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	8 January 2010 Chill d berman gallery, through Feb. 6 By Wayne Alan Brenner Congratulations, friend. You've breached the abstract membrane between one decade and another, successfully piloted your aging ship of self into a hangar of possibilities called The Rest of Your Life, and now it's time to chill. Now it's time for "Chill," to be precise, although that winter group show of visual art opened at D Berman Gallery in December of this past year. It's time for "Chill," because nothing quite becomes a hangar of possibilities as original artwork that delights the eye, that dazzles or soothes or sparks deeper cogitation in the mind, that does any or all of those things.... Click to read more... 30 November 2009 Review: Katie Maratta and Owen McAuley at D. Berman Gallery By Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Artists Katie Maratta and Owen McAuley share an abiding love and fascination for a sense of place yet take different creative approaches to create their artistic valentines to place. Click to read more... 6 November 2009 Katie Maratta & Owen McAuley D Berman Gallery, Austin Through December 12 By Wayne Alan Brenner You drive out of Austin, go west or even east long enough, the big sky of Texas opens up like the lid to a box of blue infinity. You walk into a building, any building, the world comes slamming down to dimensions defined by walls and ceilings... Click to read more... 9 October 2009 Beili Liu D Berman Gallery, Austin Through October 24 By Lauren Adams Many stories have been conceived to explain the life-long bond between two people. Plato, for instance, felt that we were at one time two people combined into one, separated by the gods for our hubris... Click to read more.. 27 September 2009 East is bound to West in artist's work In her first Austin solo show, Beili Liu makes fragile, profound connections By Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Beili Liu starts with patience, time and the utmost regard for a sense of the process of art-making. "I wait for the moment of surprise," says the Chinese-born artist. "Then I let the materials... Click to read more.. 29 August 2009 Jana Swec & Jared Theis D Berman Gallery, Austin Through September 5 by Lauren Adams There has never been a time, during my life at least, in which the debate over humanity’s impact on nature has not been at the forefront of public concern. We are inundated with news of shrinking ozone, deforestation and global warming. Many, including myself, sometimes wonder... Click to read more... 21 August 2009 'Jana Swec and Jared Theis' d berman gallery, throught Sept. 5 Arts Review By Rachel Koper Jana Swec and Jared Theis have a two-person show of new works up at D Berman Gallery. Sometimes in a two-person show, the curator will pair contrasting styles or perhaps artists who are friends. These two Central Texas artists had never met... Click to read more... 14 August 2009 Naomi Schlinke and Sydney Yeager On the brink of change (exhibition at The Nancy Wilson Scanlan Gallery) Artist Interview BY MADELINE IRVINE Nonverbal communication – we take it for granted, much like breathing. But do we need it, as we need air? Events provide us with a break in the stream of everyday thoughts... Click to read more... September 2009 gallery talk: AUSTIN, TX Survey: David Berman Compiled by: Louise Buyo "We focus on contemporary, regional artists who live in Texas, with a specail emphasis on central Texas. We show painting, sculpture, drawing and photography. Austin's proximity to two universities..." Click to read more... September/Ocotober 2009 Lance Letscher: Collage Book Review By Tom Lundberg Fiberarts Magazine Old books, letters, cardboard album covers, and other dumpster finds provide Texas artist Lance Letscher with starting points for a staggering... Click to read more... September/October 2009 Lauren Levy: Beneath the Palm of My Hand Artist Review By Spike Gillespie FiberArts Magazine The very nature of art exhibits often provokes one's inner contrarian--mostly, we are warned "Do Not Touch" and that alone makes us want to. Lauren Levy's latest exhibition, Beneath the Palm of My Hand, at d berman gallery in Austin, Texas... Click to read more... 17 July 2009 The First Time Austin artists reveal the intimate details of how they got their muse on Artist Review by Robert Faires Austin Chronicle "Everyone remembers their first time, right? How old you were, where you were, who you were with, and, most importantly, how after that encounter, everything changed. You were different. The world was different. Your place in the world was different..." Click to read more... 18 June 2009 Drawing Attention Exhibition Review by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American Statesman Austin 360 "It's about the hand. And the line (curvy or straight). And about an artist making a mark that is distinctive and unique. Each generation of artists wrestles with its own particular creative concerns. Among the trends of the last half-decade or so has been a re-emergence of the art of drawing and a re-embrace of the sensibilities that drawing demands and projects..." Click here to read more... April/May 2009 Lance Letscher: Collage Book Review By Albert Mobilio BOOKFORUM "If the Book is doomed, it could have no better funeral director than Austin-based artist Lance Letscher. He may be inclined to dismember the deceased, but he’ll leave behind a beautiful corpse. The raw materials for his intricate and startlingly colorful collages are mined, by and large, from his favorite Dumpster out back of a local used-book and -record store..." Click to read more... 24 April 2009 Lance Letscher: Collage Book Review by Cindy Widner Austin Chronicle "Nothing can replicate the complicated rush one feels upon viewing collagist supreme Lance Letscher's work in all its dimensions; still, Lance Letscher Collage – the first full-length monograph of his work – manages to tap into the thrill of its unabashed beauty, energy, and layers of possibility, the combination of which can come close to inducing a giddy nausea. That's perhaps because, in this case, those qualities are irrepressible..." Click to read more... 9 January 2009 Marjorie Moore: Remains Arts Review By Robert Faires Austin Chronicle "A lifeless bird is a sorrow all its own. Many creatures in death may move us, but the particular tragedy of the bird is that its nature is to fly, to be in motion and of the air. And in death it is still, profoundly still, and forever fettered to the earth, like any other beast. This singular sorrow flutters and falls upon your heart many times in viewing