“My paintings begin with layers of texture and color, applied in an intuitive manner. As the layers build, and the design begins to take shape, I start to make more deliberate choices, based on how I might bring abstraction and realism together, to create a new world… one that suggests the familiar, but leaves the door open for deeper investigation.”

-Mary GrandPre’

Awards

ABBA American Booksellers Book of the Year 1999 / Harry Potter Series

Kirkus Notable Books

Young Hoosier Book Award Nomination

Caldecott Honor Award, 2015 / The Noisy Paint Box, The Sound and Color of Vasily Kandinsky

Society of Illustrators

The Original Art Show

Communications Arts / Annual publication

Graphis International / Annual publication

Print / Annual Publication

Graphic Design / USA DESI Awards

Exhibitions

Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Mpls MN  October, 2004 Solo exhibitions , (cont)

ArtOrg / Northfield, Mn  2005

Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA.. 2008

“Women In Illustration / Contemporary Visions and Voices” Norman Rockwell Museum

Stockbridge, Mass 2004

Closson’s Gallery / Cincinnati, OH, 2004

Clients

Nordstrom

Target

Ogilvy & Mather

BBD&O

Atlantic Monthly

TIME Magazine

Business Weekly

Random House Publishing

Scholastic Publishing

Disney Publishing

Warner Brothers

Harper Collins

Little Brown Publishing

Hyperion Books

Dreamworks

Blue Sky Studios

 

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