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SPRING 2008
LUCKY BAT CONTEMPORARY ART
An Art Gallery showcasing the art of Nancy McGalliard at Cypress Creek Landing, Comfort Texas.
205 State Highway 27W, Suite 201-A
Comfort, Texas 78013
830 995 5958
Gallery Open
Thu, Fri, Sat 9:00 – 1:00, 3:00 – 5:00
Sun 1:00 – 4:00
If the door’s open, come on in;
Mon, Tue, Wed studio hours vary.
This Texas artist has been making art for over 30 years and holds an MFA from Instituto Allende as well as undergraduate work from the Kansas City Art Institute in Asian Art.
For the last 5 years Nancy has concentrated on Texas caves and magical realism in her paintings, and lectures in contemporary art history and theory. Lectures are available for your club or group.
THE GALLERY IS NOT A CHURCH.
An art gallery/studio is a place of spirited dialogue, opinions, revelation, joy and surprise. It is a space set aside for viewing the unseen, often unspoken sentiment of the human condition, the unfolding imagination of the artist, and a call to activism in thought, deed and outlook.
- Nancy L. McGalliard
ART CLASSES
ALL CLASSES – $10/Hr
High School Art: Portfolio
Ages 14 – 18
If your High School teen-ager is serious about becoming an artist, this class offers: theory, contemporary art history, and portfolio review. Practical applications in a variety of medium will be offered based on requirements.
Thursdays 3:30 – 4:30
Summer Kids Art School
Ages 4 – 8
Summertime activities will be offered in the cooler morning hours beginning
Saturday 21 June 2008.
Specific days to be announced.
Adult Painting Classes
Emphasis will be on the practical aspects of painting and development of personal style. Class begins with brief talk on theory with examples.
Any painting medium welcome.
Thursdays & Fridays 10 - 12
Private Lessons by Appointment
AUTUMN-WINTER 2007/2008
UNEASY CHAIRS
Currently, I am working on a series of sculptures centered on furniture and how we humans are contained within the space of arm chairs, couches, and easy chairs. The furniture is treated like a 3-dimensional mural and includes elements of burnt and charred trees and tiny lush forests. Out in the country at Beautiful Nowhere; I can burn whatever I want. Finally!
Concepts to be explored include melting into furniture, becoming a captive and/or slave to a piece of furniture, and I would like to do a performance where I will sew myself, or have others, sew me into an arm chair. Any takers?
BORDERS
The Texas and Mexico border, as with any border or edge, defines what is and what isn't, but, like *Schrödinger's cat, can be alive and dead at the same time. Borders are only perceptions of assigned significance. Them, Us. Us, Them.
With the wall going up between Texas and Mexico; I question how borders inform cultures and how divisions create resentment and magnify diversity. Where is the edge of a country, a culture? Where do the same economic and social values occur? Where is the edge of Time? How to cross the limit of experimentation, or discover the sharp or blunt edge of an idea?
Work has begun reflecting borders and the mercurial configuration of cultures on either side. At present I am working with children's clothes using Mexican gang tattoos, rusted and charred baby outfits and baby shoes. It is my goal to invoke the uneasy contagion of cast-off and forgotten social artifacts that blur the edge of cultural borders while discussing divisive qualities within human and social relationships. Using children’s clothes is my attempt to find the origin, and track the disjointed progression from trust, to someone who may betray trust, thereby creating further disconnection.
*Schrödinger's cat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat