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

ZINSER'S GIANT MACRODON LANDS!

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

TOM ORR REVIEWS

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

UPCOMING EXHIBITION: SMALL WORKS

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

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.

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]

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

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.
  

LISA GROSSMAN - EXHIBITION CLOSING SOON

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

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.

UPCOMING EXHIBITION: LISA GROSSMAN - 'WINDINGS'

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

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'

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

WAYNE WHITE exhibition opens Feb. 20th

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

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!

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

DALLAS ART FAIR: FEB 5 - 7

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

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' .