500X EXPO 2010 - January 16th - 31st, 2010
Reception: Saturday, January 16th, 7–10 pm
Reception: Saturday, January 16th, 7–10 pm
BILLY ZINSER THUMP 2010 acrylic, oil, enamel on panel, 24 x 24 inches
My work is defined by a cartoonish approach to non-objective abstract painting intended to address color, line, and shape as the subject matter of the work, through simple gestures and automatic mark making.
In my paintings I combine these effects with a variety of qualities inherent to the medium of paint and painting, primarily the physicality of the medium and the mark-making of the brushstroke (be that with or without a brush). At times the paint is delivered straight-out-of-the-tube, or manipulated with a utensil to shape it's texture; when applying brushstrokes, some are very slowly and deliberately applied, making their laziness evident when in proximity to a more frenzied automatic mark-making gesture. The body of the paint is also manipulated dramatically, creating tension between sloppy 'juicy' dribbles, stiff paint with erect peaks, richly textured brush marks, globs easily perceived as mistakes, and 'inproper' layering of mediums resulting in wrinkled prematurely dried sagging and leaking paint skin...
500X Gallery, Texas’ oldest artist–run space, hosts one of North Texas’ most anticipated annual juried competitions. This years jurors include Christina Rees, Curator of the Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, and U.K.-cum-Dallas painter Richard Patterson.
Christina Rees was an editor at The Met and D Magazine, a full-time art and music critic at the Dallas Observer, and has covered art and music for the Village Voice and other publications. She was until recently the owner and director of Road Agent gallery in Dallas. Christina Rees is now the Curator of Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, TCU.
Richard Patterson, Born in Surrey, England 1963, Educated at Watford Boys' Grammar School, Watford College of Art and Goldsmiths' College, London University Exhibitions include, Freeze, Sensation, Ambush, Far from the Madding Crowd, GMF, Wall Rockets. Solo Exhibitions at Anthony d'Offay Gallery,London. James Cohan Gallery, NY. Timothy Taylor Gallery, London. Work in public collections: Tate, Arts Council, British Council, Southampton Gallery, SFMoma, Denver Museum of Art Lives and works happily in Dallas, TX with Christina Rees, Honda and Trixie the Japanese Chins. Drives: 1994 British racing green Jaguar XJS 4.0, Texas. 1969 Slate grey Porsche 912, London
Artists in the EXPO: Adam Palmer, Olagunju Adeniyi Tokunbo, Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Alison Starr, Andrew Douglas Underwood, Billy Zinser, Ashley Milow, Carrie Stout, Chelsey Mulnix, Daniel Birdsong, Danny Haslett, Devon Nowlin, Elizabeth MacDonald, Ignatius Peacher, James Lassen, Jennifer Gooch, John Dickinson, Jonathan Foisset, Kenneth Rajspis, Kerry Pacillo, Kristen Chochran, Leticia Emestina Gomez, Nancy Lamb, Nate Glaspie, Oscar Mejia, Rachel Cox, Rachel Fisher, Ricardo Paniagua Garcia III, Saul F. Waranch, Sibylle Bauer, Timothy Harding, Todd Camplin, Vance Wingate, and Yovanny Canales.
more links: www.macrodons.com www.billyzinser.com www.500x.org
more artspeak: my cv/resume (PDF), artist statement (PDF), essay on 'Death of a Propane Salesman' exhibition curated by Christina Rees, more to come...
