David Shelton’s historic home in Paper City. I’ll be showing in his gallery space this October. Wonderful taste, I’m lucky to be part of his crew! See the full spread HERE.

The Legacy of Lily White- Margaret Meehan
Gaddis Geeslin Gallery
February 21 – March 22, 2013      Reception: February 21, 6 – 7 pm
Artist Talk: February 21, 5 – 6 pm, Art Building E, Room 108
DEPARTMENT OF ART, SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY
1028 21st STREET, ART BUILDING F, ROOM 101 HUNTSVILLE, TX 77341-2089
HOURS: 12:00pm – 5:00pm, www.shsu.edu/~gallery

I’ve long thought of clay as a very specific medium. By “medium specific” I’m recalling the critic Clement Greenberg’s term as he defined it in his 1961 essay Modernist Painting. According to Greenberg, what defined modernist abstract painting was its ability to criticize itself, therefore  “to entrench it more firmly in its area of competence.” Each art has to “determine through its own operations and works, the effects exclusive to it.” Abstract painting was in conversation with itself—paint on canvas, the flatness of the support. Painting was not an illusion but, instead, a fact specific to its very components. If we relate this argument to clay, the medium is tied to what it can do as a durable yet flexible material–the creation of vessels, beautiful utilitarian objects as old as the birth of civilization, or bowls and mugs I’ve bought at craft fairs. READ MORE…

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under the table

ben brandt
kate gilmore
fabio j. fernández and tom lauerman
mathew mcconnell
jeffry mitchell
kristen morgin
thomas müller
akio takamori

Curated by Margaret Meehan
November 3 – December 15, 2012
Opening reception Saturday, November 3, 6 – 8 pm
Fort Worth Contemporary Arts