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Save the Date
Dec 10th
JULIE SPEED
new work /new book
book signing and artist reception
6-8:30p.m
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Galleri Urbane Dallas is pleased to announce the opening
reception and book signing for nationally known Texas artist
JULIE SPEED
Ree and Jason Willaford, invite you to visit their new
gallery in Dallas
Located at 2277 Monitor st. (off of Wycliff)
Meet Julie
Speed, Thursday December 10th -
6-8:30
The artist will sign her recent book "SPEED ART" from
6:30-7:30
The book will be available for purchase at the gallery,
courtesy of Marfa Book Co.
We specialize in emerging
and mid career artist including Nationally known
photographer Michael Berman, painters and sculptors, Gail
Peter Borden, Kate Carr, Carol Es, Munson Hunt, Misako
Inaoko, Ashley Thomas, Rebecca Rothfus, Peter Voshefski,
Jason Willaford and Andrea Zuill.
Julie
Speed has attracted an enthusiastic following for her
paintings, collages, constructions, and drawings that use a
skewed form of realism to open vistas into psychologically
complete, yet contradictory worlds vacillating between the
ominous and the hilarious. Painted or crafted with the
meticulous attention to detail of an Old Master, Speed's
work shows an ultramodern awareness through sly references
to current events, enigmatic elements that introduce
unresolved and irresolvable threats, and an ironic, sense of
humor.
Born in Chicago and raised mostly on the East coast, Speed
dropped out of art school early, according to her website.
After a period of travel and intermittent employment
(house-painter, horse-trainer, waitress, stock boy, farm
worker) she landed in Austin in 1978.Since then she has
devoted herself full time to working in her studio and
teaching herself to paint. In her words, "I keep hours just
like a real job, only longer, and in my spare time I read
books, drink tequila, garden, and drive around West Texas."
In 2006, she decided that just driving around West Texas
wasn't enough so she moved from Austin to Marfa.
The University of Texas Press published a book of her work,
entitled "Speed Art 2003-2009." The book presents work
created by the artist since 2003. In series such as The
Murder of Kasimir Malevich, Bible Studies, and Still Life
with Suicide Bomber, Speed refers to "real things," whether
to events in her own life or to those taking place in some
distant part of the world but filtered through a mind that
is unusually keen and imaginative, and that is preoccupied
by a desire to make sense of the absurdities that permeate
the contemporary condition, according to art historian
Elizabeth Ferrer. Joining Speed in a creative collaboration
of artist and writer is acclaimed author A. M. Homes. Her
short story "Do You Hear What I Hear?" written in response
to Speed's recent work shows a similar affinity for the
anomalous in telling the story of a mysterious phone call
being investigated by the Phenomena Police. Completing the
volume is an essay by Ferrer, who provides both
philosophical and art historical context for Speed's
self-taught painting style, and an artist's statement by
Speed, who describes her creative process and the complex
ways in which representation and geometric abstraction
interact in the composition of her work,
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To view the catalogue of the upcoming exhibit, go to our
website
click on Dallas Event section
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Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Friday 10-5:30 Saturdays 12-5
or by appointment
Galleri Urbane
2277 Monitor St
Dallas, Texas 75206
phone 432 386 0590
Ree and Jason Willaford
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