2014 Gallery Preview

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WOVEN Chuck Close, Alex Katz, Deborah Oropallo, Hung Liu, Squeak Carnwath March 17 – April 7 Opening Reception: March 21, 5-7

ALTERED Rusty Scruby, Ann Weiner, Tracy Krumm April 21 – May 19 Opening Reception: April 25, 5-7

FINE-LINED Kate Petley

June 9 – June 29 Opening Reception: June 13, 5-7

SURVIVAL July 28 – August 25

Hung Liu, Traian Filip, Nele Zirnite, Igor Melnikov, Georges Mazilu, Wanxin Zhang Opening Reception: August 1, 5-7

ANOMALY Georges Mazilu’s New Paintings November 3 – December 1 Opening Reception: November 7, 5-7

2014 EXHIBITION CALENDAR

DALLAS ART FAIR April 10 – April 13

BIOMORPHED Rex Ray and Shawn Smith June 30 – July 27 Opening Reception: July 11, 5-7

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TURNER CARROLL GALLERY INVITES YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE UPCOMING YEAR…

2014 represents a landmark for Turner Carroll Gallery: this is our 25th year of

contributing to the arts in Santa Fe. In honor of that milestone, Turner Carroll

broadens our aesthetic horizons, exploring new mediums, exotic locales, and

foreign cultures. We represent a diverse and cutting edge group of artists;

individuals who exploit novel mediums, fuse old and new in electrifying ways,

and produce utterly unique contemporary art. Beginning with an innovative

presentation of tapestries in Woven and ending with the newest paintings of

artist Georges Mazilu in Anomaly, 2014 promises to be a thrilling exploration

for Turner Carroll Gallery. We hope you'll join us for one, several, or all of

these exciting exhibitions, and visit turnercarroll.com to see our entire

inventory.

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Chuck Close, Sunflower, cotton Jacquard tapestry, 103 x 79”

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Hung Liu, Last Emperor, cotton Jacquard Tapestry, 87.5 x 73”

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Alex Katz, Ada with Sunglasses, cotton Jacquard Tapestry, 80 x 55”

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WOVEN

Woven will present tapestries by blue-chip contemporary artists Deborah

Oropallo, Chuck Close, Squeak Carnwath, Alex Katz, and Hung Liu. This

diverse group of artists is united by their interest in manifesting striking

contemporary art in the age-old medium of tapestry weaving. In these tapestries,

thousands of individual threads precisely intertwine to render a united image:

this medium illuminates the delicate balance between pixel and image,

fragmentation and whole, thread and tapestry. These artists have collectively

been shown in collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the

Belvedere Museum of Vienna, the MoMA, the SFMoMA, and more.

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Rusty Scruby, Happy Meal, photographic reconstruction, 42 x 35 x 2”

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DALLAS ART FAIR

This will be Turner Carroll Gallery's fifth year of attending of the Dallas Art

Fair. This year, we will be bringing some of our favorite works, including pieces

by popular artists Hung Liu, Rusty Scruby, Shawn Smith, Jenny Abell, and

David Rothermel. Please join us at booth G2.

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Ann Weiner, La Mariposa, optically altered photograph, 19.4 x 23.3”

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Tracy Krumm, Taper (Anchor), crocheted metal thread and metal anchor, 108 x 10 x 10”

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Rusty Scruby, Sunflower, photographic reconstruction, 49. x 31.5”

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ALTERED

In Altered, Turner Carroll Gallery presents three artists who challenge the

viewer's perception of an image. Rusty Scruby creates "photographic

reconstructions" by cutting images into shapes and then re-weaving those

fragments together. By breaking the picture down then rebuilding it into

something entirely new, Scruby creates a uniquely layered final image. Ann

Weiner's process is not dissimilar from Scruby's; Weiner begins by slicing

images apart and then reassembling them under a cylindrical lens. Beneath this

lens, the altered images move and shift, creating a work that is in constant flux.

