Conduit Gallery -- Dallas, TX

SEPTEMBER 14 - OCTOBER 19, 2002

Susan kae Grant
Night Journey

Night Journey represents a significant collaboration of artistic and scientific inquiry into the nature of dreams, memory and the unconscious. It is a room size installation that re-creates the fragmented and overlapping experience of dreaming by combining large-scale giclee iris prints with audio recordings of whispered dream phrases. This exhibition is the culmination of seven years of research gathered through REM sleep conducted by the artist in collaboration with noted sleep researcher Dr. John Herman. Using herself as subject, the data gathered from her own REM sleep was used as the inspiration to create the giclee iris prints and audio used in the installation.

Roberto Munguia
Interior Garden

Throughout his twenty-year career, Mr. Munguia has explored and mastered his art form in a number of different media. His watercolors, oils, pastels, ink, collage and encaustic works all illustrate Mr. Munguia's impressive sense of color and form.
His abstracted symbols and delicate patterns suggest both a playful biomorphism as well as a strong personal iconography that has the ability to translate to a wide audience.
With Interior Garden, Mr. Munguia consists of works mixed media collage, ink drawings and pastels as well as experiments from his latest medium - clay.

PROJECT ROOM

Bradly Brown
15,540 Miles

15,540 is an examination of distance and movement over a period of time. Mr. Brown has covered the walls with portraits of his classmates he has known for the past eighteen years. The portraits were hung blank, but as time passes ghost like images will appear due to UV exposure of cyanotype photo emulsion. Two desks in the middle of the space create familiar feelings relating to days of cafeteria food and detention. The pencil desk (reflecting on an ancient torture device) creates an anxious mood, always going and moving - never sitting. The desk next to it seems more inviting though sitting down on the pilling saw dust quickly weighs you down making it hard to get up and move again.
The installation is also filled with audio imagery that creates an obsessive-compulsive feel. While the portraits on the wall slowly expose, the repetitions of the audio, the pencils and other elements of the installation trap the viewer. On the back wall of the gallery hangs a green chalkboard with a map of the world. On the map, lines measure a distance of 15,540 miles.



			SEPTEMBER 14 - OCTOBER 19, 2002 Susan kae Grant Night Journey Night Journey represents a significant collaboration of artistic and scientific inquiry into the nature of dreams, memory and the unconscious. It is a room size installation that re-creates the fragmented and overlapping experience of dreaming by combining large-scale giclee iris prints with audio recordings of whispered dream phrases. This exhibition is the culmination of seven years of research gathered through REM sleep conducted by the artist in collaboration with noted sleep researcher Dr. John Herman. Using herself as subject, the data gathered from her own REM sleep was used as the inspiration to create the giclee iris prints and audio used in the installation. Roberto Munguia *Interior Garden* Throughout his twenty-year career, Mr. Munguia has explored and mastered his art form in a number of different media. His watercolors, oils, pastels, ink, collage and encaustic works all illustrate Mr. Munguia's impressive sense of color and form. His abstracted symbols and delicate patterns suggest both a playful biomorphism as well as a strong personal iconography that has the ability to translate to a wide audience. With Interior Garden, Mr. Munguia consists of works mixed media collage, ink drawings and pastels as well as experiments from his latest medium - clay. PROJECT ROOM Bradly Brown *15,540 Miles* 15,540 is an examination of distance and movement over a period of time. Mr. Brown has covered the walls with portraits of his classmates he has known for the past eighteen years. The portraits were hung blank, but as time passes ghost like images will appear due to UV exposure of cyanotype photo emulsion. Two desks in the middle of the space create familiar feelings relating to days of cafeteria food and detention. The pencil desk (reflecting on an ancient torture device) creates an anxious mood, always going and moving - never sitting. The desk next to it seems more inviting though sitting down on the pilling saw dust quickly weighs you down making it hard to get up and move again. The installation is also filled with audio imagery that creates an obsessive-compulsive feel. While the portraits on the wall slowly expose, the repetitions of the audio, the pencils and other elements of the installation trap the viewer. On the back wall of the gallery hangs a green chalkboard with a map of the world. On the map, lines measure a distance of 15,540 miles.