THREE PLACES: JERRY LEE DODD, BETSY DAVES BASS,
DAVID MITCHELL DILLARD
JANUARY 16, 2010 – FEBRUARY 20, 2010
Opening Reception with the artists: Saturday, January 16, 6-9 pm
DALLAS, Texas (December 16, 2009)—Haley-Henman announces the exhibition of works by Jerry Lee Dodd, Betsy Daves Bass, and David Mitchell Dillard. The exhibition opens with a reception for the artists on Saturday, January 16, 2010 from 6-9 pm. The exhibition will continue until February 20, 2010.
Haley-Henman is continuing its fall and winter season by showcasing one sculptor per show. The centerpiece for this exhibit is the noted Texas sculptor, Jerry Lee Dodd, who brings together different places of his oeuvre: three different collections of his metal sculptures--Fences--Totems—and Buckets, and a collection of his collages. Mr. Dodd is Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M University--Commerce, and this exhibition will highlight the depth of past work and relate it to his most recent sculptural and collage works.
Betsy Daves Bass, who recently exhibited a collection of her bronze sculptures at Haley-Henman this past summer, brings a collection of paintings entitled, Tres Chic. In this present series, Ms. Bass works in heavy textures and bright colors to bring about a look of cheerfulness and movement. As the viewer’s eye moves around the canvas, one perceives Ms. Bass’s tendency to work her two dimensions into three, and as we noted with her sculptures, she plays in making three dimensions into two.
David Mitchell Dillard’s Wavelength collection represents one of the artist’s most significant past, present and continuing series of paintings on canvas and paper. Mr. Dillard’s work is rich in its depth and complexity of color formed by multiple layers of his automatic writing; that is, writing in the surreal sense as defined by Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault in Les Champs Magnetiques (The Magnetic Fields).
Indeed Dodd, Bass and Dillard bring us to surprising places that seduce us by their playful approaches. We can relish the fun and also see how places of mind, beauty and art connect us.
|
