News

SEPTEMBER 2011

Currently I am teaching Art at The Art Institute of San Antonio and developing new shows that include paintings and soft performance proposals.

DECEMBER 2009

Call for Entries
ABSTRACT ART GROUP SHOW
AT LUCKY BAT CONTEMPORARY ART
FEBRUARY 2009

theoretical, conceptual, hypothetical
spontaneity expressed with abstract forms
not aiming to depict an object
focus is on internal structure and form
not relating to concrete objects
expressing something that can only be appreciated intellecturally
based on general principles or theories rather than on specific instances
a concept or term that does not efer to a concrete object but denotes a quality, emotion or idea
intellectual, mental, immaterial, intangible, nonfigurative, nonrepresentational

Call for Entries
Lucky Bat gallery is looking for artists who would like to submit a work/s of art to a group show February 2010. The work must be abstract and non-figurative, and can be in any medium, i.e. painting, sculpture, fine art photography, music, installation, drawing, printmaking etc

There is no fee to enter. the gallery takes 30% commission on sales.
Contact Nancy @ 830 431 0769 or email nancymcgalliard@yahoo.com.

AUTUMN 2009

In 2008 - 2009 Lucky Bat presented the following:

Last year was a wonderful year for Lucky Bat , not only exceeding our previous sales to old and new collectors, but in welcoming twice as many first-time visitors and art enthusiasts. Retail hours have been changed to 10 - 2 Th/F/S/Sun so hope to catch you then, but we can make an appointment @ 830 431 0769 to suit your schedule.

The 2009 Summer Studio was more fun than one human/artist should ever have. The gallery went happily to pieces and a great many new works of art were created in the joyful chaos. My current work discusses loneliness and the struggles surrounding the human condition. I aim to say something powerful with a powerful tool, art. No sense in pussy-footing around any more. And prices have gone up.

Wood sculptor and all-round artist Kevin Rackley made a bat-house for Lucky Bat, and the gallery will be presenting a collection of his amazing sculptures in December 09 along with Kerrville artist Dotti Brundretts' new series of Aura Paintings. This will be a thrilling show and I can't wait to see YOU show up! Dates to be announced. Just wait there on the edge of your chair.I'll get back on that.

Winter 2010 will present Abstract works of art, so if you do this kind of art, get in touch!

Spring 2010 will once again welcome our local artists for another great show. The Comfort Spring Artists Show was one of the biggest hits of the season. Be sure to come by and support your local cultural ambassadors; it's the right thing to do.

In 2010 May we hope to once again show Comfort Student work and maybe we can include the High School and Elementary this year. It was great to meet the parents of these young artists and the educators who are doing such a great job.

So far all is well for me. Soot, my dog and I go for walks every day (mostly), chase scorpions out of the shower, wait for tarantulas to cross the road (oh no, you go first!) and enjoy the eternal gold of the Beautiful Nowhere meadow. More cedar limbs has been cut and during a few misty mornings I have been burning brush piles. Surely as hypnotic an activity as fishing. If only we would get more rain. I was walking weekly in Texas State Parks Spring and Summer, but that has been curtailed due to extra work load and new schedule. I hope to pick that back up when the dust settles. May I recommend Guadalupe River State Park 22 miles out of Boerne for it's clear cool wading river waters, smoothed-rock shores and river bottom, high bluffs and enormous trees, Enchanted Rock for its sharp wind and stark landscape. ER is also a great 4-5 mile hike on mostly level ground. And Lost Maples I recommend for the best in uphill climbing and the most beautiful scenery on any of the walking routes.

My family are great and my friends are miracles in my life. I am grateful for so much. Thanks for checkin' in and please come by the gallery when you are in the Hill Country.
If I don't see ya in the future; I'll see ya in the pasture, Nanc

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
Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Closed Mon, Tues & Wed

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
 
High School Art: Portfolio Review
Ages 14 – 18
If your High School teen-ager is serious about going to art school, have them come by for a portfolio review. Private classes are available in a variety of medium in order to fill out their portfolio.
 
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