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

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)

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.

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

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

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' .

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)

ERIC SALL : NEWS AND REVIEWS

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

WILLIAM LAMSON: one of "three NYC artists you probably don't know, but should"

New York's Village Voice recently asked three critics to each select one local artist they thought deserving of much greater attention. We are pleased to see, among their expert choices: gallery artist William Lamson, and we couldn't agree more! (their other choices include the fascinating Heide Hatry, and Carrie Moyer.)

WILLIAM LAMSON
Actions -excerpt 1/33, 2007-08
video, edition of 10, 24 min 20 s

"I don't want to work with real guns," says William Lamson during a phone interview from his residency at the MacDowell Colony. "I want to turn the machismo thing on its head—to shoot a balloon, there's something so nothing about that."

Indeed, the 31-year-old multidisciplinary artist—based in Brooklyn—visits a holocaust upon flocks of balloons in his Actions videos (2007–08). In 1/33 (above), he jumps on a teeterboard, sending nine of these innocent playthings bounding upward, then deftly shoots them with pellet guns, their shadows dissipating across a white wall. Other victims are skewered with darts, lacerated by Exacto blades, and deflated under crushing boards. Revenge of a sort occurs in 9/33 (below), when Lamson rolls into the scene like 24's Jack Bauer and, grunting and squirming, keeps a single balloon aloft with shots from low-velocity pistols. Ammo depleted, the artist finally lies as flat as Manet's dead toreador, while the balloon descends to lightly brush his forehead.

In the shadow of some illustrious forebears—think of David Hammons's flambéed fur coat, Robert Watts's swaying tree-branch drawings, and Fischli and Weiss's cinema of mad science—Lamson's thoughtful mayhem is dead-on. -R.C. BAKER, excerpt from Village Voice article.

WILLIAM LAMSON
Actions -excerpt 9/33, 2007-08
video, edition of 10, 24 min 20 s

Read the full article at thevillagevoice.com or download a PDF excerpt of the article.

To view the entire Actions video, for further information, available works, and for acquisitions, please contact Marty Walker Gallery.

JEFF ZILM: 'THE' FEATURE

Jeff Zilm is featured in the most recent edition of THE 'MAGAZINE OF AND FOR THE ARTS'. The issue includes a thorough interview with Zilm, offering a morsel of insight into his process, readers learn why the films he utilizes are primarily comedies, and among other things, Zilm is flattered by an overzealous film fanatic that threatens to destroy his paintings.

"Mr Zilm's work is conceptually layered. Paintings that prima facie seem simply to be a replay of yester-century's ruminative abstraction are actually so many flat mausolea of film... The somber grisalle of abstraction of the five large paintings that are the center of Jeff Zilm: 7023629730 belie the combination of magic and humor that is the true crux of the show." -writes Charrissa Terranova (Director of University of Dallas Artist Residency Program 'Central Trak' & Professor of Aesthetic Studies) in her review of Zilm's recent exhibition at Marty Walker Gallery '7023629730' -also in this issue of THE.

• Read the review at www.themagdfw.com, or, download a PDF.
• Click here for 'THE' feature article and interview (PDF).
• See Zilm's exhibition '7023629730' @ Marty Walker Gallery (flash required for online slideshow)

BARRY ANDERSON: VIDEO INTERVIEW

Ellen Blalock for the Post-Standard interviews Barry Anderson on his ambitious exhibition "Intermissions" for Light Work, Syracuse.


Also, check out these articles about the exhibition:

• the Post-Standard (PDF)
  
• Syracuse University News (PDF)
  

DAILY SERVING: ALLISON SCHULNIK

Marty Walker Gallery ♥ Allison Schulnik...& DAILY SERVING too!
DAILY SERVING 'an international forum for the contemporary visual arts' had some very nice things to say about our exhibition of Allison Schulnik's mesmerizing claymation video Hobo Clown (2008), video stills pictured.

"The few minutes that it runs are some of the most heartbreaking, kaleidoscopic, breathtaking and gracefully tragic that you might ever spend on viewing art. Schulnik has created a messily pinched and sumptuously colored world of upside-down-smile wearing clowns, dragging along a vast lonesomeness of delicate floral arrangements and faded landscape, to the mesmerizing music of Grizzly Bear. You just want to climb inside the video and wrap the folds of clay around yourself, maybe fall asleep to the heartbreaking guitar strums. Around the point when the song's first lyrics hum "Why don't you do any dishes?"--which surprisingly isn't at all distracting, as is the case with much of the music played over video work--things turn psychedelic, but in an honest and fresh way."
-by Allison Gibson

BARRY ANDERSON for Drug Free Sport

Barry Anderson completed a new, site-specific video installation commission awarded by Art through Architecture (AtA) for the recent architectural renovation project for the National Center for Drug Free Sport (NCDFS). Installation photograph and video still pictured below:

An article in ARCHITECT magazine further discusses the project (CLICK TO READ PDF), and, for the press release and further information check out these links:

