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Galleri Urbane’s 8th annual summer exhibit is Friday, Sunday |
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(photo courtesy of GALLERI URBANE)
Paintings by Andrea Zuill at Galleri Urbane.
MARFA - Galleri Urbane invites you to enjoy two events featuring art and refreshments at its 8th annual summer exhibit: an early preview show from 4-6pm Friday and an opening reception for the artists from 3-6pm Sunday.
The show features three California-based artists, Andrea Zuill, Carol Es, and Gail Peter Borden, visiting artist Lucinda Cobley, and Marfa artist Jason Willaford.
In Gallery 1 is a selected group of oil paintings by Zuill. The selection includes recent work from her ongoing “Tribal Girl” series. Also featured is the artist’s “Little White Girls” series, wherein Zuill asks, “What is beautiful?”
In Gallery 2 is the long-awaited solo show featuring Borden, a 2004 Chinati Foundation artist-in-residence, architect and currently an associate professor at the University of Southern California. He earned a bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree from Rice University and a master’s degree with distinction in architecture from Harvard University.
The new exhibit, “Full Fields: (FBO influence),” includes 100 hand-painted, bottle-grid installation and 20 new acrylic resin cast paintings.
In Gallery 3, the work of Cobley is of oil/pigment on etched glass. Born in Birmingham, United Kingdom, Cobley graduated with a bachelor’s of Art with honors in Glass Design from North Staffordshire Polytechnic, Stoke-on-Trent. She then moved London where she completed a post graduate diploma in illustration at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in the early 1990s.
Since moving to Texas in 1998, she has concentrated solely on painting, and from 2001 she has re-incorporated glass and other translucent materials into her work.
Also in Gallery 3 is the work of Es, exhibiting a selection from her “Specimen” series, hand-sewn sculpture showing a humorous side to the fear of germs and epidemics.
Self-taught with some formal training, Es grew up in the sweatshops of the Los Angeles apparel industry, which has become the thread that flows through the story of her work. Elements and materials from the garment manufacturing trade creep into her work as a type of redemption.
Her art is featured in numerous private and public collections, including the Getty Museum, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Brooklyn Museum, UCLA Special Collections, the Jaffe Collection, and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
In Gallery 4, Marfa artist Jason Willaford exhibits his encaustics paintings, the New Colors, Lead Series. His work also is on exhibit at the Etherington Gallery on Martha’s Vineyard.
For more information, contact: www.galleriurbane.com or 432.729.4200. Gallery hours are: 10-6 daily, 11-4 on Sunday, and by appointment. Galleri Urbane is located at 212 East San Antonio Street (US 67-90) in Marfa. |
