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.

WILLIAM LAMSON -REVIEW IN ARTFORUM

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)

THOMAS FEULMER: NEW WORK

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!

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

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 .

art this week: WILLIAM LAMSON

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-

WILLIAM LAMSON NEWS & EXHIBITS

"...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.

WILLIAM LAMSON, TALK @ FORT WORTH MODERN

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

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

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

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






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

ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER @ NERMAN MUSEUM

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, talk @ THE FORT WORTH MODERN

Tuesday Evenings at the Modern : WAYNE WHITE
-Tuesday, September 8, 7pm @ Fort Worth Modern Art Museum-

Los Angeles-based artist Wayne White begun his career as a production designer for Pee-Wee’s Playhouse ( for which he received three Emmys), White is now recognized for his clever and beautifully rendered text paintings. As a wordsmith and draftsman extraordinaire, White juxtaposes irreverent and humorous phrases over “sofa art” lithographs of landscapes mass-produced in the 1960s and ‘70s to create something all together new and always compelling. Tuesday Evenings focuses on the work featured in the recently published monograph, Maybe Now I’ll Get The Respect I So Richly Deserve, which is a comprehensive view of White’s 30-plus-year career. And mark your calendars for February 2010 -when Marty Walker Gallery presents Wayne White in a new solo exhibition. Opening reception Saturday, Febraury 20; exhibition runs through March 20, 2010.

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.

(pictured above, WAYNE WHITE's, Tinted Lard, 2009, acrylic on offset lithograph, framed, 18 3/4 x 25 inches)

WILLIAM LAMSON in ARTFORUM: "CRITIC'S PICK"

WILLIAM LAMSON WORK AND TRADE "...the show fuses abstract and documentary images in an entertaining take on strategies with roots in Dada, process art, and hobbyist gadgetry." -ARTFORUM

William Lamson's solo exhibition"Work and Trade" at Pierogi, Brooklyn, selected among ARTFORUM's "Critic's Picks", is reviewed in the latest issue. ARTFORUM contributor Michael Wilson describes Lamson's "Work and Trade" and "Automatic" (Lamson's Kite Drawing Apparatus and Automatic Kite Drawing appear above):

"Using simple homemade machines activated by natural forces, and initiating processes that revolve around found or bartered objects, Lamson juxtaposes the systematic with the random, questioning his own role as artist while maintaining an individual aesthetic."

Also on view is Lamson's two-channel 15 minute video "Hunt and Gather" (video stills, pictured below) in which Lamson performs urban interventions in NYC on his bicycle-ladder chimera, shooting down sneakers from power lines throughout the city with a bow and arrow and replacing them with the shoes he is wearing, thus preserving the original mark in the city's landscape, and by the redistribution of shoes creating a dialogue of nearly invisible actions and reactions.

For further documentation on "Work and Trade" visit the "Work and Trade" blog & William Lamson's website: www.williamlamson.com. Contact Marty Walker Gallery for further info, available work, and to view Lamson's work. CLICK HERE for the archive on our blog of posts about William Lamson's newest works. (pictured below, the final "Trade" collection)

WILLIAM LAMSON: WORK & TRADE

Opening reception tonite, Friday, May 29 at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, William Lamson's solo exhibition "Work and Trade" features projects in which the artist creates a mark-making system with a makeshift apparatus consisting of a ceiling fan, string, a balloon, and a marker, to create "automatic" drawings. Visitors are invited to offer Lamson a trade to be displayed in the gallery as part of the exhibition in exchange for a drawing of their choice. Among the trades is a cast dog skull, a Fabio CD, a watercolor painting, a MACRODON, and various other oddities. For further documentation of Lamson's trades, check out the "Work and Trade" blog.

Also on view is Lamson's "Automatic", a documentation of drawing projects made during Lamson's travels in South America that employ natural forces of wind and the ocean to power various makeshift drawing devices. And, in the two-channel video "Hunt and Gather" Lamson performs urban interventions in NYC, involving sneakers, a bicycle, a ladder, and a bow and arrow... connect the dots, and check out the exhibition!

For more info, available work, or to view the artist's video work, please contact Marty Walker Gallery.

WILLIAM LAMSON = AUTOMATIC

William Lamson just returned from South America where he produced a compelling and fun new body of work titled Automatic with subsections titled Sea Drawings, Molino Drawings, Kite Drawings, Tree Drawings, etc... Beautiful visuals touched by whimsy and grounded by serious purpose have come to define Lamson's art. (Thanks to the blog Heading East for posting the story)

In these new Automatic works, Lamson fashions mechanisms and temporary structures to make use of natural phenomena to execute (automatic) drawings in his absence.

WILLIAM LAMSON
Tree Drawing Apparatus - January 25-26, 2009

It is a fascinating concept to conceive a work of art while asleep.
(in this case, a drawing, detail pictured below)

For further information and available work please contact Marty Walker Gallery and to view additional video and photography visit the artist's website: www.williamlamson.com.

NOT TO BE MISSED! EXHIBIT CLOSES THIS WEEKEND!

LAST CHANCE TO VIEW! Visit the gallery before Saturday 5pm to view our text-based exhibition "there's someting I've been meaning to tell you..." with work by Thomas Feulmer, Mark Flood, Archie Scott Gobber, Alexandra Grant, Mickey Smith and Wayne White.

(exhibition installation pictured, click for slideshow of the exhibit)

For further information, images, or available work, please contact Marty Walker Gallery.

ALEXANDRA GRANT for WATTS HOUSE PROJECT

ALEXANDRA GRANT

think, 2009
mixed media on paper, 11 x 13 3/4 inches

Alexandra Grant designed a special edition necklace (pictured below) to support the Watts House Project (WHP) ongoing neighborhood redevelopment.


WHP is an artist-driven urban revitalization project aimed at improving the homes and lives of residents who live across the street from the historic Watts Towers in south central Los Angeles through large-scale artwork engaging art and architecture as a catalyst for community enhancement.

Grant's work uses language as the basis for images in painting, drawing and sculpture. For WHP, Grant has proposed a sculpture of the word "love" be placed on the roof of a house on 107th Street, literally putting "love on the house." The lettering and shape of the sculpture is copied in the elegant sterling silver or 18k gold Love Necklace, which embodies both the "hand-made" and the universal aspects of love.

As a benefit for Watts House Project, the Love Necklace is produced by Honor Fraser Gallery, LAart, and ForYourArt.

-CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE THE NECKLACE-

For additional available work by Alexandra Grant, visit Marty Walker Gallery. Also, be sure to check out the current group exhibition "there's something I've been meaning to tell you..." with work by Alexandra Grant, Archie Scott Gobber, Mark Flood, Thomas Feulmer, Mickey Smith and Wayne White.