SRLBX Videoart Annual, Serial Box Projects, Columbia, MO (DEC 1- 2, 2017)

 Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN (Jan 7 - Jan 31, 2017)

 Michael Dickins, Mary Addison Hackett, and KJ Schumacher.  

Link 

Podcast interview with Greg Swiger over at Final Friday.
"Mary Addison Hackett is a Nashville-based artist who works with video and painting, but also social practice and documentary.  We had a great conversation about her practice, chair collection, and more."

Review by Sara Estes for The Tennessean

Review by Erica Ciccarone for Burnaway

March 29-April 17, 2016
I recently returned from a three-week residency fellowship at Hambidge where I had the gift of time and space to continue editing a documentary short, and produce a suite of new videos works and paintings. 

Review of solo, "A Tin of Egyptian Cigarettes" at Marcia Wood Gallery.

January 7 - February 6, 2016 
Mary Addison Hackett
A Tin of Egyptian Cigarettes  
Opening reception: Thursday Jan 7, 7 - 9
Marcia Wood Gallery
1037 Monroe Dr. NE
Atlanta, GA 30306
 

Tiger Strikes Asteroid at the Satellite Show, Miami, FL (Dec 1 - 6, 2015)

Curated by Julie Torres
ART IN AMERICA assembles a constellation of artwork from across the US featuring one small work per artist, representing every state + Puerto Rico. This installation acts as a literal map of activity, documenting the current conversation of and about art-making taking place across the country.

Community Slide Show
in conjunction with Vesna Pavlović's Lost Art, I presented a selection of vintage slides depicting floral arrangements and table settings from the 1940's through 1960's. 

On Saturday, October 10, Zeitgeist Gallery invites members of the community to bring, project, and share their personal collections of slide photography in the gallery.  

Featuring artists: Michael Aurbach, Susan De May, Mary Addison Hackett, Jana Harper, Kelli Hix, Robin Paris, Marilyn Murphy, Betsey Robinson, John Warren, and Emily Happell Williams, PSU Film & Video.

Fall 2015

The Nashville Scene has been hosting some of the recent micro-docs.

The Studio Visit short films are a series of micro-documentaries that focus on conversations I have with contemporary artists and cultural spaces in the South and beyond. They are an extension of my studio practice and came about as I began questioning my own work, and the ever-shifting role of artists in society.

Summer 2015. New American Paintings. 

2015 PDS Grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission. 

SPE Caucus Exhibition (Mar 12 - April 5, 2015)

Traveled to: University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL (May 13 - May 28, 2015)

Juried by Deborah Willis & Carol McCusker, Society of Photographic Education Conference, 

Digest-sized photo books. Check back for updates. 

Paint, Process & Poetry: Mary Addison Hackett at David Lusk in Nashville

"Crazy Eyes" Exhibit explores Hackett's vision

David Lusk Gallery, Nashville, TN (Oct 11 - Nov 8, 2014)

Where is the “here” than which it would be preferable to be anywhere but?

Reconsiderations: Through Painting, Mary Addison Hackett Rediscovers the True Language of Things
by Megan Kelley

Jim Ridley, The Nashville Scene. Go Green with Mary Addison Hackett's Le Rayon Vert.
Joe Nolan, Arts Nash. Le Rayon Vert is Mysterious and Masterly.
Laura Hutson, Nashville Scene's Arts & Culture Blog, Country Life. Installation View: Mary Addison Hackett at Belmont's Leu Gallery

Leu Gallery, Belmont University, Nashville, TN (Sept 9 - Oct 17, 2013)

September 9- October 17th, 2013

Opening Reception: Thursday Sept 12, 5-7pm

Artist Talk : Thursday Sept 12 at 5:30 pm

Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN (Aug 24 - Sept 28, 2013)

LAX, Los Angeles, CA (June 28 - Dec 31, 2013)

20 watercolors titled, "Levitating Sticks and Rocks" are part of a public arts project in Los Angeles curated by John O'Brien.
"Levitational"
The guiding concept for Levitational is to exhibit art works in which gravity is clearly defied, either in practice or in appearance. Defying gravity has long been linked to magic and states of wonder. It has also been integral to the success of art forms in which the magnetic forces that draw everything down to the planet are momentarily suspended whether in reality or in the mind's eye. It is coincidentally also how take off and flight are achieved. Taking advantage of this overlap is at the core of this proposal for LAX.
The artists selected for inclusion in this exhibition, Wendy Adest, Kimber Berry, Daniel Brodo, Margaret Griffith, Mary Addison Hackett, Rebecca Ripple, Steve Roden and Joseph Santarromana/Erika Suderburg, work with a mixture of drawings, paintings, mixed media works, video and sculpture to address the condition of seeming weightless-ness or how gravity is defied. The artists in this exhibition have themselves been interested over time in the mysteriousness and history of levitational forces. They present work of theirs in which levitational forces play an important role in the viewer's experience of the art.

The intent is also to reference and key into the state of dreams and daydreams in which the laws of physics are often suspended momentarily. It is also an invitation to the passerby to ponder for a moment the power (of the imagination) that allows us to conquer gravity through flight.

-John David O'Brien

Mary Addison Hackett, Mystic Hovercraft

"As a painter, Hackett is a poet. In a sense, her painting shows the collection's true scope because it does not conjure Nashville. It captures the viewer's gaze not because it depicts something local, but because the artist commands her use of color, space, the movement of lines, the expression of the composition. If this happens to be connected to a Southern landscape, then so be it; it could just as well be the Alpine foothills in 1910. This work may be inspired by a sense of place, but it is not distinctly about it. It exists on its own as the work of a painter who knows how to transfer her experience to the canvas without being too explicit."- Veronica Kavass, Nashville Scene. 16. May 2013

Feb 23, 2013, 6-9 PM
"Still Lifes, Landscapes, and Posers"
threesquared, Nashville, TN

I've curated a show bringing together the work of Cole Case (Los Angeles), Carla Knopp (Indianapolis, IN), Steven LaRose (Talent, OR), Nomi Lubin (New Haven, CT), Gregory Martin (Starkville, MS), and myself. 
Link to press release. 

