| This review by Owen Bay: theowenbay@gmail.com Check out the work up at GrayDuck gallery. Prepare for the mind melt. This is a fun show curated by Phillip Edward Needermyer. Just kidding it is Niemeyer. I believe he is from Brooklyn. We will let that slide for now. Niemeyer has put together a brain bender. Put on a pair of 3D specs and drift into the magic. Bring popcorn. This is a group show worth seeing. I would write about each piece but I do not get paid enough. below is from the grayDuck website: RED LEFT BLUE RIGHT |
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| Guest Curator - Phillip Edward Niemeyer | |
| opening reception: friday, may 10, 7-9pm | |
| exhibition dates: may 10 - june 16, 2013 | |
| grayDUCK gallery and Phillip Edward Niemeyer present a show of painting, drawing,
sculpture, photography and design for anaglyph 3-D glasses. Some of the work uses
traditional anaglyph 3-D in unconventional ways. Other pieces exploit the red/blue color
filtering of the glasses to purposefully short the optic signals to the mind, creating
illusory vibrations and a new color, a hot violet. Artists: Alec Dartley, Dan Forbes, Dana
McClure, Hannah Cole, James Blagden, Joseph Phillips, Mike Reddy, Nicole Stone,
Phillip Edward Niemeyer, Rebecca Rothfus, Ryan Junell, Shawn Camp & Tanya
Newton-John. As a companion piece to the show, experimental label Aagoo is releasing DOUBLE MONO, a compilation recorded in double mono: the left and right chanels play distinct sounds. Double Mono features music and sounds by Palaxy Tracks, John Saba Jr., Devin Maxwell, !!!, Jim Eno, The Octopus Project, AU and Erin Flannery & Zach Layton. The limited pressing of 300 will be available at the gallery for the duration of the show. Opening reception sponsored by Dripping Springs Texas Vodka and features red and blue drinks by The Goodtime Gals.  |
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Thursday, June 6, 2013
GrayDuck gallery RED LEFT BLUE RIGHT
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
David Ball, Jennifer Davis & Megan Kimber Grayduck
David Ball, Jennifer Davis & Megan Kimber Jennifer Davis at Grayduck Gallery:
review by: Owen Bay
theowenbay@gmail.com
Jennifer Davis painting have a subtle minimalistic approach, Davis tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
By contesting the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, she often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo distortions.
Her works never shows the complete structure. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality.
Jennifer Davis Lucid Acrylic, charcoal & graphite on panel 12” x 16”
David Ball:
David Ball is an artist who mainly works with mixed media. With a surreal approach, Ball tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
His surreal mixed media artworks are characterised by play as a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation.
By examining the ambiguity and origination he tries to approach subjects in a multi-layered way, likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believes in the idea of function following form in a work.
David Ball Your Freedom Mixed media 16” x 20”
Magen Kimber:
Kimber absorbs the tradition of remembrance art into daily practice. This personal follow-up and revival of a past tradition is important as an act of meditation.
Her paintings are an investigation into representations of (seemingly) concrete ages and situations as well as depictions and ideas that can only be realized in painting. By examining the ambiguity and origination via retakes and variations, she tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
Her works are based on situations: visions that reflect a sensation of indisputability and serene contemplation, combined with subtle details of odd or eccentric elements. By emphasising aesthetics, she wants the viewer to become part of the art as a kind of added component.
Her works sometimes radiate a cold and latent violence. At times, disconcerting beauty emerges. The inherent visual seductiveness, along with the conciseness of the exhibitions, further complicates the reception of their manifold layers of meaning. By contesting the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, she seduces the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibrium and the interval that articulates the stream of daily events. Moments are depicted that only exist to punctuate the human drama in order to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in everyday life.
Megan Kimber Hummingbird Ink & mixed medial 6” x 8”
images from http://www.grayduckgallery.com
review by: Owen Bay
theowenbay@gmail.com
Jennifer Davis painting have a subtle minimalistic approach, Davis tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
By contesting the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, she often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo distortions.
Her works never shows the complete structure. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality.
Jennifer Davis Lucid Acrylic, charcoal & graphite on panel 12” x 16”David Ball:
David Ball is an artist who mainly works with mixed media. With a surreal approach, Ball tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
His surreal mixed media artworks are characterised by play as a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation.
By examining the ambiguity and origination he tries to approach subjects in a multi-layered way, likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believes in the idea of function following form in a work.
David Ball Your Freedom Mixed media 16” x 20”Magen Kimber:
Kimber absorbs the tradition of remembrance art into daily practice. This personal follow-up and revival of a past tradition is important as an act of meditation.
Her paintings are an investigation into representations of (seemingly) concrete ages and situations as well as depictions and ideas that can only be realized in painting. By examining the ambiguity and origination via retakes and variations, she tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
Her works are based on situations: visions that reflect a sensation of indisputability and serene contemplation, combined with subtle details of odd or eccentric elements. By emphasising aesthetics, she wants the viewer to become part of the art as a kind of added component.
