2014 Gallery Preview
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2014 EXHIBITION CALENDAR WOVEN
Chuck Close, Alex Katz, Deborah Oropallo, Hung Liu, Squeak Carnwath March 17 – April 7 Opening Reception: March 21, 5-7
DALLAS ART FAIR
April 10 – April 13
ALTERED
Rusty Scruby, Ann Weiner, Tracy Krumm April 21 – May 19 Opening Reception: April 25, 5-7
FINE-LINED
Kate Petley June 9 – June 29 Opening Reception: June 13, 5-7
BIOMORPHED
Rex Ray and Shawn Smith June 30 – July 27 Opening Reception: July 11, 5-7
SURVIVAL
July 28 – August 25 Hung Liu, Traian Filip, Nele Zirnite, Igor Melnikov, Georges Mazilu, Wanxin Zhang Opening Reception: August 1, 5-7
ANOMALY
Georges Mazilu’s New Paintings November 3 – December 1 Opening Reception: November 7, 5-7 3
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TURNER CARROLL GALLERY INVITES YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE UPCOMING YEAR‌ 2014 represents a landmark for Turner Carroll Gallery: this is our 25th year of contributing to the arts in Santa Fe. In honor of that milestone, Turner Carroll broadens our aesthetic horizons, exploring new mediums, exotic locales, and foreign cultures. We represent a diverse and cutting edge group of artists; individuals who exploit novel mediums, fuse old and new in electrifying ways, and produce utterly unique contemporary art. Beginning with an innovative presentation of tapestries in Woven and ending with the newest paintings of artist Georges Mazilu in Anomaly, 2014 promises to be a thrilling exploration for Turner Carroll Gallery. We hope you'll join us for one, several, or all of these exciting exhibitions, and visit turnercarroll.com to see our entire inventory. 5
Chuck Close, Sunflower, cotton Jacquard tapestry, 103 x 79� 6
Hung Liu, Last Emperor, cotton Jacquard Tapestry, 87.5 x 73� 7
Alex Katz, Ada with Sunglasses, cotton Jacquard Tapestry, 80 x 55� 8
WOVEN Woven will present tapestries by blue-chip contemporary artists Deborah Oropallo, Chuck Close, Squeak Carnwath, Alex Katz, and Hung Liu. This diverse group of artists is united by their interest in manifesting striking contemporary art in the age-old medium of tapestry weaving. In these tapestries, thousands of individual threads precisely intertwine to render a united image: this medium illuminates the delicate balance between pixel and image, fragmentation and whole, thread and tapestry. These artists have collectively been shown in collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Belvedere Museum of Vienna, the MoMA, the SFMoMA, and more.
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Rusty Scruby, Happy Meal, photographic reconstruction, 42 x 35 x 2 10
DALLAS ART FAIR
This will be Turner Carroll Gallery's fifth year of attending of the Dallas Art Fair. This year, we will be bringing some of our favorite works, including pieces by popular artists Hung Liu, Rusty Scruby, Shawn Smith, Jenny Abell, and David Rothermel. Please join us at booth G2.
