PRESS RELEASE May 10, 2005
WHAT: Solo Show - SHALLOW SPACES by GAIL PETER BORDEN
In the main gallery new works by:
JASON WILLAFORD, PETER VOSHEFSKI, MIKE SLACK AND CANDACE BRECINO
WHEN: Sept 30th - Nov 31st 2005
WHERE: GALLERI URBANE / MARFA
212 San Antonio ST
POB 1506
Marfa TX 79843
CONTACT:
Ree Willaford
432.729.4200
*Additional images and
Press images available upon request, see enclosed CD or attachments to view artist works.Galleri Urbane / Marfa…. announces a new exhibit,” SHALLOW SPACES” by former Chinati Artist in Resident Gail Peter Borden. As both an artist and architect Gail’s work has always revolved around space. Its production, depiction and experience are essential to our perception and interaction with our world. The content of this exhibition includes 5 recent veins of investigation in diverse scales and media, collaboratively focused on the representation and perception of space and the associative activities, memories, and experiences referenced in each presentation. These works each deal with shallow projection, scene fabrication, and geometrically descriptive compositions.
The gallery will also exhibit a continuing series of 12”x12” painted panels with a polished resin surface each depict a projected space with a series of geometric elements in dialogue with one another. Architectural boom boxes, machine-like furniture, and creature robotics all stand in conversation. Their interface with one another and their sublime, bleak and expansive color field surroundings, and the viewer all beckon to a dialogue sealed beneath the glossy and fluorescent projected color fields. As silhouetted buildings, electronic leftovers and technological personalities, the panels emphasize both the object and the field of the space that it inhabits.
In the main gallery, Encaustic Paintings by Marfa Artist Jason Willaford, a continuum of the Descending Order Series, his paintings convey sublime images perhaps of our surroundings, what is hidden and sometimes revealed in these translucent luminous works.
Written For a solo show preview by James Bae, Big Bend Sentinel
Reduction is addition, his canvas thick with appliqu
È of encaustic follow a systemic path: apply, form, and render. In some paintings a tracery of line is incised leaving a gesture of this practice, where a millimeter of depth transforms the image something other than painting .The subtlety of the relief effect creates a transitional effect for reflection to delve upon.Also included is Albuquerque artist Peter Voshefski, Voshefskis paintings are concerned with the subtle pleasure and anxiety in the specific moments and places that inhabit life’s experiences. These things evoke the questions: What is here? What is missing? What is desired? In this spirit Peter paints with explicit and implicit elements of space and time, and a language of desire, longing, history, and mythology. Voshefski’s paintings reveal as much as they conceal in a translucent mist of images and fragments that occupies empty spaces.
From a show preview in the Santa Fe Reporter, October 2004:
Peter Voshefski hones his acrylic paintings with a fine edge of ink and his simple subject matter with existential irony, powerful graphic sensibility, gifted composition and some damned funny thoughts.
Los Angeles artist Mike Slack will exhibit a new series of large scale photographic prints based on his original Polaroid images.
Slack
’s work as a photographer begins with what is readily available and ends with the manmade and the familiar, especially if it involves bright artificial colors and harsh sunlight. The resulting image either describes the strangeness of human space, or refers to the limitations and charms of the image.Also showing photographer Sarah Spangler of Sante Fe “Encapsulate” series, which is a series of stereo slides and text intimately presented in handheld 3D viewers displayed on shelves. Also included are selected C-prints from Ms. Spangler’s “ Site Remains Series,Photographs trash, discarded remnants of a society. Excavates neglected parcels of land in search of cultural artifacts. A battleship game, a toy vacuum cleaner, plastic flowers—each piece is embedded with sociological information. Grouped together the images form a narrative—a miniature U-Haul Van, an instructional book “How to Have a Happy Family Life,” a microwave, pharmaceuticals. While the abundance of waste suggests a society of excess, its abandonment and decay hints at destruction or extinction. The fractured state of household items suggests a societal rupture at its core.
Through decontextualizing the objects, referencing archeology, and using a machine that allows for exploration, I encourage a re-examination of the objects that surround us. The purpose is to convey both the societal story of urban waste and the mysterious narrative quality of discarded objects.
And Introducing to the gallery, Texas artist Candace Briceno, the work is based on the observation of the extraordinary beauties within landscape. Those particular moments that reflect on the beauty and fascination of forms, colors and the silhouettes of decapitated trees and all its wonderfully abstracted forms. I use nature images such as flowers, grass, tree trunks and leaves and sew “painting sculptures” where one might experience the sensations of smell, touch and their own memory in my work. Candace has incorporated the painting background and fiber aesthetics with the desire to physically involve the audience with sensual and tactile surfaces. The work highlights those moments when we are entranced by the outdoors and how the work strives to sweeten the past that have been altered by the viewers’ experiences.
Please go to the website to view the show at www.galleriurbane.com (after Sept15th) or please contact Ree Willaford at 432.729.4200 for more information. The show begins SEPT 30th through NOV 31st. the gallery is open daily from 9-6p.m or by appointment.
Gail Peter Borden - Wall Bubble
Jason Willaford - Dent
Peter Voshefski - Dream Architecture
Mike slack – okokok – 43
Candace Briceno - Blue Landscape