Anna Krachey @ Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

ANNA KRACHEY
Galaxy, 2007, digital archival print, ed. of 10, 31 x 40 inches

PERSPECTIVES 168

Artists' gallery talk: Thursday, November 5, 6:30pm
Opening reception: Thursday, November 5, 7-9pm
On view: November 06, 2009 – February 07, 2010

Austin-based photographers Anna Krachey, Jessica Mallios, and Adam Schreiber are fascinated by the transformations that occur when the visible world passes through the camera’s lens. Capturing an image on film, they believe, is always an uncanny process because the photograph inevitably differs from what the artist perceived at the moment of its making. Using highly manipulable, large-format box cameras and a wide range of architectural, technological, and household subjects, they create images that acknowledge the mysterious slippages, distortions, and blendings of real and unreal inherent in photography. The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is pleased to present Perspectives 168: Anna Krachey, Jessica Mallios, and Adam Schreiber, the first museum exhibition for these artists.

Krachey, Mallios, and Schreiber—friends and colleagues who work independently but share interests and approaches—are aware that, because of the instantaneous nature of exposures and the architecture of cameras with origins in Renaissance camera obscuras, all photographs distort appearances as they record light reflected from three-dimensional objects on a flat surface. By employing unusual framing, extreme close-ups, and idiosyncratic points of view, the artists seek to remind us of the artificial, enigmatic nature of photographic images. Likening their images to mirages, Krachey, Mallios, and Schreiber make photographs that evoke heightened or estranged versions of the visible world. Anna Krachey concentrates on her domestic sphere, making images of oddball objects she purchases on eBay or finds in ignored corners of her house and neighborhood. Creating a homespun Surrealism, Krachey’s work is filled with arresting juxtapositions of places and things that suggest a personal hall of mirrors in which questions about intentionality and accident, play and seriousness, abound.

PERSPECTIVES TALKS

Thursday, January 7, 6:30pm - Toby Kamps, exhibition curator and senior curator, CAMH
Thursday, January 28, 6:30pm - Kurt Mueller, critical studies fellow, The Core Program, Glassell School of Art, MFAH

CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM HOUSTON
5216 Montrose Blvd.
Houston, TX 77006
713.284.8250
www.camh.org

ANNA KRACHEY
Ear, 2007, digital archival print, ed. of 10, 31 x 40 inches

View additional images of Anna Krachey's work here, see them in person @ Marty Walker Gallery, and for more information, please contact gallery.

Thomas Feulmer @ UT Dallas, group exhibit

THOMAS FEULMER
Online Personal Ad (HUMOR AND...), 2008
spray paint on tracing paper, 17 x 20 inches

body text = "gender" -a group exhibition at The University of Texas Visual Arts Building, curated by Marilyn Waligore, includes work by artists Thomas Feulmer, Bryan Florentin, Morgan Ford, Simeen Ishaque and Christi Nielsen. Exhibition runs through November 28, 2009 (gallery hours: M-F 9am-10pm, Sat 9am-6pm).

These artists explore the representation of the body, as well as cultural attitudes toward the body, gender and sexuality: they are engaged in critical reflection, often referencing the body through its absence; they mine codes and conventions, like unspoken social rules, that inform relationships between gender and language in contemporary culture; and they address the influences of mediated imagery and consumerism.

Click here to see additional images of work by Thomas Feulmer, and please contact Marty Walker Gallery for further information.

The University of Texas at Dallas
access the Visual Arts Building via Synergy Park Blvs & Rutford Ave.
ah.utdallas.edu - 972.UTD.ARTS

WILLIAM LAMSON, TALK @ FORT WORTH MODERN

Tuesday Evenings @ the Modern: WILLIAM LAMSON
-Tuesday, October 20, 7pm @ Fort Worth Modern Art Museum-

William Lamson is a Brooklyn-based artist recognized for an inventive body of work that, as described on National Public Radio, uses “inexpensive materials and simple structures” to create “visuals that are mesmerizing and, in a word, playful.” Addressing issues of masculinity, amateurism, science, play, and the quixotic quest for personal heroism, Lamson speaks to the spirit of ingenuity in sculptures, photographs, and performances that broaden horizons and entertain the imagination. For Tuesday Evenings, Lamson presents what he describes as his “arduous endeavors that offer the perpetual hope of transcendence, however flawed the undertaking may be.”

