3 Artists at Conduit Gallery June 21 - July 19

James Michael Starr

Little Victims

Special Case, 2008, wood box & steel rods, 26x20x7"
Against My Own Nature , 2007, glove mold & illustrations, 16x3x3"

By relying on found objects he considers beautiful and aged by time, James Michael Starr creates assemblages that invite hours of reflection and introspection. Beautiful, lyrical, dripping with dense iconography and melancholic stories, James Michael Starr’s assemblages explore philosophic pursuits and humanistic endeavors. This exhibit is in one of the Main Galleries.

Carrie Marill

Resident Birds

Lazuli Bunting, 2008, gouache on paper, 12x9"
Yellow Headed Blackbird , 2008, gouache on paper, 12x9"

Carrie Marill’s disarming artworks explore the artist’s fascination with the medium of goauche on paper. These works represent a variety of approaches to the curiosities of urban life in the context of the natural world.

Most projects involve intricate representations of birds and plant life that transcend the mundane and become striking portraits. Resident Birds is comprised of several representations of the birds she witnessed while at a recent artist residency in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Carrie Marill earned an MFA from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and a BA from San Francisco State University in San Francisco, CA/. She has since exhibited widely including; sixspace, Culver City, CA; Art LA 2006, Santa Monica, CA; PULSE, New York, NY; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ and Platform Gallery, Tucson, AZ. Carrie Marill lives and works in Goodyear, Arizona and Seattle, Washington. This exhibit is in one of the Main Galleries.

Takashi Iwasaki

Embroidered Memories

Pachipachihitomejackie, 2008, embroidery floss on fabric,12x12"
Aruhinosra, 2008, embroidery floss on canvas, 12x12"

Takashi Iwasaki’s small-scale embroidered works are experiments in modern abstraction created in pursuit of his own aesthetic language. In them, ebullient figures collide and
marry to create a pleasing and affirming visual experience. This exhibit is in the Project Room.

Born in 1983 in Japan, Takashi Iwasaki earned his BFA from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. He has exhibited throughout Japan and Canada and has had solo exhibitions in Portland, OR, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY. In 2004, he opened Semai Gallery in Winnipeg. Meaning “narrow” in Japanese, the gallery showcases contemporary art projects in a narrow hallway thirty-eight feet long by three and a half feet wide.

Going on: June 21- July 19
At: Conduit Gallery
Located At: 1626 C Hi Line Dr.
Dallas, TX 75207
Phone: 214.939.0064
Hours: Tue-Sat 10-5
Visit: http://www.conduitgallery.com/exhib_2008_6-21.htm

ech_o

“ech_o”

June 14 - August 1, 2008
Gallery hours:
Wed. - Sun., 12- 5 pm

Where: Centraltrak
800 Exposition Ave.
Dallas, TX 75226

Curated by U.T. Dallas graduate Mary Benedicto, ech_o is an exhibition of video art in which new and old technology unite in a tour de force of pictures, patterns and images. Artists deploy video cameras and computers as though paintbrushes of yore as electronic equipment become tools for self-expression.

Michael Ledoux

Photographs Do Not Bend presents: Twenty-One

The exhibit features photographs by: Cuban born Mario Algaze, Italian Neo-Realist Mario DeBiasi, Magnum photographer, Elliott Erwitt and Texas artists Chuy Benitez, John Herrin, David Johndrow.

El Paso artist, Chuy Benitez, photographs the Hispanic culture in his hometown. His large panoramic image of a mariachi band playing in a local Hispanic grocery store explodes with festive sound and energy.

Mario DeBiasi, Gli italiani si voltano, 1956

Houston artist John Herrin's abstract color photographs are an homage to the significant 20th Century American artist, Aaron Siskind. Siskind's black and white photographs of cracks and tar in our urban landscape were a tribute to fellow abstract expressionist Franz Kline's bold brushwork. Herrin has brought this forward to the 21st Century by using an 8 x 10 camera to explore similar beauty, also in dramatic, painterly fashion, in color.

This is a sensational mix of documentary and conceptual work by established and emerging talents.

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John Albok Gallery
When:
Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Fridays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Start date: Saturday, June 21, 2008
Event is ongoing: Until Saturday, July 19, 2008
Where: Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, 1202 Dragon Street, Dallas
Cost: Free
Age limit: All ages

Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy

This exhibition explores the extraordinary lives of Sara and Gerald Murphy and the couple’s influence on a remarkable constellation of creative artists that flourished in Paris and the Riviera in the 1920s and 1930s. Friends of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Cole Porter, Dorothy Parker, Alfred Hitchcock, and Fernand Léger, the Murphys strove to make something fine and beautiful of their lives through “living well,” creating art, and encouraging artist and writer friends. The result was some of the most noteworthy literature, music, theater, and art of the last century. Often portrayed simply as wealthy patrons, the Murphys in fact improvised their own brand of unconventional modernism that was a source of inspiration to their many talented friends..

When:
Sundays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Mondays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Fridays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Start date: Sunday, June 8, 2008
Event is ongoing: Until Sunday, September 14, 2008
Where: Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), 1717 North Harwood Street, Dallas
Cost: $5 - $10
Age limit: All ages

Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism

He was brilliant and complicated, a contemporary of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. And for more than two months beginning Saturday, area art patrons will get an up-close-and-personal look at the enduring work of Marsden Hartley.

Valley Road (1919–20)

"Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism" opens Saturday June 14 and continues through Aug. 24 at the Amon Carter Museum, 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd. in Fort Worth. 817-738-1933, www.carter museum .org.

The Secret War

Sunday, Aug 31
The Secret War at Dallas Hub Theatre

Dallas/New York-based Firebomb Productions (The Story Lenny Bruce Never Told, Ambulance Dance, The Desecrated Ziggurat) announces its newest foray into uncharted territories: The Secret War Aug. 31-Sept. 29, 2007 at Dallas Hub Theatre, 2809 Canton St. in Deep Ellum. The Secret War will turn theater on its head by introducing The Cosmic Battle League, a battle between the planets of our solar system. In addition, Firebomb has scheduled live bands after each show. Tickets are $10 for the show and music, and $7 for just the music. Call 214-521-7257 to purchase tickets. Check out www.thesecretwar.net and www.myspace.com/thefiretemple for more information. 

Address:
2809 Canton Dallas 75226
Phone: 646-483-7136
Web: www.thesecretwar.net
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