Marjorie Moore's current work at d berman gallery. ..." Click to read more... December 2008 'Lance Letscher' d berman gallery Exhibition Review Art in Amercia Charles Dee Mitchell "Lance Letscher called his new set of collages "Industry and Design," a title that weaves itself into the exhibition on several levels... Click here to read more... December 2008 'Sydney Yeager: Moving Parts' d berman gallery Through Dec. 13th Arts Review By Robert Faires Austin Chronicle "Picture a spectacular cannon-blast of confetti: The air comes alive with this dense cloud of shifting hues as thousands of tiny scraps of multicolored paper float and flutter..." Click to read more... 10 October 2008 'Jeffrey Dell: Big Pelt d berman gallery Through Nov. 1 Arts Review By Rachel Koper Austin Chronicle '"If you're tired of the media's Chicken Little-like "the sky is falling" refrains, try contemplating something closer to the heart, such as hair growth. "Big Pelt" is a meditation on all things hairy by printmaker Jeffry Dell...." Click to read more... 22 August 2008 Cynthia Camlin: Extremeties & Marianne Green: Silence and Sound By Wayne Alan Brenner Austin Chronicle '"To be precise, we have to acknowledge that people aren't destroying the planet; the planet itself will continue to spin along just fine, regardless of what havoc is wreaked by Homo pimped as sapiens. It's the people who are doing the wreaking who will eventually be destroyed, in a sort of extended exercise in global self-flensing and poetic justice. "Men come and go, but Earth abides," as George Stewart and the Book of Ecclesiastes so lyrically remind us; and with "Earth," we include the inorganic (icebergs, say) and much nonhuman life upon the substrate: grasses, insects, perhaps even more complex flora and the patterns thereof. Imagine: tangled vines of ivy, the interlocking shadows of trees..." Click to read more... 17 July 2008 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman 'Line/Form' packages new work by five intriguing artists; Wry satire and haunting juxtapositions characterize precisely stylized work. "Don't let the vague title fool you. "Summer Group Show: Line/Form" at d berman gallery is a refreshing little jewel of an exhibition. . . " Click to read more... 12 June 2008 by Nikki Moore Austin Chronicle Arts Review Lance Letscher: 'Industry and Design' "Throughout both the formal elements and the suggestive narratives that the artist strings throughout this group of collages, there is always the question of work: how children work through ideas and emotions and how adults, on a larger, possibly grander and more sublime scale, work through those very same ideas and emotions in supposedly grownup form. The answer may be "dumb luck," but as we are accustomed to calling such luck "talent" in many cases, the term seems all the more apt to describe Letscher's work in this exhibition." Click to read more... 12 June 2008 by Madeline Irvine Austin Chronicle Arts Review Lance Letscher: Newly industrious "Over the years, Lance Letscher's work has become richer and more mysterious. "Industry and Design," the current exhibition of his work at D Berman Gallery, signals new shifts in the collages for which he has gained national notoriety. Some are much thicker and meatier, adding a sculptural depth to the work. ." Click to read more... April 3, 2008 By Sabine Modder Art Moco Artist Review Malcolm Bucknall Although we know that many of Malcolm Bucknall’s subjects are half-human and half-animal, we cannot help but stare, not knowing whether to suppress a smile or accept that sneaky, uncomfortable feeling. It’s good and well for Bucknall to present creatures... Click to read more... 20 February 2008 By Sabine Modder Art Moco Artist Review Denny McCoy Denny McCoy is an artist living in the Wimberley area of Texas hill country and it is this landscape that is the inspiration for the Pleasant Wimberley series of paintings. Bands of colour, dominated by a dark coniferous green... Click to read more... January 2008 Art in America Bodo Korsig at Tenri "Bodo Korsig keeps two studios, one in Trier, Germany, and the other in New York. His internationalism is also borne out in the glyph-like, enigmatic forms that make up his visual vocabulary. Working in a variety of mediums and modes, including woodcut, linocut, oil painting and relief sculpture, Korsig generally deploys an organic, quasi-graphic abstract idiom, and a sheer skill that has wide appeal. This show included wall pieces made of aluminum, sculptures composed of small pieces of wood, and multi-paneled paintings. Its title, "I Can't Stop," appears to apply to the artist's creative process: these irrepressible images feel like they have taken on a life of their own." Click to read more... 21 January 2008 The New Yorker: Talk of the Town "CATHERINE LEE The underappreciated minimalist exhibits her “Mark Paintings,” a suite of labor-intensive, calligraphically meditative works made between 1977 and 1979. Working on unprimed canvas, she filled strictly ruled grids with repetitive, quasi letter-shaped marks. Black H- or Z-like squiggles (in ink and acrylic) sit softly on buff-colored surfaces. Most works are fixed to the wall with nails. (Some are pierced with grommets for that purpose.) Expressing a painting-as-page-as-tapestry relationship, the panels marry cerebral and sensual moods; one may be reminded of Hanne Darboven, Agnes Martin, or Eva Hesse, but Lee has a touch all her own." 17 January 2008 by Rachel Cook Austin Chronicle "Catherine Lee Moving fluidly through the landscape" "Catherine Lee grew up in the Panhandle plains of Texas and spent the last 30 years in New York City. Recently, the acclaimed artist came back to Texas and decided, of all the places she could live, the Hill Country was where she felt most at home. Now, Lee has a pair of prominent projects showing locally: a two-person exhibition with Bodo Korsig at D Berman Gallery, opening this week, and the display of her work Raku Amends at the Blanton Museum of Art...." Click to read more... January 2008 by Anne Elizabeth Wynn Tribeza Report From Austin Art By Southwest "Honey is all over the floor. She is painting with her toes in the dust. Her mother, Faith Gay, buzzes around dberman gallery’s exhibition space, stacking into sculptural form the chromatically pyrotechnic rocks she makes by encrusting big balls of paper with just about everything from neon post-it notes to “on sale” dot stickers, all scrimmed in a translucent sheen of clear packing tape. . ." Click to read more... December, 2007 by Charles Dee Mitchell ART IN AMERICA Report From Austin Art By Southwest "The gallery scene in Austin has