About the Artist
A horse walks into a bar.
The bartender asks, “What’s wrong, fella?”
The horse frowns and replies “I’ve never been painted by Mary Cour Burrows.”
“Mary Cour Burrows?”
“Yeah,” the horse says. “She paints the most wonderful art, mostly with horses in it.”
“You don’t say.”
“Her public work can be seen at ‘My Big Back Yard’ the children’s garden at the Memphis Botanic Garden, The new Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Lamplighter Montessouri School, The Assis School in Costa Rica, Eastern Sun Yoga Studio, and many other churches, private homes and care facilities.”
“So that explains it,” smiles the bartender.
“What” asks the horse.
“Why you have such a long face.”
RESUME
MARY COUR
901.289.0709 • marycour.com
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
June 2011″Fresh Horses” David Perry Nicole Gallery Memphis TN
April 2011″Art in the Garden” Collerville TN
Febuary 2010 “Golden Ocala Equine Art Gala” Ocala FL
January 2010 Perry Nichole 10th Anniversary Show
June 2009 “Caballo Silueta””
Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis TN
“The Little Dog Laughed”
Circuit Playhouse, Memphis TN
Jan 2009 “ARTifacts”
Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis TN
Nov 2008 “Ability”
Brian Mawer Hospital, Malvern PA
Jul 2008 “Lost – The Art of the Found Object”
Gallery RFD, Atlanta GA
Feb 2008 “Another Story”
The River Gallery, Chattanooga TN
Jan 2008 “1×41”
Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis TN
Jan 2007 “Fun and Games”
Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis TN
Oct 2006 “Lost Dog”
Otherlands, Memphis TN
Oct 2005 “Go Figure”
Artists on Central, Memphis TN
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
June 2009 Memphis Flyer “Space,light,line”
Mar 2009 Art and Horse Magazine,
“Equos Artes”
Received Painting Publication Award
Jan 2009 Memphis Flyer, “Go Deep”
Commercial Appeal, “ARTifacts”
May 2007 Memphis Magazine,
“What’s Haute”
Jan 2007 Commercial Appeal,
“Fun and Games”
June 1997 Commercial Appeal, “Rebel Plots”
TELEVISION
Nov 2008 Crosstalk produced by GHS TV,
“Local Artists” with guests Greg Cravens
and Greely Myatt”
COMMISSIONED PUBLIC/PRIVATE WORKS
June 2011 12’ installation Lebonheur Chidlren’s Hospital
June 2010- 55’ mixed media installation
Lebonheur Children’s Hospital
2009 Murals
Applegrove Care Facility
“Pixie Sticks” installation
Goldsmith Botanic Garden
“Crow-be-gonners” installation
Goldsmith Botanic Garden
2009 & 2007 Mural
Lamplighter Montessori School
2006 – 2009 Juried Fine Art Show
St. George’s Independent School
2006 Multiple murals
Proyecto Assi School in Costa Rica
Ceiling mural
Eastern Sun Yoga Studio
St. Francis retablo
explorefaith.org
2002 – 2004 Multiple murals
Wildlife Manor Hounds
2001 & 2006 Educational van wrap
Goldsmith Botanic Gardens
1995 Educational greenhouse
installation piece
Memphis Botanic Gardens
1993 Installation piece
Friends of the Pink Palace
Interactive installation
Lichterman Nature Center
1992 “Environmental Playhouse” installation
Tennessee Environmental Commission
EDUCATION
BFA University of Memphis, Sculpture/ceramics, 1986
Graduate studies in Photography
Workshops from Memphis College of Art
and Appalachian School of Craft