MAS: ATTACK


@ the LA Mart, Downtown L.A.
Saturday, January 26th, 2013, 6-11pm

New interview with Valerie Brennan at Studio Critical

ABOUT FACE
ACME.
6150 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048
November 17- December 22, 2012
Reception: Saturday, December 1, 6-8PM

ACME. is pleased to announce "About Face," a group exhibition of small works on paper and paintings by over thirty-five artists curated by Los Angeles art dealer Daniel Weinberg. Approximately fifty pieces will be shown throughout ACME.'s three gallery spaces. 

The exhibition showcases eccentric, small-scale portraiture that distort classic presentations of the human face and/or figure. As a group show with roots in Surrealism and German Expressionism, the exhibition reflects the influences of individual artists such as Lucas Samaras' Polaroids and Alice Neel portraits. The effects of the current Digital Age are also expressed in several works. 

Artists include
Richard Artschwager
Lutz Braun
Cris Brodahl
Kristin Calabrese
Brian Calvin
Anh Duong
André Ethier
Asad Faulwell
Steve Gianakos
Alexander Gorlizki
Scott Grodesky
Mary Addison Hackett,
EJ Hauser
Kati Heck
Jonathan Herder
Becky Kolsrud
Robert Lostutter
Ashley Macomber
Josh Mannis
Eddie Martinez
David McGee
Damien Meade
John Mills
Malcolm Morley
Ryan Mrozowski
Loren Munk
Jim Nutt
Robyn O'Neil
Ed Paschke
Joshua Petker
Jerry Phillips
Stephanie Pryor
Helen Rae
Tom Sanford
Amy Sarkisian
Allison Schulnik
James Siena 
Neal Tait
Michael Tetherow
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra
John Wesley
Karl Wirsum
Tad Lauritzen Wright

Exhibition will be presented at ACME.6150 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048.

July 1, 2012 4-6pm
Closing Reception for Hot Paint! A group exhibition featuring

Heather Brown
Amy Feldman
Mary Addison Hackett
Emily Noelle Lambert
Molly Larkey
Allison Miller

May 24-June 17, 2012. Solo Show, John Davis Gallery, Carriage House, Hudson, NY

Group show curated by Gwendolyn Skaggs at SUGAR in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY.
Featuring:
Erika Keck
Christy Singleton
Alicia McCarthy
Ed Sanders
Mary Addison Hackett
Carla Knopp
Vincent Como
Art Guerra
Nina Meledandri
Jacqueline Skaggs
Becky Kinder
Liv Mette Larsen
David B. Frye

04.21.12 - 06.03.12 *EXTENDED TO JUNE 24th*

"To Live and Paint in LA"
January 21 - March 10, 2012

Curated by Max Presneill and Jason Ramos
A broad survey of current and emerging painting trends and talent from Los Angeles.

Jonathan Apgar
Rebecca Campbell
Daniela Campins
Alika Cooper
Noah Davis,
Tomory Dodge
Asad Faulwell
Jon Flack
Yvette Gellis
Iva Gueorguieva
Mary Addison Hackett
Carlson Hatton
Thomas Whittaker Kidd
Andy Kolar,
Constance Mallinson
Allison Miller
John Mills
Aaron Noble
Antonio Puleo
Alison Rash
Nano Rubio
Conrad Ruiz
John Seal
Ryan Sluggett
Comora Tolliver
Chris Trueman
Miller Updegraff
Grant Vetter
Ben White 


Review.
For the last several months the Los Angeles art world’s attention has been captured by the blockbuster Pacific Standard Time exhibitions happening throughout southern California. In the midst of this dominant viewing of the past art of Los Angeles there has been a few brave souls staging exhibitions that sit outside of this particular lens. One of these shows is the quiet survey of current Los Angeles painting that recently opened at the Torrance Art Museum titled To Live and Paint in LA curated by Max Presneill and Jason Ramos.This satisfactory show tucked away in the south bay provides rich conversation for what challenges a painter in Los Angeles may face. When one first enters the main gallery it is apparent that scale is on the majority of these painters minds. L.A. painters are going big, with mixed results. I found myself wondering if this is how you get noticed in the noise of the L.A. art scene these days, go billboard size. Most of these large paintings had interesting parts and would have worked if they had been scaled down to a quarter of their current size. Working on such big canvases is difficult work, and I applaud the effort, but most fell short. The funny thing is, in the heart of all these large canvases, it’s the small paintings that work best.I attended the night of the opening, and while walking through the main gallery fighting the crowd; it was the smallest painting of the show that drew my attention. Mary Addison Hackett’s slight depiction of a figure and a dog stood out among the noise and crowd of opening night because of its tenderness. I went back a week later and still experienced the work in the same way. Hackett’s painting is reminiscent of David Park’s figure work, but with a sunless palette that left me with a sense that her subjects reside in place far away from Los Angeles, possibly giving us a glimpse into the psyche of every Los Angeles based painter, the hope of escape one day. -Chris Hoff

 

EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSES
Curated by Luisa Caldwell and Mery Lynn McCorkle

WG News + Art, Brooklyn, NY (May 6 - May 28, 2011)