Fort Works Art is pleased to announce their upcoming exhibition ‘Prelude to A Dream.’ As Fort Worth continues to expand and grow its cultural identity, Fort Works Art strives to provide an artistic space, outside of the museums, to come and find solace, beauty, community, and inspiration. Understanding that art is one of the only forms left that must be experienced first hand, ‘Prelude to A Dream’ offers the public an opportunity to come and see, in person, some of the most important living contemporary artists in the nation.
This exhibition will showcase the powerful and diverse artists that Fort Works Art has cultivated since its opening. This will offer the public an opportunity to be introduced to a wide range of new artists, and see the caliber of artists who they would normally have to travel to an Art Fair or New York City to see.
Artist List will be announce leading up to the exhibition opening.
Announced Artists Include:
Alonsa Guevara, Tim Okamura, Jerome Lagarrigue, Reisha Perlmutter, Mars1, Crystal Wagner, Johan Barrios, Ruth Buentello. More to follow!
Event Details:
“Prelude to A Dream”
March 25 – May 30, 2020
Fort Works Art
2100 Montgomery Street, Fort Worth, TX
Opening Reception:
Spring Gallery Night
Saturday, March 28, 2020
6-9 pm
Fort Works Art is pleased to present ‘Undomesticated’, a solo exhibition featuring the vibrant and pattern-rich figurative works of Arkansas based painter and mixed media artist Lisa Krannichfeld. The exhibition will run from December 5 through January 4, 2020 with a reception on Saturday, December 7, 2019. Focusing on the human form, Krannichfeld approaches her work in a nontraditional uncontrolled, free-flowing way often mixed with unconventional materials. With the desire to reconcile her beliefs and traditions, she creates works with ideas stemming from her growing up in a cultural mix of a Chinese family living in the American South. Her experiences have greatly influenced her work, which primarily focuses on the woman as its subject. Krannichfeld’s direct paintings utilize traditional feminine materials, such as watercolor and collage, to portray women wearing defiant expressions and dressed in classic mens attire.
Krannichfeld’s ‘Undomesticated Interiors’ series is intended to rebel against the traditional portrayal of doll-like women of the 17th-19th centuries, when women were painted in lavish interior settings belonging to their husbands or fathers. Women were decorations – their value derived from their beauty. Their purpose for the viewing pleasure of another. Still, even with the distance of a few hundred years, women continue to struggle with being viewed as less than equal to their male counterparts, evidenced by the continued battle for equal pay, equal rights, and equal opportunity. Krannichfeld aims to contradict the flood of hyper-sexualized images of women bombarding society on a daily basis by creating female portraits that emulate strength, power, and unabashed confidence.
Lisa Krannichfeld states “As a creator of imagery, I endeavor to construct a new visual representation of the female gender in hopes that it transcends beyond the visual arts and into what you see when you look at a woman, and what a woman sees when she looks at herself”.
Fort Works Art is excited to present a solo exhibition by Adam Fung, Associate Professor of Art at Texas Christian University and a new addition to the Fort Works Art roster of contemporary Fort Worth artists. The Far Future showcases 30 oil paintings from Fung's 'Arctic' series about his expedition to the Arctic Circle, as well as 'XnatureX', a new body of work documenting the 2018 Space X launch of the most powerful rocket in history and the questions that follow such a monumental point in history.
The exhibition opens with a reception on December 7th, 2019 from 6 to 9:00pm and will be on display until January 4th, 2020.
Fung works primarily as a Painter and has a dynamic range of research interests that touch upon issues such as climate change, landscape, patterns and the make up of the universe. Fung’s work often arises from direct experience and primary sources. Recent examples of this practice include the 2016 Arctic Circle Artist Residency and Expedition around the archipelago of Svalbard and a road trip around west Texas and New Mexico that allowed the artist to visit sites of interest including Observatories, Dark Sky Parks, Marfa, and Spaceport America.
"In addition to the paintings of the Arctic, I have created a new body of work depicting our attempts to depart our planet. I was struck by the February 2018 Space X launch of the most powerful rocket in history, the Falcon Heavy. Along with the promise of large, Mars-bound payloads this launch deposited more pollution into the atmosphere. How do we catalog these new advancements? With wonder - as two of the three rocket’s boosters simultaneously returned to land, upright on their respective landing pads? With trepidation- as the sight of the power to take us to new planets may suggest we need a backup plan to earth? These new paintings are a meditation a significant moment in human history while also a study in muted color, surface, and the power of images." -Adam Fung
Fort Works Art is pleased to present In Awe, a solo exhibition featuring artist Erika Duque in our upstairs gallery space. The exhibition will run from October 23 through November 9, 2019, with an artist reception on Thursday, October 24th. ‘In Awe’ is Duque’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery and will feature over 15 acrylic on panel paintings, many of which were created during the artist’s short term residency at Fort Works Art.
Focusing heavily on nature, Erika Duque’s paintings depict lush scenes of tempestuous skies, wild forests, and turbulent landscapes that create both contemplative and tranquil atmospheres. Duque balances between loose and distinct brushwork, striking color palettes, and opposing climates to immerse her viewers into her own personal experiences when meditating in nature.
Born in Flushing Queens, New York, Duque was immersed in an environment saturated with culture and art that introduced her to early influences ranging from the Hudson River School painters to David Hockney. Being a first-generation Colombian child, she was especially shaped by her family’s culture and values. Many landscapes Duque has painted were images taken from trips she went on with her family, and she attempts to paint the emotional experiences of her trips rather than a mere copy of her photographs. Duque states that "nature has a way of creating a state of profound absorption that can be experienced in both grand and intimate moments. These moments of awe can only happen while being present in the landscape. Through painting I try to represent and recreate the sensation and amazement I felt from being in nature.”
Erika Duque is a landscape and nature based painter and educator who lives and works in Fort Worth, TX. She is originally from Flushing, Queens, NY. Duque received her BFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her MFA in painting at Texas Christian University. She has been featured in over thirty solo and group shows combined, throughout Dallas Fort Worth. In 2017, Duque was nominated by Ro2 Gallery for Rising Star Fundraiser at the Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts. She has lead workshops at museums such as The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and The Sid Richardson Museum. Duque was selected for New American Paintings 2018 issue #138 by juror Alison Hearst, Associate Curator at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Erika Duque is currently represented by Fort Works Art Gallery in Fort Worth, TX.
Fort Works Art is excited to announce the second annual First Come First Serve Exhibition in which the gallery will be opening up its walls to each and every artist that comes to its doors -- on a First Come, First Serve basis. With a mission to give artists an esteemed platform for showing their work, Owner Lauren Childs is excited to fill the gallery with over 200 works of local, regional, and national artists that want to showcase on the high-profile white walls of Fort Works Art. Experience the innovative exhibition of all mediums at the Opening Reception on October 25, 2019 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm where guests can enjoy a limited number of ice cream scoops from Fort Worth’s favorite MELT Ice Creams. Exhibition brought by and in support of the non-profit Gallery of Dreams. Please visit www.galleryofdreams.org.
The exhibition includes eligibility for 2D and Limited 3D artwork. Video and installation work will not be accepted. The exhibition will be open October 23rd through November 30th with an opening reception on the evening of October 25th. Due date for entries is October 1, or until the gallery reaches maximum capacity for submissions, whichever comes first. Contemporary 2D and 3D works that follow the requirements detailed in the prospectus are accepted.
For more information, contact the gallery, info@fortworksart.com
PROSPECTUS – FIRST COME FIRST SERVE EXHIBITION
October 23 – November 30
Application Opens
September 2, 2019, 10 a.m. CST
https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=6820
Entry Deadline
October 1, 2019 or until the gallery reaches capacity for works.
Schedule
Due Date / Deadline for online submissions – October 1, or full capacity.
Notification of Acceptance – October 2 (By email and on the Café site)
Shipping/Receiving – October 3 – October 18 (Shipping information will be shared with accepted artists with notification of acceptance email)
Hand Delivery Drop Off - October 15 – October 19 (During Fort Works Art open hours, Tues - Fri 11-5pm and Sat 10-6pm)
Exhibition on Display– October 23 - November 30, 2019
Opening Reception – October 25, 2019 6:00 to 9:00pm. $10 admission, benefiting the non-profit Gallery of Dreams
Shipped Return – December 3 – December 14
Hand Delivery Pickup – December 3 – December 14
Eligibility & Mediums
- Open to artists residing in the continental USA.
- Contemporary original work in any media including painting, prints, and drawings.
- All work must be original (no reproductions), produced within the last two years and not previously shown at Fort Works Art. Price of work should include 50% commission to gallery.
- All works must be available for sale and have a price above $250
- The digital image of the piece submitted must be the piece delivered to Fort Works Art if selected. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Size Requirements
- All works submitted may not exceed 36” x 36” in size, including framed. NO EXCEPTIONS.
- Sculpture or ceramic work must fit on a pedestal. Admissions will be limited due to space restrictions. We will accept these works until we are at capacity.
Disclaimer
Fort Works Art will not be judging or jurying any of the artworks submitted, however, gallery reserves the right to refuse a work at their discretion if necessary.
Submission Requirements
Please see CaFe for digital file requirements
Entry Fee
$35 to submit to the exhibition, with proceeds going to the non-profit Gallery of Dreams
Sales
- Price of work should include 50% commission to gallery.
- All pieces will be for sale at Fort Works Art. The gallery will retain 50% commission on any work sold.
Insurance & Liability
- Work will be insured at Fort Works Art but not in transit.
