Conduit Gallery -- Dallas, TX

May 12 - June 17, 2006

opening reception for the artists:
Friday, May 12, 2006 6 - 8 pm

Suan kae Grant
Unconscious Memory

The shadowed and Romantic iris prints of Susan kae Grant conjure childhood imaginings, fairy tales and nightmares alike. Building on her Night Journey Series, in which she employed scientific methods to research and recreate her own dreams, Unconscious Memory is an attempt to make conscious lost or forgotten fragments of experience and emotion. Using mythic characters and incongruous objects Grant's newest works delve into the fantastic and seduce the viewer with an unmoored phantomlike tableaux.

Susan kae Grant's photography is in permanent collections of various national museums including the George Eastman House; the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; the J. Paul Getty Museum; the Victoria and Albert Museum; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Her work has been exhibited internationally including the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C; Aperature Foundation, Burden Gallery, New York City; The Photographers Gallery, Saskatchewan, Canada; The Anchorage Museum of Art; Alaska and The Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

In December of 2003, her shadow work was included in the "International Biennale of Contemporary Art" in Florence, Italy.

Grant is a Professor and head of the photography & bookmaking program at Texas Woman's University and teaches workshops annually at the International Center for Photography in New York City. She was the recipient of the "Crystal Apple Teaching Award" from the Society of Photographic Education in 2003 & 2005 and "The Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award" from the
Santa Fe Center for Photography.

In 2005 Grant was selected as the commissioned artist for the design of the Southwestern Medical / Parkland Metro Station for DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit.) Susan Grant lives and works in Dallas, TX.

Ellen Berman
Recent Paintings

Ellen Berman's oil paintings answer our notions of traditional still life and surpass those expectations by becoming both a scientific examination of light, form and material and an expression of the profound beauty of crystalline and still objects. Known for her acute renderings of fruits and vegetables, the newest paintings have moved into the realm of landscape depicting topographical folded cloths painted to include the views outside her studio window. The end result is a wonderful juxtaposition between the "real" leaves and trees outside the window and the "represented" frondescence of the cloths.

Ellen Berman is a Texas artist who earned her M.F.A. from the University of Houston and currently resides in Wimberly. Exhibitions since 2004 include the Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, TX; the South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX; the Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX and the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont. In 2006 Ellen Berman was selected as a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome as a part of the U.S. Art in Embassies Program.

PROJECT ROOM

Marina Pavlutskaya
Recent Paintings

Born is St. Petersburg Russia, Marina Pavultuskaya emigrated to the United States at the age of six and was raised in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York, NY in 1996 and her MFA from Hunter College in 1999.

Using herself as her only subject, Marina Pavlutskaya's intimate drawings and paintings depict a captured moment when the conscious recognizes itself and then transcends any notion of vulgarity, modesty and all that lies between.



			May 12 - June 17, 2006 opening reception for the artists: Friday, May 12, 2006 6 - 8 pm Suan kae Grant Unconscious Memory The shadowed and Romantic iris prints of Susan kae Grant conjure childhood imaginings, fairy tales and nightmares alike. Building on her Night Journey Series, in which she employed scientific methods to research and recreate her own dreams, Unconscious Memory is an attempt to make conscious lost or forgotten fragments of experience and emotion. Using mythic characters and incongruous objects Grant's newest works delve into the fantastic and seduce the viewer with an unmoored phantomlike tableaux. Susan kae Grant's photography is in permanent collections of various national museums including the George Eastman House; the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; the J. Paul Getty Museum; the Victoria and Albert Museum; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her work has been exhibited internationally including the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C; Aperature Foundation, Burden Gallery, New York City; The Photographers Gallery, Saskatchewan, Canada; The Anchorage Museum of Art; Alaska and The Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In December of 2003, her shadow work was included in the "International Biennale of Contemporary Art" in Florence, Italy. Grant is a Professor and head of the photography & bookmaking program at Texas Woman's University and teaches workshops annually at the International Center for Photography in New York City. She was the recipient of the "Crystal Apple Teaching Award" from the Society of Photographic Education in 2003 & 2005 and "The Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award" from the Santa Fe Center for Photography. In 2005 Grant was selected as the commissioned artist for the design of the Southwestern Medical / Parkland Metro Station for DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit.) Susan Grant lives and works in Dallas, TX. Ellen Berman Recent Paintings Ellen Berman's oil paintings answer our notions of traditional still life and surpass those expectations by becoming both a scientific examination of light, form and material and an expression of the profound beauty of crystalline and still objects. Known for her acute renderings of fruits and vegetables, the newest paintings have moved into the realm of landscape depicting topographical folded cloths painted to include the views outside her studio window. The end result is a wonderful juxtaposition between the "real" leaves and trees outside the window and the "represented" frondescence of the cloths. Ellen Berman is a Texas artist who earned her M.F.A. from the University of Houston and currently resides in Wimberly. Exhibitions since 2004 include the Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, TX; the South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX; the Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX and the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont. In 2006 Ellen Berman was selected as a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome as a part of the U.S. Art in Embassies Program. PROJECT ROOM Marina Pavlutskaya Recent Paintings Born is St. Petersburg Russia, Marina Pavultuskaya emigrated to the United States at the age of six and was raised in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York, NY in 1996 and her MFA from Hunter College in 1999. Using herself as her only subject, Marina Pavlutskaya's intimate drawings and paintings depict a captured moment when the conscious recognizes itself and then transcends any notion of vulgarity, modesty and all that lies between.