Stephen Lapthisophon Dallas Morning News exhibition capsule review

Dallas Morning News   |   Aug 8, 2023   |   by Scott Cantrell

https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/visual-arts/2023/08/04/stephen-lapthisophons-art-exudes-surprising-energy/

Jeff Gibbons at Site Gallery, Houston, TX for Houston Sculpture Month

Jul 15, 2023  

https://www.sculpturemonthhous...

The Sleep of Reason

The Fragmented Figure

October 7 - December 2, 2023

Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 7, 6pm - 9pm

Site Gallery Houston
The Silos at Sawyer Yards
1502 Sawyer Street, Suite 400
Houston, TX 77007

James Sullivan at Site Gallery, Houston, TX for Houston Sculpture Month

Jul 15, 2023  

https://www.sculpturemonthhouston.org/2023

The Sleep of Reason

The Fragmented Figure

October 7 - December 2, 2023

Opening Reception:
Saturday, October 7, 6pm - 9pm

Site Gallery Houston
The Silos at Sawyer Yards
1502 Sawyer Street, Suite 400
Houston, TX 77007

Stephen Lapthisophon exhibition S featured in Arts + Culture Magazine

Arts + Culture Texas Magazine   |   Jul 13, 2023   |   by Steven Brown

http://artsandculturetx.com/potent-ingredients-stephen-lapthisophon-at-conduit-gallery/

POTENT INGREDIENTS: STEPHEN LAPTHISOPHON AT CONDUIT GALLERY

"Sogni Dorati is one of the most recent works in S, the retrospective of Lapthisophon’s work that runs through Aug. 12 in Dallas’ Conduit Gallery. It helps sum up the artistic threads that run through the show, from Lapthisophon’s going beyond painting’s traditional ingredients—incorporating cloth pieces and coffee in Sogni Dorati, for instance—to his works’ roots in the past. That can mean more than his own past: Lapthisophon thinks Sogni Dorati has “a lot of (Robert) Rauschenberg” in it.

“There’s a kind of free-floating tribute to the past in the whole show,” he says. The present day figures in, too: One work alludes to Archie Shepp, the veteran jazz musician Lapthisophon saluted in a Conduit Gallery show in 2021." read more.....

Barsamian exhibition at Nasher Sculpture Center

Jul 9, 2023  

https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/

VEILS OF SORROW
NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER
on view JULY 22 - SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Annabel Daou at Haus Des Papiers, Berlin, Germany (residency)

Jun 3, 2023  

https://www.paperresidency.com/

Annabel Daou has been invited to be an artist in residence at the Haus Des Papiers in Berlin, Germany from June 17 - July 3, 2023.

Heyd Fontenot at Berlin's SomoS International Artist Residency - Summer 2023

Jun 3, 2023  

https://somos-arts.org/berlin-artist-residency/

Heyd Fontenot will be artist in residence at SomoS International Artist Residency May through September 2023.

Susan kae Grant solo exhibition at The Grace Museum

Jun 3, 2023  

https://thegracemuseum.org/exhibitions/susan-kae-grant-shadowing-grace/

Susan kae Grant: Shadowing Grace is on exhibit at the Grace Museum in Abilene, Texas from April 15 through September 16, 2023.

The eternal theme of light and dark has always interested artists. It is given importance in philosophical, technical, and mystical intentions. A master of light and shadow, Susan kae Grant conveys much more than just a play of shadows and silhouettes in this exhibition through a site-specific installation of works on fabric, single works on paper, triptychs, a video projection, as well as a studio recreation.

Dallas Museum of Art Acquires Marcelyn McNeil painting

Mar 8, 2023  

Conduit Gallery is pleased to announce an acquisition by the Dallas Museum of Art of a large painting by Dallas based artist Marcelyn McNeil. First exhibited in McNeil’s solo exhibition at Conduit Gallery in April 2022, this is the first artwork of the artist’s included in the Dallas Museum of Art collection.

States McNeil about the painting: "I’m looking for a place or a sensibility in painting that is at once vulnerable, nuanced and definitive. Dbl X, two is an example of this. Having evolved primarily through pouring methods - multiple layers, stains, and bleeds of thinned pigment fade into one another creating soft space. Bands of color are added to compliment and reiterate what has occurred organically. The linear elements are both suggestive and formative. Quietly subversive, the work experiments with illusion, perspective and color to create a space for unmediated introspection."

Through her experimental approach to painting and process, McNeil challenges traditional assumptions about abstraction to produce works that remind us of the lyrical power of painting in an ever-challenging contemporary moment. The tension in her work enables the chance to engage slowly with the macro-view of the composition and the micro-view of the palimpsest layers. Spare and deliberate forms celebrate the evocative power of color interfolded with soft pours to invite contemplation. Each thin layer on the raw canvas becomes a luminous veil providing a deeply sensuous effect.

Born in Kansas, Marcelyn McNeil earned an MFA from the University of Illinois, Chicago. McNeil’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas and the San Antonio Museum of Art in San Antonio, Texas. A monograph, Marcelyn McNeil Works, was published by Radius Books in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2022. Included in the book are writings by Hesse McGraw, Executive Director at CAM Houston in Texas, and Alison Hearst, a curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas. McNeil currently lives and works in Dallas, Texas.