- The gallery will not assume responsibility for work improperly framed or poorly packaged for shipping.
- Images of accepted work may be used for promotional purposes and featured in an exhibition catalogue.
Shipping/ Installation Requirements
- Artists are responsible for shipping work to and from gallery.
- Artwork must be received by October 18.
- Your work of art should be ready to install, and should have hardware installed that will allow for immediate installation by the gallery with no adjustments to the pieces necessary. NO EXCEPTIONS — ARTWORK MUST HAVE HARDWARE INSTALLED FOR IMMEDIATE INSTALLATION.
- All shipped work MUST include a return shipping label. NO EXCEPTIONS. Any works shipped without a return label included, will not be returned.
Questions
- E-mail Fort Works Art — info@fortworksart.com
Eric Inkala
Picking Up the Pieces
September 4 - October 19, 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 7, 6-9pm
Fort Works Art is pleased to present Picking Up the Pieces, a solo exhibition featuring Brooklyn-based artist Eric Inkala in our Main Gallery. The exhibition will run from September 4 through October 19, 2019, with an artist reception on Saturday, September 7th for Fort Worth’s Fall Gallery Night. ‘Picking Up the Pieces’ is Inkala’s return to the gallery following his participation in the massive group show #28grams in 2017 and comprises over fifteen acrylic on canvas paintings created within the last year. Focusing on large-scale works, he has produced several monumental 7ft by any artist 7ft pieces that are the largest the artist has ever created for a gallery setting.
In the same vein as KAWS and Keith Haring, Eric Inkala’s graffiti-turned-contemporary paintings depict environments of emotional expression and abstract escapades emphasized by bold color palettes. He uses a vocabulary full of cartoon-like imagery to explore and work through themes of love, mortality, coping and coming back from loss. Inkala’s paintings present a playful graphic language in the form of a signature character who serves as a vehicle for an autobiographical narrative. It's through this personal storyline that he is able to illustrate thoughts and emotions with expressions of shape, color and text.
Jay Wilkinson
Honey Bee
September 4 - October 19, 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 7, 6-9pm
Fort Works Art is excited to present Honey Bee, a solo exhibition by Fort Worth artist Jay Wilkinson in our Upstairs Gallery. The exhibition will run from September 4 through October 19, 2019, with an artist reception on Saturday, September 7th. Honey Bee will feature over 30 graphite on paper drawings that showcase small-scale portrait studies of those who have inspired the artist, whether friend, fellow artist, or complete stranger. In a return to his childhood roots, Wilkinson created these highly detailed and expressive portraits using a medium he is not widely known for - graphite.
Rendered in Wilkinson’s distinctive style, each drawing is based on the artist’s own point-and-shoot photography taken while either traveling or exploring his own Fort Worth, Texas. Using these images as a guide, Wilkinson chose an unfamiliar medium like graphite to provide the freedom to create these small-scale drawings in any location and allow the environment to influence the nature or tone of each highly expressive work. Wilkinson plays up the sharp lighting and negative space present in each spontaneous moment, focusing on the kind, silly, strange, and honest human characteristics in each of his subjects. A compelling collision between realistic figurative imagery and abstract composition, Wilkinson’s work is both gentle and haunting and reveals to the viewer the complex emotions and dynamics that tie each individual to society as a whole.
For his second solo show with the gallery, Jay Wilkinson states “Honey Bee is a return to drawing for me and an exploration of the value of the individual little bees and how unfortunately that’s not always enough to keep the colony from collapsing”.
Wilkinson's work is an exploration of the assemblage of the human condition. He uses portraiture to construct expressive views of soft and emotional human characters. They have deeply rich classical truth to them, almost as if they were convoluted literary figures captured in a point of shift. He portrays this small narrative by twisting, pulling, adding or removing from the image to create implied lies between what you expect them to be and what they truly are. This is overtly true of his painting works and neatly hidden into his sculpture and larger installations which seem to push past the normal limits of what he is as an artist.
Jay Wilkinson attended Pratt Institute in New York and upon returning to Texas, he began creating large scale installations and experiences within the local underground art and music scene of Fort Worth. This lead to the founding and inaugural installation show of Bobby On Drums in 2015. Since then Wilkinson has co-founded The Art Tooth Gallery Project, been awarded the first Art South Residency and painted in The Bass Performance Hall, Casa Manana Theatre and The Kimbell Art Museum. Wilkinson has shown in DFW, Miami Art Basel, New York, and was recently selected for a New American Paintings edition by Alison Heart, assistant curator at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
'Honey Bee’ will run alongside the highly anticipated solo exhibition ‘Picking Up the Pieces’ by Brooklyn-based artist Eric Inkala.
