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Mary Ann StrandellÕs paintings and installations feature iconic references to landscapes, architecture, popular culture, interior design, and the natural world. Her work combines utopic concepts from the California Moderne with Asian-inspired Chinoiserie and three-dimensional ÔlenticularÕ works, which are often large scale and site-specific. Strandell blends a rigorous studio practice with digital technology and new media. Her work is a form of Neo-Pop Baroque, at once contemporary, moody, familiar, ornate, and loaded with history.