Galleri Urbane, Open House Weekend Docket

Galleri Urbane / Marfa announces their lineup for the Open House weekend. The show will be centered on a solo exhibit by former Chinati artist in residence Gail Peter Borden, ”SHALLOW SPACES”. As both an artist and architect Gail’s work has always revolved around space. Its production, depiction and experience are essential to our perception and interaction with our world.

In the main gallery, there will be new works by Jason Willaford, Peter Voshefski, Mike Slack, Sarah Spangler, and Candace Brecino.

"Encaustic Paintings" by Marfa artist Jason Willaford, a continuum of the "Descending Order" series. Jason's paintings convey sublime images evocotive of our surroundings.
Reduction is addition, his canvas thick with appliqué of encaustic follow a systemic path: apply, form, and render. In some paintings a tracery of line is incised leaving a gesture of this practice, where a millimeter of depth transforms the image something other than painting .The subtlety of the relief effect creates a transitional effect for reflection to delve upon. James Bae, Big Bend Sentinel

Albuquerque artist Peter Voshefski's paintings are concerned with the subtle pleasure and anxiety in the specific moments and places that inhabit life’s experiences. These things evoke the questions: What is here? What is missing? What is desired? In this spirit Peter paints with explicit and implicit elements of space and time, and a language of desire, longing, history, and mythology.
Peter Voshefski hones his acrylic paintings with a fine edge of ink and his simple subject matter with existential irony, powerful graphic sensibility, gifted composition and some damned funny thoughts. Santa Fe Reporter, October 2004

Los Angeles artist Mike Slack will exhibit a new series of large scale photographic prints based on his original Polaroid images. Slack’s work as a photographer begins with what is readily available and ends with the manmade and the familiar, especially if it involves bright artificial colors and harsh sunlight. The resulting image either describes the strangeness of human space, or refers to the limitations and charms of the image.

Photographer Sarah Spangler of Sante Fe presents a series of stereo slides and text intimately presented in handheld 3D viewers displayed on shelves. Her work excavates neglected parcels of land in search of cultural artifacts. A battleship game, a toy vacuum cleaner, plastic flowers—each piece is embedded with sociological information embued by each reader's own past experiences.

Texas artist Candace Briceno has incorporated the painting background and fiber aesthetics with the desire to physically involve the audience with sensual and tactile surfaces. The work highlights those moments when we are entranced by the outdoors.
"I use nature images such as flowers, grass, tree trunks and leaves and sew “painting sculptures” where one might experience the sensations of smell, touch and their own memory in my work."

when: Sept 30th - Nov 31st 2005
where: GALLERI URBANE / MARFA