The opening at the Rule Gallery on Feb 5 was well-attended – thank you to all who came out for it. I finished the wall painting, Displace, above, just in time for Kyle MacMillan of the Denver Post to come view the show.  The Denver Post ran his article on Sunday, Feb 7, covering both the Rule curated group show and an artist-curated exhibition at Plus Gallery. The article featured several full color photographs – including one of my wall painting – but can be viewed in text-only form on the Post’s website, here. Of my work, MacMillan stated:

Mindy Bray, Rule. Working from photographs of rushing, cascading water, this Denver artist abstracts the imagery to its rawest yet still recognizable essence.

Bray creates simple yet complex compositions of flowing forms and interplays of negative and positive space that she has realized in an assortment of media, including “Disperse,” a wonderfully sculptural, 6-foot-square wall hanging cut from felt.

Also, Nathan Abels created a pdf catalog of the exhibition, which includes all of the images in both his solo exhibition and his curated group show, as well as an exhibition essay and curatorial statement. You can download the catalog at Nathan’s website, here.

This past weekend (and beginning of the week, between teaching) I’ve been busy at work on a new wall painting at the Rule Gallery for the upcoming show, Natural Causes, that opens this Friday.  The new piece is titled Displace, and uses the same color pallette as Water Feature from Anderson Ranch, and is also based on an image of water moving.  This particular image was taken from a small stream in Snowmass Village that had a footpath following it, and, I believe, was somewhat directed through constructed boulder fields to create waterfalls.  I am interested in how this image is beginning to become more dynamic, and includes extreme switches between positive and negative space, so that the two are in constant flux, constantly displacing one another; just as the natural and the manmade elements of the image’s origins are displacing one another, arriving at some hybrid envrionment.  Please come see the fiished piece at the opening at 6pm at the Rule Gallery, or here in the next post for those out of town.