A solo exhibition by Matthew Weedman

August 17 – August 27, 2012

Through a blending of antiquated and digital techniques Weedman transforms cultural objects of desire and wonder, such as snap-off figurines and an Electrolux so that they manifest a glow of ownership over their own yearnings of the “better.”

“Order No. 227” refers to an order laid out by Joseph Stalin under the slogan “Not a step back.” Matthew Weedman employs Stalin’s systematic order of progress as an example of the inherent dysfunction in affixing ideologies to notions of progress and success. Through manipulating and decontextualizing objects, sound, and imagery Weedman explores a personal and social history of the post WWII era and the codification of American ideologies of progress and happiness that have shaped and continue to mold our experience and the inherent humanity behind that impulse.

ERIC ZIMMERMAN

ENDLESS DISHARMONY & TELLTALE ASHES

Sep 7 through Oct 27, 2012
Opening Reception – Friday, Sep 7,  6-8pm

As part of a larger project by Eric Zimmerman, Art Palace will be host to collages, drawings, publications, and sound pieces. In conversation with the sister exhibition Telltale Ashes & Endless Disharmony at the Reading Room (Dallas, TX,) as well as the website http://endlessdisharmony.tumblr.com,  Endless Disharmony & Telltale Ashes at Art Palace provides fragments of image, text, sound, and information to form a patchwork narrative that literally and metaphorically bridges time & space.

With roots in the exploration of historical evidence and our systems of knowledge, Zimmerman’s work exposes as many correlations as it does contradictions.  Effectively a search for, and creation of, symbols, evidence, metaphors, and images that reflect our longing for the mysterious and unattainable, Endless Disharmony & Telltale Ashes / Telltale Ashes and Endless Disharmony simultaneously questions and informs our most illusive desires and motivations to come to terms with our place in the world.

Eric received his MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. His work has been shown in group exhibitions at The Re Institute (New York, NY), Horton Gallery, (New York, NY), and Seraphin Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), as well as solo exhibitions at the Austin Museum of Art (Austin, TX), and The Old Jail Art Center (Albany, TX).

WABI SABI

 

Jamie Davis

Kirsten Macy

Ludwig Schwarz

Michael Villarreal

A group exhibition about the beautifully irregular

Opening Reception: Friday, April 11, 2014, 6-8pm

Exhibition runs through May 24, 2014.

 

“Truckers love it all”
said the snow to the forest
and the road curled
are you serious
when you say that your mother
is in the river
is that brown or is
that green and where am I now
and why am I nude?
Haiku by Gene Morgan

SUMMER SALTS

Opening Reception: Friday, July 18th, 2014, 6-8pm

Exhibition runs through August 16th, 2014.

 

Art Palace is happy to announce Summer Salts, a group show including Justin Boyd, Elaine Bradford, Jeffrey Dell, Peat Duggins, Nathan Green, Tatiana Istomina, Bradley Kerl, Joe Joe Orangias, Linda Post, Raychael Stine, Barry Stone, & Eric Zimmerman.

MICHAEL VILLARREAL

OOMPH

Opening Reception: Friday, September 5, 2014, 6-8pm
Exhibition runs through October 18, 2014.
Michael Villarreal‘s tactile paintings blur one’s ability to distinguish landscape from figure and movement from stillness. In a palette ranging from mouthwatering frosting to sallow drywall putty, his work polarizes the viewer between an accessible image and aloof painterly expression.  In the passages of Villarreal’s work, lines become ravines, figures become mountains, at once delicate and hasty.

FOOL’S GOLD

Opening Reception: Friday, September 5th, 2014, 6-8pm

Exhibition runs through October 18th, 2014.

