April 10 - May 15, 2004

Susie Phillips
Not Such a Still Life


Susie Phillip's latest body of work continues her foray into still life painting, choosing not to render her objects with placid and calm imagery, but with a bold and skewed perspective reminiscent of the later still lifes of Cezanne and Matisse.
Susie Phillip's flattened pictures, with neither foreground nor background, but simply the surface of the work, indulge in romantic energy.






Juvenal Reis
Spurious Relationship

Spurious Relationship presents recent oil on canvas works. These paintings use the physicality of the paint to explore a rich palette of color that has been over painted with active brushstrokes of white paint, all but obliterating the violent color underneath.
Through layering and erasing, Mr. Reis is able to channel the intense exploration of the media with the layering of unconscious memories, feelings and sensations. The color and activity of the mark in these recent works make for a highly emotive shared experience between artist and viewer.





PROJECT ROOM

JULIE ROSS
Self Portraits

Julie Ross is a young Dallas based artist whose Polaroid self portraits capture images of herself instantaneously. This allows the artist to be in the moment, undistracted by the mechanics of image making. The grouping of self portraits in the exhibition represent a sampling of hundreds of self portraits taken everyday over the course of two years. The end result is a body of work that spans the exploration of traditional portraiture as well as numerous abstract compositional concerns.