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

FRANCES BAGLEY with BEASTS AND BUNNIES

Frances Bagley, Zebra

Beasts and Bunnies at McKinney Avenue Contemporary

Artists Helen Altman, Celia Eberle, Margaret Meehan and Frances Bagley join forces this January in a show called Beasts and Bunnies, which will explore this bevy of female artists’ often macabre considerations of animals. Through work in various media, from Margaret Meehan’s often furry, toothed bizarro humanoids to Frances Bagley’s shrouded, stunted or blind mystery beasts to Helen Altman’s precious tanks of pet-ables to Celia Eberle’s monstrous, mouthy creatures, each artist explores our own animal behavior in off-kilter notions of beasts. With results that are often haunting and repulsive, but always full of wonderment and wit, these artists forcibly push a viewer to reflect on the state of one’s own inner creatures. Grouping the four of these women together as a collective should prove a walk on the wild side, so be warned: one never walks away from work by these artists unbitten. – Lucia Simek

Beasts and Bunnies: An Investigation of Crossed Paths
McKinney Avenue Contemporary
January 8 – February 12

3120 McKinney Ave.
Dallas, TX 75204

TOM ORR in IMPRINTS at 500X

Tom Orr, Fingerprint, screenprint on wood, 81 x 81 in.

500x Gallery, commemorating 30 years as the oldest artist-run space in Texas, highlights 3 generations of member artists with the current exhibition Imprint, curated by current member Leslie Murell, includes artists Tom Orr, Vance Wingate, and Natalie Macellaio.

Tom Orr, one of 500x's founding members, will include a survey of artwork produced over the past 30 years, including a ready-made installation included in the gallery's first exhibition in 1978. His works will include investigations in abstraction and perception.

The work of Vance Wingate investigates intersections of mathematical reason and human intuition, setting specific rules to construct the images that result in nuanced variations.

Natalie Macelliao uses the cracks found on the gallery floor and imitates them in silver on the walls of the gallery. Mimicking mundane flaws in precious metals brings an immediate awareness of the surrounding space.


Imprints
January 15 - 30, 2011
Opening Reception - January 15, 7pm - 10pm

500x Gallery
500 Exposition Ave.
Dallas, TX 75226

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

TED KINCAID FRONT ROW in D MAGAZINE

D Magazine Front Row visits Ted Kincaid's studio to preview recent work:

"Kincaid's site shows images from a few new series of work comprised of digitally fabricated moon-scapes, mountain ranges, sea vistas, and other other-worldly sights that seem to derive their inspiration from early photographic works . . ." ~Peter Simek

Ted Kincaid continues his visual trickery in photography - his new work fabricates painstakingly built images of mountain ranges, ocean fronts, and the moon using no actual photographic material. In one of the new series, "A Hundred Moons," what appear to be representations of the moon's surface are constructed from images of Kincaid's concrete studio floor.

Find out more:

Read entire review here. (permalink)

Preview new work here.

COLLECTION FEATURES GALLERY ARTISTS

The Art Gallery at the University of North Texas will exhibit Collections, Cultures, and Collaborations: Inspirations from the Neiman Marcus Collection, works selected from the Neiman-Marcus Collection. The collection, holding a total of some 2500 pieces, represents local and international emerging and established contemporary artists from various cultures. Curated by Julie Kronick, Corporate Art Curator of Neiman-Marcus, the selected work will feature Frances Bagley, Brad Ellis, Vincent Falsetta, Jane Helslander, Otis Jones, Ted Kincaid, Joe Mancuso, and Tom Orr. Visit the collection starting January 18 - February 12, 2011.

University of North Texas
College of Visual Art and Design
http://art.unt.edu/gallery

Image: Ted Kincaid, Seascape 1021, 2006, digital photograph, 26 x 48 in.

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

WILLIAM LAMSON @ BOILER + REVIEWS

A Line Describing the Sun, installation view

William Lamson goes to the desert with another drawing machine invented and constructed as part of his work during artist residency at the Center for Land Use Interpretation’s in Wendover, Utah. Videos and photographs are currently on display at The Boiler in Peirogi Gallery in New York. On view through November 14.

A Line Describing the Sun, video still, detail view

Recent Reviews:

• New York Times - 27 October 2010
• Minus Space - 1 October 2010
• Huffington Post - 22 September 2010
• The L Mag - 14 September 2010