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ALLISON HUNTER IN PRAGUE 3D VIDEO FESTIVAL

2011-12-08T18:43:00.000-08:00

Video still from Honey Bee, 2011, 3D stereoscopic video with sound, 7min 30sec

In the first annual S-3D video festival, "Parallax: Stereoscopic Video Festival," of Prague, Czech Republic, Allison Hunter's Honey Bee is featured among the selected international and amateur shorts. Using technology once dominated by Hollywood, the festival is set to celebrate independent 3D filmmakers and challenges stereoscopic technology as an art form.

Resulting from her residency at the Texas Learning and Computation Center (TLC2), on the campus of University of Houston, Honey Bee is a layered video, audio, and computer graphics, all generated with 3D software and video camera, to create the sensation of standing among a swarm of bees. Honey Bee presents a playful fantasy of cyber bees with military weapons, while also contemplating impacts of government interventions in food as well as ecological disruptions caused by cell phone technology.

Hunter states:

"When considering the bee, an air-borne insect, as a subject for video, I thought it would be interesting to use 3D to give the viewer a sense of sharing the same space with bees, rather than having the insects recessed behind a framed picture plane. ... I intercut the narrator extolling the virtues of agricultural aviation with the sound of a swarm of bees."

60-second preview of Honey Bee by Allison Hunter

Also featured in Houston Arts Alliance current exhibition Hanging by a Thread, Houston's Culture Map "Weekly Picks," Nancy Wozny states,

"Trust me, there's some gorgeous animation as well as witty vintage narration. Bees in Hunter's hand are simply amazing."

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Parallax Stereoscopic Video Art Festival

Lucerna Cinema, Prague, Czech Republic

December 8, 2011

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MODERN PAINTERS HEARTS BRET SLATER

2011-12-06T13:03:00.000-08:00

New gallery artist Bret Slater has been included in TWO of the last three Modern Painters magazine issues Not only did his show at Thomas Robertello snag one of the Top 100 Best Fall Shows in the September 2011 issue, he held a featured spot in the Top 100 Artists To Watch in the December 2011/January 2012 issue.

Slater, who recently received a MFA at Southern Methodist University, works in a diverse range of pragmatic materials, including cardboard, dry wall, staples, screws, nails, and tape. Whether painting within the aesthetic parameters of manufactured items, reinforcing tape installations with industrial fasteners, or floating rugged cuts of drywall in front of its plastered-over brethren, Slater’s work is a first responder to the language of functionality.

Slater will be showing at Marty Walker Gallery Spring 2012. His work has created a buzz in contemporary art circles and has been described as "working within a language of Minimalism and with an emphasis on the tactile, he creates small works with an almost edible mass". Slater speaks of his inspiration:

I became really interested in this symmetrical rivet that happens in things like cereal boxes or in automobiles: It's a shape that dips down and comes back up. I liked the idea of borrowing composition, borrowing color from places where that color or form exists for a reason and through the reals of visual art being able to look at it formally, without having to worry about what it's function is.

The artist reflecting on the minimalism in his work,

Like us, each painting grows into its individuality. My work is simple but nuanced, sophisticated as well as clumsy.

ABOVE, TOP, LEFT TO RIGHT: Chunkenstein, 2011, acrylic on canvas 9 3/4 x 7 x 1 3/4 inches; Warp Rider, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 9 3/4 x 7 x 1 3/4 inches; Sleeping Giant, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 9 3/4 x 7 x 1 3/4 inches. (contact@martywalkergallery.com for pricing)

Sources: Modern Painters, Free Museum of Dallas

NEW DOCUMENTARY FEATURING WAYNE WHITE

2011-11-04T12:02:00.000-07:00

White on stage in his act, "You're Supposed to Act All Impressed" at Largo in West Hollywood

Just released - "Beauty is Embarrassing," a feature-length documentary on the life and work of artist Wayne White. Presenting a goofy, imaginative, inspiring look at the ups and downs of the career of an artist from Tennessee living in Hollywood, the film features White's puppetry, installations, paintings, and other quirks, from Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986 - 1991) to the 22-foot, motorized George Jones puppet head for Rice Gallery in 2009 to his most recent hilarious, one-man show titled "You're Supposed to Act All Impressed."

With a line up of interviews with designer Todd Oldham, actor Paul Reubens, co-creator of Pee Wee's Playhouse Gary Panter, The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, Los Angeles art critic David Pagel, and co-directors of Little Miss Sunshine Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the film attempts to recreate "a fantasyland called Wayne's mind" and explore the imagination of a man who continues to create iconic images.

White discusses construction of George Jones puppet head for "Big Lectric Fan to Keep Me Cool While I Sleep" at Rice Gallery, Houston

More information:
beautyisembarrassing.com

Additional videos: http://beautyisembarrassing.com/video/

Stay posted for updates. Contact Marty Walker Gallery for inquiries.

DION JOHNSON, ART FORUM CRITIC'S PICK

2011-11-04T10:41:00.000-07:00

Aero, 2011, acrylic and Flashe on canvas, 72 x 48 inches

Dion Johnson's exhibition of colorful paintings has caught the attention of art critics, and currently featured as a "Critic's Pick" for Artforum magazine online.

Read full reviews available by following the links below:

"Johnson's paintings have a hybrid genealogy that invites novel connections." ~Benjamin Lima, Artforum

"We can recognize a sophisticated abstract work through a combination of colors and his use of repetition without exactly repeating the shapes... Johnson's muses on past hard edge color field artists like Karl Benjamin and John McLaughlin, but with refreshingly less jazz or pure minimal quality." ~Todd Camplin, Modern Dallas

"Critic's Pick" by Benjamin Lima, Artforum

"Dion Johnson," by Todd Camplin, Modern Dallas

KEMPER MUSEUM FEATURES BARRY ANDERSON

2011-09-23T08:54:00.000-07:00

Video artist Barry Anderson exhibits two video installations in The Big Reveal at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, on view September 23, 2011 - April 15, 2012. The exhibition highlights new acquisitions to the museum's permanent collection.

Janus (2), 2011, two-channel HD video animation (no audio) from Barry Anderson on Vimeo.

Barry Anderson's enigmatic and captivating video installations are constructed worlds of rumination that deftly but subtley counter the cult of speed that frequently plagues our society. Experiencing his works, we must slow down, engage, and, ultimately, reflect upon that which is overlooked -- a process of discovery that is all too often absent or underemphasized in much of contemporary art today. --Elizabeth Dunbar, Curator, Arthouse Texas

installation view of Janus 2 at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

installation view of Pigeon at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

4420 Warwick Blvd.

Kansas City, Missouri 64111

Tel 816-753-5784

Open Tues.–Thurs. 10–4, Fri.–Sat.10–9, Sun. 11–5

Free admission and parking

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ROLAND FISCHER @ Von Lintel Gallery

2011-09-10T11:00:00.000-07:00

Facades on Paper III: Metropolitan Plaza, 2007, screenprint, part of suite of 8 prints, 35 x 25, edition of 100

German artist Roland Fischer opens exhibition of new works, titled Roland Fischer: New Facades at Von Lintel Gallery, New York, featuring Fischer's newest large-scale photographs of modern building facades.

Lyle Rexer writes of Roland's print in his book The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography:

. . . He carefully frames details of highly schematic building facades in such a way that they are read as patterned two-dimensional surfaces with only telltale hints of their physical origin. This schematizing emphasizes the relentlessly geometric, repetitive and regular character of the social and political worlds these buildings embody.

New prints show bold color and dynamic lines that seem to deny the strict structure of such facades, leaving one lost in pattern and separated from the physics of such existence.

Exhibition runs September 6 - October 8, 2011

Von Lintel Gallery
520 W 23rd Street
Ground Floor
New York, NY 10011
www.vonlintel.com
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KATHY WEBSTER @ Brand10 Art Space

2011-09-10T09:07:00.000-07:00

Earbuds, 2005, fiberglass and auto paint, 27 x 21 x 11 inches

Sculptor Kathy Webster opens an exhibition of new work in Selfless. Selfish. Selfiness, a group exhibition including artists Annie Arnold, Carol Benson, Shelby Cunningham, Val Hunnicutt, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Kerry Pacillo, Terri Thornton, Kathy Webster and Tiffany Wolf at Brand10 Art Space, Fort Worth, Texas.

Webster, in addition to exhibiting new work, partnered with Christine Bisetto, Matthew Clark, and Heagan Bayles earlier this year to launch Brand10 Art Space, a non-profit venue for contemporary art work to fill a missing niche in Fort Worth. Read about the group's vision for the new space in this Fort Worth Star-Telegram article.

Exhibition runs September 9 - October 15, 2011

Brand10 Art Space
3418 W 7th Street
Fort Worth, TX 76107
www.brand10artspace.com
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JEFF ZILM @ TCU

2011-09-10T08:27:00.000-07:00

Arrowheads #1, 2010, iron-on transfer on pre-printed canvas, 22 1/4 x 18 inches

Jeff Zilm and Kevin Todora pair up for an exciting new exhibition, Gaffes and Informations at the Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, part of The Art Galleries at Texas Christian University.

Exhibition runs September 17 - October 30, 2011.
Opening reception for the artists: Saturday, September 17, 6 - 8 pm.

Fort Worth Contemporary Arts
2900 West Berry Street (at Greene Street)
Fort Worth, Texas 76109
HOURS: Thursday - Sunday: 1pm to 6pm
Admission: Free
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In case you missed Zilm's last exhibition - read reviews about his recent work here:

ArtLies, by Michael Odom, January 2011
RegularMain, by June Mattingly, January 2011
Visual Art Source, by Charissa Terranova, January 2011

ALLISON HUNTER in 3D

2011-08-16T13:38:00.000-07:00

Allison Hunter, Honey Bee, video still, 2011, stereoscopic 3D video, color, sound, approx. 10 minutes

Just announced!

3D screening of Allison Hunter's Honey Bee, an experimental video exploring the Western honey bee that combines both actual and computer-constructed 3D footage, is scheduled for August 23rd at the Texas Learning and Computation Center (TLC2) Visualization Theater, University of Houston.

Hunter's video was produced as part of the 2010-2011 University of Houston and TLC2 Artist in Residence program that selects artists who blend art and science and developed to further interdisciplinary research and education.

Open House and Screening in 3D

August 23, 3:00 - 6:00 pm

University of Houston

TLC2 3D Theatre

Hoffman Hall

2nd Floor, Room 216

Houston, TX (directions)

Free and open to the public

ALLISON HUNTER @ UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS

2011-08-15T12:55:00.000-07:00

Allison Hunter, Untitled #1 (from the Blue Butterfly series), 2011, digital c-print

Photographer and video artist Allison Hunter to present Natural Perceptions: Allison Hunter and Marylin Jolly at the Beatrice M. Haggerty Art Gallery on the campus of University of Dallas, on view September 3 - October 2, 2011. Exhibit will include new work where Hunter isolates various animals with serene backdrops. Each artist shows colorful and subtley sentimental contemplations of natural life in the context of abstracted environments.

Allison Hunter, Untitled #2 (from the Blue Butterfly series), 2011, digital c-print

Allison Hunter, Untitled #7 (from the Blue Butterfly series), 2011, digital c-print

Allison Hunter and Marilyn Jolly

Haggerty Gallery

University of Dallas

Irving, TX

September 3 - October 2, 2011

Opening reception: September 9, 2011, 6:30-8:30 pm

Free and open to the public

JAY SHINN @ LUXPLUS

2011-08-12T10:00:00.000-07:00

Jay Shinn, Scissor Square, 2011, light projection and paint

"Harmony, the appeal of colour and the potential of shaping space, or merely suggesting this, are characteristics common to both Axel Anklam and Jay Shinn's work. Although both artists work very differently in their approach, they complement each other remarkably well in this show. Both depend on light to achieve the desired effect." - Dr. Martin Steffens, kunsthistoriker

Opening August 19 in Berlin, artist Jay Shinn and German artist Axel Anklam present new work in the exhibition Luxplus at kunstraum t27, on view through September 18, 2011.

Poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's last words, "Luxplus," or "more light," describes the metaphysical experience presented by the two artists who, by using light, time, and innovative materials, create a strong sense of ethereal infinity. Jay Shinn continues to juxtapose perception with reality, creating imaginary spaces and textures, seeking to transcend material limitations. Shinn's luminescent objects are reminiscent of holograms and appear to float while also embodying a startling sense of three-dimensionality, while Anklam uses light through translucent materials, questioning the durability and elasticity of the object itself.

Luxplus

Axel Anklam and Jay Shinn

Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin

August 20 - September 18, 2011

Exhibition opening: Friday, August 19, 2011, 7.30 pm

kunstraum t27 / Kunstverein Neukölln e.V.

Thomasstraße 27, 12053 Berlin

Gallery hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 3-7 pm

www.kunstraumt27.de

info@kunstraumt27.de

JAY SHINN @ 48 STUNDEN FESTIVAL

2011-05-30T15:37:00.000-07:00

Artist Jay Shinn and Jens Hanke will exhibit work at Kreativraum during 48 Stunden-Neukölln, Berlin's largest 48-hour cultural festival scheduled for June 17-19, 2011.

Including work from the Takt Kunstprojecktraum artist residency, the exhibition explores perceptual space, challenging a sense of boundary with geometry.

Shinn’s sculptural “op art” does not explicitly distill or represent nature but envisions experiences analogous to it. His recent works thus provide a refuge from the complexities of the world while quietly immersing us in its manifold visual phenomena.
~Kurt Mueller, Houston, Texas

Read more about festival events (link)

Recent reviews and more work:

In case you missed it - an interview with Jay on Art this Week about his recent exhibition at Marty Walker Gallery

Jay Shinn at Alice Gryphius (pdf) (link to online image portfolio)

Geometric Trio: Shape-shifters at Marty Walker, Holly Johnson, and Conduit, Peter Simek, D Magazine

Frontburner review: Kincaid exhibition

2011-05-26T10:51:00.000-07:00

Frontburner's Peter Simek reviews Ted Kincaid's exhibition Every Doubt That Holds You Here. Read review

ANNA KRACHEY - ONE TO WATCH

2011-05-25T15:34:00.000-07:00

Photographer Anna Krachey is capturing the attention of collectors as one of the top art photographers in Texas, recently selected for at the Art Museum of Austin triennial exhibition New Art in Austin, this year featuring 15 Austin artists. Based in Austin, Krachey has been included in exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum - Houston, Houston Center for Photography, Dallas Contemporary, and was chosen as one of 31 Women in Photography exhibition at Humble Arts Foundation, New York.

Krachey's still-life photographs are luridly colored in neon hues, to disquieting - and intriguing - effect.
~Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, austin360.com

Krachey's work and selected artists are featured in an interactive online exhibition. (link)

Read full article (pdf)

Austin Museum of Art
823 Congress Ave
Austin, TX
www.amoa.org

TED KINCAID FEATURED ART EDUCATOR

2011-05-18T10:02:00.000-07:00

Ted Kincaid was featured on NBC 5 DFW for inspiring students in the classroom and keeping Plano schools at the top in art programs, despite worries over budget cuts in education.

View more videos at: http://nbcdfw.com.

Programs under Kincaid's direction have earned recognition from local and national organizations, where student artwork emerges as best in the state.

Click to read article by Andrew Taniellan (online at NBC 5 DFW) (pdf)

**Don't miss - Opening Saturday, May 21 at Marty Walker Gallery, solo exhibition Ted Kincaid Every Doubt That Holds You Here through June 11**

MATTHEW PORTER @ INVISIBLE-EXPORTS

2011-05-14T17:32:00.000-07:00

Matthew Porter launched solo exhibition, The Undefeated, at Invisible-Exports gallery in New York, investigating the Hollywood legacies of Jane Fonda and John Wayne as political actors while juxtaposing political actors as Hollywood icons.

"His work often features historical mash-ups, collapsing disparate events and cultural references within single frames, or spreading them out over a series of tightly edited photographs." Invisible-Exports

Following film narratives, personal stories, and political activism of both actors' careers, Porter critically weaves iconographic photography with environmentalism, sexual revolution, and Hollywood studio representations of political movements.

On view through June 19.

Invisible-Exports
14A Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
212-226-5447
www.invisible-exports.com

WILLIAM LAMSON at IMA UPDATED

2011-05-04T14:31:00.000-07:00

Lamson during performance at the Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion,

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, April 7, 2011

Indianapolis Art Museum celebrates artist William Lamson's Divining Meteorology radio tower installation currently on exhibit in the Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion.

Lamson extensively explored the tower's sound-making possibilities with unconventional audio devices in his studio in Brooklyn, then transported and installed the piece at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, giving a sound performance during his artist talk on April 7.

Lamson using electric guitar pickup to generate sound during performance

The combination of tower engineering, radio waves, and sound-generating devices "make apparent the unseen forces that surround us, as a radio signal (also linked with the weather) is made audible and tactile through the vibrations in the tower," Amanda York of Indianapolis Museum of Art (link to full article).

Radio tower construction, Pierogi Boiler Space, Brooklyn, New York

Links to read more:

Blog @ Indianapolis Museum of Art: William Lamson

Minus Space: reductive art

On view through August 28, 2011

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion

4000 Michigan Road

Indianapolis, IN 46208

Images courtesy of Indianapolis Museum of Art

Video courtesy of ArtBabble.org

SARAH WILLIAMS @ ART MUSEUM of SOUTHEAST TEXAS

2011-05-04T11:12:00.000-07:00

Monroe City, 2010, oil on panel, 30 x 30 inches

Painting saturated, contemplative scenes of small-town and rural Texas, artist Sarah Williams is scheduled to mount a solo exhibition of new work at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, Texas in 2013. Dedicated to exhibiting artistic talent in Tex

as and southeastern states, AMSET boasts a collection of modern & contemporary art and regional folk art, this will be Williams' second solo museum exhibition.

Closer in mood to Edward Hopper than Ed Ruscha, these paintings speak of the North Texas-based Williams' connection to the rural Missouri where she grew up. ... Some of the newest works, inspired by a recent return home marked by unusually clear night skies, depart from strict realism to include constellations, adding a mystical touch to her night scenes." Douglas Brit, 29-95 Art

Star Trails, 2009, oil on panel, 18 x 18 inches

Constellations, 2010, oil on panel, 18 x 18 inches

Williams, a recent graduate of the University of North Texas, was a finalist for the prestigous Hunting Art Prize and has had solo exhibitions at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum in St. Joseph, Missouri, 500x Gallery and Marty Walker Gallery in Dallas, McMurtrey Gallery in Houston, and the Dunklin Street Gallery in Jefferson City, Missouri and included in group exhibitions nationwide.

Recent reviews:

29-95 Art, Douglas Brit, "Sarah Williams' Nocturnal Visions at McMurtrey Gallery," February 2011

Modern Luxury Dallas, Review, "Sarah Williams," December 2009

Renegade Bus, Joshua Goode, excerpt on Sarah Williams 'Night Vision,' September 22, 2009

Keep an eye on this stellar painter! For more information and updates on this artist, contact Marty Walker Gallery.

TOM ORR RECEIVES POLLOCK-KRASNER GRANT

2011-05-03T08:13:00.000-07:00

Tom Orr, Ghost (Ocean), 2010, archival ink print mounted on acrylic, 18 1/2 x 28 in., edition of 3

Just announced! Artist Tom Orr has been selected to receive the distinguished Pollock-Krasner Grant, awarded to support established artist for outstanding artistic merit in the visual arts. Since 1985, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation has awarded 3,476 grants to artists in 72 countries, including artists Polly Apfelbaum, Ted Larsen, and Arturo Herrera.

Established to honor Jackson Pollock's achievements in painting and recognize wife Lee Krasner's significant legacy of support, the grant awards one year of living and production expenses to allow artists to produce and exhibit new bodies of work.

Congratulations Tom!

Contact Marty Walker Gallery to view work and to find out more information. Stay connected for updates.

ALLISON HUNTER in SCULPTURE MAG

2011-03-26T12:49:00.001-07:00

video still from Zoosphere, 2010, video installation

Allison Hunter featured in Sculpture Magazine for her video installation work investigating animal habitats and human relationships with environment. The article states the installation with 8 videos visually, aurally, and spatially challenges the viewer's relationship with not only the animals, but also hierarchy and "regimes of viewing."

Click here to view article. (PDF)

installation view at DiverseWorks, Houston, TX, 2010

WILLIAM LAMSON at IMA

2011-03-23T13:38:00.000-07:00

William Lamson has created an installation at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and will be giving a free artist lecture on April 7, 2011 to discuss his work of interventions between the natural and man-made landscapes. His installation at the museum is a re-configured radio tower, bent-up and built to fit the space so that when receiving radio waves, the sound vibrates throughout the pavilion.

Lecture will be held at the Indianapolis Museum of Art
4000 Michigan Road
Indianapolis, IN 46208

Thursday, April 7 » 5:30-8 pm
The Toby & Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion

click here for more information

LINEAR THINKING: OPENS, SAT. FEB 19, 6-8PM

2011-02-05T15:46:00.000-08:00

A line, simply, takes on a multitude meanings: division, horizon, object, space, movement, shape, frenzied activity, structure, edge, to lead, to follow, a beginning and an end. Marty Walker Gallery presents prints byTed Kincaid, Tom Orr, Jay Shinn, and more - artists who question the physical sense of boundary by using line, drawn or implied, to break the surface plane and extend beyond flat space to activate a palpitating openness. The exhibition vacillates between rigidly structured investigations that recall Sol Lewitt and the free-flowing Duchampian randomness of chance.

Exhibition opening: Saturday, February 19th, 6-8pm.
(pictured: Shinn's Square Cube x4, woodcut, 36 x 36 in.)

JEFF ZILM: A LECTURE ON A MINOR PLATFORM

2011-02-05T15:45:00.000-08:00

Join us in the gallery for a talk by former Chinati Foundation artist-in-residence and University of North Texas alumn, Jeff Zilm. The artist will discuss the possibilities and variations open to painting as it relates to his current solo exhibition.

Jeff Zilm's second solo exhibition at Marty Walker Gallery “A Social Acid (leaked), A Terminal Edit (4), the Saps at Sea and Additional Research (Bernadine Dohrn)” includes 7 new paintings; four film paintings, plus new work from the Password Series and Arrow Heads. Click here to read the reviews at The Huffington Post & Artlies.

A Lecture on a Minor Platform - Saturday, February 12th, 5pm // Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 5pm & by appt. // For additional info please contact gallery // pictured: installation view of Zilm's work

FRANCES BAGLEY with BEASTS AND BUNNIES

2011-01-15T13:43:00.001-08:00

Frances Bagley, Zebra

Beasts and Bunnies at McKinney Avenue Contemporary

Artists Helen Altman, Celia Eberle, Margaret Meehan and Frances Bagley join forces this January in a show called Beasts and Bunnies, which will explore this bevy of female artists’ often macabre considerations of animals. Through work in various media, from Margaret Meehan’s often furry, toothed bizarro humanoids to Frances Bagley’s shrouded, stunted or blind mystery beasts to Helen Altman’s precious tanks of pet-ables to Celia Eberle’s monstrous, mouthy creatures, each artist explores our own animal behavior in off-kilter notions of beasts. With results that are often haunting and repulsive, but always full of wonderment and wit, these artists forcibly push a viewer to reflect on the state of one’s own inner creatures. Grouping the four of these women together as a collective should prove a walk on the wild side, so be warned: one never walks away from work by these artists unbitten. – Lucia Simek

Beasts and Bunnies: An Investigation of Crossed Paths
McKinney Avenue Contemporary
January 8 – February 12

3120 McKinney Ave.
Dallas, TX 75204

TOM ORR in IMPRINTS at 500X

2011-01-15T13:11:00.000-08:00

Tom Orr, Fingerprint, screenprint on wood, 81 x 81 in.

