Dallas Art Fair | Booth F6: Sir Frank Bowling OBE RA, Sebastiaan Bremer, Jordan Ann Craig, Andrea Geyer, Virginia Jaramillo, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Kay WalkingStick
Past exhibition
Overview
Kay WalkingStick, Navajo Country, 2024. Photo by JSP Art Photography.
For the 2024 edition of Dallas Art Fair, Hales is pleased to present a selection of works by Sir Frank Bowling OBE RA, Sebastiaan Bremer, Jordan Ann Craig, Andrea Geyer, Virginia Jaramillo, Daniel LaRue Johnson, and Kay WalkingStick.
Sir Frank Bowling OBE RA (b. Guyana, 1934) moved to London in 1953, where his artistic career began shortly after his arrival at the Royal College of Art (1959-62). Bowling is widely considered to be Britain’s leading abstract painter. Over a career spanning six decades he has remained committed to expanding the possibilities of paint through constant experimentation. In every painting he discovers something new, exploring the pictorial space, searching for an essential truth. The Royal College of Art announced a new Frank Bowling Scholarship to support UK students of Black African and Caribbean diaspora heritage. Most recently his work has been included in group shows at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA and the Barbican Centre, London, UK.
Sebastiaan Bremer: (b. 1970, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) attended the open studio program in Vrije Academie in The Hague (1989-1991) and attended Skowhegan (1998). Throughout his career, Bremer has in one way or another used pre-existing images to explore profound ideas about time, memory and processing. In his early work, he meticulously reproduced personal snap-shots in painting. Over the years, this process of ‘re-thinking’ visual documents from the past has led Bremer to experiment with different techniques and materials that alter the image’s material existence, adding new dimensions and shifting the viewer’s perception.
Jordan Ann Craig (b. 1992 San Jose, CA, USA) received her BA in Studio Art and Psychology from Dartmouth College in 2015. She lives and works in Pojoaque Valley, New Mexico. Known for her large-scale paintings and prints, Craig's abstract compositions are characterized by a dynamic exploration and interpretation of Northern Cheyenne material culture. Incorporating vivid colors, recurring patterns, and interwoven forms situated in grids, Craig's work explores and celebrates her Native ancestry, posing questions about the languages of modern abstract painting and the relationship to both historic and contemporary indigenous culture. In 2020, Craig's first solo museum exhibition, Your Favorite Color is Yellow, was held at Roswell Museum of Art, NM, USA. In 2025 Craig will have a solo exhibition at The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), NM, USA.
Andrea Geyer: (b. 1971, Freiburg, Germany) studied photography and film design at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld and fine art at the Braunschweig University of Art, both in Germany. She is a 2000 graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Geyer lives and works in New York. Geyer’s work ranges across multiple media, incorporating text, photography, painting, sculpture, video and performance. It explores the complex politics of time, in the context of specific social and political situations, cultural institutions and historical events. From her early investigations into urban environments, cultural landscapes and notions of citizenship to more recent research into women’s contributions to modernism, Geyer’s work continuously seeks to create spaces of critical, collective reflection on the construction of histories and ideas that are otherwise marginalised or obscured.
Virginia Jaramillo (b. 1939, El Paso, Texas) studied at Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, from 1958-61. Jaramillo lives and works in New York. Born in El Paso, Texas, Jaramillo spent her formative years in California before moving to Europe and settling in New York City in late 1960s. Central to a career spanning nearly six decades is Jaramillo's drive to express materially our sensory perceptions of space and time in what she describes as 'an aesthetic investigation which seeks to translate into visual terms the mental structural patterns we all superimpose on our world.' Whether creating bold abstract paintings, sculptural mixed media compositions or meticulously formed handmade paper works, Jaramillo has forged a unique voice, experimenting with material and process to pursue her ongoing explorations of human perception of reality. In 2023, Jaramillo's first museum retrospective Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence was on view at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, MO, and in 2024, the exhibition will travel to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
Daniel LaRue Johnson (b. 1938, Los Angeles, CA - d. 2017, New York, USA) was a pioneering American artist known for his varied practice encompassing Hard Edge painting, Minimalist sculpture, and public works. Works from the 1970s mark a moment of transformation in Johnson's practice, moving away from hard-edged geometry and minimalist sculptures towards a purer exploration of colour. Johnson's work is in many prestigious public collections, including Museum of Modern Art, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; California African American Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum, NY.
Kay WalkingStick (b. 1935 Syracuse, NY) is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, she has Cherokee/Anglo heritage. She received a BFA from Beaver College (now Arcadia University) Glenside, PA in 1959 and an MFA from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY in 1975. She lives and works in Pennsylvania. Over a career spanning six decades, WalkingStick's practice has focused on the American Landscape and its metaphorical significances to Native Americans and people across the world. WalkingStick draws on formal modernist painterly traditions as well as the Native American experience to create works that connect the immediacy of the physical world with the spiritual. Her solo show ‘Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River’ is currently on view at The New-York Historical Society, NY, USA. The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR and The New-York Historical Society, NY have recently acquired works by WalkingStick.