 

The pairing of the work of Houston-based artists Katy Heinlein and Alika Herreshoff for Fool’s Gold highlights the rapport between two artists whose common interests play out in artworks that are formally distinct and yet startlingly kindred. While Heinlein’s sculptural works seem to acknowledge a distant but important relationship with the history of painting, they are free to explore the physical space of the room. Herreshoff’s paintings, on the other hand, insist on the graphic flatness of Pop and Color Field. Both artists employ a high-keyed palette and suggestive contours to create disorienting spatial distortions and synesthetic sensations, evidencing their common interest in the direct experience of color and shape. Despite this psychedelic sensibility for color, both Heinlein and Herreshoff exercise degrees of restraint, preferring simple forms and motifs to frenetic clutter. Perhaps one of the strongest bonds between these artists and their work is their common pursuit of formal beauty offset by and interwoven with deadpan humor. This purposefully flatfooted approach to abstract art tempers the sublime with the slapstick comedy of spoonerisms, belches, and blank expressions.

Katy Heinlein received her MFA in sculpture from Texas Tech University and her BFA from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. Katy’s work has been exhibited globally and locally through the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Diverseworks, Lawndale Art Center, and Bryan Miller Gallery (CTRL.) She has collaborated on set and costume design for the Dominic Walsh Dance Theater for Spectre de la Rose, performed at Miller Outdoor Theatre and Zilka Hall. Katy lives and works in Houston, TX.

Alika Herreshoff received his MFA from Cornell University and his BFA from the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A former member of the artist collective Dearraindrop, his work has been exhibited at Deitch Projects (New York,) Schmidt Maczollek (Cologne, Germany,) and Loyal Gallery (Malmö, Sweden.) His work is currently on view in the group exhibition Mark Flood Resents (New York.) Alika lives and works in Houston, TX.

EBONY PORTER

THE QUILT SHOW

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 25th, 2014, 5-7:30pm
Exhibition runs through December 20, 2014, 2014.
Ebony Porter presents a selection of hand-quilted pieces inspired by a cross-section of the American landscape, cultural histories, folklore, and minimalism. As studies in patience and repetition, each stitch is evidence of a moment, collected and aligned. Porter’s work pieces together time, space, heritage, and destiny.

ANGEL OLOSHOVE
FLOATING WORLDS

Opening Reception: Friday, January 9th, 2015, 6-8pm

Exhibition runs through February 14th, 2015.

Angel Oloshove’s ceramic sculptures cue humor and buoyancy. As vessels, what kind of transcendent energy they could possibly contain is implored by their ombré surfaces. With one degree of separation from any overt references but full of innuendo, the work in Floating Worlds gently suggests that one follow the slope, absorb the color, and feel the pleasure.
Angel studied painting and drawing at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She has exhibited at Gallery Hanahou (New York), Front St. Gallery (Oakland, CA), and several arts institutions across Japan, as well as numerous local venues. Angel currently lives and works in Houston, Tx.

BRADLEY KERL

Opening Reception: Friday, January 9th, 2015, 6-8pm

Exhibition runs through February 14th, 2015.

The paintings and collages in Blind Arcade occupy the psychological space between sincere and impossible. Bradley Kerl’s newest body of work subverts traditional landscapes and still-lifes with the frame of an archway, challenging the veracity of otherwise candid pictures. Through this device, Kerl transforms the viewing process into a precarious exercise, creating scenes just friendly enough to enter.
On days when Bradley isn’t working from his studio/living space north of downtown, he teaches painting at area community colleges and works as a studio assistant. He recently earned his MFA from the University of Houston and has since been significantly involved in the unique culture of emerging contemporary art in Houston.

SUSAN WHYNE
ENTRANCES
1969-1977

Opening Reception: Friday, Feb 20th, 2015, 6-8pm

Exhibition runs through March 27th, 2015.

 

Entrances by Susan Whyne is a selection of work made when she was living in the San Francisco Bay area between 1969-1977. A transplant from New York at the time, Whyne was stirred by the new experience of blocks of endless front yards with unexpected arrangements of forms, patterns, and color. The small-scale works on paper combine landscape and architecture to the effect of mysterious sculptural associations.

Susan Whyne lives in Austin, TX and recently retired from her position as associate professor of painting at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently presenting a solo exhibition at FRONT Gallery (Houston, TX,) and has previously exhibited at Texas Gallery, (Houston, TX;) the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; and the New Museum (New York City.) Whyne holds a BFA from Cooper Union and an MFA from San Francisco State University.