Mary Lou Grace Robison

Mary Lou Grace’s painting reveals the churning, vibrating and dynamic reality that lies just under the stillness and solidity of everyday objects. Apropos of that ‘surface below the surface,’ her work often looks like underpainting, where only small moments break through the ephemeral barrier into the real world- sparks igniting and dying as small bits of “reality” coming up from the ghost world beneath and pulling the viewer deeper back through the veil and into the gentle sway of universal motion.

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Mary Lou Grace earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of San Francisco in 2023 and her Masters in Fine Arts from San Francisco State University in 2026. Grace was honored at Carnegie Hall for her gold key portfolio by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards in 2019, was one of the recipients of the 2025 Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards at SOMArts in San Francisco and received the Sher-Right Scholarship Award from San Francisco State University School in 2026. She has been featured by various publications such as The Dementia Springs Foundation for her work exploring Alzheimer’s disease, as well as The Furrow Magazine, The Ignatian Literary Magazine, AJCU Newsletter, and Being Patient. Her work has been exhibited in galleries such as The Bedford Gallery, Bass and Reiner, Gllry Garage, MRKT Gallery, 12071 Gallery in Berkeley California and Roha Gallery in London. Upcoming she will be featured in Beyond the Garden, curated by Jaelynn Walls at Grand Coffee Too in San Francisco.