Oracle Four, Christine Gray, Oil on birch panel, 42" x 46"
If this image doesn't attract you to the opening of our Christine Gray exhibition this Saturday, then I have nothing for you.
CHRISTINE GRAY
SPRING THAW
April 19 - May 24, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 19, 6:00 - 8:30pm
Christine Gray's paintings represent the translation from a constructed environment to an illusionistic world. Painted from models she creates using common craft materials, the works become fantastically abstracted scenes based on objects domestic and kitsch. While gestural marks and rich textures compose much of these surreal landscapes, Gray also interposes areas where her source materials are highly rendered. This brings both a compelling balance and an irony to the picture plane.
Gray sees her work as speaking to the dysfunction of the Martha Stewart institution for its presentation of perfect craft, food, entertaining, and interior decor as an "Everyday" goal that individuals try to imitate. She explains, "I represent landscape through several degrees of mediation (first by building modest micro-sculptures, then through painting) using themes of failed geometry, failed architecture, and failed illusionism. This removal from the real reflects what I find to be a prevalent contemporary anxiety toward not only so-called 'nature' but also toward 'the real' itself."
Christine Gray received an MFA from The University of California Santa Barbara, California in 2007 and a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin. She has exhibited in group shows in California and Texas. She currently teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University.
ARTIST NEWS / EXHIBITIONS
Washingtonian Magazine
ON THE EDGE - The area's contemporary-art galleries, many with bold spring shows, feature some of the brightest work on today's art scene.
Beau Chamberlain
"183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art"
National Academy Museum New York, May 28th - Sept 7, 2008
Michael Scoggins
"Sunny Dispositions"
Gallerie Ernst Hilger - Hilger Contemporary, Austria, through May 4, 2008
Raymond Uhlir
"20 To Watch"
Austin Museum of Art, through May 11, 2008
Brian Ulrich
"Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes"
Walker Art Museum, through August 18, 2008
Carnegie Museum of Art, October 4, 2008 - January 18, 2009
"Variable Capital"
Bluecoats Arts Centre, Liverpool, UK, May 15 - June 29, 2008
"Branded and On Display"
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, Jun 14 - Sept 21, 2008
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