Fort Works Art (FWA) is pleased to present Chaos and Cosmos featuring art work by acclaimed portrait photographer Kate Simon running from May 8 - June 29, 2019. In this large-scale solo exhibition, Simon will overtake both floors of the gallery displaying images spanning from her more than thirty-year career as a photographer. Simon’s highly personal photographs serve as a peephole into the worlds of many of our heroes and icons. They offer us her own personal reflection of these times of past and cultural life-events that have helped to shape our view of many aspects of our world.
Rife with disorder Chaos and Cosmos, will bring all of these various images together, creating multiple orderly worlds for the viewer to immerse themselves within. This is Simon’s storytelling, through her lens, that allows us into the worlds of her subjects. The trust that she has garnered from these individuals is palpable, and we see it in the pathos and victories that are in their gazes and body language. This trust was attained over years of having this unique access to celebrities and their circles, which is so rarely seen now. She developed and nurtured these relationships over years of shooting, to the point where her body of work is expansive and thorough. It covers so many categories of celebrity that it is impossible to fit the quantity of important moments and people that she has captured into one exhibition.
In announcing Chaos and Cosmos, FWA owner and curator Lauren Childs stated, “Being able to bring the work of Kate Simon to Fort Worth for her first major retrospective exhibition demonstrates what is and has been possible since we opened in Fort Worth. This gallery has produced magic and more dreams realized than I could have ever imagined upon inception. Bringing an internationally acclaimed photographer with Simon’s career trajectory from New York City to our gallery is truly exhilarating.”
It is impossible in a few words or even with several images to effectively sum up the ongoing work and extensive archive of Kate Simon. Kate has created many iconic photographs that have defined the subject and part of modern popular culture. The Clash on the cover of the debut album, Debbie Harry on the roof of her apartment, Bob Marley by the pool, David Bowie in the studio, Led Zeppelin rehearsing, The Sex Pistols fighting, Miles Davis contemplating, Patti Smith on a rocking horse, all captured in a singular timeless style. Intimate portraits of artists and writers from William Burroughs to Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg to WH Auden, recent sittings with Iggy Pop and new work as a contributing editor to Interview Magazine continue to expand Kate’s unique archive. Kate’s photography has appeared on countless book jackets, record covers and in publications around the world, is displayed in museums and galleries in Europe and the US and in many private photographic collections. Her acclaimed book: Rebel Music: Bob Marley & Roots Reggae was published in a limited edition by: Genesis Publications.
Exhibition Details
Chaos and Cosmos
May 8-June 29, 2019
Fort Works Art (2100 Montgomery St, Fort Worth, TX)
Sponsored by: Shipping & Receiving, and Illegal Mezcal
Opening Reception
May 11, 2019
6pm to 9pm
VIP Reception
May 9, 2019
6pm to 9pm
ABOUT KATE SIMON
Kate Simon is a portrait photographer best known for her imagery of numerous artists, writers, and musicians from Andy Warhol, William S. Burroughs, to Iggy Pop. Kate has work in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Andy Warhol Museum. In 2004, Simon published a limited edition book of her photographs of Bob Marley and Jamaica titled: “Rebel Music”, with Genesis Publications. Kate has had exhibitions throughout her career beginning in 1981 with New York/New Wave at P.S. 1 all the way through her one man show in honor of William S. Burroughs’ centennial at ShowStudio in 2014.
Fort Works Art is excited to present No Filter, an exhibition featuring the work of artists Kyle Steed and Lisa Krannichfeld. This exhibition will run from March 27, 2019 - May 4, 2019 with an opening reception on Saturday, March 30, 2019. The show will explore issues relating to their mutual use of color and mixed media in these stunning paintings and illustrations. The multifaceted nuances will be further highlighted in the contrast between their individual styles and subjects. Steed, a Dallas-based abstract painter and illustrator, explores the constant state of change we all experience over the course of our lives and his practice in learning to let go of the need to control it. With his stark black line work and vibrant use of abrupt colorful paint strokes, Steed compels you to embrace imperfect moments and mistakes that often lead to a new understanding.
Off-setting these works will be the vibrant and pattern-rich figurative works of Arkansas based painter and mixed media artist Lisa Krannichfeld. Focusing on the human form, Krannichfeld approaches her work in a nontraditional uncontrolled, free-flowing way often mixed with unconventional materials. With the desire to reconcile her beliefs and traditions, she creates works with ideas stemming from her growing up in a cultural mix of a Chinese family living in the American South. Her experiences have greatly influenced her work, which primarily focuses on the woman as its subject. Krannichfeld’s direct paintings utilize traditional feminine materials, such as watercolor and collage, to portray women lacking expression and dressed in classic mens attire.
