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  The Altar for Knots
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 22.5" x 30"
  $1,200
  
  
  

  

  The Lightning Bugs Said You Were Mine
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 22.5" x 30"
  $1,200
  
  
  

  

  The Heaven Boats
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 30" x 22.5"
  $1,200
  
  
  

  

  The Calling
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 26" x 40"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  Ludwig's Opera
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 26" x 40"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  Time Distillation One
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  The Interior Castle
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  The Flight of Pegasus
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  The First Time Vision
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  Messages from Heaven I
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  Spiritual Experience #1
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  The Prophet's Dream
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  Spiritual Experience #2
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  Messages from Heaven III
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  Seeing the Dream
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  Deep Forest
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  I Am Your Heart
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  Love in a Pool of Wonder
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  Spiritual Experience #3
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  Messages from Heaven II
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $2,500 Framed
  
  
  

  

  Experiment 1
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $2,350 Framed
  
  
  

  

  Bittersweet
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $2,350 Framed
  
  
  

  

  Gestures for Birth
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 41" x 29.5"
  $2,150 Framed
  
  
  

  

  A Moment of Grace
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  Messenger of a Birds Journey
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  The Watcher's Vision
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  The Songs, The Shadows Taught Me
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  Saints of the Twilight
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  The Pool of Lunations
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  Remembering Heaven
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  Gille's Magical Act
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $2,500 Framed
  
  
  

  

  The Bridge of Light
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  The Visit with Andre
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  The Witness Self
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 40" x 26"
  $1,800
  
  
  

  

  The Birds Paradise
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 30" x 22.5"
  $1,200
  
  
  

  

  And the Angels Came
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 30" x 22.75"
  $1,200
  
  
  

  

  La Ve Ve
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 30" x 22.5"
  $1,200
  
  
  

  

  The Gaze
  
  Mixed media on paper
  Art dimensions: 16" x 12"
  $1,000 Framed
  
  
  

  abstract, representational, surreal, conceptual, collage, spiritual icons, symbolism, meditative, eclectic, symbolic, unique, peculiar, psychological, otherworldly, narrative
  
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• Biography
  Mary Koenen Clausen’s mixed media collages are rich in texture and image. Her works frequently are comprised of three visual fields or planes: the heavens, earth, and underworld. Figures composed of mismatched heads and bodies float among animals, icons, musical notes, and foreign texts on backgrounds thickly painted with deep hues. Mary sees the musical notes, symbols and foreign text, many of which she reproduces in her own hand, as messages emanating from her spiritual guides while channeling energy from other time and space dimensions. Hers is a truly unique creative process.
  
  Mary says of her process: “Collage is a matter of refining design. I sit with the pieces scattered around me and they come together. I always think in terms of layers. I don’t treat collage differently from painting.” She gathers her material from Italian magazines, 17th and 18th century Bibles, antique books, among other sources. Mary also uses photographs of her surroundings in her work. Her home and studio are full of paintings, photographs, wall hangings, dolls, and other collected objects, an environment that reflects the complexity of her work.
  

  Statement
  "Since childhood, I have had a lensing system that has permitted my access to a certain kind of knowledge. At about five years of age I became a voluntary mute. This was in large part because when I started school, I, like all the others were expected to gain all kinds of skills that had to do with socialization, and memorization. I felt increasingly conflicted with what was coming at me from the outside world in sharp contrast to all the feelings and perceptions I was gaining from listening to my own inside world- thus the lensing system was born. I simply shut out what I felt took away from my ability to gain “internal knowledge”.
  
  What became my filtering process has stayed with me through all of my experiences in life. It is the source of my art and my life. Art became a very significant idea and activity for me from about age three and continues into the present. I have allowed my perceptions to become refined, and with this and my internal creative drive I have developed a natural process of what determines my images, use of technique, choice of colors, and overall designs in my work. This process is what I choose to call knowledge gaining.
  
   The visual impact of my work can be experienced on many levels, depending on one’s individual readiness for receiving progressive levels of deeper and deeper internal feeling. The esthetic ideal of my work is to nurture and ready the soul to wake up to a much larger reality. The functional ideal of my work is to house in a two dimensional format the designs necessary for one to access a new perspective from which to view larger and larger bodies of ideas and consciousness itself. It is my greatest pleasure to be able to help bring in new languages of “being” from worlds that we can only guess at today, but which will hopefully help expand our worlds of tomorrow."

  Previous Exhibitions

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• Exhibitions
   
  2018 
  UNWRAPPED. ArtServe, Fort Lauderdale FL
  IMPRESSIONS, Joint Show. The Gilded Pear Gallery, Cedar Rapids IA
   
  2015 
  Olson-Larsen Gallery, Des Moines IA
  The Sanctuary Gallery, Iowa City IA
   
  2007 
  Group Show, Olson-Larsen Gallery, Des Moines IA
  Annual Juried Exhibition, Augustana College, Rock Island IL
  Dubuque Museum of Art- Biennial Juried Exhibition, Dubuque IA 
   
  2006 
  Voices Group Show, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque IA
  Group Show, Olson Larsen Gallery, Des Moines IA
  Joint Show, Mid-Coast Gallery West, Rock Island IL
  First Place, Annual Juried Exhibition, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL
   
  2005  Group Show, Olson Larsen Gallery, Des Moines IA
   
  2004  Group Show, Olson Larsen Gallery, Des Moines IA
   
  1995 FEATURED ARTIST EXHIBITION, Gallery Ten, Rockford, IL
   
  1994
  SPIRITUALLY AND DEATH, A National Juried Show, Gallery 451, Rockford IL
  THE WORD IN ART, An Invitational Exhibition, Davenport Art Museum,  Davenport IA 
   
  1993
  Annual Juried Exhibition, Augustana College, Rock Island IL
  STATE OF THE ART 93, NE ART EXPO SHOW, Boston MA
  RIVER MARKET REGIONAL EXHIBITION, KCAC Gallery, Kansas City KS
  One Woman Exhibition, University Hospital, Iowa City IA
   
  1992  One Woman Exhibition,, Quad Cities Arts, Rock Island IL
   
  1991
  One Woman Exhibition, Mimzi III Gallery, Davenport IA
  QUAD CITIES SHOWCASE SHOW, Davenport Art Museum, Davenport IA
  ARTISTS 1991 SHOW, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines IA
  One Woman Exhibition, Unity Gallery, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, IA
  Inclusion in Iowa Arts Council Slide Bank                  
   
  1990      
  QUAD CITIES SHOWCASE SHOW, Davenport Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
  ONE WOMAN SOLO SPACE, Iowa City- Johnson County Arts Association, Iowa City IA
   
  1989 
  One Woman Exhibition, Unity Gallery, Maharishi International University, Fairfield IA
  QUAD CITIES SHOWCASE SHOW, Davenport Art Museum, Davenport IA
  One Woman Exhibition, St. Ambrose University Galvin Fine Arts Center, Davenport, IA
  Inclusion in Iowa Arts Council Slide Bank
   
  Education University of Northern Iowa. Cedar Falls IA — B.F.A.
   
  Private Collections
  Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames IA
  Liz Fanning, Portland OR
  Jan Hurt, Abingdon VA
  Kirke Financial Services Corporation, Des Moines, IA
  Sarah Morrison, Washington IA
  Mark Stevenson, Iowa City IA
  Len Walker, Austin TX