Conduit Gallery -- Dallas, TX

March 31 - May 6, 2006

Johnny Robertson
New Paintings

opening reception for the artists:
Friday, March 31, 2006 6 to 8 PM

Johnny Robertson's newest paintings continue to explore the emotive impact of the atmospheric landscape communicated through monochromatic color, stark imagery and scale. These formal decisions reveal a sensibility toward distance or isolation. Many of the images originate from photographs taken by Robertson in California. In addition to large scale paintings, the exhibition will feature several small scale drawings depicting skewed and blurred images of power lines, streetlights and palms that capture a highly romantic notion in the tradition of American landscape painting. The saturation of light and the density of atmosphere replace the majesty of terra firma.

Jack Balas
New Ground

Jack Balas' mixed media drawings and paintings put aside a single-image approach in favor of multiple and disjunctive sources. The paintings become maps that are annotated with words or images that, when compiled onto canvas suggest reading from left to right, right to left, upside-down or inside-out. Balas' work is cumulative and overlapping thus becoming documents that, via stylistic variety and symbolic territory, ask the viewer to build bridges across the middle ground between images and ideas

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Coleman Miller
Uso Justo

Minneapolis based Coleman Miller's first narrative creation, Uso Justo, is a short film reconstructed from an obscure 1959 Mexican hospital drama. Intelligent and hilarious, both the residents of Uso Justo and the "filmmaker" attempt to understand the value of art and the process of art making. Coleman Miller has been making films for over twenty years and in 2005 received the $25,000 McKnight Foundation Grant for filmmakers. He was also the recipient of a Jerome Media grant in 2001 and a Film Arts Foundation Grant in 1990.



			March 31 - May 6, 2006 Johnny Robertson New Paintings opening reception for the artists: Friday, March 31, 2006 6 to 8 PM Johnny Robertson's newest paintings continue to explore the emotive impact of the atmospheric landscape communicated through monochromatic color, stark imagery and scale. These formal decisions reveal a sensibility toward distance or isolation. Many of the images originate from photographs taken by Robertson in California. In addition to large scale paintings, the exhibition will feature several small scale drawings depicting skewed and blurred images of power lines, streetlights and palms that capture a highly romantic notion in the tradition of American landscape painting. The saturation of light and the density of atmosphere replace the majesty of terra firma. Jack Balas New Ground Jack Balas' mixed media drawings and paintings put aside a single-image approach in favor of multiple and disjunctive sources. The paintings become maps that are annotated with words or images that, when compiled onto canvas suggest reading from left to right, right to left, upside-down or inside-out. Balas' work is cumulative and overlapping thus becoming documents that, via stylistic variety and symbolic territory, ask the viewer to build bridges across the middle ground between images and ideas i PROJECT ROOM Coleman Miller Uso Justo Minneapolis based Coleman Miller's first narrative creation, Uso Justo, is a short film reconstructed from an obscure 1959 Mexican hospital drama. Intelligent and hilarious, both the residents of Uso Justo and the "filmmaker" attempt to understand the value of art and the process of art making. Coleman Miller has been making films for over twenty years and in 2005 received the $25,000 McKnight Foundation Grant for filmmakers. He was also the recipient of a Jerome Media grant in 2001 and a Film Arts Foundation Grant in 1990.