News & Press
Art Review: Marcelyn McNeil’s Delicious Abstracts at Conduit
Front Row | Jun 8, 2011 | by Peter Simek
http://frontrow.dmagazine.com/2011/06/art-review-marcelyn-mcneils-delicious-abstracts-at-conduit
In the context of the trio of artists currently on display at Conduit Gallery, Marcelyn McNeil’s rich, bulbous-geometric paintings stand out against the pencil-etched psychology of Annabel Daou’s textual landscapes and M’s draftsman disco youths.
McNeil’s work is quietly bold, assured, and pleasing. These paintings all incorporate the repetition of easy curving shapes; rich, inky blocks of black and white; and sparse, yet effective use of muted color tones (McNeil rarely uses more than three or four colors in a single painting). These are collage paintings, the artist cutting out shapes from paper and incorporating them into the process of brushing, pouring, dripping and plastering with oil paint. The brush work orchestrates the masses into coherent objects that sit confidently on the surface of the canvas. Bulbous curves and linear edges are interrupted by intentional accidents, lovely little Motherwell splatters, smudges, and drips.
Although much of the feeling in McNeil’s work is derived from the play of texture and tone, these paintings are sculptural, as concerned with visceral forms as they are with surface and accident. In A Pound of Flesh and A Bit of Fooling Around, soft trailing curves and sharp, linear angles combine with the irregularity of the painted surface to create a biomorphic twisting cluster of white, punctuated by a visage of fleshy beige, and permeated by background black and indigo-blue peeking in between the brush strokes.
Most dramatically effective when capitalizing on this near-austere interplay of surface and form, paintings like Deep South get lost in the complexity of the process, too cloudy, blustery and psychedelic. McNeil is strongest when she allows her sharply intuitive use of color to infuse the vintage-leaning canvases with a quiet sense of cool.
Joan Winter at J.Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY
Jun 8, 2011
Four person Exhibition "Light Cubed"
617 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001
Exhibition dates: June 9 - July 30, 2011
Joan Winter at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking
Apr 6, 2011
"Printed by Master Printers" at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk Connecticut
Dates of the exhibition: April 7 - May 31, 2011
Robert Barsamian Profiled in Jewish News
Jewish News | Apr 6, 2011 | by Robyn Gorell
exerpt: "Barsamian tells stories through his art, seeking an intense form of language that evokes a
vesceral response from the audience. His style defies categorization as it evolves and changes, often using familiar materials to create dramatic environments and imagery."
Ted Larsen Past is Prologue reviewed on DMagazine Front Row blog
DMagazine | Apr 4, 2011 | by Peter Simek
exerpt: "Ted Larsen’s Past Is Prologue at Conduit more or less slapped us in the face – both in the show’s title and materials – with this intention of delving deep into the bowels of non-expressionist abstraction. Larsen’s work here possesses an appealing agedness, sometimes due to the fact that he is utilizing reclaimed metal materials, sometimes because his works are deliberately constructed to feel like they’ve been sitting on the wall of some forgotten gallery at MOMA for thirty years."
Robert Barsamian at the Holocaust Memorial Center, Farmington Hills, MI
Mar 26, 2011
The Holocaust Memorial Center exhibited the one person show Barsamian: 20 Years Searching for the Answer
an installation by Robert Barsamian in commemoration of the Armenian genocide. March 27 - July 10, 2011
Best of Everything: Best Edge
D Home | Dec 31, 2000
Excerpt: "...the gallery also has an annex to show works by artists without gallery representation. The annex is more edgy and experimental, and often these alternative spaces are the ones to watch."
Best Closet-Sized Art Gallery
Best of Dallas Culture: Dallas Observer | Sep 20, 2000
Excerpt: "...Annex has opened itselft to some of the brightest up-and-coming artists, including the first show by members Good/Bad Art Collective."
Top 10 Visual Art Events of 1998
Dallas Observer | Mar 11, 1998 | by Christina Rees
"...#2. The Opening of the Conduit Annex."
Hanging Around
D Magazine | Dec 31, 1995 | by Gail Sachson
"...She's (Nancy Whitenack) direct, dedicated, and unstoppable when spreading the word about Texas art."