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PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Contact: Dr. John Marcucci
214-532-3225
john@haleyhenman.com
Gisa Elwazir
Like Jacquard Tapestries
November 2-30, 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 2, 5-8pm
Haley-Herman Contemporary Art
at Open Studio 516
516 Fabrication Street
Dallas, Texas 75212
Haley-Henman Contemporary Art announces the sixth iteration of Gisa Elwazir’s collection of paintings with the theme of organic abstraction. This series is titled: Like Jacquard Tapestries and will be on view from November 2-30, 2019 at 516 Fabrication Street, Dallas, Texas 75212. The opening reception is on Saturday, November 2 from 5-8 pm. Other viewing hours for your convenience are by appointment: call/text 214-532-3225.
Like Jacquard Tapestries are ten works completed by Elwazir during the last year (2018-2019). There are elemental forms and patterns carried throughout the entire collection to date, but the singularity of imagination strikes each painting and series as unique. These paintings are noted for their bold composition, exquisite play of pattern, and dramatic juxtaposition of colors. They are like fine weavings from thoughts floating through our minds, the gathering of textures and movements that tend to make additional shapes and new directions.
Gisa Elwazir continues her process using the media of decalcomania, gouache and ink on paper. She honors her spiritual mentor Max Ernst and his interpretation of Artist, as being the master of certain techniques, processes, and mechanisms of consciousness. This is, indeed, at the very center of her practice. She believes in the power of the Mechanisms of Poetic Imagination, viewing herself as medium, as an onlooker of her work in progress.
Gisa Elwazir
“Like Jacquard Tapestries: Arabesque”
(Photograph by Michelle Elwazir)
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Contact: Dr. John Marcucci
214-532-3225
john@haleyhenman.com
ART WALK WEST 2019
Presented by the West Dallas Chamber of Commerce
The fifth annual edition celebrating local art with performances and activities by the AT&T Performing Arts Center
Saturday, October 19, 11 am – 5 pm
Starting Point: Trinity Groves breezeway
3011 Gulden Lane, Dallas 75212
Haley-Henman Contemporary Art at Art Walk West 2019
Located on Herbert Street near the intersection of Broadway Street in the Cypress Groves Building 411. Call/text 214-532-3225 for more information and directions.
For this exhibition, the following artists are featured: Henry Biber, Gisa Elwazir, Angelia Ford, Heather Levy, John Marcucci, Jill Nonnemacher, Piloto, Marius Silaghi, and Madeleine Terry.
Haley-Herman Contemporary Art established the first art gallery in West Dallas in 2007. With a mission to support local artists, more than 300 artists have exhibited their work in visual and performance media. We encourage collaboration in group installation works, and special exhibitions such as with the Texas Sculpture Association, the Creative Arts Center of Dallas, and Prism Company. The core group of our represented artists provides motivation and innovation in our programming that is creating a more mobile paradigm. ###
Gisa Elwazir
“Facade: Beyond Those White Clouds and Blue Mountains”
Triptych, decalcomania, gouache, ink on paper
(Photo by Michelle Elwazir)