grown exponentially in the past few years. It has expanded so quickly, in fact, that d berman gallery, though relatively new, finds itself the most established venue..." Click to read more... Friday, December 21, 2007 by Benjamin Genocchio THE NEW YORK TIMES Catherine Lee: ‘The Mark Paintings 1977-79’ at Galerie Lelong "The best of Ms. Lee’s paintings, however, deserve recognition in the pantheon of early Minimalism, among them “Red. Black. Calligraphic Painting” (1978), a picture of such nuance and beauty that it genuinely deserves to be called a masterpiece.. . . ." Click to read more... Thursday, September 27, 2007 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman Finding inspiration in the ordinary From ancient arrowheads to plastic toys, it's all good for artist Faith Gay "Faith Gay is busy. All the time. She likes it that way. It's second nature. Habit. Part of her upbringing. . . ." Click to read more... Wednesday, July 31st, 2007 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman Tom Hollenback at d berman gallery " Tom Hollenback’s fluorescent plexiglass and steel constructions might at first seem just perfunctorily clever in the way that much minimalist sculpture is. The 13 works now on view at d berman gallery — all but one wall-based sculpture — are painstakingly neat and tidy . . ." Click to read more... May 18, 2007 by Corinna Kirsch ...might be good Joseph Phillips and Jared Theis at d berman gallery "Joseph Phillips and Jared Theis both present parts of recent series, where each work is a subtle variation on a theme, at dberman. Their works open up hidden spaces, while others lead to spaces only to close off what could be revealed. . . " Click to read more... Thursday, May 3, 2007 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman Joseph Phillips and Jared Theis at d berman gallery "The ideals of utopias. The allure of theme parks. The privatization of nature and public space. Joseph Phillips suggests all these in his alluring drawings now on view at d berman gallery. Using delicate precise lines and wonderfully exploiting the luminous quality of gouache pigment, the Austin artist renders imaginary playgrounds and fantasy outdoor spaces...Complementing Phillips' masterly drawings are the equally beguiling imaginative landscapes created in clay by Jared Theis. Riffing on bulbous natural forms (wasps' nests, coral clusters, ant hills), Theis creates miniature, and mysterious, archaeological ruins. Are these the remnants of some otherworldly tiny civilization?" Click to read more... Thursday, MARCH 9, 2007 by Salvador Castillo Austin Chronicle "Owen McAuley: New Work" "Owen McAuley returns to Austin and shows off some finely rendered images. Both his paintings and drawings exhibit technical expertise in a photo-realistic style. Nighttime scenes lit by street lamps and other artificial sources suggest a relationship to Edward Hopper and the "Interchanges" series of photographs by "22 to Watch" alum Mike Osborne..." Click to read more... Thursday, January 26, 2007 by Amanda Douberly Austin Chronicle "Christopher Schade: Islands" "It's not often that my initial response to a painting is a feeling of seasickness, but that's exactly how I felt standing in front of Christopher Schade's Colossus Island (2005). Fields of choppy sea, night sky, and pure pattern appear to converge in a vortex that is just beginning to spin out of control. In the foreground of the 6-foot-by-6-foot canvas looms a surreal creature that could be a robot, an alien, or a landmass come to life. It lunges, weightless, through a strange landscape made up of the stuff of this world – ocean, earth – or else a parallel universe that actually consists of paint. If we suspend our disbelief while standing in a gallery, we could arguably make this observation about any painting. In Schade's case, however, the impression seems particularly apt, as the works included in "Islands" are, above all else, paintings about painting..." Click to read more... Thursday, January 11, 2007 by Erin Keever Austin American-Statesman Exhibit Captures the Art of the Island "Some paintings are as much about the act of painting as anything else. This is the case with Christopher Schade's "Islands" at d berman gallery..." Click to read more... November 2, 2006 by Cynthia Houchin The Daily Texan Lance Letscher and Sydney Yeager profiled. Click to read more... October 5, 2006 by Aisha Burns The Daily Texan Arts Review Buttons redefined as artwork "To the everyday person, buttons are nothing more than a decorative way to fasten up a shirt, but to local artist Lauren Levy, they mean a thousand times more..." Click to read more... August, 2006 by Michael Barnes Profile in Glossy Denny McCoy- Blue Paintings "Look closer. What do you see?Colors, of course, and sometimes obscure lines. We knew that. But what else?In Denny McCoy's paintings, light and hue meet in lingering, glowing associations. Everything alters slightly as the viewer moves in relation to the canvas, or as natural light shifts..." Click to read more... September 8 , 2006 by Nikki Moore Austin Chronicle Arts Review "Gladys Poorte and Naomi Schlinke" "What surprises me every time I hear artists and curators speak or write about process art is that the emphasis is always on the interaction of materials in an environment or under specific conditions, and what goes unmentioned is the "creatorly" power of the artist herself. d berman's joint exhibition of work by Naomi Schlinke and Gladys Poorte is an illumination of this tension in the extreme . . ." Click to read more... JULY , 2006 by Nikki Moore Tribeza Pick "Jeffrey Dell and Marjorie Moore" "Image and catagories. There has to be more to life than this. . .or is there?" Click to read more... AUGUST 11, 2006 by Amanda Douberly Austin Chronicle Arts Review "Below the Surface: A Different Order" "Jeffrey Dell's latest prints mark a decisive break with "Running Amok," the large-scale mezzotints of Venice he showed at Flatbed Press in 2002 and at the Austin Museum of Art last year. All representational imagery has been cast aside in a new body of screenprints that delves deeply into process. Dell printed layer upon layer of acrylic paint onto sheets of cotton rag paper, then bent, scraped, and otherwise violated this support to get below the surface, as the title for his half of this joint show with Marjorie Moore makes plain. Strata of pink, red, and white paint are hidden underneath the top coat, which tends toward an institutional blue in much of the work. Dell has also broken a few rules of printmaking and allowed fingerprints, plus pushpin holes, to remain visible..." Click to read