500x Gallery, commemorating 30 years as the oldest artist-run space in Texas, highlights 3 generations of member artists with the current exhibition Imprint, curated by current member Leslie Murell, includes artists Tom Orr, Vance Wingate, and Natalie Macellaio.

Tom Orr, one of 500x's founding members, will include a survey of artwork produced over the past 30 years, including a ready-made installation included in the gallery's first exhibition in 1978. His works will include investigations in abstraction and perception.

The work of Vance Wingate investigates intersections of mathematical reason and human intuition, setting specific rules to construct the images that result in nuanced variations.

Natalie Macelliao uses the cracks found on the gallery floor and imitates them in silver on the walls of the gallery. Mimicking mundane flaws in precious metals brings an immediate awareness of the surrounding space.

Imprints
January 15 - 30, 2011
Opening Reception - January 15, 7pm - 10pm

500x Gallery
500 Exposition Ave.
Dallas, TX 75226

ZINSER'S GIANT MACRODON LANDS!

2010-12-01T13:09:00.000-08:00

Contrary to what you might imagine in an exhibition called "Small Works: Art + Object" -this is the view of the gallery on opening night. The giant strange abstract cartoon character on the roof of Marty Walker Gallery is one of Billy Zinser's "MACRODONS", a blown-up version (pun intended) of the artist's small plastic art toys in the exhibition (also available online: www.macrodons.com). In addition to the small MACRODONS series 3 figures in the exhibition, Zinser transmogrified his thickly painted abstract forms of ambiguous objects into three-dimensional paintings, resulting in a mash-up between his playful plastic figures and free-standing sculptures of paint, reminiscent of his 2-D objects.

Pulp, 2010, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 inches

MACRODONS series 3

www.macrodons.com

Swell, 2010, acrylic and mixed media, 8.5 x 7 x 7 inches

TED KINCAID FRONT ROW in D MAGAZINE

2010-11-13T16:57:00.000-08:00

D Magazine Front Row visits Ted Kincaid's studio to preview recent work:

"Kincaid's site shows images from a few new series of work comprised of digitally fabricated moon-scapes, mountain ranges, sea vistas, and other other-worldly sights that seem to derive their inspiration from early photographic works . . ." ~Peter Simek

Ted Kincaid continues his visual trickery in photography - his new work fabricates painstakingly built images of mountain ranges, ocean fronts, and the moon using no actual photographic material. In one of the new series, "A Hundred Moons," what appear to be representations of the moon's surface are constructed from images of Kincaid's concrete studio floor.

Find out more:

Read entire review here. (permalink)

Preview new work here.

COLLECTION FEATURES GALLERY ARTISTS

2010-11-13T16:34:00.000-08:00

The Art Gallery at the University of North Texas will exhibit Collections, Cultures, and Collaborations: Inspirations from the Neiman Marcus Collection, works selected from the Neiman-Marcus Collection. The collection, holding a total of some 2500 pieces, represents local and international emerging and established contemporary artists from various cultures. Curated by Julie Kronick, Corporate Art Curator of Neiman-Marcus, the selected work will feature Frances Bagley, Brad Ellis, Vincent Falsetta, Jane Helslander, Otis Jones, Ted Kincaid, Joe Mancuso, and Tom Orr. Visit the collection starting January 18 - February 12, 2011.

University of North Texas
College of Visual Art and Design
http://art.unt.edu/gallery

Image: Ted Kincaid, Seascape 1021, 2006, digital photograph, 26 x 48 in.

TOM ORR REVIEWS

2010-11-06T14:52:00.001-07:00

One week left to view - don't miss before exhibition closes November 13!!!

Tom Orr's exhibition Ghost Stories is capturing the imaginations of gallery patrons. Read reviews here:

"It’s the world in and beyond appearances: mirages, the barely there, a once alive that remains to haunt . . ." -Rebecca Carter, D Magazine Front Row

"Few contemporary artists can conjure a sleight of hand as well as Tom Orr. This Dallas-based, internationally exhibited sculptor is also adept at achieving maximum effects with an economy of means." Catherine D. Anspon, PaperCity

Full reviews found here:

A+C Magazine, November 2010
D Magazine - Front Row, 28 October 2010

PaperCity, 27 October 2010
Dallas Observer, October 2010

WILLIAM LAMSON @ BOILER + REVIEWS

2010-11-06T11:48:00.000-07:00

A Line Describing the Sun, installation view

William Lamson goes to the desert with another drawing machine invented and constructed as part of his work during artist residency at the Center for Land Use Interpretation’s in Wendover, Utah. Videos and photographs are currently on display at The Boiler in Peirogi Gallery in New York. On view through November 14.

A Line Describing the Sun, video still, detail view

Recent Reviews:

WAYNE WHITE TALKS

2010-10-28T12:49:00.000-07:00

Wayne White is touring America to lecture on his life as an award-winning artist, titled, "You're Supposed to Act All Impressed." Presented to students of Middle Tennessee State University, Savannah College of Art and Design, and Watkins College thus far, his lecture is scheduled to take the Hollywood stage as a live performance at the Los Angeles Film School on November 9th, 2010. The event is expected to be filled with high energy, laughter, and music featuring images, video clips, and puppets from the artist's life and 30-year career, including his Emmy awarded design for Pee-Wee's Playhouse (recently revived as for Broadway!).

http://www.waynewhiteart.com/waynewhitetalk/

MARK FLOOD IN BERLIN

2010-10-27T13:29:00.000-07:00

Starting in November, artist Mark Flood will exhibit new work, Untitled, at Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany. Known for his confrontational play of words and language of advertising, Flood continues to challenge viewers' comfort levels and humor through installations and found objects, contrasted with his more subtle, and often poetic, lace paintings.

Bored Patrol, 2008, spray paint and cardboard, 43 x 20 in.

Equestrian, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 28 in.

Mark FLOOD
Bitch Moves

Berlin Mitte and Kreuzberg

November 12 - December 18, 2010
OPENING RECEPTION:
Saturday, November 12th, 7 - 10pm
Tues - Sat 11am -6pm and by appointment

UPCOMING EXHIBITION: SMALL WORKS

2010-10-26T13:13:00.000-07:00

Small Works: Art + Object -a small sculpture invitational group exhibition, featuring strange and fantastic small art objects from a selection of 15 stellar artists. The exhibition runs November 20 - December 23, 2010, with an opening reception: Saturday, November 20, 6-8pm.

The artists exhibited will include:
Sterling Allen
Frances Bagley
Richie Budd
Thomas Feulmer
Nathan Green
Elliot Johnson
M
Margaret Meehan
Pard Morrison
Rod Northcutt
Tom Orr
Allison Schulnik
Jay Shinn
Wayne White
Billy Zinser.

This assembly of sculpture debunks the trend that “bigger is better,” and by working within a small format, these artists have created a mess of random creatures and fascinating objects that demonstrate the power of big ideas imagined in scaled-down and accessible forms.

NEW WORK BY ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER

2010-10-10T14:11:00.000-07:00

I Draw Conclusions, 2008, gouache on board, framed, 16 x 19 in.

Opening November 12, 2010 at Dolphin Gallery, Archie Scott Gobber continues his satirical word play, painting with a graphic, billboard display aesthetic and bold visual languange. In his new work, Gobber captures a subtle, nuanced blend of political commentary and commercial advertising, displaying surprisingly colorful and often searing catch-phrases.

@ Dolphin Gallery, November 12, 2010 - January 8, 2011

1600 Liberty Street, Kansas City, MO 64102

For additional information and available work, please contact Marty Walker Gallery.

SARAH WILLIAMS NEWS

2010-10-10T13:40:00.000-07:00

Having returned from an artist residency program at The Vermont Studio Center, Sarah Williams also recently participated as a panelist for "Here. There. & Beyond" an exhibition curated by Joan Davidow as a part of the Legends Fortnight programming at the Dallas Contemporary.

And it doesn't stop there, Sarah's new work will be on view in two upcoming solo exhibitions:

November 19, 2010 - Solo exhibition at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum in St. Jo, Missouri
February 2011 - Solo exhibition McMurtrey Gallery in Houston, Texas

For additional information and available works, please contact Marty Walker Gallery.

TED KINCAID on NBC 5 DFW, TEACHING

2010-08-25T13:42:00.000-07:00

"Teaching Teachers" by Annie Potasznik, NBC5 DFW, 08/24/2010

Artists Ted Kincaid and Michael Tole are bringing knowledge of historical art techniques into the contemporary classroom. And their students are teachers. Tole and Kincaid's progressive, content-specific staff development class is designed to reinvigorate instruction of the visual arts in the secondary classroom.

Ted Kincaid is represented by Marty Walker Gallery, for further information and available works, please contact gallery.

read the article here: http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local-beat/Teachers-Schooled-To-Stay-Current-101407804.html
(download as PDF) & view video of the televised news piece (above) & @ www.nbcdfw.com

PARD MORRISON SOLO EXHIBITION

2010-08-19T10:54:00.000-07:00

COMING SOON! -Marty Walker Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new work by Pard Morrison, opening, Saturday, September 11, 6-8pm, and runs through October 9, 2010 (click here for more info)

SUSTENANCE, site-specific installation

2010-08-18T10:36:00.000-07:00

Site-specific installations by 24 artists -including video + sculpture + performances + sound installations, will occupy a vacant two-story building in West Dallas during the exhibition Sustenance, curated and organized by Stephen Lapthisophon and Anne Lawrence, opening Saturday, September 11, 2010, 11am-10pm.

Participating artists include: Kimberly Aubuchon, Frances Bagley, Jesse Barnett, Iris Bechtol, Shannon Brunskill (with Courtney Brown), Brian Fridge, Justin Ginsberg, Linnea Glatt and Jim Cinquemani, Matt Hanner, Chris Hefner, Kate Helmes, Sedrick Huckaby, Devin King, Darryl Lauster, Lou Mallozzi, Kristin Mariani, Michael Mazurek, Patrick Murphy, Tom Orr, Ludwig Schwarz, Lizzy Wetzel, and Jeff Zilm.

SUSTENANCE / Opening day—Saturday, September 11, 11am-10pm

Open Saturday & Sunday, September 11-October 3, 2010, 11am-7pm

337 Singleton Blvd, Dallas TX 75212 / FREE: Open to the public [MAP]

For the full press release, click here & for further information, and artist updates, visit: sustenanceexhibition.blogspot.com

And also, check out coverage on the exhibition at D Magazine's Front Row to the Arts:

...we don't know yet, but we sure are looking forward to it!

TOM ORR @ BROOKHAVEN COLLEGE, FORUM GALLERY

2010-08-18T10:24:00.000-07:00

Currently on view: Tom Orr's new installation is the subject of the current exhibition at The Brookhaven College Forum Gallery. (image: detail of Orr's installation at The Forum Gallery)

The opening reception is August 29, 6-8pm, and the exhibition will be on view through September 29, 2010.