In contrast, Tracy Krumm alters found objects, such as antique strainers, by

crocheting them with woven metal thread. The final sculpture is simultaneously

durable and delicate. By altering images and materials in innovative ways, these

artists push us to question the way we perceive the visual world.

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Kate Petley, Divided Mind, mixed media on industrial film, 40 x 44”

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FINE-LINED

We are excited to announce Fine-Lined, the first Kate Petley solo show at

Turner Carroll Gallery. Petley is a Colorado-based artist who creates

enigmatic abstractions: she paints on industrial film with strong, bold

brushstrokes, generating mysterious forms that evoke blurred memories and

reflections. In this exhibition of the artist’s newest works, Petley has

distilled her vibrant abstractions down to their very essence; she highlights

the fundamental lines, color, and composition in her pieces. Her lines, finer

than ever, simultaneously evoke a beautiful simplicity and complex

emotional response in the viewer. Petley’s work resides in numerous public

and private collections, including the Nicolaysen Museum in Casper,

Wyoming.

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Shawn Smith, Glitched, ink and acrylic pain on plywood, 35 x 29 x 32”

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Shawn Smith, Nest, three dimensional print, 13.5” x 15” x 9”, 2013

Shawn Smith, Nest, three dimensional print, 13.5 x 15 x 9”

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Rex Ray, Xanthrocodone, collage on linen, 60 x 60”

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BIOMORPHED

Biomorphed explores the way nature is presented and perceived in the modern

world. Rex Ray re-interprets the biological world with art; his vibrant works

are a microcosm of life, suggesting chains of DNA or a field of colorful fungi.

Ray fuses science with design, creating paintings that are simultaneously

organic and precise. Shawn Smith is similarly interested in the intersection of

nature, technology, and art; Smith re-imagines nature as a pixelated entity.

Through this work, Shawn hints at our own detachment with nature as, for the

most part, society experiences the outside world through a camera lens. Smith

and Ray have previously been shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern

Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Denver Museum of

Contemporary Art, and the National Art Museum of Norway.

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Traian Filip, The Wall (Oltre i muro delle parole), intaglio on paper, 11.75 x 11.25”plate size

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Igor Melnikov, Good Friend, oil on panel, 30 x 31.83”

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Hung Liu, Refugee: Opera, oil on canvas, 114 x 78”

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SURVIVAL

Turner Carroll Gallery is pleased to announce Survival, a group exhibition of some of the

gallery’s most prestigious artists. The show, which will include works by Hung Liu, Traian

Filip, Igor Melnikov, Georges Mazilu, Nele Zirnite, and Wanxin Zhang, explores the

relationship between art and survival: the art of survival, art as survival, and, ultimately, the

survival of art as a record of incredible perseverance. Each of these artists endured

unbelievable social and political oppression in his or her country of origin. Hung Liu

overcame the harsh rice fields and censorship of Mao’s communist China, while Traian Filip

resisted the despotic regime of Ceausescu in Romania. These artists survived overwhelming

hardship by channeling their experience into striking creative power: their art is their

survival. Now, the art stands as a memory of that survival. The viewer encounters these works

as a record of transcendence, of rising above impossible circumstances to the plane of

aesthetic beauty. These artists are collectively shown in prestigious collections all over the

world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, the Russian

Cultural Museum, and the Vatican Museum.

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Georges Mazilu, The Return of the Prodigal Son (Le Retour du Fils Prodigue), acrylic on linen, 35 x 48.5”

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ANOMALY

Turner Carroll Gallery’s last show of the year will be Anomaly, an exhibition of

new works by Georges Mazilu. Mazilu merges incredible Old Master technique

with highly contemporary ideas; his work lies outside of time. His fairytale

figures, part animal and part human, push the viewer to engage their own

imagination. Mazilu combines figurative work with an abstract style, classical

technique with contemporary ideas, and childlike figures with adult themes. His

work resists categorization; it is this very identity of anomaly that renders his

paintings so striking. Mazilu is included in distinguished collections all over the

world, including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Denver Museum

of Art, and the Bulgarian Museum of Contemporary Art.

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