015-WPSE 4th Annual Juried Exhibition

2014-Salon Show, Legacy Gallery, Scottsdale AZ

2014 AIS 14TH Annual National Exhibition

2013-Greenhouse Gallery Salon International Judges Honorable Mention

2013 OPA Juried Salon Show of Traditional Oils

2013 Plein Air Artist Colorado National  show-Collectors Choice Award

2013 Women Painters of the Southeast Show,  First Place-American  Art Collector Award of Excellence

2013 American Parks through the Beauty of Art show, travelling-top 50 artists.

2013 Sea of Cortez, Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum

2012 American Impressionist Society National Show, Indianapolis

2012 Scottsdale Salon at Legacy Gallery Show

2012 Plein Air Artists Colorado Show

2012 Women Painters of the Southeast Show

2011 American Impressionist Society National Show, Carmel CA

2011 Salon at Legacy Gallery, Scottsdale AZ

2010 Solo Exhibition “interpretations of the Everglades” - Artist Haven Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

2010 Allied Artists of America 97th Annual National Exhibition - National Arts Club, New York, NY

2010 American Impressionist Society 11th Annual National Juried Exhibition - Richland Fine Art, Nashville, TN - Award of Merit Recipient

2010 Richard Schmid Fine Art Auction - Bellevue, CO

2010 Women Artists of the West Juried Show - Oleg Wieghorst Museum, El Cajon, CA

2010 Keynote Artists Nomadas Del Arte, Southwest Gallery, Dallas, TX

2009 American Impressionist Society 10th Annual National Juried Exhibition - Saks Gallery, Denver, CO

         Bill Schultz Award 

Judge-Woman Painters of the Southeast 2014 Juried Show

Artist in Residence  - Everglades National Park, 2010 

Faculty -     Plein Air Convention  California 2017

                   Plein Air South Convention 2016, 2017