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OVS #29, multiple plate drypoint etching with chine collie, 10x8 inches (20x16 w mat), 2015

A suggestion to continue to draw from life...

No matter what conceptual aesthetic, hybrid painting, or digital medium my students explore, I have always encouraged my students to draw from life. Drawing or painting from life has a way of grounding oneself and one's eye. 

It is something I continue to practice and here are a few drawings:  the late Boris the Lion from the Dallas Zoo (when he was alive), a dead dragonfly found in my garden, a dead squirrel fallen from a tree, a dead crow from the side of the road, some summer phlox, an exasperated self-portrait and my Aunt's alive elderly dog.

Upcoming Exhibit In Iceland

  


Before Iceland:  
Multiple Plate Drypoint Monotypes 

October 3 - 18, 2015   
Reception 
Thursday October 8, 5-7 p.m.


Islensk Grafik   http://islenskgrafik.is/
The Icelandic Printmakers Association Gallery
Reykjavik, Iceland

Image -  
OVS #10, 2015, 8 x 6 in, drypoint chine-collé

Click here to see the rest of the work: 

Continuing my Octagon Vibration Series, these new printed works range in image size from 8 x 6 to 10 x 8 inches and most of them utilize chine-collé. 

I work primarily in painting and drawing. In 1995 as an extension of my drawing I did a large body of small drypoint monotypes which were shown at Barry Whistler Gallery. In 2012 I resumed both monotype and drypoint as an extension of my painting and drawing investigation, many of which included collage, stencils and embossing. Those prints begat the Octagon Vibration Series of large drawings first shown in 2014's Parallel Process at Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas. While none of those earlier prints were shown, a few off shoots of those works continued and culminated in these prints to be shown in 2015. 

The 35 works in the exhibition utilize 33 copper plates. These plates were interchanged,  mingled, and redrawn---often three to six plates used in one print---with the addition of chine-collé ink drawings. Some of the plates have "erased pentimenti" imagery from the 1996 plates. I like to imagine a copper sketchbook. I tend to think of printmaking as another way to draw rather than "making a print" per say. The tools of printmaking give my inclination to draw new tensions to push against, and going back and forth between mediums invigorates the questions I ask in my work.

My exhibit in Iceland was first scheduled in 2013 for 2014, cancelled, then rescheduled to 2015. Unrelated at first, I was honored this year to be selected for the Otis and Dozier Travel Grant to Iceland---then my exhibit was confirmed and rescheduled! 

Going back to 2012, the prints and large drawings were influenced by my travels, hiking and horseback riding in Northern New Mexico. I've also explored the Atlantic/ East coast, visiting places important to Thoreau, Whitman and the painter Marsden Hartley. I see traveling to Iceland as a continuation of this enrichment for visualizing energies and spaces in my paintings, drawings and prints. 

DMA Award 2015

I wish to thank the Dallas Museum of Art and the Otis and Velma Dozier family for selecting me for the 2015 Otis and Velma Dozier Travel Grant to Iceland. I will visit on horseback Reykjafjal Mountain, geothermal area of Gufudalor valley, volcano Hengil, mountain Ingolfsfjall, geothermal Gullfuss and Strokkur, and Thingvellir National Park; as well as Sundahofn Harbor and the island of Videy. I will anticipate the aurora borealis, and yes, the Blue Lagoon. My unique Icelandic travel experience will widen my engagement with visualizing energies and spaces in my paintings, drawings and prints.

click here to look at my work

The Texas Abstract book's last image of mine is from my L.E.D. Series. The "Octagon Vibration Series" drawings are like inversions of those paintings. I often work in series that set up certain "games", limitations or intentions. The Swiss artist/healer Emma Kuntz and the contemporary artists Joanne Greenbaum, Julie Mehretu, and Terry Winters might be mentioned when placing my work within a broader context.

The "Octagon Vibration Series" is currently continuing with small prints (multiple plate drypoints with chine colle), drawings, and paintings in progress.
 

