 In
October of 2008 Rick Bartow came to Houston to exhibit at the Nau-has art
space and collaborate with us in the T.C.A. studio. On Monday Oct. 6th
after Bartow's initial reception at the Nau-haus exhibition space, the
artist teamed up with TCA owner Dan Allison, and printmaker
Kelly Moran to complete more than 36 monotypes by the end of the
week. Here are just some of Bartows works from this effort. Here are just
a few examples of our work together. His last night in town Rick treated
us to a little concert at the gallery.
Click
here to see Rick, Ed and Bob play
Rick was here for the week
courtesy of the Charles Froelick gallery of Portland Oregon, and left us
with his music, his art, and his magic.These works are now available through
Froelick Gallery. contact: charles@froelickgallery.com
 Sometimes
it happens that one idea leads to another, and when it works out just right
the conversation between the artist and the studio just gets more and more
interesting. These works from Terrell James not only proved we had a lot
more to "talk" about from previious sessiions, but that our vocabulary
continues to become considerably richer. DMA 07/20/06
 "Fortune's
Cookie," our first collaboration of the year was a mixed media Project
with the legendary Nancy Reddin Kienholz. Using a photograph scanned from
the book chronicling her work with her husband the late Ed Kienholz as
a starting point Nancy explored several avenues with this image captured
in the eighties by photographer Marsha Burns.
Please
chick here to view the results of these poignant images from one of Americas
greatest artists.
All works are in the collection of the artist.
Our first show in 2006 is studio
artist Kelly Moran. Kelly Moran describes her work in her show “Catastrophic
Survival”
"There will be a combination
of small 3 and 4 colour photo polymer prints and mid size linoleum cut/vintage
wallpaper multiples. The images used are vintage but some how have timelessness
about them. “Home Sweet Home” is
a Linoleum cut of floating Aviators warming a meal over a fire while dreaming
of home, which are little pink houses on a made in America vintage wallpaper
background. There are also the Siamese twin servants in “Stand
your Ground” that are staring defiantly at the viewer as if challenging
them to some sort of contest. Maybe a three legged race? Some of the small
sized prints depict life saving methods on a background of wallpaper. The
men are wearing hats and the women high heels in these prints. Because
the life saving image is taken out of context they take on different meaning.
The women look like angels in “Lift and Carry”
and the men in “Litter” look
like ghost pallbearers. These are not big splashy images they are intimate
little jewels requiring inspection and contemplation.
In 2005:
Sharon
Kopriva:
We ended 2004 with a series
of three works "Avenger", "Brooder" and "Observer" by Sharon
Kopriva using the polymer photo resist method. Each of these first
three images made maximum use of Sharon's energetic drawing style and sense
of the dramatic. The images are four colours using two polymer plates.
The drawings were done directly on the plates and then burned with an aquatint
screen. We started 2005 with two more ambitious works, "Snatched" and "Last
Tango." 29"x 38" and 29"x 28" respectively. Both works were included in
the New Orleans Triennial.
NOTE:
Click here to read about the photo resist method as it relates to drawing,
painting and photography
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