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WOVEN Chuck Close, Alex Katz, Deborah Oropallo, Hung Liu, Squeak Carnwath March 17 – April 7 Opening Reception: March 21, 5-7
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
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
2014 EXHIBITION CALENDAR
DALLAS ART FAIR April 10 – April 13
BIOMORPHED Rex Ray and Shawn Smith June 30 – July 27 Opening Reception: July 11, 5-7
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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”
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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.
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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.
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Georges Mazilu, The Return of the Prodigal Son (Le Retour du Fils Prodigue), acrylic on linen, 35 x 48.5”
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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.