Gabriel Dawe
Out of the Dark
March 23rd through April 27, 2024
TALLEY DUNN GALLERY
About TALLEY DUNN GALLERY
Talley Dunn Gallery is delighted to present Out of the Dark, a solo exhibition of internationally acclaimed Mexico City born artist Gabriel Dawe featuring the debut of intimate and larger scale watercolors and mesmerizing textile collages. This exhibition is a profound exploration of resilience and transformation as Dawe unveils a body of work born from the depths of personal struggle and triumph. Motivated by a longing to overcome the challenges that weighed heavily on him during the latter half of 2022, Dawe sought to reconnect with a spirit of play that had eluded him. Throughout 2023, the artist adopted a daily ritual practice of watercolor, reminiscent of Dawe’s earliest days as an artist. This everyday meditation in the fluid intuitive freedom of watercolor and the diaphanous nature of its color was a beacon of light that guided Dawe towards mental, physical, and spiritual restoration. Out of the Dark celebrates the power of creativity to illuminate even the darkest of paths and emerge into the light renewed and revitalized.
In contrast to the precision of Dawe’s previous series, the resulting works from these nightly watercolor sessions gave birth to a newfound sense of freedom. Out of the Dark exhibits a full year’s worth of these painterly meditations, done on book pages, in an incredible grid on the gallery wall. Inspired by the spontaneous beauty of these watercolors, Dawe ventured into larger formats as well as into the realm of textile collages. Of note in the exhibition are two periods of his daily meditations, each bearing the imprint of transformative experiences. The first, created amidst the stark beauty of the High Arctic during the artist’s Arctic Circle Artist Residency, reflects the awe-inspiring landscapes and fields of blue of Dawe’s creative stay. Many of these works were even made with glacier ice water. The second notable section, produced in complete absence of light during a seven-day darkness retreat outside Kansas City, captures an unfettered energy of spontaneity in the artist’s loose gestural brushwork. Through Dawe’s watercolors and textile works, the artist invites viewers to embark on their own journey of regeneration and introspection. Out of the Dark shines a light on the transformative potency of creativity, guiding us through the shadows to emerge renewed and invigorated in the radiant glow of self-discovery.
Challenging the traditional categorization of textiles within domestic craft, Gabriel Dawe’s work weaves together reflections on gender, fashion, and architecture.
Dawe received an MFA from the University of Texas at Dallas. In 2020 Dawe received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, and the Texas State 3D Visual Artist Award. His work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Courtauld Institute, London, U.K.; the U.S. Consolute in Monterrey, Mexico; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC; and Museum Rijswijk, the Netherlands. Dawe has had solo exhibitions at the Toledo Museum of Art, OH; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX; The National Centre for Craft and Design, Lincolnshire, UK; Newark Museum, NJ; Brighman Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT; Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; and The Luminary Arts Center, St. Louis, MO to name a few. Dawe’s artwork is in the permanent collections of The Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX; The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Long Beach Performance Art Center, CA; Newark Museum, NJ; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; University of Texas at Dallas and the U.S. State Department. Born and raised in Mexico City, Dawe now lives and works in Dallas, Texas.
Julie Bozzi
Eye Candy
February 17 – April 27
Talley Dunn Gallery is excited to present Julie Bozzi: Eye Candy, a solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper by the nationally recognized, Fort Worth based artist. Conceived and created by gallery Director Trini Martinez, the exhibition is a sweet shop of artistic delights and tasty miracles, Milagros Salerosos.
Celebrating Bozzi’s exquisite paintings in a variety of intimate formats, the exhibition reveals the artist’s fascination with studying sweets, candies, and breads from around the world. Always painting from her delectable source material, Bozzi’s shares with us her insatiable fascination with collecting, categorizing, documenting, and painting sweets and food. Traveling throughout Mexico and Japan, Bozzi shares with the viewer her meticulously rendered paintings of each culture’s treasured breads and candies. From the suggestive forms of Mexico’s pan dulce to the seasonal references of Japan’s wagashi, Bozzi studies the centuries-old traditions within these cultures, revealing her encyclopedic knowledge of her subjects. Intriguing, tiny handheld holiday booklets reveal jewel-like paintings of American candies associated with cultural holidays.
Over the course of a remarkable fifty-year career, Bozzi has distinguished herself withing the genres of still life and landscape painting. Bozzi earned both her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the University of California, Davis, where she studied with Wayne Thiebaud, and also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in 1975. Bozzi has participated in numerous solo exhibitions, including shows at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Select group exhibitions include The Meadows Museum, Dallas, The Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The New Museum, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Many notable institutions have collected Bozzi’s work, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., the Dallas Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Bozzi’s accolades include the Award in Painting from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation in 1981, an Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1989, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2005, and the Dozier Travel Grant from the Dallas Museum of Art in 2017.
LINDA RIDGWAY
THE LIBRARY
THRU APR27
Talley Dunn Gallery is thrilled to announce the opening of The Library, a solo exhibition of drawing, assemblage and sculpture by Linda Ridgway. We invite you to join us in celebrating Ridgway on Saturday, January 20th with a reception for the artist from 5pm – 7pm, and artist remarks at 6pm.
Born in Jeffersonville, Indiana, Linda Ridgway received her MFA from Tulane University, where she studied printmaking. She is widely recognized for her poetic sculptures in bronze. Working across various media, Ridgway creates an evocative symbolic language using forms found in nature as well as domestic textiles. While her works reflect personal experiences and often allude to specific poems or works of literature, they also contemplate enduring questions of memory, womanhood, tradition, and ephemerality. Often ethereal in their delicacy and their inclusion of impermanent organic material, her works question accepted understandings of nature and femininity, and their connected cultural associations. Gestural lines, fine detail, and organic forms create a sense of intimacy and reveal the influence of post-minimalism.
Throughout her career, Linda Ridgway’s sculptures, drawings, and prints have been featured in more than thirty solo exhibitions as well as a number of important group exhibitions. The artist’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; the Dallas Museum of Art; the El Paso Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Old Jail Art Center; Albany, Texas; and the Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas. Ridgway currently lives and works in Dallas, Texas.
Talley Dunn Gallery
5020 Tracy Street
Dallas, Texas 75205
214.521.4322
Tuesday—Friday from 10am – 5pm
Saturday from 12pm – 5pm and by appointment
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