Event Details
No Filter
March 27, 2019 - May 4, 2019
Fort Works Art (2100 Montgomery St, Fort Worth TX)
Opening Reception
Spring Gallery Night, March 30, 2019
12pm - 9pm
Fort Works Art is pleased to announce “Daily Travels Through Time and Space”, local artist Greg Bahr’s first solo exhibition in Fort Worth. This exhibition will run from January 3, 2019 - February 9, 2019 with an opening reception on January 5th. “Daily Travels” will feature screen printed and sculptural works on paper. Each piece is a meticulously created visualization of the artist’s everyday routine. Every task in life creates a path, and Bahr’s work explores the patterns left by seemingly mundane journeys and aims to create something beautiful and meaningful out of them. You will see intricate lines that trace the rounds he makes while taking his kids to school every morning, heading to work, and back again. These many repetitive movements, often overlooked in the scope of one’s life, are what Bahr layers to create imperfect and intwining patterns in an effort to elevate their banal nature.
Greg Bahr is an artist living and working in Fort Worth, Texas. He received his BFA from Texas Christian University with an emphasis in painting. Whether working with painting, screen printing, or photography, his work incorporates formal elements such as pattern, color, and repetition. He draws inspiration from everyday, seemingly mundane tasks. He is also heavily inspired by his work at The Amon Carter Museum, where he has worked as a preparator for over 15 years.
Greg will present an Evening Artist Talk on Thursday, January 31, 2019
from 6pm - 7pm.
Fort Works Art is thrilled to announce the massive two-person exhibition featuring artists Austin Fields and Jay Wilkinson in our Main Gallery.
Artist Jay Wilkinson is coming off of an exceptional and beyond transformative last twelve months. Between showcasing his work at Scope Miami Art Basel 2017, to extensive traveling, he has been paying attention to the human psyche and our fundamental desire to grow and change. Dealing with what he calls his “party scenes”, Wilkinson brings a softness and quiet to his latest works. With a limited color palette and several sittings with each piece, he is able to examine the link we all have to these scenes. Seeing the desire within his subjects to transform, he takes something as simple as a social scene and brings it into a substantial, relatable and meaningful context. The works become something more. They become something better. This basic desire we all share as human beings is seen in these works and the paintings themselves allow the viewer to feel like they are a part of the work, a chameleon in essence, entering the frame.
Austin Fields received her BFA at UTA in glassblowing. Working freely and quickly she bends and forms orbs in a very organic and sensual way. Drawing from her love of the figure, she creates works that undulate with the naturally occurring curves of the female form. She will be exhibiting her often seen “mirrored orbs”, which are clear blown glass t, which she later mirrorizes. This reflection allows the viewer to see themselves in the work. Their faces and bodies, contorted to the curves of the sculptures, offer a physical invitation to exist within the work. She will pair this with other sculptures of varying forms and colors. The feminitiy of Fields work is undeniable. The works are strong, yet fragile and they finish off to a smooth perfection. The elegance moving throughout the varying forms and colors will couple with the moodiness of the paintings created by Wilkinson. Neon works will also be included within the space of the mirrors, offering a color change to the space, and thus in turn the people. The viewer is the one capable of transforming. With Fields’ works, also including a video installation, the room will become the chameleon.
Event Details
Chameleon
December 12, 2018 - February 9, 2019
Fort Works Art (2100 Montgomery St, Fort Worth TX)
Opening Reception
December 15, 2018
4 - 7pm
Evening Party
December 15, 2018
7 - 10pm
$10 suggested donation
Artist Talk
Thursday, January 24, 2019
6pm - 7pm
About Fort Works Art
Fort Works Art is committed to bringing life, vitality and energy to the art scene in Fort Worth, TX. They are a resource for both seasoned collectors and the everyday individual. Existing somewhere between a gallery, a cultural center and a museum, Fort Works Art strives to continually evolve into its own entity, free from the traditional labels of the art world. They exist to support the arts, to give back to the community and to inspire youth.
FORT WORKS ART is pleased to announce “Self Timer”, Dallas artist Jessica McClendon’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. This exhibition will run from November 14, 2018 - December 8, 2018 with an artist reception on November 17th. Self Timer will feature more than 24 oil paintings McClendon has created over the past year from her open-call ‘Selfie’ series, where she invited her social media followers to send her photographs of how they choose to portray themselves. Each painting is a means in which the artist explores the elevation of the everyday individual, moving away from formal portraits that have regularly been reserved for the elite. As a society, we are continuously evolving our own image and how we want to be perceived by those around us. The “selfie” has transitioned into its own art form- composed, developed, and directed by our own desire to be seen. In this series, you will find that most images are captured with a self-timer, allowing the viewers’ perspective to become that of the camera , and in essence they become photographer.
For this body of work, McClendon was drawn to the stories inherent in each thoughtfully cropped representation of an individual. Her panels are covered in saturated colors with thick, painterly strokes used to capture every hint of light and shadow.In announcing Self Timer, FWA owner and curator Lauren Childs stated, “While these are all photographs taken with a self timer, most of the compositions do not reveal the subjects’ face. They could almost be anyone, which I find most fascinating. Typically the selfie is all about the face, but in McClendon’s work, the selfies have become completely about a centralized piece of light, almost like an energetic source of life where the power is being drawn from.”
