Conduit Gallery -- Dallas, TX

September 16- October 14, 2006

Christopher Schade
Island Paintings

opening reception for the artists:
Saturday, September 16, 2006 6 to 8 PM

Eight large-scale paintings comprise Christopher Schade's second one-person exhibition at Conduit Gallery.
Each painstakingly intricate painting takes the viewer to an isolated island world where dimensions emerge and disappear, day and night coexist and the rocky landscape folds infinitely into patterned terrain. Schade uses the island form to paint people, animals, plants, architecture, mechanical objects, portraits and landscapes simultaneously. The openness of the morphologic islands creates a space for freedom as well as contradiction.

Born in 1971, Christopher Schade earned a Bachelor of Arts from The University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Yale University.
Exhibitions since 2004 include; Salon Centro Projects, Mexico City, MX; CRG Gallery, New York, NY; Michael Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA and David Berman Gallery, Austin, TX.

left: Surge Island, 2006, oil on canvas, 72x72"
right: Sun Island, 2006, oil on canvas, 72x72"

The Drawing Show

a group exhibition of work by nine artists working with diverse themes in paper media. Artists include;

Robert Anderson
Nancy Blum
Jason Buchanan
John Lincoln
Kim Cadmus Owens
Danica Phelps
Justin Quinn
Dan Sutherland
Brant Watson

clockwise from left: Dan Sutherland, Brant Watson, Justin Quinn & Danica Phelps

PROJECT ROOM

Leigh Anne Lester
Artifical Arrangement

The Conduit Gallery Project Room will feature Leigh Anne Lester, a San Antonio based artist who's maylar drawings and constructions represent and reconstruct flora and fauna dealing with the artist's interests and concerns with natural and man-made environmental concerns.
Leigh Anne Lester earned her BFA in Painting and Drawing from The University of Texas at San Antonio in 1993 and in the same year opened Cactus Bra, the city's oldest alternative artist-run art space. Exhibitions since 1999 include; The San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; Pirate Art, Denver, CO; Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX; Women & Their Work Austin, TX and The Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL.

image: Artificial Arrangment, 2006, hand sewn clear plastic vinyl, 72x60x60"



			September 16- October 14, 2006 Christopher Schade Island Paintings opening reception for the artists: Saturday, September 16, 2006 6 to 8 PM Eight large-scale paintings comprise Christopher Schade's second one-person exhibition at Conduit Gallery. Each painstakingly intricate painting takes the viewer to an isolated island world where dimensions emerge and disappear, day and night coexist and the rocky landscape folds infinitely into patterned terrain. Schade uses the island form to paint people, animals, plants, architecture, mechanical objects, portraits and landscapes simultaneously. The openness of the morphologic islands creates a space for freedom as well as contradiction. Born in 1971, Christopher Schade earned a Bachelor of Arts from The University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Yale University. Exhibitions since 2004 include; Salon Centro Projects, Mexico City, MX; CRG Gallery, New York, NY; Michael Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA and David Berman Gallery, Austin, TX. left: Surge Island, 2006, oil on canvas, 72x72" right: Sun Island, 2006, oil on canvas, 72x72" The Drawing Show a group exhibition of work by nine artists working with diverse themes in paper media. Artists include; Robert Anderson Nancy Blum Jason Buchanan John Lincoln Kim Cadmus Owens Danica Phelps Justin Quinn Dan Sutherland Brant Watson clockwise from left: Dan Sutherland, Brant Watson, Justin Quinn & Danica Phelps PROJECT ROOM Leigh Anne Lester Artifical Arrangement The Conduit Gallery Project Room will feature Leigh Anne Lester, a San Antonio based artist who's maylar drawings and constructions represent and reconstruct flora and fauna dealing with the artist's interests and concerns with natural and man-made environmental concerns. Leigh Anne Lester earned her BFA in Painting and Drawing from The University of Texas at San Antonio in 1993 and in the same year opened Cactus Bra, the city's oldest alternative artist-run art space. Exhibitions since 1999 include; The San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; Pirate Art, Denver, CO; Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX; Women & Their Work Austin, TX and The Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL. image: Artificial Arrangment, 2006, hand sewn clear plastic vinyl, 72x60x60"