Texas Abstract: Modern + Contemporary HOUSTON opening and book signing

My work has been published in Texas Abstract:  Modern + Contemporary.

http://www.frescobooks.com/txab-cover.html 

Houston Opening: 
Gala reception and Book signing: Saturday, April 18, 5-8 pm 
     Exhibitions spread out at both
     Gallery Sonja Roesch and RudolphBlumeFineArt/ArtScanGallery


       FInd my work at:

       Rudolph Blume Fine Art/ Artscan Gallery
       1836 Richmond Avenue
       Houston, TX 77098
       http://rudolphprojects.com/index.php

Exhibition Dates: April 18- May 16, 2015


Previous exhibitions:
TEXAS Abstract
Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
January 17, 2015 - February 22, 2015
Reception:  January 17
6 PM - 9 PM
 
Texas Abstract
Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
January 17, 2015 - February 28, 2015
Reception:  January 17
6 PM - 8 PM
Installation: 

http://www.barrywhistlergallery.com/exhibitions/texas-abstract

Texas Abstract:  Modern + Contemporary exhibition and book signing
Wade Wilson Gallery
Santa Fe, NM

TEXAS WOMAN’S UNIVERSITY  
School of the Arts
Department of Visual Arts

PRESENTS:

Construct: Abstract / Three Painters
MICHELLE MACKEY | MARCELYN MCNEIL | LORRAINE TADY 

September 30 to October 22
East | West Galleries

Fine Arts Building

 
Reception: Tuesday, September 30
5:00pm to 8:00pm




Gallery Hours:
M-F / 9:00am to 4:00pm
 
Lorraine will exhibit paintings and drawings

Pictured: Lorraine Tady, Left, Octagon Vibration Series, Oscillation Expansion, 44x35 inches, 2014;  Right, Compass, (L.E.D.), oil on canvas, 60x48 inches, 2013

For more information
Vance Wingate / 940-898-2533
 vwingate@twu.edu<mailto:vwingate@twu.edu

 www.twu.edu/visual-arts

 MICHELLE MACKEY | MARCELYN MCNEIL | LORRAINE TADY

TWU Department of Visual Arts welcomes three painters working in abstraction for our next exhibition. Each artist develops imagery in very unique ways, while still attending to formal elements of painting and composition.

Michelle Mackey has exhibited her work recently at Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas, Texas. Her works explore time and memory, the way that places, experiences and events are remembered/reinterpreted. The images in her work derive mainly from the physical structures in her environment. She states: “I look at the surface mix of cracked mortar, shiny metal, peeling paint, and rusty scaffolds; I hear the rhythmic distance from chimney to chimney, branch to branch, and window to window; I think of the structural soundness of repetition, from the frame to the brick. As I work, I periodically refer back to these environmental sources, as well as conversations, books, music, patterns and other sources for ideas on color, form, and composition.” These formal elements are presented in paintings that show the extremes of materials and techniques in the making. Sanding, scraping, burning, dissolving and rebuilt layers and the resulting textures and colors inform the barely discernible structures that the paintings started with. The artist received an M.F.A. from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (1999) and a B.A. from Furman University, Greenville, SC (1997). She currently divides her time between Brooklyn, NY and Dallas, TX.

Marcelyn McNeil’s work is developed through a process of taping areas to be painted and pouring paint on canvas laid horizontally as well as vertically. This process is both formal and idiosyncratic. Simple clear forms are identified as she develops a work, forms that embody assertiveness, a kind of peculiarity, and vulnerability at the same time. The masses present in her work have a way of being both flat and dimensional. She is thinking about sculpture and three dimensionality continually as she paints, embracing trial and error while developing her peculiar animated forms. Marcelyn earned an M.F.A. from the University of Illinois, Chicago and a B.F.A. from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. She is represented by Conduit Gallery in Dallas, Texas and recently had a show of work there in 2014. Ms. McNeil lives and works in Houston, Texas.

Lorraine Tady’s work incorporates mechanical-like systems that are subjected to or are participants in an indirect and formal examination of structure; or a subverted diagrammatic, engineering process. The paintings show evidence of searching line, rough outlines covered over and then brought back through scraping or sanding.  Corrections to the image and forms as they are developed are very important in the work. Ms. Tady states, “The language of line propels the work, and I use it to help make visible the parts, and to find the answer to ‘what connects to this, how is this connected to that, etc.” Lorraine is represented by Barry Whistler Gallery in Dallas, Texas. She has been included recently in “Parallel Process” at the gallery and had a solo exhibition there in 2013. Ms. Tady lives and works in Dallas, Texas.

The East /West Galleries are on the first floor of the Fine Arts Building, at the corner of Texas & Oakland streets (300 Texas Street), TWU campus in Denton, Texas, 76201. Gallery hours are Monday - Friday, 9am to 4pm, when the university is in session. Weekends by appointment only.
For directions, please go to the TWU website: http://www.twu.edu/visual-arts

If you need more information, please contact: Vance Wingate at 940-898-2533 or by email: vwingate@twu.edu.