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Controlled Substances | Angstrom Gallery

Controlled Substances
Curated by Kevin Rubén Jacobs
Jun 9 – July 7, 2012
RECEPTION Jun 9 from 6 - 10pm 

https://www.facebook.com/events/199901543465426/

Angstrom Gallery is pleased to announce Controlled Substances, a group exhibition including the work of Eli Walker, Kelly Kroener, Joshua von Ammon, Lucy Kirkman, Justin Hunter Allen, Alex DiJulio, Samantha McCurdy, and Michael A. Morris.

Curated by Kevin Rubén Jacobs, Owner and Director of Oliver Francis Gallery and Exhibitions Manager at the Goss-Michael Foundation, Controlled Substances is grounded on the relationship between the artist and their work, the compulsive nature to create and communicate, as well as the ever-important relationships that build community amongst peers and fellow artists. Beyond an aesthetic cohesiveness, the exhibition is a testament to the vitality of the newest emerging arts beacon, Dallas. Several artists featured in this exhibition have lived in the Dallas area before departing for their BFA or MFA’s elsewhere, returning soon afterwards, while some artists are fresh to the Dallas area with less than 4 months of acclimation. Nonetheless, these artists share a common goal: to develop into powerful cultural contributors.

The work chosen for Controlled Substances highlights the practices by each artist. While carefully commending formalism and addressing quixotic folly, these works act on autonomy and quiet political conditions. The works range through a variety of media, including video, painting, kinetic and felt floor sculptures.

The opening reception for Controlled Substances is Saturday, June 09 from 6 – 10 PM. The exhibition will be on view until July 07 by appointment.

ARTIST INFO:

Eli Walker (b. 1981 in Dallas, TX) eliwalker.com
Walker received his MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Kelly Kroener (b. 1987 in Lebanon, OH) kellykroener.com
Kroener graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with her BFA in Sculpture, Fashion and Fibers.

Joshua von Ammon (b. 1984 in Dallas, TX) joshuaammon.com
Von Ammon graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008.

Lucy Kirkman (b. 1986 in Virginia) lucykirkman.com
Kirkman received her BFA from the Cooper Union, NYC, and was a Harriet Hale Woolley Fellow at the Fondation des Etats-Unis, Paris.

Justin Hunter Allen (b. 1988 in Dallas) justinhunterallen.us
Allen received his BFA from the Cooper Union, NYC in 2010.

Alex DiJulio (born in Philadelphia, PA) alexanderdijulio.com
DiJulio graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Sculpture.

Samantha McCurdy (b. 1989 in Philadelphia, PA) samanthamccurdy.com
McCurdy received her BFA in Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2011.

Michael A. Morris (b. 1980 in Dallas, TX) michaelalexandermorris.com
Morris received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his BFA from the University of North Texas. He currently teaches at SMU and UNT.

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For more details on Controlled Substances, please contact David Quadrini at via email atdavid.quadrini@gmail.com.

L@@K Paintings by Lucy Kirkman @ Gallery A Cohn Drennan Contemporary

Opening Reception, March 8, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Lucy Kirkman

New paintings

Gallery A at Cohn Drennan Contemporary 

Exhibition Dates March 8 - 31, 2012 

Lucy Kirkman will present L@@K, an exhibition of her paintings in Gallery A at Cohn Drennan Contemporary.   Kirkman has been active in the Dallas gallery scene since moving here from Paris in 2011 where she was a Harriet Hale Woolley fellow at the Fondation des Etats-Unis and an active participant in new media critiques sponsored by the studio of Guillame Paris at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts from 2009 to 2010.  The artist was awarded her BFA in 2009 from The Cooper Union, New York and has had multiple exhibitions associated with her Paris and European residencies.  In Dallas, Lucy is involved with the multi-disciplinary community of Expo Park, and appreciates the creative energy and DIY aesthetic of the artists and residents of the area.  Please join the gallery in welcoming this new member of the Dallas art community at the gallery's opening reception March 8th.



For more information about Lucy Kirkman, L@@K or for more information about Cohn Drennan Contemporary, please go to   www.cohndrennancontemporary.com or call 214.708.8051 or e-mail cohn@cohndrennancontemporary.com
The gallery is located at 1107 Dragon, Dallas, TX and hours of operation are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

new painting 2

"Richter Photocopy"
Oil on canvas
12x10"

New painting

Lamb Stare
Oil & acrylic on canvas
54x42"

new digital drawings

Or are they digital paintings?
Since I don't presently have a studio for oil painting, I am satisfying myself making things like these! I am having a lot of fun getting prints made at Walgreens. They look suprisingly good after a little testing for scale, dpi, etc.
My digital painting "Mystic Adoration of the Tablet," the van Eyck copy, is going to be in a show in Scotland. It's called the Unoriginal Show, put on by the RSA NEW COLLECTIVE.


