March 9 - April 27, 2024
From Lone Gallery:
“Otra vez I fall in love — careful not to bruise mi corazon even further than the threshold — I paint — with the tierra and the oils — playing the same song — begging the mariachis to play it again — one more time — This group of works includes another trip to the studio, the river trail, and to the cantina — in the tradition of retablo painting — the paintings presented are small — featuring portraits and stories of chicanx tejanx joy and of course the tristeza — Also featured are a new group of works using clay sourced from the rivers my people have shared lives with for centuries — con la tierra de el Rio Bravo, de Terlingua, el Yanaguana, y el Salado. I am starting to paint onto canvas — and it’s like another love story unfolding — The harvested barro now dilutes down to Neirika-based clay paintings on unstretched and unprimered canvas — the rich colors seep into the canvas in a way that I have never seen before — the images share stories of dignified ambiguous cosmic happenings — these become offerings to heal pain — to engage love, happiness, joy, sadness, desperation, and abandonment — it’s the same song — otra vez one more time — con the amor y la tristeza — Como like the roving mariachis jumping from restaurants, weddings, quinces, graduations, pulgas, and funerals the barro then forms into 3 dimensions as sculptures which include copal burners, nahuales, auto-retratos, copitas, cuadrillas, and cantinero diablos — each of these works push my expression to another level bringing risk-taking painting formulas as clay bodied manifestations. This is a corrido — telling the story of a journey — not of a new love — but of an evolving love. -CO
Lone Gallery + {neighborhood} will also be presenting a enhancing group show of new works by Jonas Criscoe, Gabo Martinez, and Bradley Kerl. All artists will be present at the opening reception and will be sharing the stories of their works.
WHERE THE BORDERS MEET Jonas CRISCOE (Houston, TX) Jonas Criscoe is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited throughout the United States, most notably the International Print Center in New York and the Minnesota Museum of American Art. Criscoe has also been featured in various art publications, Including Art Lies and New American Painting and has been a Jerome Fellow at the Highpoint Center for Printmaking and a West Prize acquisition recipient. A native of Austin, Texas, living in Houston, he received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and the University of Texas at Austin, and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Currently, he is on the editorial board of DIALOGIST, a journal of Poetry & Art, on the Faculty of the Art School at The Contemporary Austin and Austin Community College and is a founding member of ICOSA, an artist run space located in Austin, Tx.
GOBLIN POTS Gabo MARTINEZ (San Marcos, TX) Gabo Mtz presents a new series of sculptural and humanoid Goblin Pots. This pottery series centers around Goblins, or Duendes, as a means of incorporating a playful and mischievous spirit into the work. It invites viewers to reconnect with their inner Goblins and embrace the little joys of this whimsical world. Gabo Martinez is an interdisciplinary artist who was born in Guanajuato, Mexico. Drawing upon both traditional and contemporary motifs, Gabo utilizes these visual languages to craft a narrative of her own that reclaims and honors her own heritage. The mediums of Printmaking and Ceramics are combined to create installations and spaces that evoke the warmth of brown bodies and rich vibrant colors. These spaces become vehicles for the re-emergence of Barro Rojo/Red Clay into the present contemporary moment and elevates Ancestral Ceramic Technologies and motifs. Barro Rojo lends itself in its softness and malleability to be molded into objects that can further immortalize our culture and our narratives. Barro Rojo is a Historical and Contemporary legacy. Gabo holds a BFA in Studio Arts with a concentration in Ceramics from Texas State University at San Marcos, Texas. She is a founder of the Tepeyac Collective, a collective that aims to organize and highlight BIPOC Clay artists in Central Tx as a response to the lack of diversity and harmful gate-keeping within the present day clay community. Gabo has completed residencies at the Sonoma Community Center in California as well as a visiting artist residency at Texas A&M University in Laredo, Tx. She has been featured in Ceramics Monthly as well as the Glasstire 4×4 series.
Bradley KERL (Houston, TX) Bradley Kerl is a painter and arts educator based in Houston, Texas. He holds Drawing & Painting degrees from both the University of North Texas (BFA) and the University of Houston (MFA). Bradley has been the focus of solo exhibitions at NADA’s New York City Project Space in Chinatown’s East Broadway Mall; Art League Houston, Houston, TX ; Ivester Contemporary, Austin, TX; Gold Diggers, Los Angeles, CA; Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX; and, most recently, at Beeville Art Museum in Beeville, TX. Group exhibitions include Dream Paper at Galerie SLIKA in Lyon, France; paper. at BEERS London in London, England, Paradisia at Mini Galerie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Rude Assembly Part 4 at China Heights Gallery in Sydney, Australia, Got It For Cheap at Galleri Golsa in Oslo, Norway, 10 Years 10 Artists at Octavia Art Gallery in New Orleans, LA, and FUN (2017) at Kirk Hopper Fine Art in Dallas, TX. Artist residencies include Domaine de Boisbuchet in Lessac, France; Villa Lena in Tuscany, Italy; and Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency in Corsicana, TX. His work has appeared in Artnews, Financial Times, Texas Highways Magazine, Süddeutsch Zeitung Magazine, Support Magazine #2, Texas Monthly, New American Paintings No. 138, Friend of The Artist: Volume 7, and Glasstire, among others.
The opening reception will be held on Saturday March 9th from 5-8pm, and all the artists will be present. Early VIP viewing will take place Friday March 8th from 5-7pm. Book your appointment by calling 214.943.5650 or emailing us at [email protected]. Early PDF look books are also available upon request. Outside of the opening reception the show will be up for viewing until August 26th.”
Reception: March 9, 2024 | 5–8 pm
2530 Converse Street
Dallas, 75207 Texas
214.943.5650
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