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Ann Weiner, La Mariposa, optically altered photograph, 19.4 x 23.3�
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Tracy Krumm, Taper (Anchor), crocheted metal thread and metal anchor, 108 x 10 x 10� 13
Rusty Scruby, Sunflower, photographic reconstruction, 49. x 31.5 14
ALTERED In Altered, Turner Carroll Gallery presents three artists who challenge the viewer's perception of an image. Rusty Scruby creates "photographic reconstructions" by cutting images into shapes and then re-weaving those fragments together. By breaking the picture down then rebuilding it into something entirely new, Scruby creates a uniquely layered final image. Ann Weiner's process is not dissimilar from Scruby's; Weiner begins by slicing images apart and then reassembling them under a cylindrical lens. Beneath this lens, the altered images move and shift, creating a work that is in constant flux. In contrast, Tracy Krumm alters found objects, such as antique strainers, by crocheting them with woven metal thread. The final sculpture is simultaneously durable and delicate. By altering images and materials in innovative ways, these artists push us to question the way we perceive the visual world. 15
Kate Petley, Divided Mind, mixed media on industrial film, 40 x 44� 16
FINE-LINED We are excited to announce Fine-Lined, the first Kate Petley solo show at Turner Carroll Gallery. Petley is a Colorado-based artist who creates enigmatic abstractions: she paints on industrial film with strong, bold brushstrokes, generating mysterious forms that evoke blurred memories and reflections. In this exhibition of the artist’s newest works, Petley has distilled her vibrant abstractions down to their very essence; she highlights the fundamental lines, color, and composition in her pieces. Her lines, finer than ever, simultaneously evoke a beautiful simplicity and complex emotional response in the viewer. Petley’s work resides in numerous public and private collections, including the Nicolaysen Museum in Casper, Wyoming. 17
Shawn Smith, Glitched, ink and acrylic pain on plywood, 35 x 29 x 32�
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Shawn Smith, Nest, three dimensional print, 13.5” x 15” x 9”, 2013
Shawn Smith, Nest, three dimensional print, 13.5 x 15 x 9” 19
Rex Ray, Xanthrocodone, collage on linen, 60 x 60� 20
BIOMORPHED Biomorphed explores the way nature is presented and perceived in the modern world. Rex Ray re-interprets the biological world with art; his vibrant works are a microcosm of life, suggesting chains of DNA or a field of colorful fungi. Ray fuses science with design, creating paintings that are simultaneously organic and precise. Shawn Smith is similarly interested in the intersection of nature, technology, and art; Smith re-imagines nature as a pixelated entity. Through this work, Shawn hints at our own detachment with nature as, for the most part, society experiences the outside world through a camera lens. Smith and Ray have previously been shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, and the National Art Museum of Norway. 21
Traian Filip, The Wall (Oltre i muro delle parole), intaglio on paper, 11.75 x 11.25 plate size 22
Igor Melnikov, Good Friend, oil on panel, 30 x 31.83� 23
Hung Liu, Refugee: Opera, oil on canvas, 114 x 78� 24
SURVIVAL Turner Carroll Gallery is pleased to announce Survival, a group exhibition of some of the gallery’s most prestigious artists. The show, which will include works by Hung Liu, Traian Filip, Igor Melnikov, Georges Mazilu, Nele Zirnite, and Wanxin Zhang, explores the relationship between art and survival: the art of survival, art as survival, and, ultimately, the survival of art as a record of incredible perseverance. Each of these artists endured unbelievable social and political oppression in his or her country of origin. Hung Liu overcame the harsh rice fields and censorship of Mao’s communist China, while Traian Filip resisted the despotic regime of Ceausescu in Romania. These artists survived overwhelming hardship by channeling their experience into striking creative power: their art is their survival. Now, the art stands as a memory of that survival. The viewer encounters these works as a record of transcendence, of rising above impossible circumstances to the plane of aesthetic beauty. These artists are collectively shown in prestigious collections all over the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, the Russian Cultural Museum, and the Vatican Museum. 25
Georges Mazilu, The Return of the Prodigal Son (Le Retour du Fils Prodigue), acrylic on linen, 35 x 48.5� 26
ANOMALY Turner Carroll Gallery’s last show of the year will be Anomaly, an exhibition of new works by Georges Mazilu. Mazilu merges incredible Old Master technique with highly contemporary ideas; his work lies outside of time. His fairytale figures, part animal and part human, push the viewer to engage their own imagination. Mazilu combines figurative work with an abstract style, classical technique with contemporary ideas, and childlike figures with adult themes. His work resists categorization; it is this very identity of anomaly that renders his paintings so striking. Mazilu is included in distinguished collections all over the world, including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Denver Museum of Art, and the Bulgarian Museum of Contemporary Art.
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