Contemporary Art Museum PlainviewMarch 9 – June 8, 2019 Opening Night Celebration on March 9, 2019, 6:00-9:00pm
Sponsored in part by a grant from the Sybil B Harrington Endowment for the Arts through the Community Foundation of West Texas
Contemporary Art Museum PlainviewMarch 9 – June 8, 2019 Opening Night Celebration on March 9, 2019, 6:00-9:00pm
This first-ever retrospective exhibit of work by The Wheeler Brothers, features over a hundred individual and collaborative artworks curated from their output between 1999-2017. During that time, the Wheeler Brothers ran studio, exhibition, and performance spaces dedicated to bringing Lubbock art to a wide local audience while also highlighting Lubbock art around Texas and bringing famous Texas artists to Lubbock. Their efforts and the artwork they produced were seminal in putting Lubbock on the ever-vibrant Texas art map and adding another chapter to Lubbock’s illustrious creative past. Viewers can expect a visual feast as they will witness, for the first time, works drawn from this entire period in a single exhibition. This is the second stop for the exhibit which opened in 2017 at the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock. The Wheeler Brothers are especially excited to be bringing this show to Plainview as they have deep family roots here in Hale County and their parents met and fell in love right here in downtown Plainview.
Artworks on display are exclusively 2-D for this show, primarily consisting of mixed media paintings and drawings. Jeff F. Wheeler’s work defies singular description. Over the last several years, his practice has splintered into several simultaneous, self-reflexive threads that can tend toward simplified shapes and abstract pattern; complicated surrealistic landscapes mixing humor, art historical references, and Western imagery; large-scale simplified washes; collages; decorative designs; and observational drawings. Bryan Wheeler’s large-scale panel paintings are more consistent in style and theme, generally tending toward “historicist encounters in which the whole of modernity continually loops in cycles of creation and destruction. The Wheeler Brothers collaborative efforts can best be described as playful dialogues, effortless combinations of visual vocabularies that, like all their work, employs strong compositions, vivid color, and clearly-delineated imagery.
The Contemporary Art Center Plainview is located at 219 E. 6th Street in Plainview, Texas. It is open Thursday-Sunday, 10:00am-5:00pm. Please call (713) 826-9605 for more information.