McClendon received her MFA in 2017 from Texas Woman’s University and her BFA, graduating suma cum laude from Howard University. Post undergrad, she traveled to India to intern as a labor and birth coach at Booma Hospital in Tamil Nadu. One may have seen her work, most recently, in Fort Works Art’s international contemporary arts exhibition, #28Gramsfeaturing her multilayered portraits. McClendon has been featured all over DFW, in galleries like 500X Gallery, Art Room, Creative Arts Center, Museum of Biblical Arts, as well as TWU Galleries. She has also been a resident artist at Tech Wildcatters at Alto 211 in Downtown Dallas and Woodsong Institute of Art and the recipient of multiple scholarships and Best of Show awards in juried competitions. McClendon teaches as an adjunct at Eastfield College in Mesquite TX and continues to work out of her private studio in Dallas.
Exhibition Details:
Self Timer
Fort Works Art (2100 Montgomery St, Fort Worth, TX 76107)
November 14 - December 8, 2018
Open To Public Reception: November 17, 2018 | 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Opening Reception Party: November 17, 2018 | 6:00 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Tickets: $10
Music: Ronnie Heart
FORT WORKS ART is pleased to announce “TRACES”, Fort Worth artist Hillary Dohoney’s return for a second solo exhibition with the gallery. This exhibition will run from November 14th, 2018 - December 8, 2018, with an artist reception on Saturday, November 17th. TRACES will feature over 20 oil paintings on linen and panel that showcase familiar seascapes as well has her new light and shadow portrayals. Painted as a response to her move to live and work in Paris, this exhibition welcomes the viewer into Dohoney’s ongoing experiences in her new surroundings. While wandering along the Rue du Trésor
in Paris’ famed Le Marais district, Dohoney immersed herself in the everyday occurrences that seemingly go unnoticed by society at large. Sun-dappled streets layered with shadows and items left behind by busy travelers are a reminder of the importance to stop and find beauty in fleeting moments in time.
Using her signature trompe l’oeil technique, Dohoney is able to render her powerful observations and connections to her new city with masterful strokes of paint. With this exhibition, she began working from reference photographs in which she transforms shadows and objects into her own imagined landscape.
In announcing Traces, FWA owner and curator Lauren Childs stated, "Watching Hillary’s growth as an artist from her very early stages to the present cannot be quantified. her ability and commitment to work a series is focused and clear. In this latest body of work we will see the shift in how they tie into her previous exhibition, Adrift.”
Hillary Dohoney is from Fort Worth, Texas and currently based in Paris, France. She has a BA in Studio Art and Art History from Trinity University where she received Trinity University's Excellence in Art Award upon graduation. Dohoney has been a finalist in the prestigious Hunting Art Prize. Conversant in French, she studied abroad in Paris where she was a docent at the Musée d’Orsay and an official copyist of the Louvre. Mainly working in oils, she takes the classical approach of trompe l’œil to render unconventional entities. Her work has been exhibited in Paris, Miami, Arkansas, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth.
Traces will be paired with the exhibition ‘Self Timer’, featuring Dallas-based artist Jessica McClendon’s first solo show with Fort Work’s Art gallery.
Exhibition Details:
Traces
Fort Works Art (2100 Montgomery St, Fort Worth, TX 76107)
November 14 - December 8, 2018
Open To Public Reception: November 17, 2018 | 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Opening Party: November 17, 2018 | 6:00 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Tickets: $10
Music: Ronnie Heart
Fort Works Art is excited to announce our “100 for 100” Exhibition presented by artist Jay Wilkinson, brought to you by Gallery of Dreams. This open call show will consist of 100 artists each having at least one piece of art in the show valued at $100. Other works will be available by these artists ranging in price. This exhibition will be in our main gallery and the goal is to allow young and new artists the ability to exist within a white wall brick and mortar gallery space. This opportunity to showcase their work, as well as allowing patrons to experience a large selection of emerging talent, is a continuing mission of the organization. This sophomore follow up to the 2016 “100 for 100” takes this new exhibition to new heights. Hanging it in a formal gallery space this time around, artists are encouraged to submit lower priced work for the community, allowing our city the ability to continue to grow our young and seasoned art collector base.
Tickets to the reception will be $10, with all proceeds going toward the non-profit organization Gallery Of Dreams to support future exhibition opportunities and events for local artists.