• Charlotte Street Foundation blog

• Brennan + Company Architects blog

• Design News blog

• Art Daily blog

ALEXANDRA GRANT in LA's ARTILLERY magazine

photo and article by Sophia Louisa Lee

Los Angeles 'artillery' magazine visits with Alexandra Grant to peak at the alchemy that takes place in the artist's studio and gets a glimpse at her new body of work for an exhibition in September 2010 which Grant calls 'a math poem of haikus'. In addition Grant discusses some of the details for Watts House Project, a collaborative redevelopment of the residential block across the street from Watts Towers in South Los Angeles where she is proposing a large-scale sculpture of the word 'LOVE' in her signature text, on top of a family's home. CLICK HERE to read the full article (PDF), and CLICK HERE for more on Alexandra Grant, here on the blog @ Marty Walker Gallery.

COMEAUX & KRACHEY @ DALLAS CONTEMPORARY

BEAU COMEAUX
New Construction, 2007
lambda print, 19.5 x 19.5 inches

'Viewfinder: New Images by Texas Artists' at The Dallas Contemporary, on view through August 22, 2009, includes gallery artists Beau Comeaux's large-format night photographs depicting rural and suburban scenes devoid of a human presence with eerie stillness reminiscent of classic horror movies; and, Anna Krachey's installation of show horse ephemera ~ documents of highly priced animals (thought to have lost their worth by purchasing them from online sites such as eBay and Craigslist) and repurposing them for art.

ANNA KRACHEY
Trophies Series: BW Horsehead, 2008
archival Inkjet print

Lucia Simek reviews the exhibition for Renegade Bus, side-by-side with a review for CADD ARTLAB's 'Launch' exhibition, which includes new paintings by recent Marty Walker Gallery addition: Sarah Williams. For a PDF of the article, CLICK HERE.

Gallery 'sale' & remodel in Dallas Morning News

MATTHEW PORTER
Crash, 2005 - archival pigment print mounted to Plexiglas with satin laminate, in artist's frame, edition of 8, 20 x 24 inches

In preparation for remodeling its space before its next show opens Sept. 12 (featuring paintings by University of North Texas graduate Sarah Williams), Marty Walker Gallery is using most of the works from what the owner calls its “back room” to put forth a special exhibition. Pieces from its collection, some of which may never have been featured in a show, are being feted in a salon-style presentation and sold at a discount. The artists include Waddy Armstrong, Douglas Leon Cartmel, Beau Comeaux, Ted Kincaid, Archie Scott Gobber, Lisa Grossman, Angela Kallus and Jay Shinn, among others. The gallery is being scaled back, Walker says, with a natural byproduct being a reduced inventory. So, it’s a good opportunity to see or buy original works by some of Dallas’ best midcareer and emerging artists. Visit Dallas MorningNews' Guidelive.com.

BEAU COMEAUX in ART IN AMERICA + NEW WORK

BEAU COMEAUX Kudzu, 2007, lambda print, 43 x 68 in.

"Beau Comeaux's nighttime photograph (Kudzu, 2007) of a cluster of trees overtaken by kudzu was a standout, with it's yellow light, purple sky and clarity of detail creating an eerily artificial scene." -Frances Colpitt, Art in America

THIS JUST IN! Brand new photos by Beau Comeaux can now be previewed in the gallery (see below), stop by, or contact us for more info and to see the work.

BEAU COMEAUX Ramp, 2009

BEAU COMEAUX Rubble, 2009

BEAU COMEAUX Cliff, 2009

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)

MARK FLOOD in THE NEW YORK TIMES

MARK FLOOD
Sandcastle, 2004 (detail)
acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 inches

The New York Times reviews Mark Flood's newest solo exhibition "Chelsea Whores" at Zach Feuer in New York, with this to say about Flood's lace paintings:

"Mr. Flood also makes traditional works by applying paint over old lace and then pulling away the cloth, leaving intricate, multihued, all-over patterns that are visually absorbing if not revolutionary." -Ken Johnson, New York Times

Read the article here -and visit Marty Walker Gallery to see some of these fantastic paintings in person, or check them out on our website: www.martywalkergallery.com.

NOT TO BE MISSED! SPATIAL SHIFTS EXHIBT'S LAST WEEK

LAST WEEK TO VIEW! Check out our current exhibition: SPATIAL SHIFTS: New Work by Jay Shinn + Rupert Deese, before it closes next Saturday! Click below for a slideshow of the exhibition (Flash player required)

"The shadow of the late West Texas art legend Donald Judd looms large over Spatial Shifts, the newest exhibit at Marty Walker Gallery. Artist Jay Shinn's work--which features stainless steel rods and paint fashioned into minimalist installations--has been compared to that of Judd, while New Yorker Rupert Deese (whose work uses topography and maps to create art from the California landscape) is a former artist-in-residence of Judd's Chinati Foundation. Shinn and Deese share gallery space through June 6; fans of Judd's work should definitely take a look-see." -Noah W. Bailey, Dallas Observer (PDF permalink)

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