{"id":5433,"date":"2023-09-03T21:45:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T02:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umbrella.gallery\/?p=5433"},"modified":"2023-10-25T05:34:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T10:34:59","slug":"turn-me-into-a-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umbrella.gallery\/turn-me-into-a-river","title":{"rendered":"Turn Me Into a River"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Turn Me Into a River<\/span><\/i> is an exhibition of recent paintings by Makenzie Heinemann and Danny Joe Rose III at Umbrella Gallery in Deep Ellum. Through their respective, experimental processes, Heinemann and Rose explore new ways to engage in minimal, abstract painting. <\/span><\/p>\n Heinemann uses water as her dominant medium, allowing landscapes and forms to reinvent themselves in the painting process. Rose adopts an intuitive method of hard-edge abstraction, relying on memory and impulse to layer their structural compositions. <\/span><\/p>\n The title, Turn Me Into a River<\/em>, borrowed from Etel Adnan\u2019s poetry, evokes the fleeting essence of life. Fluidity becomes an ideology, a desire to escape superimposed boundaries, until we are eventually returned to the Earth. <\/span><\/p>\n Selected show art will be available for purchase in the Umbrella Gallery store.<\/a><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ la_animation_duration=”1″ la_animation_delay=”0″ la_animation_iteration_count=”1″][vc_single_image image=”5443″ img_size=”” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_border”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_text_separator title=”About the Artists”][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”5481″ img_size=”230×290″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Makenzie Heinemann is a Dallas-based visual artist. She completed her MFA in Studio Art at Florida State University and BFA in Painting at Arizona State University. Her work consists of large paintings on raw canvas, created on the floor through layers of water and water-soluble media. Water blurs the lines of figuration and eliminates the boundaries of representation in her paintings-although the landscapes and bodies still remain distantly recognizable. Heinemann currently teaches foundational art and maintains a home studio practice in the Junius Heights neighborhood of East Dallas.<\/p>\n \u201cI make work about touch and space. I create through a very wet process on raw canvas, allowing fluid materials agency within the creation. My paintings remind me of our own permeable membranes and close intimacy with our environment and all other bodies in motion. The process of responding to the liquid movements confronts the tendency to fix ideas, bodies, and feelings into gridlocked systems of being. Through my work, I allow spaces, bodies, and emotions to be respective bodies in movement.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nMakenzie Heinemann<\/h3>\n