January 5 - February 9, 2008

opening reception for the artists:
Saturday, January 5, 2008  5:30 to 8:30PM

Billy Hassell
Journal


The artworks in Journal are based on sketches and watercolors from journals and road trips around Texas and the southwest.
The exhibition is also a tribute to some of the regional artists that painted in the same areas in the 1930's and 40's including; Alexander Hogue, Otis Dozier, Jerry Bywaters and
Tom Lea.
Locations include a view of the Rio Grande west of Taos from the U.S. Highway 64 bridge; a view of Sera Pedernal from the north outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico - the same view that Georgia O'Keefe painted in 1941- and a view of Cathedral Peak southeast of Marfa, Texas.
Also included in the exhibition will be a suite of four new color lithographs featuring birds of Texas.

left: Sera Pedernal; New Mexico, 2007, oil on canvas, 60x72"
right: Cardinal in Prickly Pear, 2007, oil on canvas, 60x72"




Reinhard Ziegler
Along for the Ride: Images from Marfa & Big Bend


A German-born, Dallas-based, artist, Reinhard Ziegler bridges the boundaries between photography and painting through his hand-colored photographs. The newest work is based on photographs of west Texas captured from moving vehicles at a slow shutter speed. The result is a sense of motion from the scene being gently "smeared" across the film.
The images are then hand-colored by working pastels directly into the surface of the photograph. The end result is a lush series of images that transport the viewer beyond a documented moment in time to a sense of shared experience.

image: Space is One, 2007, hand-colored silver gelatin print, 44.75x92.75"






PROJECT ROOM

Memotronic
Co-Curated with Julio Cesar Morales, Queen's Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA

Julio Cesar Morales, co-founder and curator of San Francisco's, Queen's Nails Annex, has worked with Conduit Gallery's Danette Dufilho to curate a Memotronic, a video compilation exploring the intersection between music and visual art.

Included in the thirty-minute compilation is Tzu Nyen Ho's Bohemian Rhapsody Project, a hilarious courtroom drama featuring the in-famous Queen song, made for the 2006 Singapore Biennial.