// MARTY WALKER GALLERY

MARTY WALKER GALLERY // JAN 07 // 6 - 8pm

Marty Walker Gallery
2135 Farrington Street , Dallas , TX 75207
T 214.749.0066 F 214.749.0067
www.martywalkergallery.com
hours: Tue-Fri 11-6, Sat 12-5, and by appt

SARAH WILLIAMS
NIGHTFALL
VIDEO ROOM: BARRY ANDERSON
JANUARY 7 - FEBRUARY 11, 2012

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Marty Walker Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Sarah Williams' new urban landscapes
of industrial American roadsides. Draped in the shadows of night, buzzing electric lights from
commercial structures penetrate the scene. Emphasizing a sense of abandonment, the
looming structures appear as vulnerable as they are threatening.

Williams' paintings take cues from Edward Hopper's geometric division of space and sense
isolation, yet leaves the scene absent of human figures. Photographically inspired, Williams
provides a sardonic twist to a banal New Topographic landscape after sunset. Despite
representing common daily activities, the overall scene takes on a sense of desolation
flooded in electric light. Textured pavement overtakes the foreground, following tire
tracks to seemingly unremarkable structures. Mixes of colored lights cast eerie reflections
in hyper-realistic scenes, dramatizing the scene as if waiting for the next rush of movement.

Recently featured in the last October issue of New American Paintings, juror Cassandra
Coblentz, Curator for the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, states of the selected
artists: "Boldly building upon the richness of art history, their demonstrations of reinvention
and innovation are in step with the mythos of the landscape itself, which continues to
serve as an important backdrop for exploring the most pressing issues and concerns
we all face in the West."

Sarah Williams received an MFA in 2009 from University of North Texas and has been
exhibiting widely across Texas and the U.S., and is the recipient of numerous awards,
including Purchase Award from UNT's Art in Public Places in 2009 and a Hunting Art Prize
Finalist in 2010. She has exhibited and participated in a panel for the Dallas Contemporary’s
Here, There & Beyond, and recently completed an artist-in-residence program in Vermont.
Williams recently exhibited at the Galveston Arts Center, and had a solo exhibition at
the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in 2010.

VIDEO ROOM: BARRY ANDERSON | Junk Yard, 2011, 6:15 HD video animation

Barry Anderson's Junk Yard, an HD video animation of bits and pieces of pop culture icons
and pulp fiction figures. In a slow-rolling tour, figures, body parts, buildings, and objects
emerge as objects once idolized now cast aside and overgrown with blades of grass.
Anderson, employing digital compositing and video animation, merges simplistic shapes
and colors with subtle cultural commentary to celebrate cultural identity while also
re-interpreting everyday symbols, associative memory, and viewer experience.

Based in Kansas City, Anderson's recent work was recently acquired and featured in the
Kemper Museum's The Big Reveal exhibition, used as the featured frontispiece for the
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art's semiannual benefit auction, and chosen as
one of six Kansas City artists highlighted in the Black Bamboo furnishing company catalog
for 2011. Anderson’s work is exhibited in national and international galleries and
museums including Dubai, England, China, Thailand, Brazil, and Los Angeles. He is a
recipient of New York's Light Work fellowship and their annual publication in
Contact Sheet 153.

Sarah Williams, Chula Carwash, 2011, oil on panel, 30 x 30 inches