Troy Dugas' meticulous collages create compelling patterns that look like mandalas or stained glass windows. Dugas' work reflects a sense of the sublime from the mass produced label: "My work is made from vintage product labels I purchase in unused bundles. I cut and arrange this material onto flat surfaces (paper, canvas, or wood) to produce artwork that appear woven. I use repetition, pattern, precision, and scale to distract from the original purpose of the label to sell a product. The material is deconstructed through cutting or shredding and the essential elements of color, shape, and line are...
Past Exhibitions
Rusty Scruby has challenged the boundary between sculpture, photography, and drawing. His newest exhibition in McMurtrey Gallery's micro space, Sink Sketches, incorporates deft skill in mathematical composition alongside a keen humor in his choice of materials. The result is a fun foray into a world Rusty creates from the cast aways of everyday life.
Sarah Williams' paintings have been likened to great American painters as Edward Hopper and Ed Ruscha. Often depicting rural scenes of both Texas and Missouri Williams' vacant buildings and endless darkened skies reveal a residue of humanity imprinted on to what is left behind.
Danae Falliers earned an MFA in Photography from the University of Southern California, and a BFA from California College of the Arts in Oakland. Falliers' photography is informed by ideas of transience, permanence, and memory. Created through a pervasive acceleration of images Falliers' explores the evolution of the perceived landscape.
Sydney Yeager's new series of paintings investigates the concept of ruins both ancient and contemporary through the materiality of oil paint. Each painting unearths a complex layering of color and form that simultaneously reveals ephemerality and timelessness:
"These paintings reflect the influence of both demolition sites and the ancient ruins I have visited. Some elements are loosely derived from photographs I have taken of demolition sites. There are "holes" in the forms of some of the of the paintings. In others, linear elements act as frail scaffolding holding the forms in suspension. In some paintings, the forms are piled together in a heap...
Steve Wiman, the owner of Uncommon Objects in the popular South Congress district of Austin, Texas has come into his own as an installation artist and sculptor utilizing found objects. Wiman spent an a day in the micro space to create his whimsical installation inspired by a core belief: "My antique business, my art-making, and my life are bound together by a common goal- find beauty where you can and make the most of it."
Robert Kinsell's narrative paintings invite the viewer to participate in a new world of the artists' making. Beautifully rendered, Kinsell transforms the traditional landscape and still life into a springboard for new conceptual associations both comical and tragic.
Robert Kinsell completed his Master of Fine Art in Painting at the University of Wisconsin/Madison. He is a Professor of Art at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas, where he has taught Painting, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Design, and Advertising Design. Kinsell's solo exhibitions include "Past and Present" at the Longview Museum of Fine Art in Longview, Texas; "Reality-Virtual and Otherwise" at Texas...
Howard Sherman's new works on paper features a series of "portraits" infused with Sherman's viscerally charged gesture, line, and color articulated through paint and collage elements.
Three of a Kind features seven gallery artists who have each created three individual works. Displayed in vignettes across the gallery the differences between the selected gallery artists brings about a dialogue about art processes and concepts.
Popping Wheelies features six new paintings by artist Jane Eifler. In this new series she explores movement through a lightness of color and subject matter inviting viewers to explore her painted surface with exuberance.