May 8 - June 12, 2010

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

Billy Hassell
Distances

The works in this show are the results of travels. They are the residue, as it were, of careful observation while traveling through specific places and the recall of these experiences through the reference to sketchbooks and watercolor journals kept during these journeys. I like the idea of measuring these experiences and of thinking of these paintings and works on paper as markers of time and distances traveled. Distance can also suggest boundaries and parameters and spaces in between. - Billy Hassell, 2010

left: Billy Hassell, Indian Blanket, South Texas, 2010, oil on canvas, 60x72"
right: Billy Hassell, Horned Owl, 2009, oil on canvas, 12x12"

 

Leticia Gomez
This is Where You Live, This is Where I Live, This
is Where We Live

Leticia Gomez is a current undergraduate student at the University of North Texas in Denton and will graduate this May with a B.F.A. in Drawing and Painting. For her first show in Dallas the Corpus Christi native will show a series of ink drawings and collages that illustrate a personal, mythically inspired narrative that weaves together loose tales of the artist's friends and family members represented as half human-half animal forms. Gomez will also create a site-specific large-scale wall drawing.

left: Leticia Gomez, Regrad's Ojos , 2010, ink on paper, 22x30"
right: Leticia Gomez, I Want to Leave but the World Won't Let me Go, 2009, ink on paper, 22x30"
installed: Leticia Gomez, Home is Where You Are, 2010, various tapes, 9x23'

 

 

PROJECT ROOM

Installation extended through June 12, 2010!

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.

Visit Art this Week for an interview with Gabriel Dawe about the Plexus II installation

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