Mary Yess

Mary Yess received her MFA in painting from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (NY), where she studied with George McNeil. Yess served on the boards of the Trenton City Museum, the Trenton Arts Commission, and the Mercer County Cultural & Heritage Commission. Over the course of her career, Yess has participated in numerous exhibits. She is a former member of Muse Gallery in Philadelphia, and her work is included in private and public collections. One of her mixed media paintings was purchased by the Trenton City Museum for its permanent collection.

Yess has curated a number of shows throughout NJ, served as a juror for many shows, and was a member of several NJ State Council on the Arts review and public art selection panels. While Executive Director of Artworks, Yess curated or co-curated over a dozen shows of artists from the tri-state area.

For over 40 years, I have been drawing and painting old industrial buildings from all over the U.S., but mostly along the NJ Route 1 corridor. I think that these buildings are not only monuments to the creativity and ingenuity of the early industrial period in U.S. history; but that each one of them is aesthetically valuable, a true American Versailles. For the “Oxford Codex” series, I incorpora...

MFA, Pratt Institute (New York, NY)
BA, Millersville University (Millersville, PA)

Selected Exhibitions
• Mercer County Artists, juried exhibition, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ, summer 2026
• ArtVenture 8th Annual Juried Art Show, Flemington, NJ, May 2026
• Visualize the Score: When Art & Music Converge, Barron Arts Center, Woodbridge, NJ, May-June 2026
• Trenton Makes Jazz: Art Inspired by Jazz, invitational exhibition, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ, February-March 2026
• Generation: Mel, invitational exhibition, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ, January-February 2026
• Along the Delaware River & Crosswicks Creek, invitational exhibition, D&R Greenway Land Trust, Princeton, NJ, February-June-September 2024
• Mercer County Artists, juried exhibition, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ, summer 2024
• Music to My Eyes, invitational exhibition, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ, February-April 2024
• TAWA at 45, invitational exhibition, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ, October-December 2023
• Mercer County Artists, juried exhibition, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ, summer 2022
• Fragile, juried exhibition, Hamilton Street Gallery, Bound Brook, NJ, April-June 2022
• Women Artists, Trenton Style, invitational, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ, Janua...