Genius-Loci-Villa, 70" x 70" x 8"
McMurtrey Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Texas artist Beverly Penn. Penn casts from local flowers and plants to create lush bronze sculptures that reflect the Texas landscape.
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Twin,70" x 70" x 6"
Several of Penn's sculptures span almost 9 feet and feel almost as big as Texas itself. Penn recently had a solo exhibition at the Grace Museum in Abilene, Texas.
McMurtrey recently converted the former frame gallery into a new 'micro space' gallery. Jean Wetta's oil paintings were on exhibit.
New York, New York, oil on multi-media board, 11" x 28" x 1"
Light on the Far Field, oil on multi-media board, 11" x 28" x 1"
There were five of these lush little Jean Wetta paintings in the mircro space.
Sarah Williams, La Plata Winter, oil on canvas, 12" x 12", 2011
McMurtrey had this little Sarah Williams
painting up in the back room. I love the way she captures light in
night time landscapes. Williams currently has a solo exhibition up at
the Galveston Art Center that I wish I had the time to run down to see. Both Beverly Penn and Jean Wetta's exhibits are up through November 23.
I stopped in at John Cleary Gallery to see the Susan Burnstine photographs. I didn't take pictures because a) I don't like to photograph photography for the possible copyright infringements, and b) the glass on the frames usually makes it too difficult anyway. These are lovely atmospheric black and white photos of city scenes in New York and Chicago. The black and white photography and the effects blur our vision creating dreamlike images. Many of the photos were shot so that the horizon line is very low leaving us with the jagged edge of the top of the skyline verging on disquieting cloudscapes. This exhibition is up through November 26.
Kari Russell-Pool, Aromatic Amphora #3, lampwork glass
Hooks-Epstein Gallery is currently exhibiting assemblage works by Ward Sanders through November 23. In the back room of the gallery I found these three blown and lampwork glass vessels created by Kari Russell-Pool. I could find no other information on Russell-Pool other than she lives and works in Connecticut and she also shows at a glass gallery in Nantucket, Ma.
Goldesberry Gallery presents works by Holly Wilson through November 26.
Holly Wilson, On a Limb, bronze, wood, sterling silver
Wilson casts the birds on these sculptures from silver to represent the precious aspect of burdens in our lives, or as Wilson explains "birdens".
Goldesberry also represents a large group of ceramic artists. I don't find many galleries in the south and southeastern US states that exhibit fine crafts such as ceramics, glass, or wood like I have found in many galleries in the northwestern states.
Diana Kersey, Platypus Jar, ceramic
This vessel caught my eye in the backroom ceramics gallery at Goldesberry. Diana Kersey lives and works in San Antonio, but I see that she received her MFA in ceramics at Washington State University.
Susan Giller, Standing Raku Cats, raku ceramics
I recognized Susan Giller's raku cats almost immediately even though they were standing on a lower shelf. I visited Giller's studio a few weeks ago along the White Rock Lake Artists Studio Tour and she had a few of these sculptures out.
Heather Gorham on the left also visiting the studio of Susan Giller who is dressed in black to the right of Heather.
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