more... JULY , 2006 Arts Review "Moore and Dell Explore Under the Surface" "Marjorie Moore and Jeffrey Dell team up at d berman this month in Below the Surface: A Different Order. Moore's part is an installation of her paintings and drawings as well personal collections of quasi-scientific items and "curiosities." She references the wonder cabinet or Kunstkabinett meaning a cabinet of curiosities. These cabinets and their contents, date to the 17th century, emphasize the exceptional, the rare, and the marvelous, and often blur lines between fact and fiction because they included both scientific specimens and suspicious mythical creatures...." Click to read more... JULY 7, 2006 BY NIKKI MOORE Austin Chronicle "HEAT" d berman gallery, through July 8 "Take d berman gallery's current exhibition "HEAT," for example. Each of the works in this summer show draws its viewer into a realm that is, frankly, neither here nor there. Cynthia Camlin's Grotto series, with its watercolors resembling stained-glass, creates "false" depth perceptions on flat paper. Faith Gay's playful and nearly neon sculptures are certainly not made for this life, and we could never actually inhabit Sarah Greene Reed's graphically designed visual environments, due to their mixed scales. Christopher Schade's gouache and acrylic environments offer tiny virtual realities of the sort where right-bending tree limbs burn in brilliant but unmixed patterns of red, yellow, and orange against designed and dreamlike backgrounds, and Steve Wiman's timeless work with found objects plays on our need for recognition, yet transforms common pieces of stuff into endearing landscapes of color and history that have surely never existed outside of his creation. As each of these works conjure other worlds, ..." Click to read more... June 19, 2006 by Hillary McMahan Cantanker Heat at d berman "On the day I saw the summer group show “Heat” at d berman gallery, it had been about 100 degrees outside for over a week. I’d just seen “An Inconvenient Truth,” and I’d been driving around burning fossil fuels to do my necessary errands while listening to assorted environmental horrors on NPR. So I was in an anxious/irritable/we’re-all-doomed kind of mood when I stepped into the calm and cool of the gallery. This show delights the eye and collectively envisions a more benign and creative collaboration between man and nature, so it was the perfect antidote to my apocalyptic state of mind, however briefly...." Click to read more... Thursday, May 11, 2006 by Erin Keever XLEnt in the Austin American-Statesman Jimmy Jalapeeno “No One Place” You Might Recognize "Jimmy Jalapeeno joked that he "is an artist about whom little is known," at his talk at d berman gallery. Facetious perhaps, however maybe he joked because not only has it been a while since d berman has presented an exhibition of Jalapeeno's work, but also because he paints landscapes, which historically have been underappreciated..." Click to read more... Spring, 2005 by Retha Oliver Arts Review in ARTL!ES Hillevi Barr and Beverly Penn d berman gallery "Contemporary art struggles to understand the role of nature in our postindustrial, pre-posttechnological era—an age in which we keep our heads spinning with the latest tunes on our iPods and take pictures of friends with our mobile telephones. Simple plants now seem more alien to us than cell towers, their stamens and pistils peculiar and otherworldly.." Click to read more... Thursday, June 2, 2005 by Jean Scheidnes Austin American-Statesman "Ann Matlock: Tapestry Weaver" "Ann Matlock weaves intricate tapestries of subtly shaded natural forms. She uses silk yarns that she dyes and spins herself. In all her work, she seeks to convey a feeling that the weaving is just a fragment of something larger, and not something contained by its edges.." Click to read more... January 21, 2005 by Jacqueline May Austin Chronicle "Pocket full of posy (all fall down)" d berman gallery, through Mar. 26 "Susan Whyne's show at d berman is a dreamlike reflection of her emotions surrounding the events of 9/11. The exhibition title sets the emotional tone..." Click to read more... January 21, 2005 by Jacqueline May Austin Chronicle "Janet Kastner, Joseph Janson, and Brad Ellis" d berman gallery, through Feb. 12 "At first glance, you might not think these three artists' works have that much to do with one another. But with extended looking, a number of commonalities emerge in this interesting exhibit." Click to read more... September 3, 2004 by Jacqueline May Austin Chronicle "Hillevi Baar + Beverly Penn" d berman gallery, through Sept. 18 "When most of us think of sculpture, we think of weighty, earth-bound artworks. Artists Beverly Penn and Hillevi Baar break this stereotype with crisp structures composed as much of light and shadow as of mass. . ." Click to read more... Thursday, May 7, 2004 by Madeline Irvine Austin Chronicle The Book on Lance Letscher What lies behind the buzz of Austin's hot collage artist Thursday, June 24, 2004 by Molly Beth Brenner Austin Chronicle 'Books and Parts of Books: 1996-2004' Austin Museum of Art Downtown, through Aug. 29 " Lance Letscher has more than buzz going on; he has mystique workin', too. The buzz comes from Letscher's art: poetic collages concocted from "found" papers – album covers, books, handwritten recipes, notes, and magazine clippings among them – which are meticulously cut and arranged into intriguing patterns and textures that open up worlds of thoughts and associations. It's part of what's led the Austin-born and -bred artist to have two shows up in town simultaneously: "Books and Parts of Books: 1996-2004," a traveling survey at the Austin Museum of Art, and "Provisional Beauty" at d berman gallery. The pairing is brilliant: One can see and trace the artist's progress – and wonder where it will go next, as Letscher is barely in midcareer. . . " Click to read more... Saturday, June 12, 2004 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman Local artist sparks his own Lance Fever Collages collect a devoted following "Lance Fever has struck Austin again. No, not the excitement that every summer surrounds cycling champion Lance Armstrong when he races in the Tour de France. This brand of Lance Fever surrounds artist Lance Letscher, the 42-year-old native Austinite who in the past half dozen years or so has emerged as one of the most popular -- and most collected -- artists in Austin. Now, thanks to an eight-year survey of his work at the Austin Museum of Art and a simultaneous show of new work at d berman gallery, Lance Fever is once again running at full throttle. . ." Click to read more... Thursday, May 