It was literally the wreck of jewels and the crash of gems…
June 28 - August 17, 2018
Kate Newby and Daniel Rios Rodriguez
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Installation view, It was literally the wreck of jewels and the crash of gems..., 2018
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Installation view, It was literally the wreck of jewels and the crash of gems..., 2018
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Installation view, It was literally the wreck of jewels and the crash of gems..., 2018
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Installation view, It was literally the wreck of jewels and the crash of gems..., 2018
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Daniel Rios Rodriguez
Casi un Hechizo, 2018
Oil, wood, nails, rope, Texas Mountain Laurel bean on wood panel
44 1/2 x 44 1/2 inches
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Daniel Rios Rodriguez
Opuntia South Circular, 2018
Oil, nails, rope and limestone on wood panel
44 1/2 x 44 1/2 inches -
Daniel Rios Rodriguez and Kate Newby
Passiflora Pirate Utopia, 2018
Oil, acrylic, rope, nails, wood, and other found materials on wood panel
29 x 29 inches -
Daniel Rios Rodriguez
T.A.Z., 2018
Oil, Flashe, nails, rope, limestone, copper wire, and wood on wood
10 1/2 x 15 inches -
Daniel Rios Rodriguez
Cielito Lindo, 2018
Oil, wire, limestone, plastic rope and nails on wood
8 x 14 inches -
Daniel Rios Rodriguez
Culebra, 2018
Oil, copper wire, rope, nails, acrylic, foil and limestone on wood
11 x 9 inches -
Kate Newby
Maybe I won't go to sleep at all, 2013-2018
Rope, thread, variety of clays, glaze
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Kate Newby
Detail, Maybe I won't go to sleep at all, 2013-2018
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Kate Newby
Hold onto me as we go, 2018
Glass wire
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Kate Newby
Better looking at it than looking for it, 2018
Glass, wire
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Kate Newby
What's the worst that can happen 1, 2018
Porcerlain, found glass from sidewalks
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Kate Newby
What's the worst that can happen 2, 2018
Porcerlain, found glass from sidewalks
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Kate Newby
What's the worst that can happen 3, 2018
Porcerlain, found glass from sidewalks
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Kate Newby
What's the worst that can happen 4, 2018
Porcerlain, found glass from sidewalks
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Kate Newby
Lilith Fair brought me here, 2018
Thread, pink silver, yellow silver, silver
Dimensions variable
Press Release
You do not have to be good. / You do not have to walk on your knees / For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. / You only have to let the soft animal of your body / love what it loves. / Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. / Meanwhile the world goes on. / Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain / are moving across the landscapes, / over the prairies and the deep trees, / the mountains and the rivers. / Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, / are heading home again. / Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, / the world offers itself to your imagination, / calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - / over and over announcing your place / in the family of things. [1]
Nicelle Beauchene Gallery is pleased to announce It was literally the wreck of jewels and the crash of gems..., a two-person exhibition by Kate Newby and Daniel Rios Rodriguez. Exhibiting together for the first time, the artists explore ways their practices intersect and diverge with a shared focus on the fundamental elements of making—movement, repetition, and time—and a reverence for materiality.
Using discarded and organic materials gathered during walks in the San Antonio River Valley where he lives, Rodriguez incorporates shells, feathers, old rope, and scraps of wood into his assemblages. The shaped panels form idiosyncratic mountain ranges and riverbeds, every delicate tableau reflects and refracts the artist’s surroundings.
In each installation, Newby works with space, volume, texture, and materials to explore the limits and nature of sculpture. While using a variety of media, including rope and glass, she develops a link to the every day, the lived in her work—wanting to experience as much as generate experience, to collect and register traces of the passing world.
In It was literally the wreck of jewels and the crash of gems..., Rodriguez uses found materials that have been soaked, sun drenched, and eroded by wind or water. Newby’s interest in nature, especially the weather is critical—as such phenomena must, akin to sculpture, be experienced directly. For the artists, this serves as an attempt to reintegrate their creations into the natural world and to document their visual landscapes. The patina of the sun and rain is a story. The smoothed surface of a stone is a record of time.
Kate Newby (b. 1979, Auckland, New Zealand) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her DocFA and MFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. Recent solo exhibitions include the The Sunday Painter, London (2018); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2018); Artpace, San Antonio (2017); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2016); and Lulu, Mexico City (2014). Recent group exhibitions include the 21st Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (2018); Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2018); Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm (2017); SculptureCenter, New York (2017); Marianne Boesky, New York (2015); and Arnolfini, Bristol (2014). The artist has undertaken residencies at The Chinati Foundation, TX (2017), Artpace, TX (2017) and Fogo Island (2013).
Daniel Rios Rodriguez (Born in Killeen, TX, 1978) lives and works in San Antonio, TX. He received his MFA from Yale in 2007. His work is currently on view in Right Here, Right Now: San Antonio, curated by Dean Daderko with Patricia Restrepo, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX. Recent solo exhibitions include Cooper Cole, Toronto (2017); Lulu, Mexico City (2016); Western Exhibitions, Chicago (2016); McNay Art Museum, San Antonio (2015); White Columns, New York (2011). Recent group exhibitions include Galeria Fortes D’aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brazil (2017), Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles (2016); Martos Gallery, New York (2013); Wilkinson Gallery, London (2015); Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles (2015). The artist is a 2013 recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award.
[1] Oliver, Mary. “Wild Geese,” Dream Work, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986, p. 14.