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  Carol Mackay Mertz stanebraestudios@gmail.com
3481 Boliver Rd
Fort Valley, VA 22652-2402
(540)933-6762  
Title: Glenna's Angel, The Feminine Essence
Description: The feminine vessel as shape to describe the great unborn, the vastness of All-that-Is, the primordial...
Dimensions: 28"x12"x10"
Medium: Shunaya marble
Date Created: 2009
Location: Stane Brae Gallery
Title: Glenna's Angel, The Masculine Essence
Description: The new cosmic centric paradigm yields new forms as we seek to understand the balance between manifestation and the great vastness from which it arises.
Dimensions: 18 " x 10" x 10"
Medium: Shunaya marble
Date Created: 2009
Location: Stane Brae Gallery
Title: Infinity
Description: transformational art....a broken piece gets transformed, freed into infinity...the figure-eight of infinity sign can be seen from three perspectives
Dimensions: 8" x8" x6"
Medium: pyrophyllite
Date Created: 2009
Location: Stane Brae Gallery
Title: Practice
Description: The dynamic relationship of positive and negative spaces created in a never ending contemplative practice.
Dimensions: 16"x 18" x 17" for both
Medium: pyrophyllite
Date Created: 2007
Location: Stane Brae Gallery
Title: Heart Cave
Description: from a new series, Open Forms, exploring inner space
Dimensions: 8.5" x 10" x 7"
Medium: Japanese Wonderstone (pyrophyllite)
Date Created: 2005
Location: Stane Brae Gallery
Title: Light Chalice
Description: from Changing Perspective Series
Dimensions: 7.75" x 6.50" x 6.25"
Medium: pyrophyllite
Date Created: 2005
Location: Stane Brae Gallery
Title: Changing Perspectives #1
Description: A series exploring our abilities to change our perspectives about any given image or thought. The pieces have no tops or bottoms but rather have different orientations. The premise of the series seeks to galvanize that moment in time when a change in perspective releases rigid thought, and frees the individual to create something new.
Dimensions: 6" x 6" x 7"
Medium: soapstone
Date Created: 2004
Location: Stane Brae Gallery


Web sites that feature work by Carol Mackay Mertz
http://www.stanebraestudios.com -- artist's personal website

Artist's Bio
3481 Boliver Road, Fort Valley, Virginia  22652
voice: 540-933-6762   e-mail:  Stanebraestudios@gmail.com
website:http://www.stanebraestudios.com


Born: Wilmington, Delaware.
Resides: Fort Valley, Virginia
Education: 
George Mason University, B.S. in Education (1977)
Northern Virginia Community College: courses in Art, Design, and Graphics
The Art League School, Alexandria, Virginia: co     ...... more
Artist's Statement
Artist’s Statement

2009
My practise of art is integral and reflects the natural spiral of consciousness as it
evolves in time. The art is contemplative and meditative in nature, affording multiple
perspectives as tools for personal change and discovery. The resonance of the art speaks
to freedom and the natural unfoldment of humanity. Commissions are co-created with the
comissioner and the art    ...... more 
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Upcoming Exhibitions
2009 "Sculptural Meditations", Washington County Arts Council Gallery, Hagerstown, MD, 
July 
2009     77th Annual Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibition, 
                   The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD, June, July


Solo Exhibitions

2009 "Sculptural Meditations", Washington County Arts Council Gallery, Hagerstown, MD, 
July 

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