Tuesday Evenings at the Modern begin at 7 pm in the auditorium. The series brings artists, scholars, and critics to discuss their work each week at the Modern. Admission is free and open to the public. Free admission tickets can be picked up at the Modern’s admission desk beginning at 5 pm on the day of the lecture. Seating begins at 6:30 pm and is limited to the first 250 ticketholders. A live broadcast of the lecture will be shown in Café Modern for any additional guests. During the series the Museum galleries and Café Modern remain open until 7.

William Lamson's solo exhibition 'Automatic' at Marty Walker Gallery opens Saturday, October 17, 6-8pm.






(pictured, WILLIAM LAMSON's, Sea Drawing, and Sea Drawing Apparatus, 2009 - photograph, drawing, video still)

FRANCES BAGLEY & TOM ORR - 'PERFORMANCE/ART' @ DMA

costume and set design by

FRANCES BAGLEY & TOM ORR
Verdi's Nabucco @ The Dallas Opera, 2006
photo by Nan Coulter

DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART
October 8, 2009–March 21, 2010
Barrel Vault and Hanley, Lamont, Rachofsky, and Stoffel Galleries

In celebration of the opening of Dallas’s new AT&T Performing Arts Center, the Dallas Museum of Art is proud to present the work of six international and American artists who have used the forms and ideas surrounding theater, opera and performances starting points for an exciting array of paintings, sculpture, films, and installations.

Drawn from Dallas Museum of Art and important private collections , this extensive presentation will include British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare’s film Un ballo in maschera(A Masked Ball), based on Giuseppe Verdi’s opera of the same name that is a brilliant reimagining of dance, costume, and narrative; Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s quietly intense and atmospheric evocation of an ill-at-ease mind, the three-screen film work Talo/The House; a new installation work by Dallas-based artists Frances Bagley and Tom Orr based on the spectacular sets and costumes they designed for a 2006 Dallas Opera production of Verdi’s Nabucco; and a selection of Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca’s powerful paintings and drawings based on album covers and seating charts of major theaters and opera houses; and David Altmejd’s spectacular sculpture, The Eye, that he created in conjunction with a recent Metropolitan Opera production of John Adams’ Doctor Atomic.

costume and set design by
FRANCES BAGLEY & TOM ORR
Verdi's Nabucco @ The Dallas Opera, 2006
photo from article in Dallas Morning News

REALITY SHOW @ TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY

JILL PANGALO
from video - Note to Self

The exhibit "Reality Show," now at Texas Woman's University, explores the "reality" presented by television's favorite format. The artists are Jill Pangallo, Cecelia Phillips, Anna Krachey, Jaime Wentz and Laura Turner.

The artists' work uses the ubiquitous reality television format as material, though the show's brochure explains that reality television "is far from their main concern."

To build their vision, the show's five artists did extensive research, watching years of reality television.

Jill Pangalo's video can be seen at this year's '2x2 for aids and art' event. Click here for more info and to see the superb catalogue of artists. For more information, images, and available work by Anna Krachey and Jill Pangalo, please contact Marty Walker Gallery.

ANNA KRACHEY
Cupcake on the Sea - digital archival print, 31 x 40 inches

*above excerpt from The Daily Texan article "Exhibit explores reality TV phenomenon through art," review of Reality Show's first iteration at Women and their Work, Austin, TX. (click here to read the full article)

LAST CHANCE! SARAH WILLIAMS EXHIBIT CLOSES!

SARAH WILLIAMS
Marina, 2009
oil on panel, 24 x 24 inches

"Sarah Williams is a recent University of North Texas grad and is displaying remarkable talent and painting maturity right out of grad school. " - Joshua Goode, Renegade Bus

Last chance to view! Sarah William's solo exhibit at Marty Walker Gallery closes this Saturday, October 10th. Meanwhile, see the online gallery of the exhibit to whet your appetite:

http://www.martywalkergallery.com/archive/092009SW.htm