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Sublime Desert Synthesis
Winter Rusiloski | Angel Fernandez

November 7, 2024 – January 25, 2025

Artspace111 is proud to present the latest exhibition Sublime Desert Synthesis, featuring paintings by Winter Rusiloski and sculptures by Angel Fernandez. This work explores color interplays through abstract paintings and sculptures created from repurposed synthetic materials. Compositions speak to formal qualities like abstraction, surrealism and site-specificity involving the desert as studio. The work is synthesized around the smallness of everyday life and the terrifying vastness of the land. This recurring tension around object, performance and landscape exists within and between their work. As parents, they tried to keep the kids out of the work, but they always made their way back in. The mess of life: kids’ chairs, playpens, and discarded toys make interesting shapes and colors on the land. They view the desert as a raw canvas that they draw, paint, sculpt and perform on. Rusiloski’s paintings pull from the canon of abstract, but moments of color and play subsume the work. In contrast, Ferandez’s work is drawn to the synthetic, like tires and children’s toys on an intimate scale. The cyclical formal shape of the tires are important, in terms of materiality and form, but also work conceptually as traces of humanity. Border patrols use old tires to erase footprints of migrant pathways, flowers grow around the tires, or provide shelter to insects and small animals to take cover from the heat of the sun. These mediums are inextricably linked by practice, lineage and synthesis of the work. As artists, they try to escape the mundane of life, but it will always imbue the work contrasted through the lens of the sublime.

Winter Rusiloski

Winter Rusiloski was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and grew up in a rural setting outside ssssof the city. Rusiloski earned a BFA in Painting and Related Arts-Dance at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. She earned an MFA in Painting with a fellowship award at Texas Christian University. Rusiloski joined the Baylor University Department of Art and Art History in the fall of 2016 where she serves as Associate Professor of Art. Rusiloski has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work is in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States. Rusiloski’s exhibition highlights include: First Place Selection in The Next Big Thing 2022 International Juried Exhibition in California, Contemporary Landscape 2018 exhibition at the CICA Museum in South Korea, three-time Hunting Art Prize Finalist in Houston, Texas Biennial 2009, Texas Paint Part 2-Out of Abstraction, a survey of Abstract Art in Texas at the Arlington Museum of Art, The Texas Oklahoma Art Prize at the Wichita Falls Museum of Art and The 32nd, 34th and 35th International September Competition at the Alexandria Museum of Art. Rusiloski’s work has been included in international exhibitions and publications including Studio Visit Magazine, Dallas Art Fair, and Art Santa Fe. Artspace 111 in Fort Worth, Texas and MixHaus Gallery in Comfort, Texas represent her work. She, her husband and six children live in Lakeside, Texas.

Angel Fernandez

Angel Fernandez was born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico and grew up in the northern region of Chihuahua before immigrating to Fort Worth, Texas. Fernandez attended Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in sculpture. Fernandez received a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Fernandez is a Professor of Art at Tarrant County College, Trinity River Campus in downtown Fort Worth. During his one-year Faculty Development Leave, he researched and traveled the Big Bend. The vast landscape and beauty of this region has attracted Fernandez and Rusiloski. They work on their 40-acre property and studio in Terlingua Ranch. Notable exhibitions include CICA Museum-Contemporary Drawing Exhibition in the South Korea, Third Coast Biennial Juried Exhibition, Corpus Christi, Texas, Tejano at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts, The Texas Oklahoma Art Prize at the Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Studio Visit Magazine, and Art Santa Fe. MixHaus Gallery in Comfort, Texas represents his work.

About Time
Works by Jim Woodson

November 7, 2024 – January 25, 2025

Artist Talk
Moderated by Gallery Manager Simone Rios
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“No neat borderline separates a purely perceptional image-if such there is- from one completed by memory…”-Rudolf Arnheim

Artspace111 is proud to present the latest exhibition About Time, featuring paintings by Jim Woodson. This work explores​​ Memory images serve to identify, interpret, and supplement perception. These paintings draw inspiration from the high deserts of the southwest, mostly in Texas and New Mexico. These “outer” landscapes are modified by “inner ones”. The inner concerns are a dialogue with dreams, memories, thought fragments and streams of consciousness. By the contextual placement or overlay of inner and outer, Woodson conveys thoughts about the nature of imagination: to achieve a sense of the imagination’s movement (tempo) against a relatively unchanging environment (duration). Woodson is interested in calling attention to the act of painting, as well as to how one understands visual conventions by combining self-referential marks and forms with more traditional rendering. Woodson shows us these juxtapositions enliven the surface and create an ambiguous space that causes the viewer to question his/her notions about perceptual space. Woodson provides the viewer choices that lie between dualities like cultural and natural, perspectival and encompassed, near and far, representational and abstract, mythic time and geologic time, movement and stillness, order and chaos. Woodson believes landscapes to be understood as a “verb” rather than a “noun”.

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