7, 2004 by Molly Beth Brenner Austin Chronicle Piece of Work 'Portraits' "Sandra Fiedorek + Naomi Schlinke," at d berman gallery, through May 22 "I can't tell you exactly what Sandra Fiedorek's "Portraits" depict; they're not narrative. But they did lead me through a curious string of personal mental narratives as I took them in. Her "Portraits" offer only suggestions as to what referents a viewer could match them up with, leaving the viewer with the task of choosing which interpretation – or string of interpretations – fits best. . . ." Click to read more... May 2004 by Erin Keever Fiedorek + Schlinke d berman gallery "d berman gallery presents another accomplished show juxtaposing the work of Sandra Fiedorek and Naomi Schlinke. The work of these two artists looks beautiful together in a formal sense, repeating organic circular shapes set within the rectilinear (Schlinke) versus square (Fiedorek) formats. Their work is equally challenging and difficult to decipher. Fortunately for the viewer, the similarities end there. . ." Click to read more... Sunday, March 21, 2004 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman Three from UT at d berman gallery Zoe Charlton, Holly Fischer and Edward Monovich share a talent for figurative art -- and politics "For all the conceptual, video, film and performance-based art that nowadays spills regularly out of university art schools, including the University of Texas, it might be easy to overlook some of the very strong figurative work that's percolated in the ivory tower too. Ditto with the self-involved navel-gazing that pervades the subject matter of young art school art -- not everybody's doing it. Certainly not Zoe Charlton, Holly Fischer and Edward Monovich, who now share an exhibit at d berman gallery. . . ' Click to read more... Winter 2003/ 2004 byKelly Baum in in ARTL!ES Reviews, Austin Cynthia Camlin + Irene Roderick at d berman gallery "I decided early on that my review of Cynthia Camlin and Irene Roderick's show would argue not for the quality of the work, which is indisputable, but for its importance. In my opinion, both Camlin and Roderick actively participate in one of the most pressing debates facing artists today: the status of visual pleasure in contemporary art.. . ." Click to read more... Thursday, February 6, 2004 by Rachel Koper Austin Chronicle "Malcolm Bucknall + Bale Creek Allen" "I've been looking forward to this show for weeks. An exhibit of Bucknall's work last year proved him to be a master when it comes to technique, the use of fine brushes, and classic European composition; he's as technically astute a living painter as I've ever seen. And d berman has paired him with conceptual and mixed-media artist Bale Creek Allen, whose work is of a completely different nature: varied common materials and a white, pure wit. . ." Click to read more... Thursday, December 4, 2003 by Jacqueline May Austin Chronicle Sydney PhilenYeager's “LittleMysteries” Arthouse, through Jan. 11 "In this 10-year survey of Yeager's paintings, we see a progression of a talented artist's work over time. Yeager creates thickly textured paintings, often in a large scale. The works of the early 90s include figurative elements forming a personal vocabulary. In the current decade's work, we see an explosion beyond figuration into a new and dynamic abstract territory, where order and chaos come to dance. . . ." Click to read more... Thursday, December 4, 2003 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman Sydney Yeager's layered paintings An Austin artist gets her exhibits "Sydney Yeager is a great painter. Why? She's in love with paint. Not just the act of painting, but the physical properties of oil paint, with all its sumptuousness, dexterity and drama. Yeager loves the intensity of the color, the way paint catches, reflects or holds the light; the way it can gather in rich textures and organic forms on the canvas; and the way paint can capture the imprint and movement of the brush. . . " Click to read more... Monday, November 17, 2003 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman Local artists intrigue and alienate A double exhibit at d berman gallery is an odd coupling "Katy O'Connor rocks. Last year, in the Austin Museum of Art's "22 To Watch: Art From Austin," she impressed with large oil paintings of everyday people in everyday settings (bedrooms, shopping malls, street corners) seen from not-so-everyday perspectives. Now, the 30-year-old Austin artist reveals an even more impressive gathering of work at d berman gallery. . . " Click to read more... Thursday, November 14, 2003 by Molly Beth Brenner Austin Chronicle Piece of Work KATHERINE Oil on canvas by Katy O'Connor "I'm strolling through d berman gallery, drinking in the fabulously imaginative, chunkily painted creaturescapes of Robert Jessup. Presently I turn a corner and am faced with a string of large, vividly hued paintings resembling Polaroid moments caught in oils. These are the works of Katy O'Connor. Scanning the wall, my eyes fall on Katherine, and it's there that my fascination heightens . . ." Click to read more... Summer, 2003 by Andrew Long in ARTL!ES Reviews, Austin Michael Ray Charles at d berman ". . . The dialogue about racism by African American artists within the white American artworld is a fairly new discussion, relatively speaking. Artists such as Renee Cox, Keith Antar Mason, and Fred Wilson, to name just a few, have brought forth a national dialogue that bears witness to blackness within whiteness. . . ." Click to read more... Summer, 2003 by Rebecca S. Cohen in ARTL!ES Reviews, Austin Michael Ray Charles at d berman ". . . It is tempting to focus, one more time, on Michael Ray Charles' use of racial stereotypes and whether his work leads to productive discourse on social issues or perpetuates the underlying hatred and ugliness that spawns those images in the first place. In interviews, the artist admits that his latest installation at dberman gallery in Austin. . ." Click to read more... Summer, 2003 by Lorenzo Thomas in ARTL!ES Reviews, Austin Michael Ray Charles at d berman ". . . There's an old joke that, once upon a time, you could have heard in many college towns. "What do you say if you meet a black man on the street?" Answer: "Great game last night!" Even now, on too many university campuses-where the only African Americans in evidence are either dining hall staff, groundskeepers, or scholarship athletes-the line would still be, like most good jokes, funny because of its truth. Michael Ray Charles's powerful and subversively ludic installation titled The Property Of... addressed the exploitation of black