Ginger Geyer, The Porcelain Reformation
Kenneth Hale, Art into Landscape
curated by Richard Brettell
Jacqueline Bishop, Losing Ground: Imaginary Landscapes
Exhibitions on view through May 15, 2010.
Large Gallery + Square Gallery
Ginger Geyer, The Porcelain Reformation
Kenneth Hale, Art into Landscape
Richard Brettell, McDermott Chair in Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas, has been a long time friend of two Austin-based artists, Ginger Geyer and Kenneth Hale, who have each made fascinating uses of works of museum art in both conceiving and making their works. Brettell will curate two separate exhibitions of their work, but the links between the two lie in their creative cannibalization of past art — one (Ginger Geyer) embodied in glazed porcelain forms with links to quotidian life, the other (Kenneth Hale) cut-up, digitized, and distorted to form new images based in actual and illusionist collage. Each exhibition will have a catalogue with a critical essay by Dr. Brettell, full biographies, exhibition histories, and a catalogue of the works in the exhibition. Installation design is by Gary Cunningham of Cunningham Architects.
Ginger Geyer exhibition is possible by the generous contribution of The Eugene McDermott Foundation.
New Works Space
Jacqueline Bishop
Losing Ground: Imaginary Landscapes
The New Works Space will show the works of New Orleans based artist Jacqueline Bishop. Bishop is recognized for paintings, drawings and installation that focus on environmental issues, with over thirty years of traveling third world countries, Latin American forests and her Louisiana swamps. The artist deals with extinction and eco-political injustice in our planet today.
Bishop holds a B.A. University of New Orleans at New Orleans, Louisiana and an MFA from Tulane University at New Orleans, Louisiana.
A catalog with an introductory essay by Elizabeth Howie, PhD will accompany the exhibition.