Mary Barton Nees
Bruised Reed, Kept, Taken Root, About To Enter, Sign of The Fig Tree, Sign of The Almond Tree, Thicket Repeating, El Olam, Ruin, Bound and Determined, Veil
January-December 2012
Location: Smith Administration Building, Education Wing Second Floor, Second Floor Landing, Outside of Hearth Room
The community is invited to visit this collection Monday through Friday between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Guests are asked to register at PBU’s Smith Administration Building—South Entrance, 200 Manor Avenue, Langhorne. PBU would like to thank White Stone Gallery for its partnership in presenting this exhibit. Learn more at www.whitestonegallery.com.
Artist Biography
Mary Barton Nees is a practicing artist, residing in the Appalachian highlands. She is an adjunct faculty member of the Department of Art and Design at East Tennessee State University. She trained at Cornell University, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and earned her MFA in 2007 at ETSU. Her work is primarily abstract, rooted in a personal visual vocabulary exploring themes of mortality, the fragility of time and position, brokenness and Biblical hope. Mary also teaches in the Arts Corps, an enrichment program for disadvantaged kids in her community. Mary's work is in public and private collections nationally and internationally.