Brookhaven College: 3939 Valley View Lane, Farmers Branch, Dallas, TX 75244 P:972-860-4101 [MAP]

ORR & KRACHEY on HUFFINGTON POST

2010-08-17T10:18:00.000-07:00

NEO-MINIMALISM @ MARTY WALKER GALLERY AMONG "THIS WEEK'S TOP EXHIBITIONS"

From The Huffington Post:

"Stripped: Neo-Minimal Strategies in Contemporary Art assembles an array of talent and diverse media that handily evinces new terrain, even if it's all rather cerebral. This is art not 'of' things but 'about' them, a Fantasyland for thinking people. Two pieces are especially worthy of attention. One is Four Corners by Anna Krachey... a luridly brilliant abstract photograph... the second is Tom Orr's Flow... elegant and eloquent sculpture..." Patricia Mora

images: (top) Krachey's Four Corners, archival inkjet print, 31 x 41 in. edition of 5 (bottom) Orr's Flow , aluminum rods, wood, laminate, 59 x 26 x 16 in. *contact gallery for information & available work

D MAGAZINE: BEST GALLERY

2010-08-14T10:04:00.000-07:00

OUR THANKS TO

D MAGAZINE, DALLAS, AND TO THE ARTISTS:

BARRY ANDERSON, POLLY APFELBAUM, WADDY ARMSTRONG, FRANCES BAGLEY, JESSE MORGAN BARNETT, ANDREW BENNETT, JAMES BIDGOOD, ROBERT BOLAND, WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, DOUGLAS LEON CARTMEL, BEAU COMEAUX, RHYS DAVIES-GAETANO, RUPERT DEESE, LIU DING, HIROYUKI DOI, JEFF ELROD, MICHAEL EUDY, THOMAS FEULMER, ROLAND FISCHER, MICHAEL FRANCIS, MARK FLOOD, SCOTT FOLDESI, NICK GAETANO, BUSTER GRAYBILL, ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER, QUINTIN GONZALES, ALEXANDRA GRANT, LISA GROSSMAN, PATRICIA HAGEN, KANA HARADA, STEPHEN HENDEE, ARTURO HERRERA, JONATHAN HIGGINS, ALLISON HUNTER, ANGELA KALLUS, TED KINCAID, JENNIFER KOBYLARZ, MICHIKO KON, ANNA KRACHEY, WILLIAM LAMSON, JOSÉ LERMA, ZANE LEWIS, CLAIRE LIEBERMAN, MARC LÜDERS, NIC MATHIS, BEATRIZ MILHAZES, PARD MORRISON, VIK MUNIZ, JAMES NARES, TOM ORR, JILL PANGALLO, MATTHEW PORTER, CASEY RAE, LIU REN, VICTORIA REYNOLDS, ED RUSCHA, SUSIE ROSMARIN, ERIC SALL, SHINTARO SATO, ALLISON SCHULNIK, JAY SHINN, LAURA SHIPP, ALI SMITH, MICKEY SMITH, ALISON ELIZABETH TAYLOR, BERNAR VENET, JOHN WALKER, JOHN WATERS, LESLIE WAYNE, KATHY WEBSTER, WAYNE WHITE, SARAH WILLIAMS, LI YONGBIN, XIAOZE ZIE, JEFF ZILM, AND OUR FRIENDS AT RENAISSANCE AUDIO/VIDEO, SCOTT&COONER, 20C DESIGN, AND ART MOTEL

JAY SHINN FEATURED REVIEWS

2010-08-13T14:43:00.000-07:00

The Houston Chronicle reviews Refuge, Jay Shinn's solo exhibition at Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston:

"The work's real power lies in the way it transforms the gallery into a serene, chapellike setting. The exhibition's title, Refuge, hints at a spiritual impulse behind the work, as does the interdependency between the objects and their setting, neither of which is complete without the other.

It all adds up to a less-is-more vision that draws on the legacy of minimalism but ultimately feels more generous than austere. But you need to experience the work in person to glean its impact." ~Douglas Britt

And in The Houston Press, "This kind of artful, elegantly restrained work is rare and welcome" writes Kelly Klaasmeyer, editor of Glasstire.com

To read the full Houston Chronicle article, click here (PDF)
& click here for the Houston Press article (PDF)

The exhibition has been extended and is on view through September 4, so go see it!

(image pictured: Jay Shinn's Wall Alter, 2010, stainless steel and shadow, 32 x 48 x 8 inches)

JAY SHINN NEW WORK IN HOUSTON

2010-07-15T12:51:00.000-07:00

Jay Shinn, Shattered X, 2010, light projection and paint on wall

Showing for the first time in Houston, artist Jay Shinn debuts his new work, Refuge, currently on exhibit at the Barbara Davis Gallery. The exhibition of steel sculpture, projected light, and framed works contemplate the ideas of reality and illusion through light and line, as seen in the image above.

Statement from the artist:

"Altering the light and surroundings provides for several images from one form. Through all of this, no one image is final. A semifinal stage is where my time with the work ends. The work continues its process." – Jay Shinn

Statement from the reviewers:

"Keep Shinn on your radar: His projected beams of light are redolent of early James Turrell, while his eloquent steel rods recall the precise attitude of late Marfa master Donald Judd. The resulting shadows are all about the future — moving beyond mere sculpture to evoke architecture." - Catherine Anspon, Paper City (click for full article)

Preview images online here or contact Marty Walker Gallery for more information.

Exhibition on view through August 21, 2010 at Barabara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas

RECOMMENDED: POST-NOW

2010-07-14T09:33:00.000-07:00

EXHIBITION EXTENDED ONE WEEK!!! HURRY IN NOW!

People are talking about the futuristic renderings now on exhibit in POST-NOW. Anna Krachey, Buster Graybill, and Jesse Morgan Barnett's photographs, sculpture and videos illustrate their version of the quesion:

How would the world appear in the absence of humans?

Visual Art Source claims POST-NOW is a must-see exhibition for all ages and walks of life, found on its list of RECOMMENDATIONS:

If Buster Graybill's black and white stills and video depict wildlife in the form of feral pigs and long-horned rams, then Jesse Morgan Barnett's and Anna Krachey's pictures show traces of the destructive wild life of people.

With the theoretically suggestive title of "Post-Now," this is a tight exhibition that brings home what it promises in a small dose. It is a pithy exposé of work by young artists providing glimpses into a would-be world left behind, yes, by fanatical Christians as well as by a vast array of technology whores, everyone from hot-rodding highway speed demons to lovers of Euro-trash disco. - Charissa Terranova

Read the full article here (permalink)

On view through July 24.
Contact Marty Walker Gallery for more information.

above:
Buster Graybill, Tush Hog Surveillance: 2/22/10 07:57PM (Turf War), 2010, archival ink jet print
Jesse Morgan Barnett, To Accident and Abandon (A), 2009, archival Ultrachrome print
Anna Krachey, Four Corners, 2010, archival inkjet print

ALEXANDRA GRANT EXHIBITIONS NY & LA

2010-07-07T12:21:00.000-07:00

In addition to the 2010 California Biennial, Alexandra Grant to participate in two exhibitions:

Body (9), 2009, after Michael Joyce's "symmetry," oil on canvas

CURRENTLY ON VIEW:

Four Projects: Doug Argue, Bill Fontana, Alexandra Grant, and Les Rogers
at Haunch of Venison, New York
July 7 - August 28, 2010

Invited to exhibit at Haunch of Venison, L.A. based Alexandra Grant will be exhibiting a series titled Yo Soy Lo Que Veo, from her project Bodies, based on the book by Jorge Volpi, Mexican novelist. Using text and collaborating with poet Michael Joyce, Grant confronts symbolic and formal uses of text to construct her installations, where as she states "Arches become legs, slivers of moons, rainbows that support the words - which laid out symmetrically resemble organs or eyes." By densely layering shapes and letters, Grant questions the awareness of language as a construct toward meaning, often playing with logic to confuse phrases and the resulting associations.

Haunch of Venison, New York
1230 Avenue of Americas
Between 48th and 49th Streets
20th Floor
New York, NY 10020
www.haunchofvenison.com
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UPCOMING IN SEPTEMBER:

Alexandra Grant solo exhibition
Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
September 18 - October 30, 2010

A Love that Should Have Lasted (in memory of a Diasporist Painter), 2008, paper mache

installation view, A.D.D.G., Honor Fraser Gallery, 2008

Honor Fraser Gallery
2622 S LA Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034
www.honorfraser.com

STING CONCERT WORLD TOUR +WILLIAM LAMSON VIDEO ART

2010-06-05T12:23:00.000-07:00

Sting just kicked off his world tour 'Symphonicity' accompanied by the London Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, to perform a selection of songs from his catalogue of greatest hits, re-imagined for symphonic arrangement. Additionally, 10 international artists were specially selected to contribute accompanying video art for display during performance, these artists include Marty Walker Gallery artist William Lamson, Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth, Takeshi Murata, and others.

TED KINCAID PHOTOGRAPHY @ LAX

2010-06-04T12:24:00.000-07:00

If flying in or out of LAX (Los Angeles' Airport) May 31-August 31, 2010 -you will have the opportunity to see an installation of Ted Kincaid's newest 'Cloud' suite of photographs, as part of 'Altimetry', a group exhibition currently on display organized by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and curated by Mark Steven Greenfield, Director of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.

Greenfield states about the exhibition:

"As adults, the sky may have taken on the role of a private repository for our daydreams or other casual musings. The artists in 'Altimetry' have developed a special relationship with atmospheres and see that which they envelop as virtually inconsequential. In the context of air travel, it is my hope that their interpretations might challenge us to pause long enough to appreciate where we've been, or perhaps more importantly, where we are going."

ALEXANDRA GRANT IN CALIFORNIA BIENNIAL

2010-05-28T10:56:00.000-07:00

The Orange County Museum recently announced the artist included for the 2010 California Biennial, the highly-anticipated exhibition identifying emerging artists gaining much national and international attention working in California. Marty Walker Gallery artist Alexandra Grant is among the final 40 artists and collaborative groups selected by OCMA's curator Sarah Bancroft. The exhibition will include a diverse selection of drawing and works on paper, film and video, large-scale installation, painting, performance and dance, photography, sculpture, and text-based work. The exhibition will be on view October 24, 2010 thru March 13, 2011.

above: curator Sarah Bancroft and artists Juan Capistran and Alexandra Grant

Orange County Museum of Art
850 San Clemente Drive
Newport Beach, CA 92660
949-759-1122

www.ocma.net

ART THIS WEEK: DOUGLAS LEON CARTMEL

2010-05-21T12:45:00.000-07:00

Find a full interview with Douglas Leon Cartmel on his current exhibition SUPER NATURE, featured on "Art this Week," conducted by Anne Lawrence, video by Richard Serrano.

MATTHEW PORTER @ ICP

2010-05-20T11:11:00.000-07:00

Perspectives 2010 launches a new annual exhibition at the International Center for Photography in New York that focuses on significant works by emerging contemporary photographic artists. Artists in this year's inaugural exhibition include Carol Bove, Lena Herzog, Matthew Porter, Ed Templeton, and Hong-An Truong. The exhibition will show how these artists approach new ideas and digital technology in photography and its implications on social, historical, political, and philosophical content.

From the press release: "In his dramatic, almost cinematic photographs, Matthew Porter establishes an unsettling relationship between history and imagination. His sun-drenched muscle cars excerpted from 1970s television fly just too high over their city streets, evoking youthful masculine fantasies. Capitalizing on the inherent narrative implied in any juxtaposition of images, Porter has moved toward increasingly improbable installations of unrelated photographs, such as cowboys in Western landscapes alongside invented images of Nazi-era dirigibles."

Organized by Brian Wallis, ICP Deputy Director for Exhibitions & Chief Curator, Perspectives 2010 runs May 21 - September 9, 2010.

International Center for Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
212-857-0045
www.icp.org

ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE: WILLIAM LAMSON AND JAY SHINN

2010-05-19T14:23:00.000-07:00

Marty Walker Gallery artists William Lamson and Jay Shinn will be traveling this summer to participate in artist residencies to develop current projects - Lamson to Utah to continue exploring interactions with the environment and Shinn to Berlin to explore spatial relationships of geometric designs.

Brooklyn-based William Lamson will be participating in the Wendover Residency with the Center for Creative Land Use Interpretation in Wendover, Utah. Established in 1997, the program has included prominent and international artists, researchers, and land use enthusiasts to develop engaging, innovative, and compelling interactions with Utah's regional geography, including the Great Salt Lake, desert and salt flats, to reveal new perspectives about the built environment.

Dallas-based Jay Shinn is among the artists selected for the Takt Kunstprojecktraum residency program this summer in Berlin, Germany. Started in 2003 and autonomously run, the residency program intends to provide support to artists and foster creative minds. Having access to Berlin and an international community of artists, the residency will allow Shinn to develop his current investigation of two- and three-dimensional spatial relationships to create new geometric structures and prints.

DOUGLAS CARTMEL IN THE NEWS

2010-05-18T12:13:00.000-07:00

Douglas Leon Cartmel's current exhibition SUPER NATURE featured this week in Glasstire, Dallas Morning News, and D Magazine.

