JEFF MUELLER + HARMONY PADGETT

at William Campbell Contemporary Art (Ft Worth) through April 28th
by Todd Camplin

William Campbell Contemporary Art Inc., a Fort Worth gallery, has a great showing of works by Jeff Mueller and Harmony Padgett. This group show titled “R*A*V*E*L” implies these two artists are trouble makers, which I can agree, but I also see one artist using influences  to drive the work while the other is driven by material used in the art making.

Jeff Mueller combines the sensibility of highly layered street art, with a Rauschenberg collage  influence, and a conceptual weight like that of Vernon Fisher. I see a great deal of Fisher in Mueller’s work, because of his layering of images and texts that are unrestrained by a square canvas. I am pretty sure Mueller went to the University of North Texas while Fisher was a teacher
there, so I am sure Fisher must have had an influence on his work, but I really see Mueller taking on some of the formal qualities used by Fisher and then pushing those boundaries to form a counter voice to Fisher. Mueller seems to feel at home as an installation artist using the space like a graffiti artist might. Mueller’s limits are the exhibition space alone. The word art interests me the most, because the messages in the text are overlaid with more words to get the effect
of an unclear thought. The effect slows the reader down to get a message that mirrors something you might read tagged on a wall. The painted words can also be fluid in their look, as if Mueller writes from pouring paint from the can.

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Marcelyn McNeil’s first solo in Dallas and at Conduit Gallery by June Mattingly

Observing Marcelyn’s grouping of hard edge, happy paintings at the 2011Texas Biennial followed a month later while attending her opening at Conduit convinced this trained  tried and true “eye” of having found a new Texas talent.

Speed, 2010, oil on panel, 71×74 inches

Standing out and capturing attention are the voluminous yet caressing sensual  shapes rendered in a “punchy” but subdued, sophisticated color palette, living up to the artist’s wishes to possess a “strong personality.” more details >>

 

Caprice Pierucci – “Royal Grain”

This capable artist is well deserving of attention for her meticulously conceived and crafted abstract wall and floor hugging sculptures. Fortunately Caprice was in attendance at her opening since she is so articulate in sharing her art- making from all angles; it made her show even more enjoyable. Also, this  Houston’s gallery new space in Dallas definitely deserves serious consideration by the art crowd.

  “Undulating”

Her comments began with telling us about the multiple undulating linear forms  in front of the audience creating delicate, flowing and sensuous movement and  shadow. It shows why Caprice credits the images she continues to reuse to her mother’s and her own past careers as weavers. While she builds her sculptures she envisions herself in the act of weaving the wood. Wood is the material a  loom is made of which naturally led to her favorite medium out of which  to make her constructions. Comparable to weaving, her forms are planned to interlock, interact and repeat; she works on a curvaceous imaginative grid, quite distinct from a loom.

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ADELA ANDEA’s work stands out in a group show at Cris Worley’s Gallery

Special EYE to Watch

June Mattingly // regularmain.com

ADELA ANDEA’s
work stands out in a group show at Cris Worley’s Gallery
“We are a culture of technological embodiment. My art introduces conceptual analyses of the types of communications, referring to the field of cybernetics, and mediates betweenthe physical presence of electronics and hyper reality of information.

“Quantum Computer,” 2010, cold cathode florescent lights, computer case fans, dc adapter

My installations and artworks generate a dialogue about the interaction between people and new technologies, socio-political issues raised through the dynamic and rapid industrialization and globalization and analyze the consensus reality about the current stage of the ecology of electronics.”

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Special “Eye” to Watch – Artist Billy Zinser

June Mattingly – Special “Eye” to Watch

Artist Billy Zinser

“My work is defined by a cartoonish approach to non-objective abstract painting intended to address color, line, and shape as the subject matter of the work, through simple gestures and automatic mark making.”

“PULP,” 2010, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 inches

Almost concurrently Billy Zinser recently became one of the recipients of the Dallas Museum of Art’s juried Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund and opened side-by-side cartoonist Jeremy Smith in a show through August at Public Trust, a gallery in downtown Dallas specializing in the newest talent.  read Special EYE to Watch >>

Lloyd Lowe JR interviewed by moderndallas.net

The Artist Archetype
moderndallas.net interviews
Lloyd D. Lowe Jr., Artist
by Robert M. Diago

I visited Rising Galley to check out ‘So…how are things?’ and found myself in a smaller room – ‘On The Rocks’ – a show within the show. I sat in awe. I got up occasionally for closer inspections. Mostly I sat. There in silence I got a text from my friend and publisher of moderndallas.net, “Let’s talk. Next profile. Who?”  – Light bulb flash!

Archetype 16 (Orphan)

RMD: Lloyd, why you’re an artist Lloyd?

LDL: Because I’m emotionally defunct. Seriously, art allows me to express fears, anxieties and hopes in ways that I’m comfortable.

RMD: Tell me about your art.
LDL: I try to give my art a conscience. I hope that it will incite positive curiosity,thought, and change.

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Dallas Artist, Joey Brock will unveil his new series, “Northwestern Exposure” with the opening of his new Studio | Gallery.

Brock Studio Gallery Opens
in Dallas’ Cedars District

Dallas Artist, Joey Brock will unveil his new series,  ”Northwestern Exposure” with the opening of his new Studio | Gallery.

An avid traveler, the collection was inspired by Brock’s recent travels to  the Pacific Northwest and  communicates the clash between  urban and natural environments using acrylic paint, conté crayon, pencil and paper on clayboard and canvas.  Brock incorporates concepts like layering, texture and proportion that  he learned while studying fashion.

“There is a unique balance that dances between the natural landscapes as they collide with the man-made environment,” said Brock. “I find that there is a certain beauty in the collision of these two worlds and the balance that will eventually emerge.”

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The Goss-Michael Foundation presents influential British contemporary artists: Marc Quinn

Once you enter the Goss Michael Foundation, you sense that this is no ordinary exhibit. The collaboration with noted Dallas collectors Cindy and Howard Rachofsky brings to Dallas influential British Artist Marc Quinn.

Marc Quinn Sky 2006 Human placenta and umbilical cord, stainless steel,
perspex and refrigeration equipment.

The GMF and The Rachofsky Collection bring together a strong array of Quinn’s works dated from 1998 to present. Utilizing both traditional mediums such as bronze and marble, in addition to more innovative materials such as ice, blood, insulin and DNA, Quinn breaks the boundaries of historical sculpture-making. The works included in the exhibition comment on the modern preoccupation of eternal preservation of the self and explore Quinn’s obsession with the unpredictability of the human body and the dualisms that define human life, such as: spiritual and physical, surface and  depth, cerebral and sexual.

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moderndallas.net featured artist Shane Pennington

Bug Jar Chandelier, h 72 x w 36 in, Bug Jar, h8 x w4 in, Mixed Media Sculpture,mixed media sculpture, 2009 American Dream Series, 2008

Shane Pennington recently received the 2009 New Dallas Nine Award at         D Art Slam.  The original Dallas Nine were a special group of experimental artists that were leading exponents of the regionalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s.  D Magazine and f.i.g. have revived the spirit of the
original Nine with D Art Slam 2009.  Shane joins Pamela Chance, Sunny Jacquet, Jennifer Jones, David Leonard, Rich Morgan, Joshua Stone, Kathleen Wilke, and William Young as the New Dallas Nine and will be featured in August’s “Best of Big D” issue of D Magazine. [ more info]