MATTHEW PORTER featured on FLAK PHOTO

MATTEW PORTER
Downtown, 2008
archival pigment print, 29 x 36 inches

Matthew Porter's photograph Downtown was recently featured on the photo blog Flak Photo -a website that celebrates the art of publishing contemporary photography online, highlighting new series work, book projects and gallery exhibitions from an international community of artists. (Mickey Smith is another artist published on Flak Photo -whose work was part of the recent exhibition "there's something I've been meaning to tell you..." at Marty Walker Gallery)

To see additional work by Matthew Porter (or Mickey Smith), please visit Marty Walker Gallery. Porter's new solo exhibition "High Lonesome" is on exhibit at the gallery through April 25, 2009. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday 11-5pm, and please contact gallery for appointments.

ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER @ KEMPER MUSEUM + MORE, 2

ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER
Marry Me, 2008
gouache on paper, 14 x 18 inches

For today's post we're going to hit you with some news about Archie Scott Gobber, as a sort of follow up from the recent post:
ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER @ KEMPER + MORE.

For KCUR's Artcast 5 podcast, Kemper Museum director and CEO Rachael Blackburn Cozad converses with the Archie Scott Gobber on his work that inspired two simultaneous exhibitions: the utopian In Loving Memory of You at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and the dystopian In Loving Memory of You, Too.

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE:


In addition, there is a great interview of Gobber on the blog MW Capacity where the artist offers great insight into his process and talks about his current exhibition at Review Studios, as well as past exhibitions at Marty Walker Gallery. Read the interview HERE.

And for more on Gobber, and his recent work, read the Kansas City Star's review of Gobber's exhibition at Review Studios HERE.

To see additional work by Gobber, visit Marty Walker Gallery, and for a slideshow of installation images from the group exhibition
"there's something I've been meaning to tell you...", click HERE.

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.

MARK FLOOD in ARTFORUM

Pick up the current issue (March 2009) of ARTFORUM for the review of Mark Flood's recent exhibition at Peres Projects in New York - and visit Marty Walker Gallery to see Flood's work in the text-based group exhibition "there's something I've been meaning to tell you..."

MARK FLOOD

Bored Patrol, 2008
spray paint on board, 43 x 20 in.

MARK FLOOD

Bullet Holes, 2002
acrylic on canvas, 66 x 48 in.

ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER @ KEMPER MUSEUM + MORE

OPENING TODAY! "IN LOVING MEMORY OF YOU" @ Kansas City's Kemper Musuem of Contemporary Art, featuring their recent acquisition of Archie Scott Gobber's painting "In Loving Memory of You" (pictured above). Exhibition runs through April 26, 2009. Also on view, Kemper at the Crossroads' counterpart exhibit "In Loving Memory of You, Too" addresses less-than-idyllic themes of dystopia, on view February 20–May 16, 2009.

ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER

Broker, 2009
enamel on canvas, 36 x 93 inches

OPENING NEXT FRIDAY! Review Studios presents: ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER IS BETTER OFF NOW. Opening reception, Friday, March 13, 6-9 PM. Exhibition continues through Fri., April 17. (click for PDF press release)

So, here's the breakdown to go see Archie Scott Gobber's work:

• Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art: Mar 6 - Apr 26
  IN LOVING MEMORY OF YOU
  
• Review Studios Exhibition Space: Mar 13 - Apr 17
  ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER IS BETTER OFF NOW
  
• Marty Walker Gallery: Feb 21 - Mar 21
  there's something I've been meaning to tell you...
  
• CHANGEABLE - Billboard over Missouri Bank & Trust
  (@ 125 Southwest Boulevard, Kansas City, MO - MAP)
• & online @ www.martywalkergallery.com
  exhibition installation May-June, 2008 + available works
  

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.

ALEXANDRA GRANT @ MWG OPENING

ALEXANDRA GRANT
Contender (after Michael Joyce's 'Contend' 2004), 2005
mixed media on paper, 126 x 80 inches

EXHIBITION OPENS: Saturday, Febraury 21st 6-8 PM -artists Alexandra Grant + Thomas Feulmer will be in attendance.

The new exhibition at Marty Walker Gallery there’s something I’ve been meaning to tell you… , presents a compelling contemporary survey of emerging and mid-career artists utilizing text as a means of visual and conceptual communication. Artists include Mark Flood, Thomas Feulmer, Archie Scott Gobber, Alexandra Grant, Mickey Smith and Wayne White.

LA artist Alexandra Grant collaborates with hypertext writer Michael Joyce to explore the relationship between image, written word, and the effect of language through the context of color, shape, and arrangement among other aspects. Through the intermingling of these elements Grant creates a new hybrid which is neither language nor image, yet both at the same time. Grant was recently the subject of a Focus exhibition in 2007 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA -and the catalogue from the exhibition is available for purchase @ amazon.com by clicking the image below.

ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER: CHANGEABLE BILLBOARD

PHOTO, COURTESY MIKI BAIRD

Archie Scott Gobber's new commission for Art through Architecture's (AtA) “Art Achievement” project can be seen above on a pair of converted billboards over the Missouri Bank & Trust Crossroads Branch, @ 125 Southwest Boulevard, in Kansas City, Missouri. (MAP)

Archie Scott Gobber’s two images, to be displayed side-by-side facing east, are adapted from a recent painting by the artist titled “Changeable,” (which can be seen in the upcoming exhibition at Marty Walker Gallery, "there's something I've been meaning to tell you...", opening Saturday, February 21st 6-8pm) which references, and literally illustrates, the buzzword that so pervaded the 2008 presidential election and that represents a sense of optimism for the future. Gobber, who regularly uses text in his work in manners both playful and pointed, here not only alludes to this specific historical moment in American history, but also capitalizes on the nature of the billboard itself as something temporary, to be replaced in the near future with a different message.

“I enjoyed the process of adapting this painting to the billboard format,” -says Gobber.

“The word ‘change’ is powerful, but the word ‘able’ becomes significantly more important in this version. Originally this piece was intended to read ‘Available,’ but as time went on and the election neared, I altered it to the current version. Thus, it was truly ‘changed,’ and the final work captures this idea of "change" as unfinished and in progress.”

To read the rest of the press release, click here for PDF.

ARCHIE SCOTT GOBBER Changeable, 2008
latex and enamel on canvas, 35 x 80 inches