January 10 - February 14, 2009
opening reception for the artists:
Saturday, January 10, 2009 6-9PM
Susan Barnett
Geometric Progression
Susan Barnett’s paintings push fractured geometric shapes against a constant grid to create brightly colored, fluctuating figures that test our ability to create order from what we see. The tension between the flat, orderly grid and dynamic decagons that refuse to be still, belie the flat painting surface. Barnett is interested in creating images that symbolize the disjuncture between the personal systems we create to navigate our world and the confusion of paradigms with which the world presents us.
left: Olive Branch, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 78x120"
right: Sticky Wicket, 2008, watercolor, 36x72"
Matt Clark
London 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.
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Matt Clark earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from Cranbrook University in Michigan in 2002. He currently lives and works in London, England.
left: London.ptg 480972, 2008/2009, acrylic on panel, 48x48"
right: London.ptg 480976, 2007/2009, acrylic on panel, 48x48"
PROJECT ROOM
Jules Buck Jones
For his first exhibition in Dallas, Austin artist, Jules Buck Jones will exhibit his highly graphic fantastical images of hybridized animal forms. Influenced by ecological and biological concerns, Jones creates imagery of bizarre, fantastic happenings in nature, using the past, present and future as backdrops, mythology, fact, and fiction as fodder, and the animal kingdom as the vehicle.
Jules Buck Jones earned his Masters of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA in 2005 and is currently a candidate for an MFA in Painting at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. He is currently featured in the Austin Museum of Art’s, New Art in Austin traveling exhibition.