D U N N A N D B R O W N C O N T E M P O R A R Y
| Artists | Exhibitions | Publications | Editions | Gallery | Location | Contacts | News/Events |
PRESS RELEASE
Gary Panter
Ideal Hatchling
September 7 through October 20, 2007
Dunn and Brown Contemporary is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by New York-based artist, Gary Panter. Ideal Hatchling exhibits some of Panter’s latest works and includes seven acrylic on canvas paintings. The exhibition opens with a reception for the artist on September 7, 2007 from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm. The exhibition will continue on through October 20, 2007.
Gary’s multi-faceted work has influenced an entire generation of young artists around the world. Described as an artistic and literary genius and possibly the most influential graphic artist of his generation, a fact acknowledged by the Chrysler Design award he received in 2000, Gary has been everything from an underground cartoonist and part time musician to a set designer and internet animator. This Texas-born artist grew up in Sulphur Springs, Texas around the dime store businesses of his father, who painted cowboy and Indian paintings. Gary Panter’s most renowned role was that of head set designer for Pee Wee’s Playhouse, a project which brought his jagged art and surreal cartoon ideas into the homes of America and earned him three Emmy Awards. With Pee Wee, Gary created another world, a fantasy extension of his natural studio habitat which was constructed out of a collection of garbage and buried treasure. Panter is also the creator of the epic Jimbo in Purgatory comic book, which is well know around the world. Gary Panter describes his paintings as, “Typically very colorful and kind of abstracted landscape painting. There is almost always some kind of color field which suggests sky, ground, and water, upon which objects and signs appear as entities on a stage. The color derives from my childhood years in Brownville, Texas. The spacial set-up paraphrases the big sky of the Southwest.”
Today Gary Panter can be found living and working on his numerous projects in New York City. He has recently been included in Masters of American Comics, a group exhibition that traveled to MOCA, Los Angeles, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and The Jewish Museum, New York. Panter has been featured in group shows at SITE Santa Fe Biennial in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as Drawing Under the Influence at the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Texas. In 2004 he exhibited in Lucerne, Switzerland with Fumetto and in New York City with Gary Panter and Joshua Light Show. His numerous publications include Invasion of the Elvis Zombies, Jimbo in Paradise, Cola Madnes, Dal Tokyo, Golden Hell, Buring Monster, and Jimbo in Purgatory.
Gary Panter will be present at the opening reception on Friday, September 7, 2007. Dunn and Brown Contemporary is open to the public on Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 am until 5:00 pm and by appointment. Please contact Sarah Stork at the gallery or via email at sstork@dunnandbrown.com for additional information or to request visuals of the exhibition.