M AC B A L L RECENT WORKS
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MAC BALL RECENT WORKS APRIL 2022
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MAC BALL Artist Statement
Artist and architect Mac Ball finds inspiration in riverine environments and coastal southern landscapes. Raised along the waterways and marshes of Charleston, South Carolina, he now resides in New Orleans where he has been witnessing an ever-increasing crisis of land loss and environmental devastation. Since Hurricane Katrina, his architectural firm has been rebuilding the city and has focused on sustainable water management. Waggonner & Ball has teamed with experts from the Netherlands to weave stormwater management concepts into urban design initiatives and coastal stormwater projects in Connecticut, Norfolk, Charleston and Houston. Mac’s love of Louisiana’s coastal landscape and a fascination with the way water alters one’s perception of the environment has fundamentally changed his artistic direction in this time of sea level rise. Counterpoised with coastal imagery, a fascination with the source and movement of water that flows to the sea has also born a body of work that is focused on movement and the refraction of light and color that plays upon highland streams. “Climate change will continue to erode and transform landscapes and waterways, yet Earth will continue to yield magic and beauty throughout this ongoing and inevitable process. My hope is that my work will, for a brief moment, capture the materiality and light, the feel, of this ephemeral threshold in time.”
Opposite Page Chenier Au Tigre at Dusk (Detail), 2022 4
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Bitterroot 119, 2022 Oil on canvas 40 x 40 inches $5500 6
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Bitterroot 109 (Under the Bridge), 2021 Oil on canvas 40 x 40 inches $5500 8
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Bitterroot 73, 2019 Oil on canvas 40 x 40 inches $5500 10
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Bitterroot 108, 2021 Oil on canvas 40 x 40 inches $5500 12
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Bitterroot 102, 2021 Oil on canvas 36 x 36 inches $5200 14
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Bitterroot 67, 2019 Oil on canvas 36 x 36 inches $5200 16
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Bitterroot 96, 2021 Oil on canvas 30 x 30 inches $4000 18
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Bitterroot 99, 2021 Oil on canvas 30 x 30 inches $4000 20
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Bitterroot 104, 2021 Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches $5000 22
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Bitterroot 106, 2021 Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches $4000 24
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Zombies (Avery Island), 2022 Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches $4000 26
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Chenier Au Tigre at Dusk, 2022 Oil on woodpanel 24 x 36 inches $4000 28
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Along the Road to Marrakech, 2022 Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches $4000 30
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Farm on the Old Darby Road (MT), 2022 Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches $4000 32
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Sheds, Avery Island, 2022 Oil on canvas 24 x 36 inches $4000 34
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Working Late, 2022 Oil on woodpanel 18 x 24 inches $3200 36
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Mac Ball
Abbreviated CV
Education 1975 B.A. Studio Art/English; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1978 M. Arch; Yale School of Architecture, New Haven; William Wirt Winchester Travelling Fellowship (Top Honor)
Group Exhibitions 2019–2020 2010 2009 2008 1999 1995 1993–1998
Louisiana Contemporary Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA James Stirling at Yale, Student Work Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT Make it Right/From Concept to Community Contemporary Art Center Mac Ball Recent Paintings, Uptown Gallery Group Show, Richmond, VA Art by Architects, Contemporary Art Center, New Haven, CT Ten Years Out, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT Birdhouses By Architects, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Solo Exhibitions 2019 2018 2016 2013 2012
Islands/Bitterroot Suite, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA Topological Narratives, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA Wish You Were Here, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA Modern Life, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA Recent Paintings, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Select Public Collections Iberia Bank, Lafayette, LA The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, LA Collection of George Shackelford, Deputy Director, Kimball Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX Bayou District Foundation/Columbia Parc, New Orleans, LA Collection of E. John Bullard, Former Director, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA Capital One Bank, Richmond, VA
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MAC BALL Recent Works
Catalog Design Kirsten Hemrich, Registrar Opposite Page: Along the Road to Marrakech (Detail), 2022
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