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Gallery News
Galleri Urbane is
pleased to announce a new asst. at the gallery Ana Wooldrige.
Please come by
and meet her, she will be at the gallery with Elizabeth during
the month of July.
Please join us
July 5th for the opening of our new Summer Exhibit "one
someone,anyone" featuring gallery artist Bret Aaker and
introducing 3 Austin,Texas based artists Alyson Fox,John Mulvany
and Morgan Sorne. Please read the press release on the sumer
exhibit link.
The gallery now
has additional space to exhibit artwork; Jason
Willaford has a new off site private studio, but of course can
be viewed by appointment. Willaford is working on a new series,
“refracting all but one”, it is currently on display in Gallery
2. A short film/dvd will be out shortly with images of the new
work.
“Refracting all
but one” is a systemic group of paintings exploring the
evolution of the line and how we see things, “The fact that I
can drop a wet piece of string on the floor and watch it
transform into a beautiful line mimicking that of a horizon
leads me to believe there is an ultimate connection between
everything,” says Willaford.
Willaford’s use
of string is a humorous ode to a “string theory” of aesthetics
in which the visible world is connected by fibers so small
that they are not perceptible to the human eye. Here, seeing
is about what’s not visible as much as it is about color and
light. The series is a continuum of exact specs (32x2x96).
Each piece is white with wheat pigment lines that convey
energy.
To further
explain his intent Willaford quotes a line from Herman
Melville’s Moby Dick. Whiteness is not so much about color as
the visible absence of color, and at the same time the
concrete of all colors. “Melville understood that white is
truth,” says Willaford. “That when everything else is stripped
away in nature we are left with white.”
We have new work by gallery
artists Gail Peter Borden,Peter Voshefski,and Andrea Zuill.
Look for new work that will be
featured in our Fall show, which will include gallery artists
Ted Larsen,Kate Carr,Michale Berman,Gail Peter Borden and
introducing Rebecca Rothfus and Monica Goldsmith.
Congrats again to
gallery artist Michael Berman who has received a Guggenheim
Award, more information on the website.
Once again
/thanks for all you support of the gallery.
Best Ree
Willaford
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