Summer Invitational Exhibition Anna Buckner
Xochi Solis
Lorene Anderson
Summer Invitational Exhibition
Lorene Anderson Anna Buckner Xochi Solis Aug 4th – Sept 3rd
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Xochi Solis Save a cold kiss for me, 2015 Mixed media 7 x 5 in
Xochi Solis The still sea is darker than before, 2015 Mixed media 40 x 30 in
Xochi Solis Madness from the quiet jungle, 2016 Mixed media 40 x 30 in
Xochi Solis I may be obliged to defend every love, every ending, 2016 Mixed media 8 x 6 in
Lorene Anderson Adaptive Path, 2015 Acrylic & mica on canvas 48 x 48 in
Lorene Anderson Bioacoustics, 2016 Acrylic on panel 30 x 30 in
Lorene Anderson Glide Reflection, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 36 x 42 in
Lorene Anderson Orbifolds, 2016 Acrylic on panel 36 x 48 in
Lorene Anderson Stratum, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 60 in
Anna Buckner Chicago, 2016 Pieced fabric on stretcher, fishing line 18.5 x 17 in
Anna Buckner Modalism, 2016 Pieced fabric on stretcher, fishing line 22.5 x 21 in
Anna Buckner Let’s Just Be Friends, 2016 Pieced fabric on stretcher 10 x 10 in
Anna Buckner Deep End, 2016 Acrylic and flashe on pieced fabric on stretcher 60 x 40 in
Anna Buckner Tennis, 2016 Pieced fabric on stretcher 40 x 30 in
Anna Buckner Grids on Grids on Grids, 2015 Pieced fabric on stretcher 12 x 10 in
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to present a summer invitational group show featuring Xochi Solis, Anna Buckner, and Lorene Anderson. Xochi Solis’ mixed media paintings are collages not confined by traditionally shaped boundaries. She cuts shapes that are inspired by organic forms out of hand-dyed paper, plastics, and her own paintings, then incorporates images from vintage books and magazines. Contrasting images clash against each other when examined carefully, but when taken in as a whole all of the elements work har moniously together. Each layer is contingent on the previous shape; a puzzle of color, texture, form, and the feelings they evoke. This stacking creates a depth that lends an inherent sculptural quality to Solis’ pieces, while they also inhabit the gestural and physical nature of painting. Solis lives and works in Austin, Texas. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, including at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, the Austin Museum of Art, and the Grace Museum. She received her BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin. Anna Buckner subverts traditional quilting design by constructing piecework out of stretchy, worn fabric. When she pulls it over a support, the pattern contorts into something
new. The unsettling transformation exposes the vulnerability of the materials as well as their potential to be revived beyond their traditional use. The design shifts and skews, altering the viewer’s perception of textile work being precise and orderly. The soft colors keep the work quiet and serene, rather than aggressive, while the piece appears to float away from the wall. Buckner lives and works in Indiana. She has shown her work throughout the United States, and is currently an MFA candidate in Painting at the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University – Bloomington. Lorene Anderson’s hypnotic paintings are abstracted landscapes influenced by forces of nature. Beginning with a foundational wash of color, Anderson works in controlled chaos as she pours paint onto the surface, tilting the canvas to direct the rolls and drips around the plane. After adding some structured marks and shapes with various tools, she then scrapes through the layers to create undulating stripes reminiscent of the rolling countryside. Their wild and exaggerated bends reference Anderson’s fascination with the cosmos, parallel universes, waves of light and sound, and subatomic particles. The lines create new spaces within the painting, playing with figureground relationships and vibrating positive and negative space.
Anderson lives and works in Oakland, California. She has shown her work throughout the United States and internationally, including at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, the Richmond Art Center, and the Kyoto Museum. She received her MFA in Painting from the University of California, Berkeley.
Lorene Anderson EDUCATION M.F.A., University of California, Berkeley B.F.A., Miami University, Oxford, Ohio SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2015 Landscape Multiverse, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2012 Weather Report, George Lawson Gallery at 201 California, San Francisco, CA (upcoming) 2009 Invisible Cities: Recent Paintings, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, California 2008 Lorene Anderson & Ellen Babcock, Oakland Museum of California at Gallery 555, Oakland, California Lorene Anderson, Oakland Art Gallery at Port of Oakland, Oakland, California SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 Summer Invitational, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, NY 2014 quotidiæn, CelerySpace, Berkeley, CA & La Porte Peinte, Noyers sur Serein, France Winter, Sloan Miyasato Fine Art 2012 Paper, George Lawson Gallery, Culver City, CA Bridge, Kyoto Museum, Kyoto, Japan, traveling to Osaka (upcoming) Kala-fornia: State of the Art 2, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 2011 ArtPadSF, Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2010 Factor XX, Los Gatos Museum, Los Gatos, CA California Summer, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 Keepers, Skinner/Howard Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA George Lawson Gallery Artists, Shasta College Art Gallery, Shasta, CA
2008 International Artists Small Exhibition, Gallery IROHANI, Sakai, Japan P a p e r WO R K S ! M a r i n M u s e u m o f Contemporary Art, Novato, CA, curated by René de Guzman Hare and the Hounds, BlueSpace Gallery, San Francisco, California HONORS Residency, The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, New Berlin, NY, 2016 Residency, La Porte Peinte Centre for the Arts, Noyers Sur Serein, France, 2014 Roselyn Schneider Eisner Award, U.C. Berkeley, 1990 Best of Show: American Association of University Women, Ohio Division, Creative Cultural Interests Project, 1988 Vada Beetler Award and Postcard Award for Excellence, “Ohio Designer Craftsmen Best of 1988,” 1988 Pye Scholarship for Painting, Miami University, 1987 Research Grant, Miami University, 1986. Continued in 1987 Third Place Regional Award for Painting, National Society of Arts and Letters, 1986 COLLECTIONS Walnut Creek Public Library, Walnut Creek, California Richard & Roselyn Swig, San Francisco, California Rosewood, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Steve Pon & Carrie Lederer, Oakland, California Bruce Johnston & Tom Noll, Berkeley, California Marian Parmenter, San Francisco, California Frisso Potts, Boston, Massachusetts Scott & Alina Richards, San Francisco, California Shannon Trimble, San Francisco, California Michael Smith, Berkeley, California SAP Inc.
