Archive for August, 2011

Join us for two gallery talks this week:

"Modernism's First Wave: Texas Art 1900-1936" by Rebecca E. Lawton on Wednesday, June 21, 6:30 pm

"No Glass Slipper" artist talk by Lindy Chambers on Saturday, June 24, 11:00am

FURTHER DETAILS:

Independent curator and author Rebecca E. Lawton will examine the development of Modernist impulses in Texas art by focusing primarily on the artists who worked in North Central Texas. Ms. Lawton will focus on the contributions of Bywaters, Reaugh, Hogue, Travis, Dozier, Lester, Spruce, Preusser, Corpron, and LaSelle to the Modernist movement in America.

Ms. Lawton is authoring the essay on Texas Impressionism for the upcoming magnum opus "250 Years of Texas Art" that will accompany a major survey exhibition of Texas Art curated by Dr. Ron Tyler at the Witte Museum in San Antonio in 2018. She has authored "Louis Oscar Griffith: Rediscovering a Texas Printmaker," "Earth and Sky: The Pastels of Josephine Oliver-Travis (1908-1991)," and "L. O. Griffith: Painting the Texas Landscape."

ARTIST TALK:

Lindy Chambers began her trailer paintings in 2011, inspired by the rural "off the grid" lives seen in the region near her Bellville, Texas home. Beginning with thumbnail sketches and tonal studies, Lindy assembles these trailers—entrenched with their animals, trash, electric wires, propane tanks, and window units—into inventive, colorful compositions where dogs rule, and all strays are black. Detritus is littered throughout, a nod to an earlier series of large scale paintings and assemblages of non-biodegradable trash. She finds meaning in what others discard and overlook. Born in Jackson, Tennessee in 1949, Lindy spent her childhood drawing and riding horses with her identical twin sister, LeeLee. Marriage brought Lindy to Texas in 1972. She studied sculpture at the Glassell School of Art in Houston and built a foundry where she cast her own sculpture for many years.

ON VIEW IN THE GALLERY:

"Kathy Boortz: In Plain View (a mixed media celebration of Texas backyard birds)" and "Lindy Chambers: No Glass Slipper (living off the grid in rural Texas)" are on view through July 22. Exhibition catalogues will be available for each. Preview at www.valleyhouse.com

Kathy Boortz' mixed media sculptures of Texas birds are envisaged from pieces of wood found on her walks, developed by modeling heads in clay and welding legs in steel, then completed by painting the whole. Boortz describes the way she begins, "When I hike, my eyes are often downcast, feasting on the gifts of nature offered up by the natural world. Weighed down like a peddler, I arrange and rearrange the treasures I gather till I reach my destination, my home and studio, where I review and reassemble my stash, my prizes of singular beauty. The shapes I select lend themselves to further interpretation, semblances of the animal world which I revere and speak for. Some literally make themselves while others need tweaking but all in all, my aim is to lovingly portray the beauty, the humor, at times the harshness of the fauna of our natural world."

We look forward to seeing you!

Cheryl Vogel and Kevin Vogel
Laura Green
Valley House Gallery

6616 Spring Valley Road, Dallas, Texas 75254
972-239-2441

Hours: 10:00am-5:00pm, Monday-Saturday

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