About

Hartman holds a master of fine arts degree from Savannah College of Art and Design and a bachelor of arts in art history from Davidson College.  Outside group and solo exhibitions, Hartman works as a commissioned portrait artist.  She is a native of Charleston, West Virginia.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

wait weight don't tell me, The Sparetime, Savannah, GA, 2013.
Work from Home, Annex Gallery,  Charleston, WV, 2008. 

Recent Work, Madame Chrysanthemum, Savannah, GA, 2007.     

Plants and Animals, The Gallery Espresso, Savannah, GA,  2005.  

Meadowcrest, The Gallery Espresso, 2004.

Wholesome, Starland Gallery, 2002.

Stages, Talialou Gallery, Savannah, GA, 2002.

Recent Work, Nest Gallery, Beaufort, SC, 2002-3.

Recent Work, Annex Gallery, Charleston, WV, 2002.

Tenterhooks, Good Eats, Savannah, GA, 2001.

Solo, The Gallery Espresso, 2001.

Freehand,  Cafe Metropole, Savannah, GA, 2000.

Springmaid, The Gallery Espresso, 1999.

Recent Work, Sapphire Grill, Savannah, GA, 1999.

Memory, Symbol, Self, Athena Gallery, Savannah, GA, 1998.

January, Bistro Savannah, 1997.

Recent Work, Savannah International Airport, 1997.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

La Dolce Vita: the Telfair Museum Annual Ball and Art Auction, 2013.
Collective: Decay, Grace, curated by Jeff Doran, Savannah, GA, 2012.

Art and Commerce: Fashion's Night Out Savannah, curated by Katherine Sandoz, 2012.

Southern Discomfort: Images Inspired by the Writing of Flannery O'Connor. Gallery 1704, Savannah, GA, 2012.

Nine: Betsy Cain, Marcus Kenny, Christine Sajecki, et al.,  curated by Blanche Nettles Powers, Gallery 1704, Savannah, GA, 2011.
Seventeenth Annual Telfair Art Fair; Open Art, Savannah, GA, 2011.

All Hands on Deck; Savannah Skate Park Auction; Little Beasts Gallery, Savannah, GA, 2011.

Liquids & Solids; Mary Hartman and Troy Wandzel, curated by Casey Belogorska, Local ElevenTen, Savannah, GA.  2011.

Telfair Museum Drawings Collection, gift by Arthur B. Kouwenhoven, Savannah, GA.

West Virginia Women Artists, Erma Byrd Gallery, University of Charleston, WV, Permanent Collection.

Ossabaw Island; Works on Paper and Wood, curated by Christine Sajecki, Atwell’s Art and Frame, Savannah, GA, 2011.

Mass Romantic, figure drawing collection curated by Casey Belogorska, Indigo Sky Gallery, 2011.

In Residence, collaborative house installation, Fishel-Stephensons, Savannah, GA, and @tumblr.com, 2011 to present.

ArtSounds, Indigo Sky Gallery, Savannah, GA, 2011.

Works on Paper - Ossabaw, Atwell’s Savannah, GA, 2010.  Ossabaw Island Annual Fundraiser, 2009-10.

Atwell’s Fine Art and Frame, Savannah, GA.

Fifteenth Annual Telfair Art Fair: Open Art, Savannah, GA, 2009.    

Taste, M.E.A.T. Studio Exhibition, Savannah, GA, 2009.

Citywide Open Studio Savannah, 2008 and 2009.

Fourteenth Annual Telfair Art Fair, Savannah, GA. 2008.

Thirteenth Annual Telfair Art Fair, Savannah, GA. 2007.

Women’s Images, Grand Bohemian Gallery, Savannah, 2007.      

Uncovering Images: Gerome Temple, Julio Garcia, Mary Hartman. Grand Bohemian Gallery, Savannah, 2007.

Twelfth Annual Telfair Art Fair, Savannah, GA, 2006. Honorable Mention Merit Award.

Yellow, Annex Gallery, Charleston, WV,  2006.

Telfair Museum Annual Art Auction participant. 

Winter Exhibition, Annex Gallery, Charleston, WV, 2003.

Group Drawing Exhibit, Starland Gallery, Savannah, GA, 2002.

Patrons of Cafe Metropole, contributor, 2002.

Resident Artists: Recent Work, Venus de Milo, Savannah, GA, 2002.

Historic Savannah Foundation Auction, 2000.

CAS Fine Art Collective Exhibitions, Savannah, GA, 2000 – 200,

Recent Work: Elisabeth Hartman and Mary Hartman, Davis Fine Arts Center, West Virginia State College, Institute, WV, 1999.

Local, Annex Gallery, Charleston, WV, 1999.

Symbols of Structure and Memory, Savannah College of Art and  Design, Bergin Hall.  Two-woman show with Laura Terry, 1997.

Savannah Fine Arts, 1997 - 2000.

Jewels of the South, Sarah Baine Gallery, Fullerton, CA, 1997.

I95 to New York, Broome Street Gallery, New York, NY, 1997.

Low Country and Beyond, Savannah, GA, 1997.

Georges’ of Tybee, Tybee Island, GA, 1997 - 2006.

The Big Picture, Savannah College of Art and Design, 1996.

Carnegie Hall Juried Exhibition, Lewisburg, WV, 1994.

Allied Artists Juried Show, Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV, 1992.

         My work is involved with texture and memory.  I try to keep in mind and in hand principles of movement and economy, speed and light, and appreciate interplay between illusory and non-illusory space and form.  Rhythm matters a great deal-- as does contrast between areas of quiet and of activity-- as well as exploitation of accident.  I'm glad for the materials to indicate for themselves what should happen, what is effective, what isn't, and value the surprise of each when changed by ground and gravity and liquid, as well as subsequent choices from among these changes.  

I work with vine and compressed charcoal, pastel, and acrylic wash with large brushes on heavy hot pressed watercolor paper, canvas and panel.  

I appreciate still life objects that have meaning for me, either formally or historically or both, and am encouraged when objects are able to achieve their own light, which is, I'm finding, often helped by preservation of collateral negative space, when it's able to read 'light,' to partner with the subject.

- Mary Hartman, September 2013.