Here's a cat drawing and a degas rip:

Hand-drawn LOLcats

Well, I drew these on the computer, which, questionably counts as "hand" drawn. I used a mouse and a tablet, and an online program called Shi Painter.

palette

my palette, photo from dec 23

Wangechi Mutu

Wangechi Mutu: artist, painter. I saw her work at the Weils contemporary art museum in Brussels. The show blew me away. Justin and I were really excited by the show and came back to the apartment and made watercolors all night.
I was reminded of her work by meandering googling, and since this time I have an internet connection, please look. It's all really gorgeous. Her craft is amazing, her imagery, spot-on.

500X EXPO

Hello from.. Dallas! 


I will have two drawings at 500X Gallery in Dallas, TX for their EXPO show. Please join me at the opening, February 12th, 7-10 PM.


500X Gallery
500 Exposition Avenue
Dallas, TX 75226
214-828-1111
http://500x.org/

Collector

I would collect this:

Transparent Song Bird, The Music House

It's a modern Singing Bird box, an automatonic music box

Artist spotlight: studio visit with Julia Dzikiewicz

Julia Dzikiewicz: “Ms. Stevens visits Ms. Paul” Mixed media encaustic,  50"x30"

Yesterday I had the pleasure of visiting Julia Dzikiewicz's studio at Workhouse Center for the Arts. Julia paints in encaustic, spending months building up layers of pigmented wax. The result is luminous colors & textures, which she puts to work to send a message of freedom and equality. Her current work explores the history of American suffragists, the women who fought for voting rights. 
Julia writes,
"As a woman artist with a studio at the Workhouse Arts Center, a former prison, my work reflects upon the Suffragettes who were sent here. They were force-fed, put into solitary confinement and sleep deprived for demanding the right to vote. I often wonder how they awakened to the idea that they deserved basic human rights, in a time where this was considered absurd.  These paintings combine images of women from that era, portraits of figures in the suffrage movement, and icons of their oppression and their struggle for freedom."

Julia Dzikiewicz: "Awake" Encaustic, 14"x42"

Julia has been making political work for the past ten years. The seriousness of her political message is made more inviting by her playful style and sense of humor: one deceptively humorous picture depicts a suffragist bleeding psychadelic-colored paint from the nose. The sculptural additions to the frame à la Jasper Johns include the feeding tube that the imprisoned suffragist was force-fed with to counter her hunger strike. Other paintings incorporate zombies and dinosaurs into the stories.


Julia has exhibited widely in Virginia and elsewhere. Earlier bodies of work include meditations on global warming and 9/11. Visit her website to learn more, and check out the Workhorse Center.

Julia Dzikiewicz: "Martyr and Hero" Mixed media

Paris Postcards

Where I've been, where I'm going, where I hope to go

La Rochelle
Nantes
Lorient

Brussels
Rotterdam
Amsterdam
Berlin

Lithuania
Estonia
Finland
UK
Spain


Camera is ruined from sand of St Malo. But Justin's got an iPhone and there's digital cameras to be borrowed. I'm thinking of getting a disposible point n shoot.

show/artist

photo by louis atuonah

Little Update

I've seen and done many amazing things the past two months. I traveled to Provence and Burgandy with my Parents, passed a week contemplating the ocean horizon in Croatia (and getting tanned), practiced my French for a week in the countryside outside of Agen, and explored the coast of Normandy and Brittany with an adventurous friend. My time in Paris is nearly over, so I am seeing and experiencing as much of the city that I can, hosting travelers and sharing my love of the city with them.

I have been drawing constantly, looking around me and scheming for future painting projects.

digital doodles

some josh smith ......

I can just look at anything and paint it. Maybe not perfectly, but can do it. I can make a really good painting. Last year, I started making paintings of fish that way. I thought it would he nice to have a big painting on the wall of a fish jumping. That is exciting. It makes you wonder why it is there. It makes you proud of seeing it. There's a stupidity to it-and then again, it's nature. Courbet made a career out of that.
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I recently found a leaf, which I've been working with. I was in Pennsylvania, and I picked up this leaf and thought, "This will be easy to paint." I always try to paint things that are easy to paint. I never want to get hung up on trying to render something.

yves

Yesterday night, Wednesday, we went into an abstract café… the abstractionists were there. They are easy to recognize because they give off an atmosphere of abstract painting, plus you see their paintings in their eyes. Maybe I’m delirious, but I have the impression I see things like that. In any event, we sat down with themÉ. Then we began speaking of the book Yves Peintures. Later, I went to get it from the car and I laid it down on the table. At the very first few pages the abstractionists’ eyes began to change. Their eyes lit up and in the depths, pure, beautiful single colors appeared.

women

Maureen Gallace

Francesca DiMatteo

Kristen Schiele

Josephine Halvorson