Her works sometimes radiate a cold and latent violence. At times, disconcerting beauty emerges. The inherent visual seductiveness, along with the conciseness of the exhibitions, further complicates the reception of their manifold layers of meaning. By contesting the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, she seduces the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibrium and the interval that articulates the stream of daily events. Moments are depicted that only exist to punctuate the human drama in order to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in everyday life.
Megan Kimber Hummingbird Ink & mixed medial 6” x 8”images from http://www.grayduckgallery.com
| David Ball, Jennifer Davis & Megan Kimber | |||||
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| opening reception: friday, february 22, 7-10pm | |||||
| exhibition dates: february 22 – march 30, 2013 | |||||
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
grayduck gallery
TRUE STORY 
Paul Beck, Allen Brewer & Pat Snow
opening reception: friday, january 13, 7-9pm
exhibition dates: january 13 - february 19, 2012
True Story explores the purity of perception, the accuracy of memory, and the truth of desires. This exhibition features paintings from Paul Beck and Allen Brewer and watercolor mixed media works from Pat Snow.
Paul Beck
Paul Beck currently lives in Austin, Texas. He wears many hats including visual artist, filmmaker and animator. As an animator, Beck worked on the feature films Scanner Darkly and Waking Life. He has also written, directed and animated music videos for David Byrne, The Black Eyed Peas and Radiohead. His visual art has been exhibited at AMOA’s 22 to Watch and New American Talent at Arthouse.
“I want my work to provoke thoughts first for me, and then for the viewer. I make images for me. That is the power I give myself as a human being. I truly appreciate the viewer’s response to the work. I consider art-making a true act of freedom.”
Allen Brewer
My recent leanings as an artist have been that of truth and purity of perception. This investigation of form, verity, and accuracy has made me more aware of infinitesimal structures that are crucial to thingness.
For the past few years I have been making drawings using typewriter carbon and found photography, transcribing exacting details from the photo (via carbon) onto a substrate. The result is a “ghost”, devoid of any human embellishment or direct mark making. This process has caused me to draw and paint “blindly”, or refusing to look at the substrate while I work. Instead, my focus pinpoints every detail and form that makes the subject the subject. By eliminating my own perception of the thing, I am getting closer to its truth.
Pat Snow
Pat Snow came to his art practice after studying and working alongside Robert Colescott and Reverend Howard Finster where he was introduced to the use of humor and narrative in his art. Snow has focused on drawing as a medium to express his concerns and desires. He uses the cliché and the vernacular of the storyteller to further his art practice by continuously rearranging the visuals and stories he encounters to critique and explore narrative. He gathers the raw materials for his art from the personal, popular media, bad jokes and art history. He then reconditions them through his own thoughts and feelings. He lets his narrative images flow, allowing one image to slip to another, creating possibilities and a rich, open-ended story. Pat Snow’s artistic approach questions how one remembers and constructs a personal history and eventually tests how reliable and trustworthy ones memories are.
Paul Beck, Allen Brewer & Pat Snow
opening reception: friday, january 13, 7-9pm
exhibition dates: january 13 - february 19, 2012
True Story explores the purity of perception, the accuracy of memory, and the truth of desires. This exhibition features paintings from Paul Beck and Allen Brewer and watercolor mixed media works from Pat Snow.
Paul Beck
Paul Beck currently lives in Austin, Texas. He wears many hats including visual artist, filmmaker and animator. As an animator, Beck worked on the feature films Scanner Darkly and Waking Life. He has also written, directed and animated music videos for David Byrne, The Black Eyed Peas and Radiohead. His visual art has been exhibited at AMOA’s 22 to Watch and New American Talent at Arthouse.
“I want my work to provoke thoughts first for me, and then for the viewer. I make images for me. That is the power I give myself as a human being. I truly appreciate the viewer’s response to the work. I consider art-making a true act of freedom.”
Allen Brewer
My recent leanings as an artist have been that of truth and purity of perception. This investigation of form, verity, and accuracy has made me more aware of infinitesimal structures that are crucial to thingness.
For the past few years I have been making drawings using typewriter carbon and found photography, transcribing exacting details from the photo (via carbon) onto a substrate. The result is a “ghost”, devoid of any human embellishment or direct mark making. This process has caused me to draw and paint “blindly”, or refusing to look at the substrate while I work. Instead, my focus pinpoints every detail and form that makes the subject the subject. By eliminating my own perception of the thing, I am getting closer to its truth.
Pat Snow
Pat Snow came to his art practice after studying and working alongside Robert Colescott and Reverend Howard Finster where he was introduced to the use of humor and narrative in his art. Snow has focused on drawing as a medium to express his concerns and desires. He uses the cliché and the vernacular of the storyteller to further his art practice by continuously rearranging the visuals and stories he encounters to critique and explore narrative. He gathers the raw materials for his art from the personal, popular media, bad jokes and art history. He then reconditions them through his own thoughts and feelings. He lets his narrative images flow, allowing one image to slip to another, creating possibilities and a rich, open-ended story. Pat Snow’s artistic approach questions how one remembers and constructs a personal history and eventually tests how reliable and trustworthy ones memories are.
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