Conduit Gallery -- Dallas, TX

October 21 - November 26, 2005

Roberto Munguia
Remembering Zero

Remembering Zero represents three directions in Roberto Munguia's oeuvre, each distilled with the color and form that has marked Munguia's work since the beginning of his thirty-year career. Experiments with gouache glazing have produced a lively collection of small scale and playfully biomorphic clay forms. A series of gouache and encaustic works on clay board fuse abstract symbols and delicate patterns which reveal a strong personal iconography and small glimpses into "zero" - a quiet, fertile interior space. Though his black and white ink drawings are a continuation of his ongoing Natural Forms series, the newest works on paper isolate forms on the picture plane. Devoid of color, these organic works recall the ordered beauty of nature

Robert Barsamian
Absense/Presense

In Robert Barsamian's newest large-scale works the artist is wholly interested in examining forms of existence. The strong visual allegorical references in the works are of predator and prey. Traditional still life paintings are juxtaposed with symbols widely used in Armenian lore. Against an elaborate pattern and a lusciously rendered pomegranate a bird and a spider each play roles, giver and taker devoid of moral discernment. Barsamian's Armenian heritage is one of oral histories which he has developed visually over the past decade. With these works, the historical references are an influence, but not an actual event.

PROJECT ROOM

Paul Slocum
The Century Callback Project

In attempting to construct a novel approach for the emulation of memory visualization, The Century Callback Project is the culmination of Paul Slocum's participation in music, computer programming and the relationship between end-users and systems engineers. The user calls the number and in exponential time increments will receive phone calls; one second, one minute, one hour one day, one week etc for one hundred years. As one half of the music group, Treewave, Paul Slocum is an installation artist, programmer, musician and sculptor. In 2005 Paul Slocum's work was exhibited at the national Center for the Arts in Mexico City, Exit Art, New York, NY; Futuresonic Festival, Manchester, UK; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Le Confort Moderne, Pointiers, France; Dietch Projects, New York; NY. Paul Slocum lives and works in Dallas, TX.



			October 21 - November 26, 2005 Roberto Munguia Remembering Zero Remembering Zero represents three directions in Roberto Munguia's oeuvre, each distilled with the color and form that has marked Munguia's work since the beginning of his thirty-year career. Experiments with gouache glazing have produced a lively collection of small scale and playfully biomorphic clay forms. A series of gouache and encaustic works on clay board fuse abstract symbols and delicate patterns which reveal a strong personal iconography and small glimpses into "zero" - a quiet, fertile interior space. Though his black and white ink drawings are a continuation of his ongoing Natural Forms series, the newest works on paper isolate forms on the picture plane. Devoid of color, these organic works recall the ordered beauty of nature i Robert Barsamian *Absense/Presense* In Robert Barsamian's newest large-scale works the artist is wholly interested in examining forms of existence. The strong visual allegorical references in the works are of predator and prey. Traditional still life paintings are juxtaposed with symbols widely used in Armenian lore. Against an elaborate pattern and a lusciously rendered pomegranate a bird and a spider each play roles, giver and taker devoid of moral discernment. Barsamian's Armenian heritage is one of oral histories which he has developed visually over the past decade. With these works, the historical references are an influence, but not an actual event. PROJECT ROOM Paul Slocum The Century Callback Project In attempting to construct a novel approach for the emulation of memory visualization, The Century Callback Project is the culmination of Paul Slocum's participation in music, computer programming and the relationship between end-users and systems engineers. The user calls the number and in exponential time increments will receive phone calls; one second, one minute, one hour one day, one week etc for one hundred years. As one half of the music group, Treewave, Paul Slocum is an installation artist, programmer, musician and sculptor. In 2005 Paul Slocum's work was exhibited at the national Center for the Arts in Mexico City, Exit Art, New York, NY; Futuresonic Festival, Manchester, UK; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Le Confort Moderne, Pointiers, France; Dietch Projects, New York; NY. Paul Slocum lives and works in Dallas, TX.