RECOMMENDED: POST-NOW

EXHIBITION EXTENDED ONE WEEK!!! HURRY IN NOW!

People are talking about the futuristic renderings now on exhibit in POST-NOW. Anna Krachey, Buster Graybill, and Jesse Morgan Barnett's photographs, sculpture and videos illustrate their version of the quesion:

How would the world appear in the absence of humans?

Visual Art Source claims POST-NOW is a must-see exhibition for all ages and walks of life, found on its list of RECOMMENDATIONS:

If Buster Graybill's black and white stills and video depict wildlife in the form of feral pigs and long-horned rams, then Jesse Morgan Barnett's and Anna Krachey's pictures show traces of the destructive wild life of people.

With the theoretically suggestive title of "Post-Now," this is a tight exhibition that brings home what it promises in a small dose. It is a pithy exposé of work by young artists providing glimpses into a would-be world left behind, yes, by fanatical Christians as well as by a vast array of technology whores, everyone from hot-rodding highway speed demons to lovers of Euro-trash disco. - Charissa Terranova

Read the full article here (permalink)

On view through July 24.
Contact Marty Walker Gallery for more information.

above:
Buster Graybill, Tush Hog Surveillance: 2/22/10 07:57PM (Turf War), 2010, archival ink jet print
Jesse Morgan Barnett, To Accident and Abandon (A), 2009, archival Ultrachrome print
Anna Krachey, Four Corners, 2010, archival inkjet print

STING CONCERT WORLD TOUR +WILLIAM LAMSON VIDEO ART

Sting just kicked off his world tour 'Symphonicity' accompanied by the London Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, to perform a selection of songs from his catalogue of greatest hits, re-imagined for symphonic arrangement. Additionally, 10 international artists were specially selected to contribute accompanying video art for display during performance, these artists include Marty Walker Gallery artist William Lamson, Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth, Takeshi Murata, and others.

ART THIS WEEK: DOUGLAS LEON CARTMEL

Find a full interview with Douglas Leon Cartmel on his current exhibition SUPER NATURE, featured on "Art this Week," conducted by Anne Lawrence, video by Richard Serrano.

BARRY ANDERSON RADIO INTERVIEW

Barry Anderson's recent exhibition, "SpaceRockSpasm" at Review Studios in Kansas City, is highlighted in a radio interview by Laura Spencer on Kansas City's public radio station KCUR.

Listen on KCUR or click here:

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)

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-

art this week: TOM ORR + FRANCES BAGLEY @ DMA

Anne Lawrence interviews Tom Orr and Frances Bagley for Art This Week to discuss the couple's installation for Performance/Art at The Dallas Museum of Art (pictured below).

TOM ORR & FRANCES BAGLEY
Performance/Art installation at The Dallas Museum of Art

Check out more video podcasts on artthisweek.com.

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)

REALITY SHOW @ TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY

JILL PANGALO
from video - Note to Self

The exhibit "Reality Show," now at Texas Woman's University, explores the "reality" presented by television's favorite format. The artists are Jill Pangallo, Cecelia Phillips, Anna Krachey, Jaime Wentz and Laura Turner.

The artists' work uses the ubiquitous reality television format as material, though the show's brochure explains that reality television "is far from their main concern."

To build their vision, the show's five artists did extensive research, watching years of reality television.

Jill Pangalo's video can be seen at this year's '2x2 for aids and art' event. Click here for more info and to see the superb catalogue of artists. For more information, images, and available work by Anna Krachey and Jill Pangalo, please contact Marty Walker Gallery.

ANNA KRACHEY
Cupcake on the Sea - digital archival print, 31 x 40 inches

*above excerpt from The Daily Texan article "Exhibit explores reality TV phenomenon through art," review of Reality Show's first iteration at Women and their Work, Austin, TX. (click here to read the full article)

WAYNE WHITE VIDEO INTERVIEW & MORE

In this video, Wayne White gives a teaser for his installation at Rice University Art Gallery. White also discusses his inspirations for the exhibition and we get a glimpse at the installation in progress. The exhibition at Rice University Art Gallery runs through December 13, 2009. (highly recommended -check it out! -MAP)

For more insight into Wayne White's intricately laced history of ideas, inspiration, and past work, visit these links:

• GOOD/MAGAZINE interviews Wayne White and discusses his recent monograph "Maybe Now I'll Get The Respect I So Richly Deserve" from Ammo Books (download interview PDF).
  
• The Houston Chronicle recently published a very interesting and informative article on Wayne White and the Rice Gallery installation (download PDF article).
• Browse the Wayne White Youtube playlist, for videos the artist contributed to, including Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Mrs.Cabobbles Caboose, The Smashing Pumpkins, Peter Gabriel, and a Bruce Campbell Old Spice advertisement...

For acquisitions, more information, or to purchase Wayne White's monograph, please contact Marty Walker Gallery. For more Wayne White, look forward to the artist's solo exhibition at Marty Walker Gallery in February.

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)
  

BARRY ANDERSON: LIGHT WORK in SYRACUSE, NY

Throughout fall/winter 2009, in Syracuse, New York, Light Work presents a large-scale video art exhibition by Kansas City artist Barry Anderson, titled Intermissions, featuring video work along with some photography and video stills, taking place in multiple venues throughout Syracuse and the Syracuse University campus.




This project is an ambitious collaboration at an unprecedented level, with exhibitions taking place at various galleries including Light Work, the Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, the Everson Musuem of Art, as well as Syracuse University Art Galleries, various student centers, the Syracuse University Orange Television Network, in addition to the multi-media public art initiative Urban Video Project's outdoor projection systems, LED screens, and over a dozen billboards, with still images, to compliement their video counterparts. See a map of the current exhibition venues above, or view a larger map.

Visit www.lightwork.org for additional information on exhibitions and events surrounding Barry Anderson's Intermissions, and keep your eyes open for CONTACT SHEET #153, Light Work's award winning publication, which further describes the venues and exhibitions.

Light Work is a nonprofit, artist-run organization dedicated to the support of artists working in photography and electronic media. Light Work is a member of the Coalition of Museum and Art Centers at Syracuse University (CMAC).

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

JEFF ZILM EXHIBITION CLOSES

JEFF ZILM : 7023629730

LAST WEEK ON VIEW! Be sure not to miss Jeff Zilm's solo exhibition of new film based paintings & Allison Schulnik's claymation video Hobo Clown in the 'other gallery'. Exhibition closes Saturday, July 18, 2009. And to whet your appetite, check out a slideshow of the exhibition installation here: http://www.martywalkergallery.com/archive/062009JZ+AS.htm

JEFF ZILM & ALLISON SCHULNIK, opens June 13

JEFF ZILM
Bank Dick, 2008
dye, acrylic emulsion and optical sound on canvas, 66 x72 inches

Join us Saturday, June 13 6-8pm for the opening reception of Jeff Zilm's new solo exhibition 7023629730, and in the other gallery an exhibition of Allison Schulnik's painting, video, and ceramic sculpture.

ALLISON SCHULNIK

Hobo Clown, 2008 (video still)
stop-motion animation, HD video, 5:10 min.

Exhibition runs June 13 - July 18, 2009 - visit Marty Walker Gallery for more info.