Monday, June 16, 2008

Conduit Gallery presents: Carrie Marill / James Michael Starr / Takashi Iwaski

By Pegasus News wire

Conduit Gallery will open three new exhibitions featuring works by James Michael Starr, Carrie Marill and Takashi Iwaski with a reception for the artists Saturday, June 21, 2008 from 5:00 to 8:00PM. The exhibitions will be open June 21 - July 19, 2008.

Carrie Marill, "Resident Birds"

Carrie Marill's disarming artworks explore the artist's fascination with the medium of goauche on paper. These works represent a variety of approaches to the curiosities of urban life in the context of the natural world. Finding humor and beauty in the mundane, the artist reveals her affection for the modern ephemera. Most projects involve intricate representations of birds and plant life that transcend the mundane and become striking portraits. Resident Birds is comprised of several representations of the birds she witnessed while at a recent artist residency in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Carrie Marill earned an MFA from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and a BA from San Francisco State University in San Francisco, CA/. She has since exhibited widely including; sixspace, Culver City, CA; Art LA 2006, Santa Monica, CA; PULSE, New York, NY; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ and Platform Gallery, Tucson, AZ. Carrie Marill lives and works in Goodyear, Arizona and Seattle, Washington.

James Michael Starr, "Little Victims"

By relying on found objects he considers beautiful and aged by time, James Michael Starr creates assemblages that invite hours of reflection and introspection. Beautiful, lyrical, dripping with dense iconography and melancholic stories, James Michael Starr's assemblages explore philosophic pursuits and humanistic endeavors. James Michael Starr has exhibited throughout the US including Horton Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Allene LaPides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL; Bennett Galleries, Knoxville, TN and Galerie Bourbon-Lally, Montreal. In 2001 James Michael was invited to exhibit in the International Exhibition of Contemporary Collage in Paris, France and was included in Assemblage 100 that toured New Zealand in 2004.

Project Room: Takashi Iwasaki, "Embroidered Memories"

Takashi Iwasaki's small-scale embroidered works are experiments in modern abstraction created in pursuit of his own aesthetic language. In them, ebullient figures collide and marry to create a pleasing and affirming visual experience. Born in 1983 in Japan, Takashi Iwasaki earned his BFA from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. He has exhibited throughout Japan and Canada and has had solo exhibitions in Portland, OR, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY. In 2004, he opened Semai Gallery in Winnipeg. Meaning "narrow" in Japanese, the gallery showcases contemporary art projects in a narrow hallway thirty-eight feet long by three and a half feet wide.

Source: Conduit Gallery

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