RE gallery is pleased to invite you to JACK SANDER’S first solo show in Dallas titled “FAR OUT”. We will be hosting an opening reception for the artist Friday, May 17th from 7-10 pm, with an additional artist talk/pot luck Sunday, May 19th from 7-9 pm, [talk starts @ 7:30] and a closing reception Friday, June 7th from 7-10 pm. RE gallery is located at 1717 Gould Street, Dallas, TX 75215. [The brown and white renovated shotgun structure across Beaumont Street from Lee Harvey's Bar]. The gallery is open Wednesday-Sunday from 11-5 and by appointment. For inquiries contact Owner/Director, Wanda Dye at info@regallerystudio.com or at 972-974-3004.

JACK SANDERS | FAR OUT
Jack Sanders an Austin based designer/builder/artist, and all around renaissance man, will have his first solo show in Dallas at RE gallery + studio. Jack’s thoughtful and vernacular vocabulary draws upon the interrelationships between people, material, climate, music, food, and art specific to a particular place. The work ranges from collages constructed from re-purposed target practice papers, to various prints of west Texas skies and moons constructed from tortilla surfaces, to beautiful hand sketches of desert fauna often observed from his on site Design Build Adventures. In addition to the two dimensional works, Jack in collaboration with Spence Kellum, will install an inhabitable steel tetrahedron sculpture in a field site across from the gallery.

ARTIST BIO
Jack received his Masters of Architecture from The University of Texas at Austin and his Bachelors of Architecture from Auburn University, where he studied with Samuel “Sambo” Mockbee at the Rural Studio. His senior thesis, The Newbern Baseball Club, a sculptural backstop for the 100-year-old sandlot baseball club, represented the Rural Studio at the 2002 Whitney Biennial in New York. Sanders’ work at the Rural Studio has been exhibited worldwide and is featured in the books “Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency” and “Proceed and Be Bold: The Rural Studio After Mockbee”, both published by the Princeton Architectural Press. Jack co-produced a feature-length documentary on Mockbee and his impact on the education of young architects. “Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio” premiered at South by Southwest Film Festival in 2010 and has since broadcast nationally on PBS as well as at universities, museums, and theaters around the world. Jack has been a visiting lecturer and studio instructor at Auburn University’s Rural Studio, Mississippi State University, and the University of Texas at Austin. He has also led several design build summer studios with Axis Mundi in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil and design build camps at El Comisco in Marfa, Texas. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and adventure partner Ann Tucker of AT Studio, their beautiful new baby girl Mary Vance and their 11-year-old chocolate lab, Daryl.

ARTIST WEBSITE
www.designbuildadventure.com

RECENT PRESS
NY Times May 4th 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/garden/lessons-in-how-to-play-with-fire.html?smid=fb-share&_r=1&

Refueled Magazine May 2013 [pages 66-88]
http://issuu.com/refueled/docs/refueled_issue_11?mode=window

RE gallery + studio is pleased to invite you to Kristen Cochran’s first solo exhibition titled “stutter slip stack”. We will be hosting an opening receptions for the artist Friday, April 12th from 6-10 pm, and Saturday April 13th from 6- 9 pm with an additional artist talk/pot luck Sunday, April 28th from 6-8 pm, and a closing reception Friday, May, 10th from 6-9 pm. RE gallery + studio is located at 1717 Gould Street, Dallas, TX 75215. [The brown and white renovated shotgun structure across Beaumont Street from Lee Harvey's Bar]. The gallery is open on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday from 11-5 and by appointment. [Art Fair Weekend please call before]. Kristen is represented by RE gallery for inquiries contact Owner/Director, Wanda Dye at info@regallerystudio.com or at 972-974-3004.

Artist Statement:

Stutter slip step,

Stack stammer spit:
To bridge that gap.,
Take this boot and dance.
And while you’re at it,
Rebuild with rubberbands.

Stuttering is a communication disorder in which the flow of speech is broken by repetitions (li-li-like this), prolongations (lllllike this), or abnormal stoppages (no sound) of sounds and syllables. There may also be unusual facial and body movements associated with the effort to speak.

Stutter slip step, stack stammer spit is one of many titles of this show which reveals my desire to bridge the gap between me and you or you and him or him and her or the collective us. I believe such gaps are bridged with tender and potent language. So, I’ve been searching for a language with weight, an elemental language, both glorious and base. This collection of work is the recent remains of an ongoing investigation for a language of/that matter(s). Each work embraces the ever-present possibility of a branguage leakdown.

The objects and drawings in Stutter, are the artifacts of this recent language excavation. Or, my collected attempts at acquisition. Some works utilize found architectural fragments as a form of primitive, physical language. Other works visualize these glyph-like characters in stacked, suspended or slipped states, suggesting miscommunication or missed-communications and the slipperiness of expressive attempts. Thin, transparent paper, floppy, luminous rubber, building blocks on stilts and piled letter forms are the means through which this work suggests the instability of language.

Artist Bio:

From the Pacific Northwest, Kristen Cochran moved to Texas to complete her MFA at The Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University in 2010. She has exhibited in the Pacific Northwest, Texas and New York, and has works in private collections in Italy and London. In Texas, Kristen has exhibited at Central Trak, Oliver Francis Gallery, Barry Whistler Gallery, Eastfield College, RE gallery + studio, WAAS Gallery and Women & Their Work for the 2011 Texas Biennial. She has been awarded residencies in Long Island City, NY, Mittersill, Austria and more recently been awarded the Jentel redsidency in Wyoming, commencing summer 2013. Kristen presently teaches drawing and sculpture at the University of Texas at Dallas and has taught at Southern Methodist University, The Nasher Sculpture Center and The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Her site specific installation “Vacuum Drawing and MTV – Mapping the Void Limp Grid” was also featured in the April/Art issue of FD luxe in an article titled “The Original Arts District Arisen” written by Dr. Charissa Terranova and photographed by Nan Coulter. [link to article below]

http://fdluxe.dallasnews.com/2013/03/the-original-art-district-arisen.html/

www.kristencochran.com

CHAMP! [new works by Ricardo Paniagua]

Ricardo Paniagua has been a prolific artist in Dallas for nearly a decade. His vibrantly colored geometric paintings and sculptures are exquisitely precise. Paniagua is self taught and a descendent of four generations of Master tile setters and craftsmen. He has shown in Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, as well as at the 2011 Texas Biennial. This new body of work produced exclusively for his first show at RE gallery emerged from his latest resin casting/painting/molding experiments. Each piece is of similar size and shape, and yet the three dimensional impressions created from reforming the surfaces through hand sculpted foil and vinyl molds, as well as the various layers of pigment, present a rigorous iterative process making each one invariably unique. This new body of work moves away from his more Cartesian based graphic experiments, and more towards topological and tactile making.

Installation photography by Neva Everett [link to album below]

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.423167317753826.92731.219130138157546&type=3

Artist Press:

“Ricardo Paniagua Conquers Texas” by Betsy Lewis

http://glasstire.com/2013/03/19/ricardo-paniagua-conquers-texas/

“Review of CHAMP!” By Todd Camplin

http://moderndallas.net/ricardo_paniagua_re_gallery.html