Conduit Art Gallery

CONDUIT GALLERY // FEB 20 // 5.30 - 8.30PM

Conduit Gallery
1626 C Hi Line Drive. Dallas, TX 75207 214.939.0064
www.conduitgallery.com
Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 AM – 5 PM

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Al Souza + James Sullivan
Project Room: Brett Rees

Al Souza                                                                                        New Works

Culling materials from a world of excess, Al Souza creates dynamic compositions the
eye compulsively traverses. The works in the exhibition include paintings composed of
thousands of layered jigsaw puzzle pieces the artist has become nationally recognized
for as well as his new variation, “Redux” puzzle paintings that are further layered with
ribbons of acrylic paint. Adding to the exhibition will also be various paper collages
hand-cut from
comic books, sheet music and botanical prints.
In 2006, Al Souza was named “Texas Artist of the Year” by the Art League Houston. His
work is represented in several major public collections such as; The Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, NY; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Biblioteche
Nationale, Paris, France; San Diego Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA; Santa Barbara Museum
of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Yale University of Art, New Haven, CT; Hood Museum of Art,
Hanover, CT; Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia and Museum of Fine Arts
Houston, Houston, TX. Al Souza lives and works in Houston, TX.

James Sullivan                                                                                  New Works

In recent years Dallas artist James Sullivan has further pushed his exploration of
materials. Straw and plaster figural sculptures, a constant in Sullivan's oeuvre, sit among
rock forms cast in various metals. Large-scale drawings and prints echo both the figure
and stone three-dimensional works. The work in the show, including the large cast iron
rock forms, were originally modeled in a 3-D digital haptic modeling system. The iron
was then cast at Mabry Foundry, Beaumont, Texas. The smaller digital sculpture are 3-
D Z-Corp prints using the facilities of the Research Center for Advanced Manufacturing
in the Lyle School of Engineering, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX.

Project Room                                                                                                 Brett Rees

The late astronomer Carl Sagan coined the saying: "We are all made of star stuff".   So
quotes Denton, TX artist, Brett Rees in his recent artist statement. His watercolors and
digital prints imagine a crystalline otherworld inhabited by ghost figures marching in
lockstep and witches brewing cosmic substance.

Brett Rees earned a B.F.A. in Printmaking from the University of North Texas in Denton
and recently showed in the 4th Annual Monster Show at DOMY Books in Austin &
Houston, TX.

Al Souza Man Holes, 2009 cut paper, 48x48"

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