For those of us living in landlocked Dallas, rising temperatures seem to bring on an annual longing -- for the sea. As if to announce that the Dallas Museum of Art doesn't have a monopoly on pining for the ocean with its "Coastlines" exhibition, Marty Walker Gallery brings us Douglas Leon Cartmel's "Super Nature." -- Michael Granberry, Dallas Morning News

The result is a mesmerizing black-and-white picture that is impossible to take your eyes off. Bonus: look for Cartmel's works in the "Coastlines" exhibition currently at the Dallas Museum of Art. --D Magazine

WAYNE WHITE CREATES NEW PUPPET

2010-05-17T10:11:00.000-07:00

Wayne White was invited this week by friend and art instructor Mike Quinn of The Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee to build a 30-foot puppet resembling the school's founder W. R. "Sawney" Webb as a part of the school's Art Week and 14oth year anniversary. Assisted by students and using cardboard, foam core, bamboo, paint and wire, White constructed a 40-pound puppet head, clothed with a jacket made of 12 hot-glued t-shirts and paints made of rainbow satin. Reminiscent of White's automated George Jones head recently exhibited at Rice University, this puppet was created in two and a half days and was operated by students in a final celebration parade.

Click to read a PDF of the full article from The Daily News Journal.

BARRY ANDERSON RADIO INTERVIEW

2010-05-05T12:50:00.000-07:00

Barry Anderson's recent exhibition, "SpaceRockSpasm" at Review Studios in Kansas City, is highlighted in a radio interview by Laura Spencer on Kansas City's public radio station KCUR.

Listen on KCUR or click here:

JAY SHINN @ 'NEXT' FAIR / ART CHICAGO

2010-04-17T12:47:00.000-07:00

JAY SHINN Square Cubed x 4, 2009
woodcut on Yatsuo paper mounted on Rives BFK, 36 x 36 inches

See the debut of Jay Shinn's new woodcut prints at the Manneken Press booth during Art Chicago @ the NEXT fair special exhibition of prints and multiples 'Goffo', April 30 - May 3. Merchandise Mart, 7th floor [ MAP ]

For further information and available prints by Jay Shinn, please contact Marty Walker Gallery.

NEXT: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art: More than an art fair, NEXT is a showcase for the world’s talents and an adventure in cutting-edge culture. An opportunity to redefine the relationship between art and its public, NEXT is a portal to seeing contemporary art in new, innovative, eye-opening ways. NEXT will include works from both commercial and non-commercial arts organizations--galleries, project spaces, art publications and key private contemporary collections from around the world.

2010 Previews, Thursday, April 29
email Jessica Cochran for preview ticket info: jessica@nextartfair.com

2010 Show Hours
Friday, April 30: 11am - 7pm
Saturday, May 1: 11am - 7pm
Sunday, May 2: 11am - 6pm
Monday, May 3: 11am - 4pm

NEXT Tickets
Adults: $20 daily or $25 multi-day pass
Seniors, Students or Groups: $15 multi-day pass
Children 12 and under are free.

www.nextartfair.com

DOUGLAS CARTMEL'S 'COASTLINES' @ DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART

2010-04-16T12:46:00.000-07:00

DOUGLAS LEON CARTMEL
Super Nature (L.A. 1.1), 2010, oil on walnut block, 8 x 12 x 1.75 inches

COASTLINES: IMAGES OF LAND AND SEA, is an exhibition of over fifty paintings, photographs, and works on paper that explores how visual artists of the modern period (1850–present) have represented coastal landscapes. Drawn from the collections of The Dallas Museum of Art and from local collections, Coastlines will give visitors both an expansive and an in-depth portrayal of the coastal experience over time and in various media.

Marty Walker Gallery artist Douglas Leon Cartmel's oil on titanium painting 'Pacifica (Surface)', will be on view as part of this exhibition - concurrent with the artist's solo exhibition SUPER NATURE at the gallery.

Dallas Museum of Art, Coastlines 'Opening Day Tour': Sunday, April 25, 3PM
Join Dr. Heather MacDonald, The DMA's Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of European Art, to explore the special exhibition Coastlines: Images of Land and Sea.(Admission included in general admission to the Museum; advance registration is not required)
Douglas Leon Cartmel: SUPER NATURE, exhibition opens Saturday May 8, 6-8PM at Marty Walker Gallery, and runs through June 12, 2010 *contact gallery for information about Cartmel's upcoming solo exhibition and preview opportunties.

DOUGLAS CARTMEL + DALLAS ARCHITECTURE FORUM

2010-04-15T12:46:00.000-07:00

Dallas Architecture Forum :: Third Annual 365 Modern Home Reception Series :: Wednesday, 21 April 2010 :: Lode House

Designed in 2007 by James Ferrara, Lode House is a response to the client’s request for simple, modern living spaces. The residence’s inspiration is drawn from the client’s annual travel to Italy and a residency at Villa Saraceno, a World Heritage Site, designed by Andrea Palladio ca. 1545 in the Province of Vicenza.

Within the thoughtfully designed space of Lode House is an impressive contemporary art collection, including work by Brookly/Puerto Rico artist José Lerma and Dallas artist Douglas Leon Cartmel -whose work can also be seen at The Dallas Museum of Art's current exhibition 'Coastlines', and in an upcoming solo exhibition at Marty Walker Gallery.

A limited number of tickets remain for purchase for the reception. The residences have been designed and/or renovated by leading local and national architects, landscape architects and interior designers. Receptions are from 6 to 8 pm on the indicated evening. Events include a light cocktail reception, brief remarks by the design team, and valet parking. Due to limited availability, please contact the Forum at director@dallasarchitectureforum.org if you would like to receive more information or would like to purchase tickets.

www.dallasarchitectureforum.org

LISA GROSSMAN - EXHIBITION CLOSING SOON

2010-04-14T12:47:00.000-07:00

LISA GROSSMAN
Arc and Turn, 2010, oil on canvas, 44 x 48 inches

See the exhibition before it closes & in the meantime check out this slideshow of the exhibition -but don't miss seeing it in person! Contact gallery for further information and remaining available works.

Marty Walker Gallery
2135 Farrington Street
Dallas, TX 75207 [MAP]
P: 214.749.0066
www.martywalkergallery.com

WAYNE WHITE'S WORDS: RECENT REVIEWS

2010-03-27T12:38:00.000-07:00

REVIEWS : WAYNE WHITE I Fell 37 Miles to Earth 100 Years Ago

"Through his quippy phrases, Wayne White plays the part of wife beater-wearing, water-bed-rocking, porn-star-wannabe art critic, his curt turns of phrase not so much a reduction of a painting style as an hilarious embellishment of one." - Lucia Simek, D Magazine

Appetite whet for more? Read on...

@ D Magazine Front Row, click for the review, or PDF permalink
@ Arrested Motion, click here for review, or PDF permalink

Can't get enough?
Get your own -- If you haven’t yet picked up White’s excellent 384 page behemoth-of-a-monograph (designed by Todd Oldham), brilliantly titled “Maybe Now I’ll Get The Respect I So Richly Deserve,” you should grab a copy of the special edition here whilst they are still available.

BAGLEY & ORR @ DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART -ENDS SOON

2010-03-18T09:07:00.001-07:00

Not to be missed! -visit the Dallas Musuem of Art this weekend for the last weekend of Performance/Art featuring Marty Walker Gallery artists Frances Bagley and Tom Orr:

TOM ORR & FRANCES BAGLEY
Performance/Art installation at The Dallas Museum of Art

In Performance/Art, artists Frances Bagley and husband Tom Orr have reinvented elements from their set and costume design work commisioned for The Dallas Opera's 50th anniversary production of Verdi's Nabucco in 2006.

"Bagley and Orr's installation is fully in keeping with Verdi's grand work yet stands on its own as a powerful and mysterious sculptural environment in which viewers virtually become performers themselves." -Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas Museum of Art [MAP]
1717 North Harwood
Dallas, Texas 75201
P : 214-922-1200

Hours: Tuesday* and Wednesday: 11:00 pm–5:00 pm, Thursday: 11:00 am–9:00 pm,Friday**, Saturday, and Sunday: 11:00 pm–5:00 pm, Closed Mondays. *FREE First Tuesday of each month **Late Night Fridays (third Friday of the month) the Museum is open until midnight.

UPCOMING EXHIBITION: LISA GROSSMAN - 'WINDINGS'

2010-03-11T09:31:00.000-08:00

Lisa Grossman, Glance, 2010, oil on canvas, 24 x 60 inches

MARTY WALKER GALLERY PRESENTS:

LISA GROSSMAN - 'WINDINGS'

March 23 - April 17, 2010
Reception: Saturday March 27, 6-8pm

Mark your calendars for this exhibition of deftly executed landscape oil paintings that flirt wildly with abstraction in a solo show by Kansas artist Lisa Grossman at Marty Walker Gallery.

Lisa Grossman, Sand River I, 2010, oil on canvas, 32 x 40 inches

ANNA KRACHEY -31 Women in Art Photography, group show

2010-03-04T11:27:00.001-08:00

Anna Krachey, Cupcake, 2007, digital archival print, 31" x 40" ed. of 10

31 Women in Art Photography

Presented by Humble Arts Foundation and Affirmation Arts
Curated by Charlotte Cotton and Jon Feinstein

Saturday, March 6 – Saturday, April 10, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 6, 6 – 9 p.m.

PRESS RELEASE: March 2010, in honor of Women’s History Month, Humble Arts Foundation in association with Affirmation Arts will present its second edition of 31 Women in Art Photography, a five-week exhibition celebrating 31 of the most innovative women in new art photography. The exhibition, curated by Charlotte Cotton and Jon Feinstein, will present an eclectic mix of new talent, culled from open submissions. 31 opens at Affirmation Arts in New York City on Saturday, March 6 during The Armory Show 2010.

The exhibition includes photographs by Erica Allen, Amelia Bauer, Claire Beckett, Gilda Davidian, Jessica Eaton, Naomi Harris, Carmen von Kende, Anna Krachey, Yvonne Lacet, Erika Larsen, Jessica Mallios, Alison Malone, S. Billie Mandle, Paula McCartney, Rachelle Mozman, Yamini Nayar, Sarah Palmer, Kristine Potter, Heather Rasmussen, Justine Reyes, Lisa Robinson, Irina Rozovsky, Sasha Rudensky, Victoria Sambunaris, Robin Schwartz, Emily Shur, Brea Souders, Rachel Sussman, Kirsten Kay Thoen, Carson Fisk-Vittori, and Ann Woo.

The Curators: British curator Charlotte Cotton recently became the creative director for the National Media Museum in Bradford, England and will be heading up the planned expansion of the museum in London. Previously Cotton was the curator and head of the Wallis Annenberg Department of photography at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, head of programming at the Photographer’s Gallery, London photography curator for the Victoria & Albert Museum in London for several years and is the founding editor of Words Without Pictures. Jon Feinstein is the co-founder and curatorial director of Humble Arts Foundation; he has organized numerous exhibitions throughout New York including the recent exhibition “Trying Them On” at Hendershot Gallery.

Founded in 2005 by amani olu and Jon Feinstein, Humble Arts Foundation is committed to promoting the work of new photo-based artists. The New York-based nonprofit serves the international art community by way of exhibition and publishing opportunities, limited-edition print sales, twice–annual artists grants, and various special projects.

The Affirmation Arts supports professionalism in the arts through exhibitions, programming and education. 31 Women in Art Photography Sponsored by LTI / Lightside Photographic Services

Location:
Affirmation Arts
523 W. 37th Street
New York, NY 10018
(212) 925.0092
affirmationarts.com

Gallery hours:
Tues – Fri, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Sat 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
[MAP]

To see additional available works by Marty Walker Gallery Anna Krachey, please visit our website: www.martywalkergallery.com -and for further information or acquisitions, please contact gallery.

