Conduit Gallery -- Dallas, TX

January 5 - February 10, 2007

Robert Jessup
Floating, Falling

opening reception for the artists:
Friday, January 5, 2007 6 to 8 PM

Robert Jessup's newest body of work hones his unique style of fictional realism. A thin application of paint to canvas has allowed Jessup to convey a more detailed and anatomically exact figure thus fine-tuning his ability to describe and tell a different kind of narrative; focused on individual communication, non-linear storytelling and the psychologically based drama of appearance.

Robert Jessup is a nationally recognized artist who has work in major museum collections including The Metropolitan Museum in New York; The High Museum, Atlanta, GA.; The Dallas Museum of Art; The Blanton Art Museum at the University of Texas, Austin and the Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia.

Jessup is a professor of painting and drawing at the University of North Texas. He has an MFA degree from University of Iowa, and undergraduate work at the University of Washington and Harvard University.

Matt Clark
Recent Paintings

Matt Clark's paintings are luminous, deep color fields painted in several layers. The variables (compression, paint opacity, color, and surface effects) combine the moment of the process and the exploration of the material. Clark's work speaks of application and erasure, movement and stillness, and the intentional and the accidental. The tension between the painted surface and the illusion it has created mimics a suspension of time.

A history is built by the application of paint in layers; enabling one to enter the pictorial spaces and move between its depths. The painting, like a photograph, captures an otherwise fleeting instant of time in both Clark's pursuit and our perceptual experience.

Matthew Clark received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2002 and relocated to Los Angeles in 2003. Exhibitions since 2000 include Kidder Smith Gallery, Boston, MA; Andlab Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA; Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield, MA; "Main Street Annual Exhibition, Ft. Worth, TX and The Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX.

PROJECT ROOM

Christian Pitt
Monsters in the Living Room

Oklahoma artist Christian Pitt plays out fantastical moments in photographic tableaux's using monster characters she's created from felt and fur and sculpey and other things. Using her collection of tiny toys as their accoutrements and old photographic history books, papers, and encyclopedias as back drops, Pitt explores what could be done if people had the ability to act in the way they truly wish to: in the imagined life. Pitt's "monsters" can do anything in this life, especially if you make them.



			January 5 - February 10, 2007 Robert Jessup Floating, Falling opening reception for the artists: Friday, January 5, 2007 6 to 8 PM Robert Jessup's newest body of work hones his unique style of fictional realism. A thin application of paint to canvas has allowed Jessup to convey a more detailed and anatomically exact figure thus fine-tuning his ability to describe and tell a different kind of narrative; focused on individual communication, non-linear storytelling and the psychologically based drama of appearance. Robert Jessup is a nationally recognized artist who has work in major museum collections including The Metropolitan Museum in New York; The High Museum, Atlanta, GA.; The Dallas Museum of Art; The Blanton Art Museum at the University of Texas, Austin and the Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia. Jessup is a professor of painting and drawing at the University of North Texas. He has an MFA degree from University of Iowa, and undergraduate work at the University of Washington and Harvard University. Matt Clark Recent Paintings Matt Clark's paintings are luminous, deep color fields painted in several layers. The variables (compression, paint opacity, color, and surface effects) combine the moment of the process and the exploration of the material. Clark's work speaks of application and erasure, movement and stillness, and the intentional and the accidental. The tension between the painted surface and the illusion it has created mimics a suspension of time. A history is built by the application of paint in layers; enabling one to enter the pictorial spaces and move between its depths. The painting, like a photograph, captures an otherwise fleeting instant of time in both Clark's pursuit and our perceptual experience. Matthew Clark received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2002 and relocated to Los Angeles in 2003. Exhibitions since 2000 include Kidder Smith Gallery, Boston, MA; Andlab Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA; Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield, MA; "Main Street Annual Exhibition, Ft. Worth, TX and The Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX. PROJECT ROOM Christian Pitt Monsters in the Living Room Oklahoma artist Christian Pitt plays out fantastical moments in photographic tableaux's using monster characters she's created from felt and fur and sculpey and other things. Using her collection of tiny toys as their accoutrements and old photographic history books, papers, and encyclopedias as back drops, Pitt explores what could be done if people had the ability to act in the way they truly wish to: in the imagined life. Pitt's "monsters" can do anything in this life, especially if you make them.