Presents

Solo Show - in The Box Featuring

Andrea Zuill
"When the painting is complete"
April 21 - 2006 - May 30 2006

Reception for the artist
April 21 - 7:00p.m - 9:00p.m
 

“Rabbit Nuns” Oil on Canvas 48x48 inches

AND IN THE MAIN GALLERY

PRESS RELEASE

Galleri Urbane is proud to present their 5^th Annual Spring Show. This year’s event will be a 2 in one showcase, both a solo and a group show. In the“ Box”(a solo space within the gallery), is West Coast Artist Andrea Zuill. Andrea’s has been preparing for this event for the past year, creating a series of large oil paintings.  The show “ When the painting is complete “, will be on display thru June 21,2006.  Ms. Zuill was born in Bakersfield, California, a self taught artist that has been painting and drawing since her teens, As an adult Andrea started to paint very realistic portraits that evolved into her now very distinct style of portraying the inner human experience. Andrea paints from an alternative perspective creating intriguing, to some disturbing, yet humorous paintings.  Ms. Zuill starts a painting with out a particular idea in mind, just an image. Trying not to question the image, but to let it take shape. “ When the painting is complete” is when the viewer is allowed into her subconscious. When asked about her current body of work Ms. Zuill replied, the current exhibit refers to how we see ourselves, and how we imagine our place in the world. The constant struggle for identity, beauty and a place in the natural world can be quite unnatural. Images of our physical and spiritual selves have been aggressively twisted lately. She also says, the media bombards us with ideas on how to live, look, pray and love. What a person considers as beautiful can be challenged by what the world is being told is beautiful. We are becoming a society where beauty and life has only one look. Maybe this is narrowing of ideals survives because of our desperate need to fit in. So, what happens when we can’t fit into the narrow slot of what is normal and beautiful?

New to the gallery, Alpine Artist Katherine Shaughnessy will exhibit her recent work.

Ms Shaughnessy creates tiny-lighted dioramas, derived from her recent travels. About 4 years ago when she and her husband left there home in the city and took to the open road. They Lived out of a campervan which forced the artist to scale down – Katherine’s new studio was the size of a shoebox. In her travels the artist documented the passing scenes, each more detailed and obscure than the next, marrying the tragic characters to fantastical escapes twisted and tragic scenes in miniature stages. Ms Shaughnessy received an M.F.A from Art Institute of Chicago.

Gallery artist Candace Briceno, also received an M.F.A from the Art Institute of Chicago, and was recently a selected artist in the “ 22 to Watch” juried show at the Austin Museum of Art.  Ms. Briceno’s “Painting Sculptures” is based on the observation of the extraordinary beauties within landscape. Those particular moments that reflect on the fascination of forms, colors and the silhouettes of decapitated trees and all its wonderfully abstracted forms. Nature’s images such as flowers, grass, tree trunks and leaves are sewn into the canvas where one might experience the sensations of smell, touch and their own memory. Candace incorporates painting in the background and fiber aesthetic to physically involve the audience with sensual and tactile surfaces.

The gallery will also feature mixed media weavings by Oregon artist Sandra Preston and paintings by Marfa artist Leslie Wilkes’s. Recently, and inadvertently Ms. Wilkes rediscovered a coloring method while making paintings based on geometric patterns from the 60’s. Ms Wilkes was intrigued by the way the random color disrupts the effect of the pattern, rendering a kind of controlled chaos. Before this recent exploration into abstraction, Ms. Wilkes was a figurative painter, but like many figurative painters Ms Wilkes began to concentrate on the abstract.

Galleri Urbane are representatives of emerging and established contemporary artists, Painting, Photography and Sculpture, With works also available by: Bret Aaker, Michael Berman, Gail Peter Borden, Glen Erler, Suzanne Sbarge,Charles Ruger, Mike Slack, Julie Speed, Sarah Spengler, Peter Voshefski and Jason Willaford.

Galleri Urbane is located at 212 E.San Antonio St /Hwy 90 Marfa Texas 79843 .

The shows will be on display From April 18^th – June 21^st 2006. The reception for the artists is April 21 2006 from 7:00 –9:00p.m. The gallery is open Mon – Thurs. 10-4 Fri-Sat 10-7p.m and Sundays 11-4p.m.