WAYNE WHITE: REVIEW @ 'D'

2010-02-25T14:39:00.000-08:00

REVIEW : WAYNE WHITE I Fell 37 Miles to Earth 100 Years Ago

@ D Magazine Front Row, click for the review, or PDF permalink

FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 20, 2010 | www.martywalkergallery.com

MARKETPLACE covers MODERN RUIN (mp3 podcast)

2010-02-22T10:55:00.000-08:00

Empty bank gives rise to financial art

Before a Washington Mutual branch was demolished in Dallas, two local curators put up a financially-themed art show in the building. Christina Rees, one of the curators, talks with Kai Ryssdal about how it all came together. (from American Public Media's Marketplace)

play the podcast (mp3):

(above) "Modern Ruin" co-organizers Thomas Feulmer and Christina Rees sit on a vintage Matchless motorcycle after the show, seen in front of Tom Orr's installation. (top) Sound, video, sculpture, text, scent, and film projection -collaborative installation by Kevin Todora and Jeff Zilm. (photos by Kevin Todora)

WAYNE WHITE exhibition opens Feb. 20th

2010-02-12T10:42:00.000-08:00

WAYNE WHITE I Fell 37 Miles to Earth 100 Years Ago

FEBRUARY 20 - MARCH 20, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 20, 6-8 pm

www.martywalkergallery.com

MODERN RUIN -a strange and spectacular two-day art event

2010-02-11T09:08:00.000-08:00

MODERN RUIN -PRESS RELEASE:

On Thursday, September 25, 2008 the U.S. Government took over Washington Mutual, selling most of it to JPMorgan Chase.

Roughly a year earlier, at the height of a frenzied economic bubble, Washington Mutual began building a new 1 million dollar branch at 5030 Greenville Avenue, just south of Lovers Lane. Just after its completion, the government seized WaMu, and JPMorgan Chase decided not to occupy the building.

The new building was never opened, never used, and has sat as an empty shell for more than a year.

On February 20, 2010, *Modern Ruin*--a two-day exhibition organized by Christina Rees and Thomas Feulmer--will open. The two-day exhibition will be the only use for the million-dollar building before the demolition process begins the following week. The bank building is a truly modern ruin - a building that never met its purpose, and only existed as potential activity, potential economy, and hoped-for growth.

Seeking to take advantage of the space--its social and cultural connotations, its materials, and its presence as direct and immediate evidence of the current economic condition--15 artists will create work inspired by and in dialogue with the building. Some artists will alter the building's materials and corporate interior, while others will stage actions and interventions within, and still others will use the background of the space as context for their work.

Artists in the exhibition are:

Frances Bagley
Tim Best
Michael Corris
Thomas Feulmer
Annette Lawrence
M
Margaret Meehan
Tom Orr
Richard Patterson
Cam Schoepp
Noah Simblist
Christoph Trendel
Terri Thornton
Kevin Todora
Jeff Zilm

Please join us for the opening reception/intervention with the artists the night of Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010, 8-11pm. The exhibition will be open to the public on February 20th and 21st, 12-5pm, though in the case of some artists the work left behind will be documentation of the actions that took place the night before.

MODERN RUIN
5030 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, TX 75206 [MAP]

Kincaid exhibition closes this weekend -don't miss it!

2010-02-10T08:44:00.000-08:00

TED KINCAID exhibition installation

Last chance to view - Ted Kincaid's new celestial photographs inspired by Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself', I Do Not Want The Constellations Any Nearer / L.A. Skies will be on view until Saturday, February 13.

And if you are looking for Valentines weekend plans, consider an art themed afternoon and visit Marty Walker Gallery to see Kincaid's critically acclaimed work, and then swing by The Dallas Museum of Art and see the exhibit Performance/Art with work by gallery artists Frances Bagley & Tom Orr, among others. Also on display at The Dallas Museum of Art, part of their permanent collection, is a fantastic photograph by Ted Kincaid.

In the meantime click here to see an online slideshow of the exhibition, and also check out the reviews from D Magazine Front Row, Dallas Morning News, Papercity, Art Ltd., Regularmain.com, and many more. (PDFs)

"If Picasso was right, that “art is a lie,” then photography is a whopper, and Kincaid, a Dallas-based artist acclaimed for nuanced, digital manipulation, can stretch the truth like nobody’s business."

"... in Constellation’s ten-part grid of cloud portraits, Kincaid offers us a perspective like one we might have if lying on a hilltop, looking straight up into a partly cloudy sky. Not only are we enabled to stare long at these meteorological wisps, which in real time as fleeting and liquid as reflections on water, but we may also realize, while considering their circular, rondo format, that it is the same way the brain outlines our every view. "
-D MAGAZINE Front Row

Last week to view: Anna Krachey at CAMH

2010-02-05T12:23:00.000-08:00

ANNA KRACHEY Path 2007
digital archival print, 31 x 40 in.

Final Week - Photographs by Austin-based artist Anna Krachey on display at the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston exhibition Perspectives 168 through February 7, 2010. Along with artists Jessica Mallios and Adam Schreiber, Krachey's images challenge relationships of materiality, perception, and the artificial, enigmatic nature of photographic images that offer startling juxtapositions of objects and spaces.

Read a review here

& visit! info below:

Exhibition closes February 7, 2010

Hours
Tuesday - Wednesday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Thursday, 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Friday - Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sunday, noon - 5 p.m.

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
5216 Montrose Blvd.
Houston, Texas 77006 [ MAP ]
713-284-8250

www.camh.org

DALLAS ART FAIR: FEB 5 - 7

2010-01-27T10:26:00.000-08:00

MARTY WALKER GALLERY EXHIBITING @

MATTHEW PORTER Airport Road 2009 - edition of 5
archival pigment print mounted to plexi with satin laminate, 15 x 19 in.

Marty Walker Gallery will be participating in the second annual Dallas Art Fair, February 5 - 7, 2010 (Look for us in booth F9). Exhibiting amongst 50+ nationally and internationally renowned galleries, the gallery will feature art by Texas faves such as Mark Flood, Ted Kincaid, Tom Orr, Frances Bagley, Douglas Leon Cartmel, Jay Shinn, and also including works by Wayne White, Matthew Porter, William Lamson, and Jennifer Steinkamp.
We look forward to seeing you!

Preview Gala:
Thursday, February 4, 7-10pm
Fair dates:
Friday, February 5, 11am-7pm
Saturday, February 6, 11am-7pm
Sunday, February 7, 11am-5pm

Visit www.dallasartfair.com for VIP & Gala tickets, to purchase tickets online, and for further fair information.

Dallas Art Fair
1807 Ross Avenue, Suite 250
Dallas, Texas 75201 [ MAP ]
214.220.1278

TED KINCAID in DALLAS MORNING NEWS

2010-01-26T10:09:00.000-08:00

Ted Kincaid in his studio - photograph courtesy regularmain.com

Read the artist profile @ Dallas Morning News online (PDF permalink) -see more work by Ted Kincaid, and visit Marty Walker Gallery to see the exhibition 'I Don't Want The Constellations Any Nearer // L.A. Skies' .

FRANCES BAGLEY & TOM ORR, TALKS @ DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART

2010-01-16T14:21:00.000-08:00

Mark your calendar for these upcoming events at The Dallas Museum of Art with Marty Walker Gallery artists Frances Bagley and Tom Orr:

12:15 pm, Wednesday, January 20, 2010: GALLERY TALK with Frances Bagley and Tom Orr. The Performance/Art artists discuss their work in the exhibition.

7:00 pm, Thursday, January 28, 2010: STATE OF THE ARTS with Frances Bagley and Tom Orr, artists featured in the exhibition Performance/Art at the DMA; and Kim J. Campbell, Founder and Executive Director of the Dallas Wind Symphony.

TOM ORR & FRANCES BAGLEY
Performance/Art installation at The Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas-based artists Frances Bagley and Tom Orr were commissioned by the Dallas Opera to create the sets and costumes for the Dallas premiere of Verdi’s Nabucco in 2006 (scroll through this link for info and to view images from the blog). Bagley and Orr created a gallery-scaled installation based on that production for the Museum’s current special exhibition Performance/Art, on view through March 21, 2010. Frances Bagley received her M.F.A. from the University of North Texas and an M.A. and B.F.A from Arizona State University. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is included in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., among many other private, public and corporate collections. A native of Dallas, Tom Orr holds a B.F.A in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design. Orr has been commissioned for a number of public art projects, including Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport’s Terminal D and the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Plano Station. His work is included in private collections throughout Texas, the U.S. and abroad.

Join Dallas Museum of Art Director Bonnie Pitman and KERA host and producer Jeff Whittington for an innovative new series exploring the creative process and the nature of performance. Hear Dallas’s key artistic leaders discuss the future of the city’s cultural landscape and what lies ahead for the nation’s largest urban arts district.On Thursday evenings, join us before the talks to enjoy live jazz, a casual dinner, and cocktails in the Atrium Cafe. Lectures take place in the Horchow Auditorium.

Reserve your seat online -online reservations will be accepted until 3:00 p.m. on the day of each event. To reserve seats by phone or for more information, call 214-922-1826 or e-mail publicprograms@DallasMuseumofArt.org

Dallas Museum of Art [MAP]
1717 North Harwood
Dallas, Texas 75201
P : 214-922-1200

Hours: Tuesday* and Wednesday: 11:00 pm–5:00 pm, Thursday: 11:00 am–9:00 pm,Friday**, Saturday, and Sunday: 11:00 pm–5:00 pm, Closed Mondays. *FREE First Tuesday of each month **Late Night Fridays (third Friday of the month) the Museum is open until midnight.

TOM ORR & FRANCES BAGLEY
Performance/Art installation at The Dallas Museum of Art

Visit The Dallas Opera's blog for more photos from the performance of Nabucco in 2006, with the designs of Frances Bagley and Tom Orr.

WILLIAM LAMSON -REVIEW IN ARTFORUM

2010-01-15T13:46:00.000-08:00

WILLIAM LAMSON Automatic 2009
'Molino Drawing' video still shown

William Lamson's recent solo exhibition Automatic is reviewed in the latest issue of ARTFORUM -read the full article here & visit www.artforum.com for more information, art news, and to subscribe.

In his review, Michael Odom highlights the 'Sea Drawings' component of the exhibition:

"This construction -which also employs plastic bottle necks, a roughly assembled wooden box, and a crushed soft-drink can -looks improvised from trash any yet it is almost elegant"

WILLIAM LAMSON Automatic 2009
'Sea Drawing' video still shown

"The four sea drawings, with their tidal variations in line distribution and density, are guazy and atmospheric delights; regardless of the process, they succeed as drawings in themselves"

WILLIAM LAMSON Sea Drawings 2009
graphite on paper, framed, 27 ¾ x 23 ¾ inches
(installation view/detail below)

Go thrift store shopping with WAYNE WHITE

2010-01-14T13:41:00.000-08:00

SoLost: Wayne White Goes Thrifting from Oxford American on Vimeo.

THOMAS FEULMER: NEW WORK

2010-01-07T12:20:00.000-08:00

THOMAS FEULMER Me and Beluga 1: Meeting 2009
gouache on vellum, framed, 11 ½ x 14 ½ inches (detail shown)

New work by Thomas Feulmer will be on display alongside Ted Kincaid's new solo exhibition, opening Saturday, January 9th, 6-8pm. The exhibit includes new drawings, sculpture, and paintings, some included here to whet your appetite. We look forward to seeing you!

THOMAS FEULMER Pair (Sperm Whale) 2009
bronze, plastic, plywood (pedestal 38 ¼ x 18 x 18 inches)

THOMAS FEULMER 10th Grade (Man of the Month) 2009
glitter & spray paint on Exercise for Men Only magazine page from 1990, in acrylic box, 12 ½ x 9 ⅜ inches *this image does not do this fabulous piece justice -stop by to see the work in person!

"GREAT ART RECOMENDED" = TED KINCAID

2010-01-06T12:21:00.000-08:00

TED KINCAID exhibition installation preview

"The great Ted Kincaid looks to the skies again in these new bodies of work." -Dallas/Fort Worth Recommended, Glasstire.com

Exhibition preview Thursday-Saturday 11-5pm // Opening Reception this Saturday 6-8pm // For further information please contact gallery.

"great art is something that stretches your imagination and transports you to another world" -writes Gay List Daily about Ted Kincaid's new exhibition at Marty Walker Gallery.

