In her work, Solis is greatly influenced by psychoanalytic art theory and cites Freud, Jung, Lacan, and Bakhtin as part of her source material and inspiration. Currently, Solis’s paintings contain a fragmented canvas, juxtaposing lessons from early 20th century storybooks next to realistically rendered images of adult women performing daily tasks. The storybook lessons often [...]
Deck the Walls at John Cleary Gallery
Deck the Walls is a group exhibition of vintage and contemporary pieces that allows the John Cleary Gallery to showcase a variety of artists, price ranges, styles and photographic mediums. Deck the Walls is expected to feature gallery favorites Elliott Erwitt, Maggie Taylor, Susan Burnstine, Keliy Anderson-Staley, Renate Aller, Marty Carden, Isa Leshko, Ansel Adams, [...]
Reading of The Jumper of Maine at The Crowley Theater
For its launch of The Reading, the Ballroom Marfa is presenting a a professionally staged screenplay presentation that spotlights a winning script from the prestigious 2010 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. Ballroom Marfa’s distinguished Filmmakers’ Selection Committee of Academy Award winning screenwriter Diana Ossana, executive producer and screenwriter Andrew Marlowe, and pioneering agent, entertainment executive and [...]
Chinati Foundation Reception For Jean-Baptiste Bernadet
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet’s paintings are abstract and come in different sizes, from small and intimate to large-scale and enveloping. Bernadet may start with some notion of “subject”—an idea about landscape, for example—but there is no attempt to portray or represent. Similarly, he tries to avoid those marks and gestures that have come to signify “abstract painting”. [...]
Chinati At Sunset
The Chinati Foundation invites everyone to an evening viewing of Donald Judd’s 100 works in mill aluminum and 15 works in concrete on Friday, November 26 from 5:30 – 6:30 PM. Admission is $5, free for museum members and local residents. For more information contact Ann Marie Nafziger, amnafziger@chinati.orgor 432 729 4362. The Chinati Foundation [...]
Marc Ganzglass at Chinati
Transmission Tower Time will include work completed during Ganzglass’s residency in Marfa. At the Locker Plant, three videos will be shown in the building’s back rooms. As visitors enter, their first impression will be of a wall, or wave, of sound, as the audio tracks overlap. The first video, created using high-speed film footage from [...]
Immaterial at Ballroom Marfa
Immaterial, an exhibition that will focus on the physical and psychic tensions between form, color, and space across varied visual and structural mediums. Curated by Executive Director Fairfax Dorn, the exhibition seeks to examine the metaphysical aspects of artistic production through a selection of artworks that challenge the use of material and space, formalism and [...]
Peter Voshefski At Galleri Urbane Marfa
Charming Dreams is a new exhibition of work by Peter Voshefski. The works presented in the exhibit deals with ongoing themes of nature, layering and patterns. This body of work includes site-specific installation, drawings and mixed media paintings. When asked about concepts being explored in this work, Peter replied “Archaeology is a theme across most [...]