Fort Works Art is pleased to announce the reception for the open call show Life In Analog: A Juried Film Photography Exhibition. The competition will include works by 36 artists from around the country who work in film photography. The talented artists featured were selected by juror Kristen Gaylord, Assistant Curator of Photography for The Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
About the juror:
Kristen Gaylord was appointed as Assistant Curator of Photographs at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas in the summer of 2018. Gaylord was previously at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), where she served as the Beaumont & Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow, Department of Photography, since 2015; she previously worked there as a research assistant and a curatorial intern. During her tenure at MoMA she contributed to numerous photography exhibitions and publications, including Cindy Sherman (2012); Robert Heinecken: Object Matter (2014); Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness (2014); Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 (2015); One and One Is Four: The Bauhaus Photocollages of Josef Albers (2016); Arbus Friedlander Winogrand: New Documents, 1967 (2017); and Stephen Shore (2017).
Gaylord was the inaugural curator of the Duke House Exhibition Series at New York University, where she organized Intertwined (2016) and Beatrice Glow: Spice Roots/Routes (2017). Her additional work experience includes roles at various arts organizations in California and New York, including the Museum of the City of New York and the Willem de Kooning Foundation, as well as teaching positions at Ramapo College of New Jersey, Kingsborough Community College, and NYU. She has presented and published on art history topics from ancient Egypt to art of the 21st century, and earned her master’s degree at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, where she is currently a PhD candidate. Her dissertation on serigraph artist Corita Kent has been supported by grants from NYU, the Schlesinger Library at Harvard, and the Louisville Institute.
The exhibition will be open October 17th through November 10th with an opening reception on the evening of October 19th. There will be a $500 cash prize for Best in Show which will be announced at the reception.
For more information, contact the gallery, info@fortworksart.com
Fort Works Art welcomes artist Reisha Perlmutter to Fort Worth for our Fall Gallery Night exhibition, Undercurrents. Coming off of her recent nationally acclaimed show in New York entitled “King Woman”, an all-female show curated by Mashonda Tifrere, it is an honor to showcase her work in her first Solo Exhibition with the gallery.
Residing and working in Brooklyn, Perlmutter has shown at some of the most prestigious galleries in New York and the Hamptons including Allouche Gallery and Roman Fine Art respectively. Since graduating from The New York Academy of Art in 2015 her traction and exhibitions have been beyond prolific.
Reisha Perlmutter’s works are charged with the role femininity plays in our society and the undercurrents that exist within this content and conversation. The female form, whether in her water filled worlds or coated in mud, capture moments of purity and freedom for the subject and reflect upon their feelings on their bodies. There is a self-realization of the changing, transitioning and searching women go through in their journey for self- acceptance. The water offers the opportunity of examination, while the mud coating brings a contradictory clarity to the female form.
Please join us for our Fall Gallery Night opening reception on September 8th from 12pm - 9pm for an opportunity to meet Reisha Perlmutter in person.
Music by DJ Ronnie Heart and light refreshments provided.
Undercurrents runs from August 29th - October 13
In the upper gallery, My Eyes Are Up Here showcases figurative artists Kate Stipp and Megan Van Groll. This exhibition will feature artistic revelations about the female experience, and the emotional, psychological, and cultural forces that shape the lives of women.
Exhibition Dates are March 21st - May 5th
With a reception on March 24th, 12pm - 9pm
Fort Works Art is so excited to present Laura Wilson: Photographs in the West, an exhibition exploring Wilson's vision of Western culture through her extensive travels in Montana and her adopted home region of West Texas. Wilson is known for her honest, enthralling portraits and Western-themed body of works, creating her highly-acclaimed portfolio that begins in the 1970s. The New York Times Magazine has referred to her past work as "a classic of Texas history." Laura Wilson's photography has been showcased in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ Magazine and more. Wilson’s exhibition That Day opened at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and is currently traveling.
Photographs in the West runs from January 5th, 2018 through February 3rd, 2018.
Please join us for her opening reception on Friday, January 5th from 6pm - 9pm. Light refreshments provided.
Fort Works Art is excited to present the work of renowned Texas photographer Byrd Williams IV. Titled Memory, Imagery, and Mortality, the collection includes more than 30 works that depict the scope of the aging process. A darker, in-your-face, exploration of the realities of growing old, the collection showcases a variety of photographic mediums and techniques, including palladium collage and 19th Century film development practices.
A fourth generation photographer, Byrd is best known for his urban work in the U.S. and Europe. He produces extremely detailed photographs, usually as triptychs, using a very large format view camera. He is currently working on a project about cultural violence and religion in Texas. Williams has been teaching photography for 26 years and is the chair of the photography/graphic design department at Collin College. He is a published writer and international artist whose work has been shown and collected at the Amon Carter Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Stadt Museum of Trier Germany as well as many publication and collections throughout the U.S and Europe. In 1997, Williams was selected as an artist in residence in Bad EMS, Germany and lived at Wagner’s castle, the “Schloss Balmoral.” His work on the civic use of German, French, Belgian, English, and Dutch street corners was featured on television and exhibited in several west German cities in 1997 and 2007. Williams’ work can currently be seen at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.
