February 16 - March 24, 2007

opening reception for the artists:
Friday, February 16, 2007 6 to 8 PM


Al Souza

Culling materials from a world of excess, Al Souza creates dynamic compositions the eye compulsively traverses. The works in the exhibition include paintings composed of thousands of layered jigsaw puzzle pieces in loose and semi-completed chunks and posters the artist cuts into vertical strips and combines onto a single picture plane.

In 2006, Al Souza was named, "Texas Artist of the Year" by the Art League Houston. His work is represented in several major public collections such as; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Biblioteche Nationale, Paris, France; San Diego Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Yale University of Art, New Haven, CT; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, CT; Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia and Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX. Al Souza lives and works in Houston, TX.



Kirk Hayes & Michael Krueger
Brief Extravaganza

Kirk Hayes is a trickster. He is an artist whose work appears to be a slapdash collage of torn paper, tape, wood and metal; or so the eye tells you. In reality, the work is the product of oil paint, applied with incredible skill, to look exactly like something it is not. The images Hayes paints assault your senses by their bold, dark humor.
Exhibitions include; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Artemis Greenberg Van Doren, and Diverse Works, Houston. In 2005 Kirk's painting The Kabam of Existence was chosen as the issue 60 cover image for New American Paintings Juried Exhibition in Print. Kirk's paintings are currently included in The Siren's Song, an exhibition at Arthouse in Austin, curated by Kelly Baum.

Michael Kruger's revisionist drawings incorporate historical events, personal narrative and comic duplicity that in totality illustrate a "thoughtful reconsidering" of early Kansas history. The characters involved include; the Jayhawks, the Haskell Indian Nations, the Secret Society of the Danites and the Wakarusa War.
Since 1995 Michael Krueger has taught Art at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. He earned an MFA from the University of Notre Dame in 1993.
Exhibitions since 2003 include; Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA; Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY; The Stray Show, Chicago, IL; Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA and Permanent Gallery, Brighton, England. His drawings are included in noteworthy collections such as; Boston Museum of fine Arts, the Fogg Museum, Harvard University; Monticello, Thomas Jefferson Estate, Charlottesville, VA; Museo Del Barro, Asunción, Paraguay; the New York Public Library; the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO and the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame.

PROJECT ROOM

Carrie Marill

String Theory Drawings

Carrie Marill's disarming gouache works on paper investigate abstract ideas and concepts surrounding String Theory, what physicists currently call, "The leading candidate for the theory of everything."
Carrie Marill earned an MFA from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and a BA from San Francisco State University in San Francisco, CA/. She has since exhibited widely including; sixspace, Culver City, CA; Art LA 2006, Santa Monica, CA; PULSE, New York, NY; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ and Platform Gallery, Tucson, AZ. Carrie Marill lives and works in Goodyear, Arizona.