d berman gallery presents new work by two Texas women artists responding through their artwork to different aspects of their environment of the last few years.

Ann Matlock is one of the state’s most accomplished weavers. Her lush and richly colorful new works are based on watercolors she produced during her recent travels in Europe and also Morocco, where she taught natural dye workshops to women in Ait Hanza and Sefrou. She says, “In all my work, I am interested in conveying a feeling that the weaving that is presented is just a fragment of something larger, not a picture contained by its edges.” Her tapestries are woven from hand-dyed and hand-spun silks and overlaid with unique brocade. Matlock maintains her studio in the Texas hill country, and also directs and teaches in the fibers program in the studio art department at Lamar University in Beaumont.

Marjorie Moore’s emotional, sculptural work expresses her frustration with living a comfortable existence in Austin while military action in the middle east disrupts (and sometimes ends) life for residents of Iraq. In her statement, Moore refers to her materials: “The parts of birds, maimed by vehicles, or cats, or mishap, I have collected and placed in my studio for some time. . . I wanted to make these bones and feathers beautiful again, a kind of reliquary for the loss of flight and freedom. .. It took me some time to understand that what I was doing was about the war. It could be, of course, about all war, but the horror and plight of American troops and the citizens of Iraq are so prevalent, so in our lives every day, that I was compelled to somehow make these pieces about this particular war.” Moore lives and works in Austin, and she teaches at The Austin Museum of Art School at Laguna Gloria.

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d berman gallery
1701 Guadalupe Street
Austin, Texas 78701
(512) 477.8877
Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 AM – 6 PM

For high-resolution images and other information to accompany these exhibitions, please see our press website at http://www.dbermangallery.com/press access page.htm. The press site includes links to both the current and upcoming shows. For any other information or materials, please email Anastasia Colombo at anastasia@dbermangallery.com.

d berman gallery is wheelchair accessible. Unless otherwise noted, all events and exhibits are open and free to the public.