athletes by transforming Austin's d berman gallery into a sort of vaudeville basketball court/cabaret . . ." Click to read more... Sept/Oct, 2003 by Susan E. Richmond In Art Papers Magazine REVIEWS I SOUTHWEST Michael Ray Charles at d berman ". . . lets Austinites experience the latest work of resident artist and University of Texas Professor of Art Michael Ray Charles. Charles' international reputation has taken his attention far afield in recent years, making this show a much-anticipated homecoming. Though known pri-marily as a painter, Charles lately has moved into sculpture and installations. This shift in media, however, is not a dramatic depar-ture for the artist, whose work continues to explore historical and contemporary instances of racial stereotypes and prejudices. . ." Click to read more... Summer, 2003 by John Devine in ARTL!ES Reviews, Austin Randy Twaddle: Reversal Drawings d berman gallery ". . . Randy Twaddle's Reversal Drawings, which ended an eight-year hiatus from the Texas art scene (during which he built a business and started a family) prompted feelings of gratification and annoyance in about equal measure: gratification because the work is so sharp and beautifully executed; and annoyance because he's deprived us of the pleasure of it for so damn long. . . ." Click to read more... Summer, 2003 by J. Bedgood ARTL!ES Sydney Philen Yeager: Little Mysteries (Travelling Exhibition) and New Paintings, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston ". . . Written deep in the fluid layers of Sydney Philen Yeager's lush oil paintings, the interdependence of man and nature reveals itself. Her introspective analysis of everyday perceptions infuses the large-scale paintings with an unexpected intimacy. The retrospective exhibition, Little Mysteries, at the Galveston Arts Center, consisting of paintings from 1992-2002, offers viewers the means to decipher her current show, New Paintings, (2002-2003) at McMurtrey Gallery, Houston. . ." Click to read more... Thursday, August 1, 2003 by Jacqueline May Austin Chronicle "This show, the first curated solely by d berman gallery's Associate Director Anastasia Budziszewski, reveals her impressive talents. "Light" is the right word for this exhibition, which features artworks that are light in weight, playful in content, and share an interest in luminosity. . ." Click to read more... Thursday, July 24, 2003 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman Don't hate this exhibit because it's beautiful "Anastasia Budziszewski isn't afraid to admit that she admires pretty art. "Pretty," however, isn't considered a very cool word. "People always qualify their use of the word "pretty" by saying 'I hate to say this, but . . .' " the 29-year-old associate gallery director says. "I think it's because if they call a work of art pretty, that might mean it's just decorative 'sofa art.' Art can be about beauty for beauty's sake. . . " Click to read more... June, 2003 by Jennifer Chenoweth Voices of Art Magazine Volume 11, Issue 2, 2003 "The Property of. . . " Michael Ray Charles at d berman "Michael Ray Charles' new installation at the d berman gallery in Austin is a welcome whoosh of air. An installation in a gallery that usually caters to the tastes of wall art. . ." Click to read more... Thursday, May 8, 2003 by Sarah Boxer The New York Times Cockroaches as Shadow and Metaphor "Catherine Chalmers's SoHo apartment is alive with the sound of imminent death. Crickets, food for a rubbery green tree frog, chirp loudly. The frog sits in a terrarium, a big grin on its face. What's not to smile about? Plenty of other food, a horde of crawling mealworms, is nearby. . ." Click to read more... Sunday, April 13, 2003 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman Of sacks and race With exhibit that's a slam-dunk on the exploitation of black hoopsters, UT artist again shoots to challenge Click to read more... Thursday, March, 21, 2003 by Molly Beth Brenner Austin Chronicle Piece of Work Rock n' Roll, Drugs and Sex Charcoal on paper by Randy Twaddle in "Randy Twaddle: Reversal Drawings Click to read more... Thursday, February 13, 2003 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman Beyond the Academy: Encouraging New Talent from Texas' Art that evolved from a Lone Star state of mind (At ArtHouse) ". . .Perhaps the clearest trajectory of influence can be seen in the work of Michael Ray Charles and his former students Zoe Charlton and Edward Monovich . . ." Click to read more... Tuesday, January 28, 2003 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman Button, button Shoal Creek mom's got the buttons -- and the imagination to use them artistically ". . . Levy's beguiling sculptures may be so appealing because they are at once familiar and unfamiliar, domestic and eccentric -- not unlike Levy herself. . ." Click to read more... Tuesday, November 19, 2002 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman A poet in scrap paper Lance Letscher pieces together collages of minuscule details to form grand concepts ". . . Rich, mesmerizing and wondrous collages that are portals to another wholly developed world . . ." Click to read more... Fall, 2002 by Mark L. Smith in ARTL!ES New Work by Denny McCoy and Troy Woods "The paintings of Denny McCoy and the sculpture of Troy Woods transformed the d berman gallery into a secular temple of art. Upon entering, one felt immediately a palpable quietness, much like that in the British Museum's Elgin Marbles gallery.. . ." Click to read more... Sunday, October 6, 2002 by Michael Barnes Austin American-Statesman "Doubt and, ultimately, pleasure creep into the paintings of Denny McCoy and sculptures of Troy Woods, placed like Zen devotionals throughout the demure gallery. . ." Click to read more... October, 2002 by Melissa Kuntz Art in America "The viewer is drawn close by Letscher's exquisite color and striking compositions, and is then rewarded by the lively details of the letters, notes and scraps of paper . . . " Click to read more... Monday, August 19, 2002 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman Seeing faces in a different light "Using his unique mirror-lined box, renowned photographer George Krause illuminates the secrets hidden in his large-scale portraits. For George Krause, the image doesn't work if there's too much reality in it. It's not that the 65-year-old photographer is trying to disguise anything. Quite the opposite. He reveals the dream world, captures the secrets, exposes what's in the shadows. His lens sheds light on the psychological and emotive undercurrents of our lives. . ." Click to read more... Thursday, July 11, 