WORDLESS: DIALOGUES IN COLOR
Works by David McCullough, Michael Osbaldeston and Juergen Strunck

December 2-24, 2004

Organized by Jerelyn Arbuckle

OPENING RECEPTION WITH THE ARTISTS:
Sunday, December 5, 2004 (2-5 PM)

Featuring a Jazz concert by The Flipside Trio at 2 PM

DIALOGUES IN COLOR GALLERY TALK :
Moderated by A. Kate Sheerin, Meadows Museum Curator
Wednesday, December 8, 2004 (7:30 PM)

For information about the Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection - The Art of Texas and Switzerland exhibition, currently showing at the Meadows Museum, please click here.

“Wordless: Dialogues in Color” celebrates three mid-career visual artists, each of whom has refined and developed over the last thirty years unique styles utilizing vivid color and abstraction. The artists in this exhibition, David McCullough, Michael Osbaldeston and Juergen Strunck, have developed a unique and highly sophisticated vocabulary of color and structure, bringing a commonality of dramatic visual impact – the visual dialogue.

The artists and their respective works have parallels, yet are dramatically individual. Three different media are represented in this show. Each artist uses a different medium to achieve similar wonderment response from the viewers. The contrasts create tension and interest. The juxtaposition is the Master Printmaker Strunck’s highly structured composition with Osbaldeston’s exaggerated human-gestured abstract paintings and, at the third point of the triad, McCullough’s collages on the base of abstract watercolor and mixed media paintings with photo-iconographic images superimposed and overpainted.

The similarities of the artists' works are striking, including layering techniques, abstraction and use of color. Exhibiting these works together create the harmonies necessary for a truly exceptional show. The works of each of these artists has a quality of universal dimension, challenging the viewers while drawing them into an alternative reality environment, then mesmerizing with the complexity and beauty of the color, structure and gesture. If the viewer ventures the time to contemplate any of the pieces, the works become meditative: at once relaxing and exciting. This collaborative show of fabulous color would initiate – even demand- dialogue. Dialogue between the pieces themselves, between the pieces and the viewers, between those who attend the show, and finally, between the artists themselves.