Mara Odette
Guerrero-Williams
301.213.4814
Visual Artist: Paintings and Sculptures
Recently illustrated the book: “Don’t Let Anyone Take Your Joy Away: An Inside Look at Negro League Baseball and Its Legacy, with 17 paintings. A book publication by Stanley Glenn, President, Negro League Baseball Players Association.
Had 13 Portraits at “Faces Of The Fallen” on exhibit at the Arlington Cemetery 2005-2007. More information: www.facesofthefallen.org
Mara’s group of murals and paintings: “The Dance of the Genes” was on exhibit in four museums of different cities in Chiapas, sponsored by Mexico’s Chiapas State Council for the Arts and Culture during 2003.
Other Solo Exhibitions, include: the Congress of the Union in Mexico City, NIH in Bethesda, Md.; Isis on First Gallery in Seattle, Washington as well as at the Maryland College of Art and Design and the Yellow Barn Gallery in Glen Echo, Maryland . Group Exhibitions include: The Opera House in El Cairo, Egypt, the University of Beijing, People’s Republic of China, “Faces of the Fallen” at the Arlington Cemetery, the National Academy of Art (The Lalit Kala Akademi) in New Delhi, India, the International Visions Gallery, Foundry Gallery, Seventh Street International, International Monetary Fund, Russian Cultural Institute, Courtyard Gallery, at Georgetown, Md., Courtyard Gallery in Baltimore, Md., MOCA-DC.
Mara Odette was born in Chiapas, Mexico. During the last twenty-five years, resides in the State of Maryland. Her art education is from UNAM, and Open Programs at the Corcoran School of Art, with William Christenberry and Blain Larson; Maureen Berkowitz, Walt Bartman and Maryland College School of Art.
Many of her paintings are in private collections throughout the United States and in many other countries, to include Mexico, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Russia.
Carrying forward in the tradition of the great Mexican muralists, examples of Mara’s numerous murals can be seen at the façade of the School of Washington, D.C., on 16th Street at Military Road; Bethesda, Silver Spring, Rockville, and Baltimore, Md.; El Paso, Texas; and Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Mara Odette has been Fashion designer and Poetry Reader and presently teaches Painting at Inter American Development Bank Employees Association.
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LIST OF EXHIBITIONS:
(*) Solo
2005:
(*) “ALTAR OF THE DEAD: A CELEBRATION OF LIFE” an Installation
at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 2nd Floor Hall. Nov,1-30
“FACES OF THE FALLEN” A Memorial Exhibit at the Arlington
Cemetery, Washington, D.C., March, 2005 -June, 2007
“THE ART OF MEXICO” – The Roshan Cultural Heritage Series, Kreeger
Gallery at St. Andrews, Potomac Maryland January 10 – February 5
2004:
(*) “ARTIST MARA ODETTE FROM NEXICO” – Oils and Acrylics, Resgal-
Frascati, Bethesda, Maryland
(*) ‘PAINTINGS BY MARA ODETTE”- NBC Gallery, Washington, D.C.
(*) “STILL LIFE AND LANDSCAPES”- The Yellow Barn Gallery,
Glen Echo, Md.
(*) “PORTRAITS” - Barnes & Noble, Seven Corners, Virginia
(*) “LIFESCAPES: Figurative Paintings” – Maryland College of Art and Design
2003:
(*)“THE DANCE OF THE GENES” - CONELCUTA 2003 – Traveling Exhibit
(*) Centro Cultural Jaime Sabines, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico
(*) Museo de Culturas Populares, San Cristobal Las Casas, Chiapas
(*) Museo de Arte Hermila Dominguez, Comitan, Chiapas
(*) Teatro de la Ciudad, Tapachula, Chiapas
The Warehouse Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2002:
(*) The Yellow Barn Gallery, Glen Echo, Maryland, “IMPRESIONISMOS”
Summit Hall Farm, Bohrer Park, Gaithersburg, MD, “ART IN A
CHANGED WORLD”
MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C.
Gallery Courtyard, Washington Studio School, Georgetown,
Washington, D.C.
Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People’s
Republic of China
Russian Cultural Institute, Washington, DC
2001:
IASG at MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgetown,
Washington, DC
The Yellow Barn Gallery, Glen Echo, Maryland “Sixth Juried
Annual Exhibition”
(*)The Yellow Barn Gallery, Glen Echo, Md. “LIFESCAPES”
2000:
Centro del Arte, Washington, DC, Primera Exhibición Latina Anual de Artes
Visuales
Marlboro Gallery, P G Community College, “REFLEXIONS IN
HUMANITY”
Gallery 505, Washington, DC, “Bridging Two Millenia”
Montgomery County Arts Association, MD., Juried Member Exhibition,
City Hall Courtyard Gallery, Baltimore, MD., “Spring Around The World”
The Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC., “Let’s Hang All The Lawyers”
IASG at MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgetown,
Washington, DC
The Yellow Barn Gallery, Glen Echo, Maryland “Sixth Juried Annual
Exhibition”
(*)The Yellow Barn Gallery, Glen Echo, Md. “LIFESCAPES”
Memorial Martin Luther King Library, Washington, DC, “Images of the
21st Century”
National Academy of Art (The Latit Kala Akademi), New Delhi, India
1999:
Martin Luther King Memorial Library, Washington, DC.,
“Iberoamerica Says Farewell to the 20th Century”
(*)The Yellow Barn Gallery, Glen Echo, MD., “Selected Moments”
(*) The Calumet, Buffalo, New York, “Hispanic Heritage Month”
7th Street International III”, Washington, DC, “Fine Art Exhibition”
(*)Isis On First Gallery, Seattle, Washington, “Twists and Tangos”
International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC., “Gala Exhibition”
1998:
US Department of Transportation, Washington, DC
Montgomery County Art Association, Juried Exhibition, Glenview Mansion
The Executive Building, Rockville, MD
Montgomery County Arts Association, Potomac, Md., Juried Exhibition
Montgomery County, Maryland, “National Hispanic Heritage Month”
1997:
(*) National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
(*) Martin Luther King Library, Washington, DC., “Windows of Color”
(*) Congress of the Union, Ciudad de Mexico, “Mara Odette – Pintora
Chiapaneca”
Artist Museum, Washington, DC., “Voices, Voices, Voices”
1996:
The Executive Building, Rockville, Maryland, “Expresiones Artísticas”
Martin Luther King Library, Washington, DC., “Four Women”
1995:
NASA, Washington, DC
Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States,
Washington, DC., “Velada Artística de Gala”
MURALS
Oil on Linen 7X18 Feet – 126 Square Feet
2003 “THE DANCE OF THE GENES”
Oil on Canvas 6X54 Feet 324 Square Feet
2000 “WORLD PEACE” 40 Square Feet
Wisconsin Amoco, Bethesda, Md.
1999 “FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND” 80 Square Feet
Rockville Metro Club, Rockville Md.
1998 “LAND OF FLOWERS” 96 Square Feet
Family Guerrero Mullen, Bethesda, Md.
1998 “SUNSET” 26 Square Feet
Family Greenspan, Kensington, Md.
1998 “EL SALVADOR” 940 Square Feet
Restaurant, Baltimore, Md.
“OWL SCOOL” 98 Square Feet
Four Panels on wood
6045 –16th St. NW. Washington, D.C.
1998 “HAPPY TOWN” 60 Square Feet
Dr. Gonzalez Pediatric Clinic
Silver Spring, Md.
1998 “MUTLAK” 400 Square Feet
Tlaltenango, Cuernavaca, México
1997 “NOA NOA” 700 Square Feet
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