Mary Iverson

Mary Iverson is a painter and public artist. Her work portrays the clash between globalization and the environment, offering visions of container ships as they collide with national parks in surreal, post apocalyptic scenarios. In 2011, her work was profiled in Juxtapoz Magazine and Hi Fructose Magazine. She is represented by Davidson Galleries in Seattle, Thinkspace in Los Angeles, Shooting Gallery in San Francisco, Gallery B15 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Gallery FB69 in Munster, Germany. Mary teaches painting and drawing at Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon, Washington, where she is a tenured faculty member. She earned an MFA in painting from the University of Washington and a BFA in illustration from Cornish College of the Arts.

Mary received 2012 GAP Award funding to purchase a new camera and defray costs of trip to Yosemite National Park. Mary’s works inspire an environmental dialogue through superimposing stacks of shipping containers onto images of pristine landscapes serving up a post-apocalyptic vision of the potential outcome of our global economy. Every summer, Mary travels to several parks, camping and experiencing the location while she takes photographs and gathers sketches for new paintings.

Mary received 2006 GAP Award funding to defray the cost of materials for a solo show of sixteen new paintings at Davidson Contemporary, Seattle, that showed in June 2006.