TED KINCAID + DALLAS ART FAIR

2010-01-02T11:55:00.000-08:00

TED KINCAID LA Sky 8061 2009
digital photograph on Hahnemüle Photo Rag Paper, 28 x 28 in.

“Nothing looks more optimistic than Ted Kincaid’s new series of sky images at Marty Walker Gallery (through February 13; Walker is also one of 15 Texas dealers to participate in the Dallas Art Fair, so look for some Kincaids in her booth there, too). Kincaid’s a wizard in the photo-based field, deftly concocting images that hover between the real and the conjured. We still have memories of the flying saucer–like orbs he fashioned for a Neiman Marcus cover years ago.” -PAPER CITY

“This accomplished North Texas artist (Ted Kincaid) is on the verge of rising to recognition on a high national level. This inquisitive, technically advanced artist continues to explore in his photography-based art the difference or similarity between four of the primary artistic mediums – photography, printmaking, painting and sculpture and how he can manipulate or amalgamate them for his purposes. Thus, he creates a new format for purposely disturbing but stunning art by discovering complicated, relatively new art making processes.” -REGULARMAIN.COM

“Ted Kincaid is one of the most recognized and respected artists from North Texas.” -PEGASUS NEWS

DOUGLAS LEON CARTMEL @ DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART

2009-12-23T14:00:00.000-08:00

DOUGLAS LEON CARTMEL
Pacifica (Surface) 2007, oil on titanium 15 x 18 inches

COASTLINES: IMAGES OF LAND AND SEA, an exhibition of over 50 paintings, photographs, and works on paper, including Marty Walker Gallery artist Douglas Leon Cartmel's oil on titanium painting 'Pacifica (Surface)', will be on view at The Dallas Museum of Art, opening April, 2010, in an exhibition exploring how modern and contemporary artists represent coastal landscapes.

*contact gallery for information about Cartmel's upcoming solo exhibition and pre-sales.

ERIC SALL : NEWS AND REVIEWS

2009-12-22T13:50:00.000-08:00

ERIC SALL Obstacle 3 2009, oil on canvas, 36 x40 inches

“Sall pulls from the traditions of action painting, culture, and environments... he’s adept at capitalizing on the tension between shape and line.” -Dallas Morning News

“Things merge and coalesce and what subsequently unfurls is an intricate linear progression with some delightful results.” -Art+Culture DFW

For more info, click above links, and please support these great publications -and for additional images of Eric Sall's solo exhibition Obstacles, click here.

ERIC SALL Obstacles installation view

HOLIDAY GALLERY HOURS

2009-12-21T16:14:00.000-08:00

HOLIDAY HOURS
Tuesday, December 22, 11-5
Wednesday, December 23, 11-5
gallery closed Thursday, December 24 - Monday December 28
Tuesday, December 29, 11-5
Wednesday, December 30, 11-5
Thursday, December 31, 11-5
gallery closed New Years Day, Friday, January 1st
Saturday, January 2, 11-5
and by appointment
-Happy Holidays from Marty & Billy

(regular hours resume Tue, Jan. 5)
GALLERY HOURS
Tue-Sat 11-5
and by appointment

TED KINCAID - solo exhibition opens Saturday, January 9, 6-8
I DO NOT WANT THE CONSTELLATIONS ANY NEARER / / L.A. SKIES

*contact gallery for further information and to preview the exhibition

ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER GOIN' ROGUE!

2009-12-11T13:00:00.001-08:00

"sinisterly funny" -ARTFORUM

ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER PALIN'
gouache on chipboard, 17 x 20 inches framed (original artwork)

"the apostrophe is a wink... a distinctive way of talkin'... but it is also a punch in the gut." -Kansas City Pitch (read the full article here)

New limited edition print available at www.getpalin.com + t-shirts and coffee mugs. BUY NOW!

Kansas City based artist ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER’s mixed-media constructions combine the craft and aesthetics of sign painting with cleverly deconstructed words and phrases, manipulating both surfaces and meaning in an often biting and humorous manner.

PALIN’ (the original work of art) was recently exhibited at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. Gobber’s work is included in numerous private and museum collections including the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri. To learn more & see additional work by the artist, please visit martywalkergallery.com.

Renegade Bus' Lucia Simek on "The Obama Art Fund"

2009-12-02T10:56:00.000-08:00

Renegade Bus's own Lucia Simek lays out some details and discusses ~~the first-time homeowner’s tax incentive~~ "The Obama Art Fund" in a new entry on Dallas' always fascinating and clever culture blog www.renegadebusdallas.com.

"...we landed a house just in the nick of time in order to qualify for : $8000, give or take, come refund time. While most assuredly the proper, home owning, adult thing to do with the money would be to put the money back into the house somehow – pay down the note a little, invest in some upgrades – we have another idea that’s much more fun, and that, tangentially, does some good too." -Lucia Simek, Renegade Bus

Read the full article to learn how you too can participate - click here:
http://renegadebusdallas.com/2009/11/30/the-obama-art-fund/

(and start your art wishlist - see you next tax season!)

ALLISON HUNTER Untitled 14 - chromogenic photograph, 2007 -
(one of Lucia's "top, most-loved works of art as seen in Dallas galleries")

New Work by Thomas Feulmer @ 500X

2009-12-01T10:24:00.000-08:00

NBC 5's Green News :: William Lamson @ Marty Walker

2009-11-19T09:20:00.000-08:00

Dallas, NBC 5's Annie Potasznik interviews Marty Walker Gallery Director Billy Zinser to discuss the green themes behind William Lamson's solo exhibition 'Automatic' -view the video of the story above, or visit NBC 5 for a text version of the article, images, and more Green News.

Also, visit www.martywalkergallery.com for more information on William Lamson and to view images of the artist's work. Please contact gallery for any further info and acquisitions .

TED KINCAID @ DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART

2009-11-06T09:13:00.000-08:00

Ted Kincaid's Thunderhead 83, digital color photograph surface mounted to Plexiglas in artist's frame, 72 x 48 in. -on display with other works from Dallas Museum of Art's collection.

(pictured, far right, photo from Ted Kincaid's Ten Year Retrospective at The Mckinney Avenue Contemporary) catalogue available, contact Marty Walker Gallery for purchase

See additional works by Ted Kincaid online + mark your calendars for the artist's upcoming solo exhibition at Marty Walker Gallery, opening Saturday, January 9, 2010 - click HERE for more info.

art this week: WILLIAM LAMSON

2009-11-05T09:57:00.000-08:00

For those not following the Art This Week podcasts -I recommend checking it out. In addition to reviewing/discussing/promoting the visual arts in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, the Art This Week team reports current art news and upcoming events.

In their most recent podcast, Anne Lawrence talks about William Lamson's Automatic, and shows some clips of the artist's video work, click HERE to see the episode.

WILLIAM LAMSON Automatic - exhibition installation-

art this week: TOM ORR + FRANCES BAGLEY @ DMA

2009-11-03T12:59:00.003-08:00

Anne Lawrence interviews Tom Orr and Frances Bagley for Art This Week to discuss the couple's installation for Performance/Art at The Dallas Museum of Art (pictured below).

TOM ORR & FRANCES BAGLEY
Performance/Art installation at The Dallas Museum of Art

Check out more video podcasts on artthisweek.com.

Death of a Propane Salesman

2009-11-02T13:02:00.000-08:00

Anxiety and the Texas Artist

FORT WORTH CONTEMPORARY ARTS

Seth Alverson, Michael Bise, Matthew Bourbon, Vernon Fisher, Lawrence Lee, Margaret Meehan, Amy Revier, Ludwig Schwarz, Edward Setina, Kevin Todora, Terri Thornton, Jeff Zilm, Eric Zimmerman

October 30, 2009 – December 13, 2009.
Opening Reception: Friday October 30, 6-9pm

Following is a brief essay written for the exhibit curated by FWCA newly appointed curator Christina Rees. The line-up alone merits a visit to see the show (includes Marty Walker Gallery artist Jeff Zilm!).

Relevant artists are barometers of their environments, and whatever form their art takes, their tendency to tell the truth leads them to create work that mirrors otherwise unseen, undiscussed or repressed phenomena and ideas.

After all, Texas is many things: polite and aggressive, lacking in urbanness with a desire to duck the searing sunlight; it’s part of the Bible Belt, it’s famous for doing things in its own time and it often seems unrattled by world events, and of course it’s known for stetsons, big hair, and plastic surgery. This, when viewed from afar, can appear to be an unnatural environment for contemporary art.

So what kind of art is being made here? Texas, as an environment, makes for rich place of contradictions for an artist to probe. Discomfort is a key element that takes many forms in this exhibition: erasure of content, degradation of material, violence, miscommunication, an attempt to organize and name uneasy thoughts, and dire tension about the kinds of cultural “norms” we’re all meant to take in stride.

So unlike artists working in the more progressive or art-lofty spheres of the two coasts, the Texas artist—especially the highly reactive, imaginative, and sensitive one—finds himself fighting battles of cultural contradiction from the inside. But really, no matter where he lives, this reactive artist would be grappling with the high stress of modern living or the hostile chemical bath of his own brain. Having to fight that good fight in the lone star state merely adds a new dimension of melancholy, if not poetry, to the work, not to mention a lack of commercial compatibility. Unlike news headlines, stress in art doesn’t always sell, and yet the artists in this exhibition keep on telling their truths, and they keep spelunking their personal obsessions as a way of better understanding and navigating the world. The work itself often seems destined for museums, gallery shows, or back in storage in the artist’s studio; even the most hale Texas art collector doesn’t necessarily want a nervous breakdown permanently affixed to the wall of his living room.

Thus, around here, the coming together of artists in exhibitions is one of the clearer manifestations of the desire for an expression of liberty, of honest dialogue about the state of our culture, and often what you see in art galleries is the stuff that doesn’t belong anywhere else. And for every imaginable personal reason, Texas artists stay in Texas, and they keep making their work.

a not entirely unrelated image - King of The Hill's season 3 opener is titled "Death of a Propane Salesman"

FORT WORTH CONTEMPORARY ARTS
The Art Galleries at TCU [MAP]
2900 W Berry St. Fort Worth, TX 76109

www.theartgalleries.tcu.edu P:817.257.2588
gallery hours: Thursday-Sunday 1-6pm

WILLIAM LAMSON NEWS & EXHIBITS

2009-11-01T12:58:00.000-08:00

"...transfixed by his videos, the humor and inventiveness of the scenarios is matched by the sense of existential bewilderment. Lamson does the human predicament, with a light touch." -Glasstire.com

WILLIAM LAMSON - Automatic
(Sea Drawings, Automatic video still & framed drawings)

Get Transfixed! See Lamson's Automatic exhibition at Marty Walker Gallery! ...in the meantime, check out these recent articles and reviews:

KERA's 'Art & Seek' -blog by Gail Sachson
Dallas Art News, exhibition review by Kasten Searles
Glasstire - Texas Visual Art Online
Dallas Observer (brief article)
D Magazine (brief listing)
Automatic press excerpts, PDF permalink.

And, don't miss Lamson's current and upcoming exhibitions:

Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas TX - William Lamson: Automatic, on view until Nov. 14, 2009.

Houston Center for Photography - Artist as Performer, group exhibition closes Sunday Nov. 8, 2009.

William Lamson solo exhibition upcoming:
@ ARTSPACE, New Haven, Connecticut
opening reception: Thursday, November 12
50 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06510
[MAP] P:203.772.2709 www.artspacenh.org
hours: Tue-Wed: 12-6pm, Thu-Sat: 12-8pm
William Lamson: LONG SHOT ['The Lot' - MAP]
(through January, 2010)

For acquisitions, further information, or to view the artist's additional video work, please contact Marty Walker Gallery.

Anna Krachey @ Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

2009-10-31T13:16:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-30T13:16:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-07T10:52:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-06T08:15:00.000-07:00

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

2009-10-05T13:55:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-10-03T13:54:00.000-07:00

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

GOBBER in group exhibit with RUSCHA, NAUMAN, and more...

