Gallery Hours
Monday-Wednesday
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Thursday 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m
Friday 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Closed Saturday - Sunday
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Gallery Contact Information
Eddy Rawlinson
Main & Lamar
Dallas, TX 75202
214.860.2115
EBRawlinson@dcccd.edu
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Radiolaria Heartland
An Exhibition Featuring work by Claire Cusack & Linda Guy
September 22 – October 17, 2008
Reception: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Gallery Talk, 4:00 p.m.
H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery, El Centro College – Dallas, TX. is proud to present Radiolaria Heartland, An Exhibition Featuring work by Claire Cusack & Linda Guy.
This exhibition will feature works of recycled, meaningful “trash” metal works of sculpture by Claire Cusack of Houston, Texas and mixed/digitally altered media, including film, by Fort Worth artist and TCU Professor of Art, Linda Guy.
Claire Cusack lives in a world inspired by ordinary objects. Her travels around the world allows her to invariably find “meaningful trash” that is transformed into the exquisite sculptures that are a hallmark of her work. This new context for the objects, not unlike Duchamp’s “Readymades”, allows for the reinvention of the objects infused with a new, raw spiritually. Cusack states, “many of the objects have individual voices that guide the unusual pairing and complex assembling of each piece.” Her attention to detail and use of precise furniture making techniques, in lieu of just glue and other typical assembling techniques, masks the perceived simplicity and elegance of the end result.
“Every age has it’s own vision of the world. And every image reflects the vision of its time and of its maker.” Proteus, a 19th Century Vision. Linda Guy has created a suite of printed images and accompanying film based on the work and drawings of Earnst Haeckel’s, a contemporary of Darwin, research of primitive organisms, Radiolaria, in his book Art Forms from the Ocean published in 1862. According to Guy, her aim was to reintroduce some of these images but in altered forms that are an outgrowth of her research into the relationship of art and science. This work continues her exploration into creating hybrids between different sources of research of the world around us as explained by science and creating images that are a mixture of different media, ie. cameras, computers, screen-printing, graphite, combined to create a new vision or “absence of absolutes and the non-existence of answers”. Guy concludes, “I have become a systematist by re-ordering and combining invented or abstracted elements…that has become self-referential and visualizes another way to experience the world.”
A Reception will be held on Saturday, October 4, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m., with a gallery talk at 4:00 p.m., in the H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery, El Centro College, located on the first floor of the new Student and Technology building. The entrance is located at 801 Main Street at Lamar, Downtown Dallas.
Gallery hours are Monday – Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Thursday, 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., and Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Please contact Eddy Rawlinson, Gallery Director for more information and/or images at 214-860-2115 or ebrawlinson@dcccd.edu and www.ecc.dcccd.edu/Campusinfo/artgallery.
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