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Mary Morrison (Koenen Clausen)

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    The Calling

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


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    Ludwig's Opera

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


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    In the Beginning There is Only Sound

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


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    Time Distillation One

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


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    The Interior Castle

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


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    The Flight of Pegasus

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


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    The First Time Vision

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


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    Messages from Heaven I

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


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    Spiritual Experience #1

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


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    Spiritual Experience #2

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


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    Spiritual Experience #3

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


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    Messages from Heaven III

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


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    Seeing the Dream

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


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    Deep Forest

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


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    I Am Your Heart

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


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    Love in a Pool of Wonder

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


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    Messages from Heaven II

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


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    The Formulas for Memory

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


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    Experiment 1

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


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    Bittersweet

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


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    Gestures for Birth

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


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    A Moment of Grace

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


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    Messenger of a Birds Journey

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


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    The Watcher's Vision

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


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    The Songs, The Shadows Taught Me

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


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    Saints of the Twilight

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


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    The Pool of Lunations

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


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    Remembering Heaven

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


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    Gille's Magical Act

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


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    The Bridge of Light

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


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    The Visit with Andre

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


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    The Witness Self

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


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    The Birds Paradise

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


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    And the Angels Came

    Mixed media on paper
    Art dimensions: 30" x 22.75"
    $1,200


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    La Ve Ve

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


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    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
  • 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
    Peculiar Reality
    Impressions
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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
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