Following her lifelong passion for art, Marlys Mallet began her professional career as a teenager, creating murals for the Seattle Fifth Avenue Building and the Burien General Hospital in the state of Washington. After High School graduation, and some fun in Hawaii, she studied commercial art during the day and continued to develop her painting skills at night school.
Moving to New Orleans in the late 60's Mallet enrolled in the McCrady Art School where she learned the painting techniques of the Masters. Here she painted the revelry of Mardi Gras and the special charms of the Vieux Carre and the bayous. Moving up north to MIT, by Boston, now the proud mother of two little boys, Marlys painted fantasy worlds for her children, as well as the Charles River and the Boston skyline in all their many moods.
Three years later she was back in California, her birthplace, where she found an exhilarating climate for pure abstract expression. Her paintings became her diary, recording her mountain climbing and scuba diving adventures and her travels to Nepal, the South Pacific, the Orient, Europe and Mexico. The focus of Mallet's work was to create a personal vision, not to duplicate what she had seen, but to express the magical power of the place and her experience.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007 Sept SOLO Artist at Las Vegas Art Expo2007 April Mallet & Redhawk Feature Show at Goldenstein Gallery, Sedona
2006 Goldenstein Gallery, Sedona AZ, Layers of the Feminine Exhibit
2006 Enchanted Gallery, Del Mar CA Featured Show
2006 Feature Show in New Buffalo MI
2005 Oct. Featured artist in Sedona Arts Festival Invitational
2005 Aug. Featured Show at Sedona Arts Center with Redhawk
2005 May Sedona Art & Sculpture Walk
2004-5 Solo Exhibition at Westwood Place, Los Angeles CA
2004 Featured artist in Sedona Art & Architecture Tour
2004 Solo Exhibition at Enchanted Gallery, Del Mar CA
2003 Vanier Galleries, Scottsdale and Tucson AZ
2002 Featured Artist, Sedona Arts Festival Invitational, Sedona AZ
2000,01,02 Solo Exhibition, Lanning Gallery, Sedona AZ
1998 West Valley MUSEUM, Nepal Exhibit, Sun City AZ
1997 Sedona Artist Invitational, G. Ghent, Butterfield & Butterfield, Juror
1995 Casa Grande MUSEUM, Casa Grande NM "Award"
1993 N. AZ Juried Ex, NAU Art MUSEUM, Flagstaff AZ
1991 Galerie Jean Lammelin, Paris France
1991 Centre for International Design, Paramus NJ
1987 Artquest, Los Angeles CA
1985 Mt.San Jacinto Juried Internat. Painting Ex, San Jacinto CA "Award"
1985 Bay Arts '85, Indoor Juried Fine Arts, Belmont CA
1985 Peninsula Ballet Theater, San Mateo CA
1984 Cullinet Corporation, San Bruno CA
1984 Stanford University Faculty Club, Stanford CA
1984 Crown Zellerbach, San Francisco CA
1983 Monterey Peninsula MUSEUM of Art, Monterey CA
1983 San Francisco Women Artists National Ex, San Francisco CA
1982 First Annual SF Competitive Ex, San Francisco CA "Best of Show"
1980 Large Format Painting Exhibition, AIA, San Francisco CA
COMMISSIONS
& COLLECTIONS
Oil painting, 6'x 9', Creative Life Center, Sedona AZ
Mural, Four 7'x 9' panels, Sedona Arts Center, Sedona AZ
Scottsdale Insurance Company, three paintings, Scottsdale AZ
Paintings "For Our Children" World Premiere, Pen.Ballet Theater,
San Mateo CA
Two Double Helix paintings, presented to Founders, Prof. Herbert Boyer
& Prof. Stanley Cohen, Sponsored by the Office of Technology Licensing,
Stanford
Del Webb Corporation, Phoenix AZ
JMB Realty Corp., Chicago IL
Prudential-Bache Securities, Inc., Scottsdale AZ
Hewlett-Packard, Sunnyvale CA
West Coast Life Ins. Co., San Francisco CA
Oracle Corporation, Menlo Park CA
Catalytica Associates, Inc., Santa Clara CA
Riggers & Erectors International, Inc., West Palm Beach FL
MIT, Mechanical Engineering Dept., Cambridge MA
TJL Productions, Inc, Studio City CA
EDUCATION
Burnley
School of Professional Art, Seattle WA 1960-62
Cornish School of Allied Arts, Seattle WA 1960-62
John McCrady Art School, New Orleans LA 1962-64
Pacific Art League, Palo Alto CA 1970-74
Stanford
University, Art Dept. audits, Stanford CA 1970-74
