November 21, 2009 - January 2, 2010


opening reception for the artists:
Saturday, November 21, 2009  5:30 - 8:30pm

Recess

artists:
Susan Barnett
Ellen George
Billy Hassell
Ted Larsen
Lance Letscher

Recess attempts to convey both the playful nature of a gallery group show and a less than sly nod to the economic climate of the past few years. Artists include gallery artists, new additions and non-represented artists.

left: Susan Barnett, Meditation, 2009, gouache on paper, 10x28"
right: Ted Larsen, Bar Melt , 2009, plexi-glass, salvage steel, vulcanized
     rubber & bee's wax, 5x5 "
bottom left: Ellen George, Longing, detail, 2009, polymer clay, size variable
right: Ellen George, Mode (green), detail, 2009, polymer clay,16x1.5"

Robert Barsamian
REALITY/DREAM

In Robert Barsamian’s newest large-scale works, the artist is wholly interested in exploring a world of waking dreams. The strong visual allegorical references in the works reference mythology, astrology and personal narrative as played out on a nightly basis in the artist's dream world. The seemingly disparete subjects play against elaborate patterns and lusciously rendered flora.

left: Triple Pisces, detail, 2009, mixed media on canvas, 82x129"
right: Black & White Stripes, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 7x5"

PROJECT ROOM

Cecilia Phillips
A Matter of Perspective

Cecilia Phillips employs both drawing and painting to interpret images and words in the world around her. Many of her subjects come from the world of literature (including specific references to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends) while other works take inspiration from artists in both the contemporary art world (such as Gregory Crewdson) and the art historical, as with The Book of Holbeins, a multi-drawing artist’s book that includes Phillips’ graphite renderings of portraits by the sixteenth- century German artist, Hans Holbein the Younger. Phillips’ considers these works to be a re-presentation of an idea or story through the lens of her own artistic vision, skewed and distorted until they have changed and become unrecognizable or barely recognizable. 

Ohio native Cecilia Phillips earned a Bachelors Degree in Painting from the University of Ohio, Cleveland in 2006 and a Masters Degree in Painting from the University of Texas at Austin in 2009. Phillips has exhibited both through out Texas and Ohio. She currently lives and works in Austin, Texas and is an Assistant instructor of Art at the University of Texas at Austin.

left: Cecilia Phillips, Book of Holbeins, 2009, graphite on paper, 10x10"
right: Cecilia Phillips, Lost, 2009, oil on canvas, 8x10"

 

image: Mimi Kato, Spring, 2008, archival pigment print, 24x66.5"