Victoria Burge and Anna Hepler: Permutations

October 09 - January 03,2021

From the gallery: "A duo exhibition of work by Victoria Burge and Anna Hepler. The show will open on October 9, 2020 and be on view through January 3, 2021, at our Marfa location, 204 E San Antonio St, Marfa TX, 79843. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm, no appointment necessary. With public and staff safety in mind, all visitors must wear masks and observe social distancing guidelines throughout their time in the gallery. Permutations brings together two artists who use structure, sequencing, and re-interpretation as the basis of their artistic practice, each artist exploring how any one action can generate further possibilities in the next. Anna Hepler's works depict this by translating forms across many media, where each new creation is informed by the one preceding it. Her woodcut prints and sculpture suggest the appearance of cardboard, robust and familiar in design, she turns the notion inside out, bringing the organic beauty of its bending and folding to life. Other ceramic pieces become three-dimensional drawings, where the layers of clay become the ink, and the shapes become metaphors for family and home. Additional works, both two and three-dimensional sculptures, repurpose other materials, the heavily used lauan construction wood, becomes a study of board games as they reiterate and break down patterns.   Victoria Burge finds inspiration in weavers' draft notations and mathematical constructs, making marks and embossments on paper in a way that emulates the structures and interactions of such systems. Using the grid as her starting point, she investigates patterned sequences and geometric combinations using intuitive drawing to guide each work's metamorphosis. Using a network of nodes, she redirects the eye through the implications of space, providing endless variations of connection. In other drawings, Burge deciphers draft notations found in textile books from the 1920s-1940s, interpreting these codes through white ink that play with the paper's surface, hinting at the flow of light on water and the movement of waves. Victoria Burge (b. 1976) Burge’s work has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Arts, Prints and Photographs at the New York Public Library, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA,  Blum & Poe in Los Angeles, CA and The Hunterian Gallery at the University of Glasgow. She has been awarded multiple residencies and grants, including the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, Ireland; The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT; the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA; and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY among others. Burge's works are in the permanent collections of the the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the British Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Beinecke Library at Yale University, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Anna Hepler, (1969, Boston, MA) Anna Hepler was born in Boston, MA, and earned a BA from Oberlin College in 1992 and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994. Hepler was a Henry Luce Foundation fellow in South Korea for one year, has received support from the Artist Resource Trust, the Roswell Artist in Residence Program, and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Maine Arts Commission in 2012. In 2017, Hepler was named the USA BARR Fellow and awarded $50,000 through the United States Artists Foundation. Anna Hepler's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Japan; the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, NM; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA, the Portland Museum of Art, The Roswell Museum of Art, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Nancy Margolis Gallery, NYC, University of Maine Museum of Art, Open Satellite in Bellevue, WA, Suyama Space in Seattle, WA, The Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM, and Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM. Her work is included in major public collections, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Tate Gallery, London, England, and the Portland Museum of Art, ME. RULE Gallery, founded in 1991, has locations in Denver, CO, and Marfa, TX. RULE represents emerging and mid-career contemporary artists and artist estates, with a focus on fostering investigative art practices while developing artists' long-term careers. Outside their robust in-house exhibition schedule, RULE coordinates programming in prominent institutions and non-traditional settings, expanding community engagement with the work. In addition, the gallery actively endeavors to bring greater recognition of the region's historical art movements to a broader audience."

RULE Gallery (Marfa) 204 E. San Antonio St
Marfa, Texas 79843
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