2002 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman Flashcard Artistry (Conclusions Not Included) ". . Fiedorek's work does convince you to stop and look -- and wonder what it is you're looking it. For the past several years, each of her works has featured a single image presented simply and directly -- almost as if it were a sign or a flashcard. Oftentimes these images are arranged in a grid or row, like the untitled piece that stretches across 6 feet of the gallery wall in "Refrigerated Air," the current group show at d berman gallery. Fiedorek's entry is 13 pieces of 8-inch high bi-colored laminate, each with a circular form -- it might be a sprocket or gear or bicycle chain ring (Fiedorek won't say) -- etched into the shiny plastic: black layered under yellow, yellow layered under red, peach layered under black. . ." Click to read more... Summer, 2002 by Rebecca Cohen ARTL!ES New Work by Robert Dale Anderson and Sydney Yeager "Theirs was one of the best exhibitions to date at the Austin gallery, no small feat, given the overall quality of the work shown by Berman. In fact the dialogue that occurred between Anderson's small graphite drawings and Yeager's large, intensely colored canvases set such a high standard that the artists' real challenge was competing with their own work for the attention of the audience..." Click to read more... Sunday, May 26, 2002 by Michael Barnes Austin American-Statesman Two views of nature compete for attention "At d berman gallery, Jimmy Jalapeeno and Billy Hassell arrive at the natural world from competing perspectives. Hassell sees big planes separated by distinct shadings. His oversized subjects vibrate against flat, decorative backgrounds. Jalapeeno, for the most part, plays with droplets of light that coalesce into different images, depending on the position of the viewer. . ." Click to read more... April 17 2002 by Mario Naves The New York Observer Currently Hanging Lance Letscher in New York City "A Texas Treasure Hunt: Letscher’s Stunning Chelsea Debut As if to prove that the most exciting contemporary art is made by the least usual of suspects, here comes Lance Letscher from Austin, Texas. Mr. Letscher, who is having his first solo New York exhibition at the Howard Scott Gallery, is unusual not just in terms of his geography, but also in his aesthetic. Uninterested in fashion, resistant to pomp and constitutionally incapable of the rote or superficial, he’s something we don’t encounter too often: an artist of substance, grit and purpose. . ." Click to read more... January, 2002 by Kenneth Hale Voices of Art Magazine Saturation. The exhibit of drawings by Robert Dale Anderson and paintings by Sydney Yeager are pure saturation. The combined effect of the installation is one of sensory overload in the best sense of the phrase. . . Click to read more... February 15, 2002 Austin Chronicle Sydney Yeager finally brings abstractions to the surface in her art, What Lies Beneath "The faint whiff of the studio permeates the d berman gallery, where Sydney Yeager's paintings ring the walls. These eight paintings are new for Yeager, and not just because the vapors of oil paint still smell so fresh. They represent a departure in the artist's work, a potential turning point. . . Click to read more... January 31, 2002 By Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman I'm nervous I'm not in the studio right now." It seems like a strange statement for Sydney Yeager to make as she sits on a bench in d berman gallery surrounded by her paintings. After all, the night before, the well-known Austin artist celebrated the opening of an exhibit of her work -- eight large oil paintings representing a year's worth of labor -- at a festive, crowded opening (she shares the show with Austin artist Robert Dale Anderson). Click to read more... December 20, 2001 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman ". . . d berman gallery pulls no punches with its group show. For starters, the title doesn't say anything more than it has to: "Winter Group Exhibition." And the modesty is undeserved. This is a stellar show with nary a weak moment among the 37 works by eight artists. . . " Click to read more... November 15, 2001 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman An exhibit of black and white, plus some rich hues "... Zoë Charlton's paintings and drawings are unwavering in their directness. The former Austinite looks into the cultural chasm between contemporary black and white Americans and questions -- with her fluid sense of line and symbolic, dreamlike scenes -- how both groups wrestle with a segment of history that hasn't fully been illuminated. Dee Wolff's . . . drawings read like palimpsests, the complete image erased or rubbed away and therefore tantalizingly out of reach. They're like sweet but incompletely recalled memories. . . Click to read more... September 13, 2001 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman "Malcolm Bucknall can tell you how to annoy him. "One of the worst things is being asked, 'What is that supposed to mean?' " complains the 66-year-old artist. "I think it's necessary to suspend disbelief. By doing so, you keep all your options open. . ." Click to read more... Summer , 2001 by Rebecca Cohen ARTL!ES "Catherine Chalmers + Rob Ziebell Two Photographers" reviewed In ARTL!ES " I love when art intrudes on life, muscling its way into quotidian events, conveying new significance to the status quo. The other day I noticed what appeared to be a couple of twigs stuck to one side of our back door. Upon closer inspection I discovered our ordinary portal had become the love nest for a pair of mating mantises. I ran outside every 15 minutes for the next hour, hoping to be there for the main event. My sudden attentiveness to the insect world is thanks to d berman gallery's recent exhibition of color photographs by New York-based Catherine Chalmers." Click to read more... July 5, 2001 by Wayne Alan Brenner Austin Chronicle Recommended Sandra Fiedorek, who you may know from her large mural above the baggage claim area at the Austin Airport, has a series of 10 new paintings on display at the d berman gallery . . . bright colors are applied to a fine mesh of stainless steel, the mesh framed by thick sheets of glass, each work a visual circuit of chromatic reflection and cool translucence. . . In stark contrast, and taking up much of the remaining walls, is the work of Christopher Schade. . . rendered with bold strokes of black or white, with bits of paper overlaid, in two-dimensional outbursts that defy balance. . . Click to read more... June 10, 2001 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman