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| Faith Gay & Raymond Uhlir at d berman Gallery by June Mattingly // regularmain.com I can attest to Faith’s continued use of recycled commonplace materials - the piece I own consists of floating imaginary configurations of melted (with an iron) brightly colored plastic beads she carefully attached herself with straight pins to the wall. Not obvious initially, the nature oriented symbols in her radiantly happy looking compositions range from rainbow rays, fluffy clouds, mountains peaks and striking lightning. As in my piece, for this new body of work Faith applies her signature treatment of vivid colors and repetitive whimsical shapes. |
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| Jane Mattingly - Art Contributor for modaustin.net writes a regular blog regularmain.com focusing on Texas Artists. |
| Faith Gay - Vashti 10CC, 2009 - Paper, Plastic, Tape & Cardboard on Panel 30 x 30 inches |
| Gay delights in reconfiguring throwaways such as stickers, colored tape and ribbons from daily life because she wants “fewer limitations to break rules…(to) investigate notions of excess, consumer culture, and artistic freedom in the midst of economic pressures… Whether it be Texas thunderstorms with triple rainbows, birdfeeder hierarchies, plants that flourish in 110F… I can always count on being delighted and inspired by the living world around me…” To sum up her philosophy of life “typically an artist’s basic living skills are honed to live within their means, make do with less, and think harder and smarter about how to use what is left over.” |
| Elooizonico, 2009 - Paper, Plastic, Tape & Cardboard on Panel 52 x 31 1/2 inches |
| Her BFA is from the University of Texas in Austin. The last time I saw her was in the fall of 2006 in Marfa in a group show at Galleri Urbane holding the hand of Honey, her sweet young daughter. |
| Faith shares the gallery walls with Raymond Uhlir’s brilliantly colored fairy-tale vignettes of his personally ingenuous happy-go- lucky cartoon characters cajoling in a coordinated brightly lit background. The bodies of work of both artists exude in exuberant personality and imaginative symbolism to lift the viewer way up high in the sky into a close to perfect make-believe world. |
| Shine On You Crazy Oracle (Because There's No Way I Believe This is Happening), 2009 Oil Enamel on Canvas - 26 1/2 x 40 inches |
| To present a more serious examination and bring us back down on the ground to reality, Uhlir brings together “disparate visual and contextual devices from popular, historical, and sacred culture…he constructs a loose narrative reminiscent of religious or folkloric tales while commenting on “the repetitive collision of ideologies (as) a source of unending conflict in our civilization… to critique and question the hierarchical status quo of our society, the conflicts between religious belief and rationality, and the mythologies our culture is built upon.” |
| You Play Beautifully. (But You Must Work Harder. No Cowards. Quit that Moody Brooding.), 2009 - Gouache and Ink on Paper - 15 x 21 1/2 inches |
| Uhlir received his MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Both artists’ shows will be on view to cool off in, if any art can possibly do that this art can, through the hot Texas month of August. Show ends August 21 |