2009-09-25T12:03:00.000-07:00

ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER
Word, 2009
Found letters, enamel and tape, 36 x 118 x 3 inches

In a group exhibition drawing on themes of the text-based conceptual art movement begun in the late 1960's, 'Word' at William Shearburn Gallery in St. Louis, Missouri, opens tonight, Friday 25, 6-8pm, and features work by Marty Walker Gallery artist Archie Scott Gobber, alongside Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Havel, Jenny Holzer, Mel Bochner, Whiting Tennis, Suzanne McClelland, Matt Mullican, Glenn Ligon, David Buckingham, Graham Dolphin, Reuben Lorch-Miller, Craig Norton, Ligorano/Reese, John Tinker, and Toadhouse. This line-up guarantees a great show, so check it out! -the exhibition runs through November 14, 2009.

For information on additional available work by Archie Scott Gobber, or Ed Ruscha's suite of prints 'Country Cityscapes' please contact Marty Walker Gallery.

ED RUSCHA
Country Cityscapes: Be Careful Else We Be Bangin On You, You Hear, 2009
4-color photogravure with screenprinted text

SARAH WILLIAMS solo exhibit debuts new gallery remodel

2009-09-16T09:47:00.000-07:00

SARAH WILLIAMS: NIGHT VISION

September 12 - October 10, 2009

SARAH WILLIAMS
Macon, 2009
oil on panel, 18 x 18 inches

Marty Walker Gallery is pleased to debut the newly remodeled gallery space with a solo show for recent UNT grad Sarah Williams: Night Vision –an exhibition of oil paintings from Williams’ ‘Night Series’.

Williams’ ongoing experiments with place have most recently culminated in the oil on panel Nightscapes series. The artist grapples with the formal aspects of artificial light and atmosphere while seeking conceptually to captivate the viewer with ethereal yet banal locales on the fringes of urbanity.

WILLIAM LAMSON and the NBA (?)

2009-09-11T11:16:00.000-07:00

William Lamson: LONG SHOT

September 12, 2009 - January 2010
The Lot Public Opening: Saturday, September 12th
Pick-up basketball game, The Lot: 2–6PM
(food and drink on site - MAP)

William Lamson has installed basketball backboards and hoops enlarged 2.5 times to the scale of The Lot's 25-foot high rigger poles. The poles define the perimeter of the 90’ x 90’ site and the interior open gravel plaza of about 20’ x 40’. The result is the creation of a miniature basketball court of massive proportions. Artspace will provide basketballs to anyone who wishes to use the court through an exchange program with the gallery. You can use your own balls too - please play an enjoy!

The Lot is an 8,000 square foot pocket park located in downtown New Haven, CT [MAP]. Situated between two highly trafficked streets in the historic and culturally diverse Ninth Square neighborhood, this formerly derelict parking lot was redeveloped in 2005 as a public transit site and green space for communal use. LONG SHOT continues in Artspace’s tradition of expanding opportunities for public art and commitment to community. Lamson’s basketball court will create a function for The Lot's underused space, promoting play, community interactions, and physical exercise; it will also activate an otherwise dormant, unkempt area.

LONG SHOT will complement Lamson's solo exhibition at Artspace in November 2009.

The Lot is located on 812 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT -see map

ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER @ NERMAN MUSEUM

2009-09-11T11:15:00.000-07:00

ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER
Talentless, 2008
gouache on vintage board 8 5/8 X 11 in.

The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College presents WORD -a group exhibition featuring Archie Scott Gobber, Christopher Leitch, Jim Sajovic. The exhibition opens tonight, Friday, September 11, 2009, from 6-9pm, with artist talks at 7pm.

The use of text is integral to the current work of Kansas City-based artists Archie Scott Gobber, Christopher Leitch and Jim Sajovic. WORD juxtaposes these three artists, highlighting their varying conceptual and visual approaches to the use of written language.

In the digital age, with the complexity of multi-culturism in a global society, what is the future of the visual/verbal in our present-day Tower of Babel? The three Kansas City artists in WORD – Archie Scott Gobber, Christopher Leitch and Jim Sajovic — offer very different and idiosyncratic answers, as WORD demonstrates. But they also share some mportant commonalities. Like the best word/art being created today, their work consciously
acknowledges aspects of art historical precedents, while exemplifying new kinds of ord/artforms that are deeply personal, subtly disturbing and truly unexpected.

Gobber, Leitch and Sajovic have all rejected (hands down) the didacticism and anti-aesthetic stance of a previous generation of conceptualists. Each has insisted that aesthetics have a powerful and unforgettable presence in their work, even as the text holds center court. In their art, the overtly political and remorseless verbal language of the last several decades has given way to paintings and works on paper in which ambiguity and open-endedness rule, and where the viewer is encouraged to not just look but participate. If that proves somewhat destabilizing, so much the better. The “protocols of print” in our new network culture are disintegrating and reassembling in a manner yet tobe fully determined, a fact that this exhibit poetically underscores. -essay by Bruce Hartman, executive director, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art.

The Nerman Museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday; and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.

For more information about the exhibition, call 913-469-3000 or visit www.nermanmuseum.org (admission and parking are free). [MAP]

Also, visit Marty Walker Gallery for additional works by Archie Scott Gobber.

WAYNE WHITE VIDEO INTERVIEW & MORE

2009-09-10T19:39:00.000-07:00

In this video, Wayne White gives a teaser for his installation at Rice University Art Gallery. White also discusses his inspirations for the exhibition and we get a glimpse at the installation in progress. The exhibition at Rice University Art Gallery runs through December 13, 2009. (highly recommended -check it out! -MAP)

For more insight into Wayne White's intricately laced history of ideas, inspiration, and past work, visit these links:

GOOD/MAGAZINE interviews Wayne White and discusses his recent monograph "Maybe Now I'll Get The Respect I So Richly Deserve" from Ammo Books (download interview PDF).
The Houston Chronicle recently published a very interesting and informative article on Wayne White and the Rice Gallery installation (download PDF article).
Browse the Wayne White Youtube playlist, for videos the artist contributed to, including Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Mrs.Cabobbles Caboose, The Smashing Pumpkins, Peter Gabriel, and a Bruce Campbell Old Spice advertisement...

For acquisitions, more information, or to purchase Wayne White's monograph, please contact Marty Walker Gallery. For more Wayne White, look forward to the artist's solo exhibition at Marty Walker Gallery in February.

WAYNE WHITE INSTALLATION @ RICE GALLERY

2009-09-10T15:34:00.001-07:00

BIG LECTRIC FAN TO KEEP ME COOL WHILE I SLEEP
10 September - 18 October 2009

Opening Celebration, tonight, Thursday September 10, 5-7pm & gallery talk with Wayne White @ 6pm

BIG LECTRIC FAN TO KEEP ME COOL WHILE I SLEEP is a line from legendary country singer George Jones’s song, “Ragged But Right,” which was stuck in Wayne White’s head when he visited Houston in the sweltering month of June. Says White, “I kept thinking of hot Houston nights before air conditioning and the young George Jones in this city – full of crazy artistic passion and making music history.” To honor Jones, White will create at Rice Gallery a fifteen-foot puppet head resembling a young, flat-topped Jones, circa 1950. The massive head will sit sleeping on its side, surrounded by floor-to-ceiling, billboard-style lettering. “It’s a roadside attraction, a museum relic of a lost world, and a big, weird toy still in its box,” explains White.

Over the course of a prolific career in Hollywood and the art world, Wayne White has done it all, from set design and puppetry, to cartooning and illustration, to oil paintings and bronze sculptures. Best known as the three-time Emmy winning creator of many of the puppets in the hit, late-1980s television show Pee-wee’s Playhouse, White has done production design and art direction for numerous television shows, advertisements, and music videos, including Peter Gabriel’s “Big Time” and The Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tonight, Tonight.” Most recently, White is known for meticulously painting irreverent and humorous phrases on top of found, thrift-store lithographs depicting romantic, 19th century renditions of pastoral landscapes and seascapes. Dubbed by one journalist “the weirdest landscape painter in America,” White uses master painting techniques to create the illusion of words and phrases surreally disappearing into the horizon or jutting out from each lithograph’s placid settings. Also a sculptor, White has created three-dimensional versions of his dynamic text and large structures with peepholes that viewers can peak into to see miniature, diorama-like worlds created by White. At Rice Gallery, White will bring his work in painting, sculpture, and puppetry together to create his first site-specific installation.

preparatory sketch of George Jones, Wayne White, 2009

About the Artist

Wayne White was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1957. He received a BFA from Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where he staged his first puppet show instead of writing a paper for his art history class. After college, White left Tennessee for New York to concentrate on a career in illustration and cartooning, working many odd jobs, including as a sign painter and as an assistant to artists Art Spiegelman and Red Grooms. In 1985, he built the sets and puppets and performed many of the characters for the Nashville children’s public television show Mrs. Cabobble’s Caboose. One year later he worked on the first season of Pee-wee’s Playhouse, designing and building Randy, Cool Cat, Dirty Dog, Chicky Baby, Roger the monster, Mr. Kite, and Cowntess the cow, and voicing/performing several of these characters.

Over the past eight years, White has worked primarily as a fine artist with solo-exhibitions of his paintings and sculptures in galleries in New York and Los Angeles. In 2006, he created the large-scale sculpture Yer Supposed to Act All Impressed for the plaza of Rockefeller Center as part of the group exhibition Art Rock 2006. A book about his work,
Wayne White: Maybe Now I’ll Get the Respect I So Richly Deserve, designed and edited by Todd Oldham, was recently published by AMMO Books, Los Angeles, California. Wayne White lives and works in Los Angeles.

Press release from Rice University Art Gallery, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005.
(713) 348-6069 [MAP]

blog @ MARTY WALKER GALLERY

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ROLAND FISCHER @ Von Lintel Gallery

KATHY WEBSTER @ Brand10 Art Space

JEFF ZILM @ TCU

ALLISON HUNTER in 3D

ALLISON HUNTER @ UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS

JAY SHINN @ LUXPLUS

JAY SHINN @ 48 STUNDEN FESTIVAL

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TOM ORR RECEIVES POLLOCK-KRASNER GRANT

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LINEAR THINKING: OPENS, SAT. FEB 19, 6-8PM

JEFF ZILM: A LECTURE ON A MINOR PLATFORM

FRANCES BAGLEY with BEASTS AND BUNNIES

TOM ORR in IMPRINTS at 500X

ZINSER'S GIANT MACRODON LANDS!

TED KINCAID FRONT ROW in D MAGAZINE

COLLECTION FEATURES GALLERY ARTISTS

TOM ORR REVIEWS

WILLIAM LAMSON @ BOILER + REVIEWS

WAYNE WHITE TALKS

MARK FLOOD IN BERLIN

UPCOMING EXHIBITION: SMALL WORKS

NEW WORK BY ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER

SARAH WILLIAMS NEWS

TED KINCAID on NBC 5 DFW, TEACHING

PARD MORRISON SOLO EXHIBITION

SUSTENANCE, site-specific installation

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ORR & KRACHEY on HUFFINGTON POST

D MAGAZINE: BEST GALLERY

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RECOMMENDED: POST-NOW

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STING CONCERT WORLD TOUR +WILLIAM LAMSON VIDEO ART

TED KINCAID PHOTOGRAPHY @ LAX

ALEXANDRA GRANT IN CALIFORNIA BIENNIAL

ART THIS WEEK: DOUGLAS LEON CARTMEL

MATTHEW PORTER @ ICP

ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE: WILLIAM LAMSON AND JAY SHINN

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WAYNE WHITE CREATES NEW PUPPET

BARRY ANDERSON RADIO INTERVIEW

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MARKETPLACE covers MODERN RUIN (mp3 podcast)

WAYNE WHITE exhibition opens Feb. 20th

MODERN RUIN -a strange and spectacular two-day art event

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Last week to view: Anna Krachey at CAMH

DALLAS ART FAIR: FEB 5 - 7

TED KINCAID in DALLAS MORNING NEWS

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Go thrift store shopping with WAYNE WHITE

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