Artist Resume

Mary Rush Artist Resume

Awards

• CCCC-R Kasten Expressive Arts Scholarship. $500 Cash Award. Western New Mexico University. Silver City, New Mexico.
• Best Student Work, $500 Cash Award and Plaque. Manchester Community College. Manchester, Connecticut.
• Honorable Mention, $75 Cash Award. Student Juried Show, Manchester Community College. Manchester, Connecticut. Print, Sunny Twilight.

Press Mentions

• KUDOS. Camp Verde Mercantile Hosts and Artists Reception for Mary Rush. Sedona, Verde Valley, Northern Arizona Arts & Entertainment & Nightlife.

 

• The Camp Verde Journal. Rush displays work in new CV art gallery. Camp Verde, Arizona.

 

• The Camp Verde Journal. Rush finds purpose in painting.

 

• Silver City Daily Press. Silver Scene section. Artist changes style from abstracts to landscapes. Silver City, New Mexico.

Education

• Western New Mexico University. Silver City, New Mexico, A.A. Graphic Design.
• Three-day intensive workshop with Nancy Reyner, Acrylic-based Encaustic. Silver City, New Mexico.
• Manchester Community College. Manchester, Connecticut. A.F.A. Program. Transferred to Western New Mexico University due to relocation.

Solo Exhibitions

• Camp Verde Mercantile, Camp Verde, Arizona. Selected works and the De Fleurs series of paintings. Camp Verde Community Library, Camp Verde, Arizona. Paintings.
• Unity of Sedona, The Allegory of Numerical Contemplation and Conversation.
• Mimbres Region Arts Council, Silver City, New Mexico. A Difference of Tool and Technique: Printmaking, Digital Media, and Mixed Media.
• College Avenue Collection, Silver City, New Mexico. The Allegory of Numerical Contemplation and Conversation. New abstract series.
• College Avenue Collection, Silver City, New Mexico. Magical: Landscapes of Silver City, New Mexico.
• The Twisted Vine, Silver City, New Mexico. Insight Outside.
• RLV Gallery, Oracle, Arizona. Expanding Possibilities: Landscape Paintings of Oracle, Arizona.

Gallery Representation & Show Places

• Camp Verde Mercantile, Camp Verde, Arizona
• The Agave Gallery at Verde Valley Archaeology Center & Museum, Camp Verde, Arizona
• Salt Mine Wine, Camp Verde, Arizona
• Old Pueblo Frameworks and Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
• Shevek & Company, Silver City, New Mexico
• Tatiana Maria Gallery, Silver City, New Mexico
• Reese Benton Gallery, Silver City, New Mexico

Collectors

With the majority of Rush’s collectors purchasing multiple pieces, Rush’s work now resides in private collections across the U.S from the East Coast in Florida, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania to the Midwest in MN, and the Southwest in Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada.