SARAH WILLIAMS
NIGHTFALL

VIDEO ROOM: BARRY ANDERSON

JANUARY 7 - FEBRUARY 11, 2012 / Opening: Saturday, January 7, 6-8pm

Sarah Williams, Chula Carwash, 2011, oil on panel, 30 x 30 inches

Marty Walker Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Sarah Williams' new urban landscapes of industrial American
roadsides. Draped in the shadows of night, buzzing electric lights from commercial structures penetrate the
scene. Emphasizing a sense of abandonment, the looming structures appear as vulnerable as they are
threatening.

Williams' paintings take cues from Edward Hopper's geometric division of space and sense of isolation, yet
leaves the scene absent of human figures. Photographically inspired, Williams provides a sardonic twist to a
banal New Topographic landscape after sunset. Despite representing common daily activities, the overall scene
takes on a sense of desolation flooded in electric light. Textured pavement overtakes the foreground, following
tire tracks to seemingly unremarkable structures. Mixes of colored lights cast eerie reflections in hyper-realistic scenes, dramatizing the scene as if waiting for the next rush of movement.

Recently featured in the last October issue of New American Paintings, juror Cassandra Coblentz, Curator for the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, states of the selected artists: "Boldly building upon the richness of art history, their demonstrations of reinvention and innovation are in step with the mythos of the landscape itself, which continues to serve as an important backdrop for exploring the most pressing issues and concerns we all face in the West."

Sarah Williams received an MFA in 2009 from University of North Texas and has been exhibiting widely across
Texas and the U.S., and is the recipient of numerous awards, including Purchase Award from UNT's Art in
Public Places in 2009 and a Hunting Art Prize Finalist in 2010. She has exhibited and participated in a panel for
the Dallas Contemporary’s Here, There & Beyond, and recently completed an artist-in-residence program in
Vermont. Williams recently exhibited at the Galveston Arts Center, and had a solo exhibition at the Albrecht-
Kemper Museum of Art in 2010.

Barry Anderson, Junk Yard (video still), 2011 6:15 minute HD video animation, edition of 5

VIDEO ROOM: BARRY ANDERSON | Junk Yard, 2011, 6:15 HD video animation

Marty Walker Gallery presents Barry Anderson's Junk Yard, an HD video animation of bits and pieces of pop
culture icons and pulp fiction figures. In a slow-rolling tour, figures, body parts, buildings, and objects emerge
as objects once idolized now cast aside and overgrown with blades of grass. Anderson, employing digital
compositing and video animation, merges simplistic shapes and colors with subtle cultural commentary to
celebrate cultural identity while also re-interpreting everyday symbols, associative memory, and viewer
experience.

Based in Kansas City, Anderson's recent work was recently acquired and featured in the Kemper Museum's The
Big Reveal exhibition, used as the featured frontispiece for the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art's semiannual benefit auction, and chosen as one of six Kansas City artists highlighted in the Black Bamboo furnishing company catalog for 2011. Anderson’s work is exhibited in national and international galleries and museums including Dubai, England, China, Thailand, Brazil, and Los Angeles. He is a recipient of New York's Light Work fellowship and their annual publication in Contact Sheet 153.