PARD MORRISON SOLO EXHIBITION

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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