ANNA BUCKNER EDUCATION MFA, Painting, Indiana University, Bloomington BFA, Painting, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill EXHIBITIONS 2016 Summer Invitational, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, NY Winter Show, GreenHill, Greensboro, NC Loose Canon, The Painting Center, New York City (July 2016) Surfacing, Mist Gallery, http://www.mistgallery.com/surfacing Quilt Paintings, MFA Thesis, Grunwald Art Gallery, Bloomington, IN 2015 Small Abstract Works, Hank and Dolly’s Gallery, Indianapolis, IN Shrines, The Fuller Projects, Bloomington, IN Couch Paintings, The Fuller Projects, Bloomington, IN MFAEN Miniature Textile Exhibition, Downtown Gallery, Kent, OH Misconnections, The Painting Center, New York City Non Graduating MFA Group Show, Grunwald Art Gallery, Bloomington, IN Disjointed Realities, Blueline Gallery, Bloomington, IN 2012 Pink Moon, John and June Alcott Undergraduate Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC 2011 Refresh, The Artery, Chapel Hill, NC Geometric Abstractions, Undergraduate Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC
2010 The Edge of Painting, Undergraduate Gallery, Chapel Hill, NC PRESS + PUBLICATIONS 2016 Fresh Paint Magazine, June 2016 Issue Dondup, Anna Buckner Interview, http://dondup.com/en/blog/articles/anna-buckner New American Paintings, No. 125 Midwest Issue BOOOOOOOM, Cozy Quilt Paintings by Artist Anna Buckner, http://www.booooooom.com/2016/03/26/cozy-quiltpaintings-by-artist-anna-buckner/ Trendland, Warped Quilt Artworks by Anna Buckner, http:// trendland.com/warped-quilt-artworks-by-anna-buckner/ Mist Gallery, Interview with Anna Buckner http:// w w w. m i s t g a l l e r y. c o m / b l o g / 2 0 1 6 / 4 / 6 / byyqq875ycly7j623lwsa0dxlzbpoy CANVAS Creative Arts Magazine, 2016 Issue For Example Art, Anna Buckner, http://www.for-example.org/profile.php?fullname=annabuckner The Lucky Jotter, Anna Buckner, http://theluckyjotter.com/artists#/anna-buckner/ CANVAS Creative Arts Magazine, 2016 Issue 2015 CANVAS Creative Arts Magazine, 2015 Issue AWARDS + HONORS 2015 Penland Higher Education Partners Fellowship 2012 Anderson Undergraduate Studio Art Award, UNC Chapel Hill
Xochi Solis EDUCATION 2005 University of Texas at Austin Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree – Studio Art 2004 FallStudy in Mexico, Cultural Exchange in Mexico City, Tecnológico de Monterrey 2002 FallStudy in Italy, Art and Architecture Program, University of Texas at Austin SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 We must build as if the sand were stone South Texas College Library Gallery – McAllen, TX 2015 Xochi Solis @ SHOPCLASS Shopclass LA – Los Angeles, CA 2013 Volcanic Ensembles Murphy Street Raspa Co. – Alpine, TX Rivers of Our Vision Lawndale Art Center – Houston, TX 2012 Xochi Solis: New Works Olive Vintage – Austin, TX 2011 All the Clouds Turn to Words SOFA Gallery – Austin, TX
S E L E C T E D GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place Denver Art Museum – Denver, Colorado 2016 Summer Invitational: Lorene A n d e r s o n , A n n a Buckner, Xochi Solis Kathryn Markel Fine Arts – New York City, NY E x t e n d e d Te c h n i q u e : D a v i d X . Levine, Yaz Oshiro, Xochi Solis MASS Gallery – Austin, TX Affordable Art Fair, presented by Uprise Art – New York City, NY 2015 Flatlander Curated by Patty Ortiz Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art – Boulder, CO Parallels Hello Studio – San Antonio, TX MASS @ The Front The Front – New Orleans, LA Free Arts NYC Junior Board Art Auction, presented by Uprise Art D’Agostino & Fiore – New York City, NY 2014 Flatland, Curated by Patty Ortiz, The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center – San Antonio, TX Affordable Art Fair, presented by Uprise Art – New York City, NY
RESIDENCIES 2016 SpringPrint Publishing Residency, Pele Prints – St. Louis, MO 2013, SummerArtist-in-Residence P ro g r a m i n N at u r a l P i g m e n t s, Arquetopia – Oaxaca, Mexico BIBLIOGRAPHY PUBLICATIONS 2014 Krysa, Danielle and Zinonos, Anthony (forward), Collage: Contemporary Artists Hunt and Gather, Cut and Paste, Mash Up and Transform, Chronicle Books 2014, pp. 145-147 2008 Haskell, Caitlin and Douberly, Amanda, 20 to Watch: New Art In Austin, Austin Museum of Art 2008, pp. 42-43