Wednesday, May 18, 2011

TED KINCAID FEATURED ART EDUCATOR

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**

Saturday, May 14, 2011

MATTHEW PORTER @ INVISIBLE-EXPORTS


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

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

WILLIAM LAMSON at IMA **UPDATED**



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


On view through August 28, 2011

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

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:




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

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

TOM ORR RECEIVES POLLOCK-KRASNER GRANT

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.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

ALLISON HUNTER in SCULPTURE MAG

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

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

WILLIAM LAMSON at IMA


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

Saturday, February 5, 2011

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


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


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