This conversation between artist David Bates and Nasher Sculpture Center Curator Jed Morse commemorates the joint retrospective exhibition of Bates’ sculpture and works on paper at the Nasher Sculpture Center, and…
2014 Arthur Roger Gallery exhibition catalogue for Holton Rower: Viscous Resin Extruding From The Trunk
David Bates bounces around a storage room crammed with his art at Talley Dunn Gallery. He’s a bit frazzled, for good reason. It’s November, and he has less than three months to prepare for one of the biggest exhibitions of his life, a retrospective that will be mounted simultaneously at the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
Installation views from James Drake: Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness – January 2014 exhibition at Arthur Roger@434
Installation views from Holton Rower: Viscous Resin Extruding From The Trunk – January 2014 exhibition at Arthur Roger Gallery
Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness, James Drake’s eleventh exhibition with the gallery, features a collection of the artist’s “red” drawings as well as a grouping of glass sculpture. The pastel drawings continue to reveal the renowned artist’s method and deliberation. The subjects, always personal, are often flecked with faint notations and markings, on paper consumed by the process, sometimes pieced together with exposed tape.
This second exhibition with New York-based artist Holton Rower includes his remarkable “Pour Paintings” along with a unique body of work titled “Focus paintings.” Holton Rower, who has been referred to as a “chemist and sculptor of paint,” is renowned for the incredible color combinations he achieves which can be stunningly psychedelic and hypnotic.
Decisive Moments is drawn from the extensive, rich collection of 20th-century and contemporary photographs assembled over 40 years by Jim and Cherye Pierce, including works by Luis Cruz Azaceta, Dawn DeDeaux and Deborah Luster.
Images of Arthur Roger Gallery December 2013 Opening: Pard Morrison, Kate Blacklock and David Halliday
Installation views from David Halliday: Threadbare – December 2013 exhibition at Arthur Roger@434.