PALACE GARDENS: Martin Lang and Thomas Wharton

February 17 - March 24,2023

From UT Dallas:

"Lang and Wharton investigate material, space, and symbol through a restrained aesthetic language. The artists are interested in the viewers’ movement through space and choose materials or perspectives that change as the audience moves around an artwork. Their work is both monumental and quiet, giving one the feeling of walking through a palace garden of vast organized partitions that are immensely detailed, intricate, and precise when examined with attention.

Lang creates wall-mounted, anodized aluminum panel structures, some installed with monitors and speakers, some with objects and artifacts that investigates the artist as persona, contemporary product fads, design and branding, text and language, and ego and identity.

Through a pared-down vocabulary of rectangles and circles, Wharton creates drawings, photographs, paintings, and sculptures, to explore how light and shadow define physical space and create illusions, reflections, and moods."

Reception: February 17, 2023 | 5-7 pm

University of Dallas Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery 1845 East Northgate Drive
Irving, TX 75062
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