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

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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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ARTIST – Celesta T. Segerstrom

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June Mattingly // regularmain.com

ARTIST – Celesta T. Segerstrom
Celesta arrived at creating what to her was the logical solution for the summer windows- stylish, cool white and recyclable paper dresses to reinforce their slogan “Hunt, Gather, Recycle”- beautifully situated on four white graceful mannequins with “no personality.” The setting in all white makes everything “anonymous”; paper sunglasses and sun hats simply contribute to the theme.

Paper Versace & Valentino

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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.artist Debbie Klein

featured artist

DEBBIE KLEIN

exploration of color brings energy and light.

images add form, content and balance.
layering gives depth and dimension.
art and design merge.

My work as an artist has been developing for many years. After graduating
from  both the Parsons School of Design and  the U of Texas in Austin.Debbie brought together aesthetic and conceptual ideas in art and design.She works in  multimedia, which solidified her  computer skills and her understanding of  how technology can play a role in the making of art.The work she creates today  is a combination of ideas and techniques that she has accumulated over time.

” It is a true reflection of my experience. Design, technology and popular
culture continue to be great influences. I am extremely interested in how these things interact with the process of making fine art.”

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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]

Dallas Contemporary Legends 2008

Dallas Contemporary’s 16th Annual Legends event honors Joseph Havel, noted artist, teacher and administrator.In stunning galleries filled with elegant forms cascading in space,  Havel’s, exhibition Two Sheets (to the wind) uses commonmaterials ~ white dress  shirts, curtains, tablecloths ~ deftly translatinglimp fabric into flamboyant bronze sculptures. Delicate constructionsquietly  suggest movement in a process the artist has described as uncovering the activity of still objects. His interest in fabric beganover 15 years ago, exploring it as a medium to reach a broader audience. read about the artist

Featured Artist – George Lacy

George Lacy has shown in galleries in London, Los Angeles, Dallas and Miami.I think color is amazing. I love colors. I almost don’t care what the subject matter is as long as I like the colors. I lik

e to use some sort of literal imagery too because it ads visual and mental texture. And it creates a mysterious narrative all on its own. Some of the work might have a message loosely based on some emotion or idea that was present with when it was created, but I don’t want to be obvious and heavy handed with any ‘meaning’. That kills a piece for me if I see that.

The work is also a diary of sorts as it is a record of my life and what was happening when I created it. I have to pull the inspiration from somewhere and that place is from my internal world of emotion and ideas stemming from dealing with external influences that swim around in me and conversely I swim around in them.I’m interested in historical reference and time as a concept and that plays into creating my work. Building on layers gives a sense of historical events, like abillboard that has peeled revealing previous postings. Our daily lives are a lot like that. One day builds on another, some things are erased and some things in our past are never quite covered. view more artwork

moderndallas.art featured artist Miryam Prodanovic

“My work considers behavior as landscape. Navigating a visual rhythm with line, shape and color, I am exploring how a range of movement becomes a crowd” view all Miryams Art

moderndallas.weekly Featured Artist – Suzanne Truman

As the surface evolves, I sand, scrape and scratch back into the many painted layers. By intuitively responding to emerging images I feel that I am both weaving and unraveling a “story”.I seek to reveal this “discovery” through each finished painting..find out more about Suzanne