Memory, Imagery and Mortality runs from January 5th, 2018 through February 3rd, 2018.
Fort Works Art announces DUETS 2.0 November 1 through December 30, 2017, a reemergence of 2016’s exhibition Duets A Comparison of Realities, showcasing 7 sets of artists working in similar mediums, themes, or styles in an effort to take the audience through an exploration of comparative works. DUETS 2.0 is a mixed-media juxtaposition that highlights artists from all over the country whose work has been featured in Hi Fructose, Juxtapoz, VICE, and more.
DUETS 2.0 is paired with highly-acclaimed artistic platform and curatorial team Tax Collection’s exhibition New Pop -- a pop culture-inspired exhibit showcasing visual artists whose work often portrays sociopolitical undertones through mixed mediums, playful techniques, and vibrant colors.
DUETS 2.0 features Arthur Brouthers and Ben Willis, Johan Barrios and Jay Wilkinson, Janna Tidwell and Yvonne Domenge, Leah Yerpe and Marshall Harris, Jeremy Joel and Steve Kim, Dan Lam and Andres Anza.
New Pop will explore how pop art has changed in a fast-growing technological age and current trends in media and social platforms. Tax Collection hopes to analyze today’s emerging style of pop culture is affected by instant access to information and an endless supply of imagery available on the internet. The carefully-curated list of artists in New Pop seeks to showcase the interaction between contemporary pop iconography, ranging from celebrities to viral trends, and are on the forefront of exploring how the new millennial generation interacts and comments on social and political trends.
New Pop features Saint Hoax, Tony Futura, Sara Zaher, Andre Veloux, Chloe Bennet, Felipe Posada and Santlov.
SCOPE
December 5 - 12, 2017
Hillary Dohoney
September 13 - October 28, 2017
Sept 13 - Oct 28 (Opening Reception: Sept 15, 6:00pm-9:00pm) North Texas artist, Hillary Dohoney will be featured in her first DFW solo show at Fort Works Art Gallery. The exhibition, 'adrift', will showcase Dohoney's combination of realism and trompe l'oeil through her seascape oil paintings-- encompassing the entire gallery with peaceful tranquility while encouraging viewers to question their roots and heritage. 'adrift' will feature Dohoney's unique installation-- a 12-foot circular painting where guests can immerse themselves in a 360-degree view of calming waters. The exhibit will also spotlight 'Hiraerth', Dohoney's painted interpretations of refugee experiences and their most cherished possessions. A portion of the proceeds will go to Refugee Services of Texas.
Candy Man
August 2 - September 16, 2017
The bright colors and resin surfaces of Phoenix based artist Ben Willis are instantly recognizable. Willis investigates patterning through geometry, color relationships, layering and texture.
everyone poops
June 28 - July 29, 2017
Opening Reception: July 1, 2017
Artist Talk: June 30, 2017
Jay Wilkinson is a Fort Worth based painter and sculptor. This is his first official solo exhibition and the massive paintings and sculptures will comprise the entire gallery.
Tropism
May 24 - June 24, 2017
Opening Reception: May 27, 2017 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Artist Talk: May 26, 2017 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Crystal Wagner (b. 1982) creates sculptural paper works that mimic natural forms. Her work utilizes elements of craft and assemblage presented with an organic and fluid sense of being and movement.
February 21 - March 18, 2017
November 15, 2016 - January 14, 2017
September 27 - November 5, 2016
August 2 - September 17, 2016
August 2 - September 17, 2016
June 7, 2016 - July 23, 2016
FORT WORKS ART is pleased to announce a blockbuster showcase in Fort Worth, Texas of Hunting Art Prize winner, Marshall Harris. The compendium of work in this exhibition will be the first time anyone has been able to truly view Harris’ body of work on this scale. Quite possibly the most under-recognized artist in DFW, Harris is truly one of the best-kept secrets in Fort Worth and the art industry. Fort Works Art is ready to introduce Harris, on a scale that suits him and his multi faceted skills. After Harris’ art hit the New York Times Square Billboard with his Hunting Prize winning Saddle Drawing, it would have been easy to deem him "the saddle guy”. But Harris instantly proved to be an onion. Upon further study of the artist, more and more layers revealed themselves. The most obvious layer is his intrinsically skillful approach and execution of graphite material on paper and mylar. After getting past the “Oh Wow” factor of his skill, you are met with artworks, that are compelling and extremely thought-provoking. While his images are photorealistic, upon close inspection they carry the softness and ethereal qualities of a feather. Marshall Harris aims to awe, astonish and impress, and he does. Come witness this exhibition.
FORT WORKS ART presents Marshall Harris: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. Please join us for our reception to celebrate, June 10th from 6-9pm at 2100 Montgomery Street. Exhibition June 7 - July 23.