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