ERIN CLULEY GALLERY is pleased to announce a group exhibition titled (Un)Controlled – works on paper and canvas focused on dye as the primary medium. The exhibition will be on view January 16th through February 20th and will open with a reception for the artists on Saturday, February 22nd from 12:00-5:00 pm. Capacity in the gallery will be limited and masks are required.

The history of using dye has been one of endless discovery through exploration, invention, and experimentation. 

 
With dye being the common thread running throughout the work, these three artists are using processes of intention, control, and resistance but at the end of the day, the final result comes at the mercy of the medium. 

Featuring works by:

CHIVAS CLEM (Paris, TX)

CATHERINE MACMAHON (Dallas)

DELANEY SMITH (Dallas)

About the Artist

Catherine MacMahon’s installations, sculptures, and drawings embody universal themes of memory, repetition, and form. There is a sense of in-betweenness in MacMahon’s work. Though neither figurative nor narrative she suggests abstract liminal states, which question polarities, certitude, or fixed narratives, in favor of delicate deviances. Her practice involves the exploration of and sometimes rejection of the feminine identity ascribed to materials and structures. She rigorously challenges what constitutes an interior space, how that is formed, and what social constructs are latent within it.

MacMahon received her Master of Fine Arts degree from California College of the Arts in San Francisco (2006) and was an All-College Honors Award recipient. She completed a Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture (2002) where she received several endowed scholarships and awards. In 2006, she attended the Textile Society of America Study Tour “Fibers of Japan” with Yoshiko I. Wada. She has participated in the Gallery Lab Program and in The Great Create both at The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. MacMahon’s work has been exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery, Dieu Donne, and The Wassaic Project in New York; Two x Two for AIDS and Art, and Barry Whistler Gallery in Dallas, TX. And in 2019, MacMahon debuted her first solo show, LINES, at Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas, TX. MacMahon currently lives and works in Dallas, TX.

About Erin Cluley Gallery

Erin Cluley Gallery is a contemporary art gallery representing emerging, mid-career, and established artists from Dallas, the United States, and Mexico. The gallery presents a provocative program of artists working in both traditional and alternative forms including painting, sculpture, new media, photography, sculptural installation and public intervention. 

In 2014, Erin Cluley Gallery ignited a creative movement in West Dallas acting as a hub for visual arts and community engagement. After nearly five years on Fabrication Street, the gallery has moved its operation to Riverbend – a development in Dallas’ Design District celebrating the intersection between culture and commerce.

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