February 17 - March 23, 2024
From Cris Worley Fine Arts:
“Cris Worley Fine Arts is proud to present our second solo exhibition with New Mexico-based artist, Joshua Hagler. The exhibition entitled, FOCUS: Joshua Hagler, will be on view starting with an evening Preview on Thursday, February 15th, with the artist in attendance. The gallery will also hold an Opening Reception the following Saturday February 17th, and will be on view through March 23rd. Joshua Hagler lived and worked in San Francisco and then Los Angeles for fifteen years before moving to Roswell, New Mexico in 2018 as a grant recipient of the year-long Roswell Artist in Residence Program. He and his wife, contemporary artist Maja Ruznic, now live and work in New Mexico and have recently welcomed their first child into the world. Hagler was born at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho in 1979 and is a first-generation college graduate with a visual communications degree from the University of Arizona in Tucson. In 2020 he was Hopper Prize Finalist. In 2018, he mounted two museum exhibitions: at the Brand Library and Art Center in Los Angeles, and the Roswell Museum and Art Center in New Mexico, entitled The River Lethe, and Love Letters to the Poorly Regarded, respectively. Hagler has exhibited paintings, sculpture, video, and animation in galleries and museums in North and South America, U.K., Europe, and Australia including a long list of solo exhibitions. Hagler has completed residencies abroad in France, Italy and Norway. His work can be found in private and public permanent collections, including Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM; Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX; Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China; Pond Society, Shanghai, China. Reviews and features about the work, as well as his own poems and essays, have appeared in a variety of publications and media outlets in the U.S. and other parts of the world, including GQ Magazine and Italian Vogue.
Cris Worley Fine Arts is a Dallas, Texas based contemporary art gallery located in the Dallas Design District. With over 20 years of experience, Cris Worley is dedicated to promoting innovative work by contemporary artists at various stages of their careers.”
Reception: February 17, 2024 | 4–7 pm
1845 Levee Street, #110
Dallas, 75207 TX
214.745.1415
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