Letscher builds small pieces into abstract, beautiful whole Perhaps the best place to start with the new work by Austin artist Lance Letscher at d berman gallery is with "My Name." The large rectangular collage could just as easily, and just as appropriately, be titled "Self-Portrait" or "Artist's Statement," for it readily serves as a cynosure of Letscher's work. Click to read more... April 21, 2001 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman At d berman gallery, touchable buttons and surging waters. Button, button -- who's better with buttons than Austin artist Lauren Levy? The latest of Levy's beguiling, and often enigmatic, sculptures are on view at d berman gallery. Most of the pieces follow Levy's usual pattern: child-size garments fashioned out of hundreds of like-colored buttons and beads strung on wire, both dense and hollow. . . Click to read more... March 29, 2001 by Jennifer Joy The Daily Texan d berman gallery bugs out "The recent exhibition at the d berman gallery pushes the envelope as far as photography in Austin is concerned. Catherine Chalmers and Rob Ziebell add a flare of color to the bare minimalist decor and create a far-out combination of organic subject matter. . ." Click to read more... March 8, 2001 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman Frog lips, cockroach war paint & the art of Catherine Chalmers "I'm not hurting roaches," says artist Catherine Chalmers via telephone from her parents' winter home in Sun Valley, Idaho, where she's taking a brief ski vacation before heading to Austin this week. "I put all of my energy into raising animals -- not hurting them. My job is about 90 percent zookeeping and 10 percent photography. There's really no argument for people to say that I'm doing these animals any harm. . ." Click to read more... February 8, 2001 By Ben Wilcott Austin Chronicle Visionary Landscapes: Ann Matlock and Corinne Dune ". . . Like Dune's photographs, Matlock's weavings show a painter's attention to color. The golds, reds, greens, and browns flow very naturally from her watercolors (a few of which are on display as part of the exhibition). That is where the similarities end, but each has created some of the most unusual, memorable landscapes you are likely to see. . ." Click to read more... January 21, 2001 by Michael Barnes Austin American-Statesman Photographs that slow down time " On first encounter, one is tempted to guess that Corinne Dune's contemplative photographs are either historical artifacts or fine-art prints created by some low-tech process. After all, in this digital age, her faint, delicate images on carefully chosen paper employ none of the bombastic potential of contemporary, high-tech photography. . ." Click to read more... December 2, 2000 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman 'Drawing' opens doors to worlds both strange and subversive " d berman gallery draws together some fine talent for its latest show, simply titled "Drawing." Forty-one works by 16 Texas artists fill the gallery walls. For some, drawing is their primary artistic expression. For others, drawing is a means to develop works in other media or a diversion. . ." Click to read more... Fall 2000 by Rebecca Cohen Artl!es James Orellana & Pat Johnson J Hill & Hillevi Baar "Two Pair" " Think of these two art couples in terms of Edward Albee's Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and you get the impression that their encounter might produce sparks, not to mention unforeseen truths. Like Albee's George and Martha, James Orellana and Pat Johnson appeared to dominate at first with their brash, bare all style, while Hill and Baar seemed soft-spoken by comparison. But things are not always what they seem. . ." Click to read more... October 28, 2000 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman Works brushed by mood, melancholy "Continuing its practice of matching artists, d berman gallery pairs the color photographs of Laura Pickett Calfee with the paintings of Anna Held Audette. . ." Click to read more... September 30, 2000 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman d berman shows playful side of "Significant Others" "Two Pair (Significant Others)'' is a wild ride. Count on d berman gallery to summon a smart combination of artists to share an exhibition. Now the gallery takes it one twisted step further by showing two pairs of artists who are life partners as well..." Click to read more... September 15, 2000 Most Welcome New Art Scene Addition Austin Chronicle September 15, 2000 Best of Austin Awards Click to read more... July 20, 2000 by Michael Barnes Austin American-Statesman Lightweight, but not empty Adjectives such as "featherweight'' and "paper-thin'' neatly suit d berman gallery's ``Works on Paper'' show. Paper, after all, is an ephemeral material, especially unframed, and a lightness suffuses the art in this immaculate gallery. Click to read more... May 18, 2000 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman Nature study "Nature at its most imaginative. Or maybe, nature re-imagined and re-examined in unlikely and delightfully improbable ways. That's the common thread running through the art of Pam Johnson, Janet Kastner and Naomi Schlinke in "Bioforms," a jewel of an exhibit now on view at d berman gallery." Click to read more... April 8, 2000 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman His lens captures world of mystery "Ambiguous scenes, potent feelings, a good-size pinch of mystery and just a blush of sardonic humor. That seems to be the recipe for George Krause's photographs. And what a brilliant recipe it is. Four decades of work by this internationally renowned photographer... is featured in mini-retrospective now at d berman gallery..." Click to read more... April 7, 2000 by Ben Wilcott Austin Chronicle George Krause: The Human Form, As Vessel and Art "...we're gaining more world-class contemporary art galleries. One of these, d berman, is raising the bar for the quality of work shown in Austin. It is proving itself to be, in the best sense of the word, sophisticated: an Austin gallery worthy of the great art cities." Click to read more... March 11, 2000 by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin Austin American-Statesman Patterned out of order -- and chaos "Smart, smart, smart and smart. d berman gallery makes a first -- and an impressive -- splash into the Austin art gallery pool with an intelligent showing of four painters who prove, in different ways, that pattern and decoration can exhilarate and intrigue." Click to read more...

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