March 27 - May 1, 2010


opening reception for the artists:
Saturday, March 27, 2010  5:30 - 8:30pm

 

Susie Phillips
Crazy Work

Crazy Work features several new large scale collages that mark a departure for well-known Dallas artist Susie Phillips. For the past thirty-years, Phillips has worked mostly with pastels as well as the other various paint media; watercolor, oil and acrylic. With new experimentations, Phillips has ventured into cut paper collage works that are ambitious in scale and rich in detail.
Susie Philips's works continue to indulge in romantic energy and speak to a modernist traditions of skewed perspective, flattened subject matter and a bold palette in the vein of the the later still lifes of Cézanne and Matisse.

left: Susie Phillips, Crazy VII , 2009, collage on paper, 30x22"
right: Susie Phillips, Crazy IV , 2009, collage on paper, 50x38"

 

 

 

Carrie Marill
The Splendid Table

Carrie Marill's third exhibition at Conduit Gallery, The Splendid Table, is a personal project reflective of the artist's meditations on the factory farming of commodified animals that are a regular staple of the American diet as well as the exotic fare offered more and more on restaurant menus.

On a recent trip to Italy, Carrie Marill, a vegetarian for over fifteen years, decided to indulge in local culinary haute cuisine, most of which featured farm and exotic animals.

Upon returning to her studio in Phoenix, Arizona, Marill turned her guilt, experience and long regarded principles into a suite of fourteen portraits each featuring an animal she's eaten. Named for the American Public Media talk show hosted by culinary writer Lynne Rosetto Kasper, The Splendid Table looks at our dinner plates with empathy, humor and a pinch of salt and pepper.

left: Carrie Marill, The Chicken, 2010, gouache on paper, 20x16"
right: Carrie Marill, The Cow, 2010, gouache on paper, 20x16"

 

 

PROJECT ROOM

Gabriel Dawe

Current University of Texas at Dallas graduate student and Central Track artist in residence Gabriel Dawe
has created a site specific in the Conduit Gallery Project
Room using hundreds of spools of multi-colored
fabric thread to create an interactive cocoon-like
structure that transforms the viewers perspective of
surface and space.

left: Gabriel Dawe, Plexus II: Convergence, 2010, thread, nails & wood, site
                specific installation, detail, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX

right: Gabriel Dawe, Plexus I, 2010, thread, nails & wood, site specific
                installation, detail, Central Track Artist's Residency, Dallas, TX