art gallery dallas art contemporary fine gallery contemporary fine art gallery wouter deruytter In the Main Gallery, Light & Sie is proud to present “Wicked Creek,” a new series of color photographs by noted Belgian artist, Wouter Deruytter. Executed in the summer of 2007, these images document the Montana fires and the valiant firefighters who fought them. Presented primarily as diptychs, triptychs and even the occasional quadratych and quintriptych, these extremely heartfelt and often moving images recount the continuing story of man’s perpetual conflict with the elements and our need to tame nature itself.
Invoking a long tradition of imagery from artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Frederic Edwin Church, Deruytter seeks to draw us closer to the environment and urges us to re-find our respect for the majesty of our land. Philosophically akin to Whitman and Thoreau, these works seem at once out of fashion and yet, timely in its message of simplicity. Deruytter lushly bathes his subjects in warm tones of color, all the time posturing the real impetus for producing this series: This is our home, and this is its cycle of regeneration.
Wouter Deruytter was born in Roeselare, Belgium in 1967, and attended The Royal Academy of Art in Ghent. He is the author of numerous photography books such as Cowboy Code (Arena Editions) and Nazar (Aperture Publications). He has been the subject of several solo museum exhibitions including at the Musei Centrale Montemartini in Rome, the Museo de Arte Carillo Gil in Mexico City and the Chelsea Art Museum in New York.
In the Project Space, Light & Sie is pleased to present an exhibition of new abstract paintings by Sarah Ann Lobb. Based in Philadelphia, Lobb paints in a constructivist abstract style works that are typically small(er) scaled and that speak to the long tradition of non-representational painting. Lobb writes: “Imagery seems to specifically refer to pictures, which I do not prioritize in painting. The subject of a painting is made up of equal and connected pieces comprising a painting and those paintings are equal and separated pieces that comprise a whole work of art. I try not to think of these things in a hierarchical way.”
White Columns in New York writes: “Lobb’s idiosyncratic and mercurial works acknowledge a crooked painterly lineage that simultaneously evokes the casual precision of Raoul de Keyser, the joyful melancholia of Mary Heilmann, and the informal formalism of Bernard Frize. Lobb studied both painting and sculpture at undergraduate level, a dialogue that remains highly pertinent to her work’s underlying formal properties.”
Sarah Ann Lobb was born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1979. She holds a BFA from The Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work was included in the seminal exhibition series “Drunk vs. Stoned,” curated by Scott and Tyson Reeder at Gavin Brown’s enterprise in New York. She has also exhibited at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita and at White Columns in New York.
Light & Sie, an exhibition space for “cutting edge” international contemporary art in all media, is located at 129 Leslie Street, Dallas, Texas, 75207. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 12 noon to 5pm. For more information, call 214-745-2255 or visit www.lightsandsie.com.
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