Conduit Gallery -- Dallas, TX

May 6 - June 10, 2005

Robert Jessup
Recent Paintings

Robert Jessup's newest body of work hones the unique fictional realism that has marked his work since he returned to figurative painting after painting abstractly during the later half of the 1990's. What sets this newest work apart even from paintings completed as recently as 2003 is the means by which his paint application has determined the telling of a different kind of narrative; one focused on individual communication, non-linear storytelling and the psychologically based drama of appearance. A thinner application of paint has allowed Jessup to convey a more detailed and anatomically exact figure thus fine-tuning his ability to describe. The subjects of Jessup's paintings are now, as then, fictional, which inherently lends an air of strangeness and surrealness to each of the characters. Their stories, in the past told by the situational environment in which the characters resided is told in the new work by the characterization of the face; a side glance look, the arch of a brow and the gesture of the body.

Robert Dale Anderson
Small World Drawings

Robert Anderson's highly intense graphite drawings of faintly recognizable objects and settings delicately balance both growth and decay. Apparent to the viewer, and what serves as the initial lure of Mr. Anderson's drawings is the way the line seems to have grown onto the page via the artist's purposeful hand. As the viewer follows the line one is pulled into a degenerated nether world. The small, monochromatic drawings bridge a gap between figurative representation and abstract - conscious and unconscious. The work is contemporary in subject and concept, yet often based on the compositions of historic masterworks.

PROJECT ROOM

Ken Morgan
Sway Pole Artist

Ken Morgan's small-scale energetic drawings depict his unusual childhood, growing up in a family of circus acrobats. At nine months Morgan was strapped into a bucket atop a pole and balanced on his father's forehead. Those early moments were good training for his later years as a sway pole acrobat. The miniature pictorial ink on paper works are composed of simple lined characters frantically engaged vaguely familiar scenarios reminiscent of dodge ball games, pin ball machines and romper room hi-jinks. Attending the University of New Haven in the early 1970's Morgan studied art and has since had a long career exhibiting his circus oriented paintings and drawings through out the United States and are exhibited regularly with O.K. Harris Gallery in New York.



			May 6 - June 10, 2005 Robert Jessup Recent Paintings Robert Jessup's newest body of work hones the unique fictional realism that has marked his work since he returned to figurative painting after painting abstractly during the later half of the 1990's. What sets this newest work apart even from paintings completed as recently as 2003 is the means by which his paint application has determined the telling of a different kind of narrative; one focused on individual communication, non-linear storytelling and the psychologically based drama of appearance. A thinner application of paint has allowed Jessup to convey a more detailed and anatomically exact figure thus fine-tuning his ability to describe. The subjects of Jessup's paintings are now, as then, fictional, which inherently lends an air of strangeness and surrealness to each of the characters. Their stories, in the past told by the situational environment in which the characters resided is told in the new work by the characterization of the face; a side glance look, the arch of a brow and the gesture of the body. Robert Dale Anderson *Small World Drawings* Robert Anderson's highly intense graphite drawings of faintly recognizable objects and settings delicately balance both growth and decay. Apparent to the viewer, and what serves as the initial lure of Mr. Anderson's drawings is the way the line seems to have grown onto the page via the artist's purposeful hand. As the viewer follows the line one is pulled into a degenerated nether world. The small, monochromatic drawings bridge a gap between figurative representation and abstract - conscious and unconscious. The work is contemporary in subject and concept, yet often based on the compositions of historic masterworks. PROJECT ROOM Ken Morgan Sway Pole Artist Ken Morgan's small-scale energetic drawings depict his unusual childhood, growing up in a family of circus acrobats. At nine months Morgan was strapped into a bucket atop a pole and balanced on his father's forehead. Those early moments were good training for his later years as a sway pole acrobat. The miniature pictorial ink on paper works are composed of simple lined characters frantically engaged vaguely familiar scenarios reminiscent of dodge ball games, pin ball machines and romper room hi-jinks. Attending the University of New Haven in the early 1970's Morgan studied art and has since had a long career exhibiting his circus oriented paintings and drawings through out the United States and are exhibited regularly with O.K. Harris Gallery in New York.