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
