Indepth

Christopher Fitzwater
Margaret Inga Urias
Nick Naber
Elliot Purse

February 4–February 26, 2023
Opening reception Saturday, February 4, 3–5 PM

Turley Gallery presents Indepth, a group exhibition with artists that investigate our minds, bodies, souls and the world in which we exist. These artists share a commitment to not only expertly executed paintings and drawings, but to their understanding of their individual subject matter and deep research.

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Indepth, on some things…

Elliot Purse, Peter and Paul, 2022, charcoal, pastel & gouache on paper, 66 x 56 inches

Elliot Purse—The Body

“The subjects of the drawings are appropriated from the entertainment of my adolescence: gaudy male pro-wrestlers and sinewy, chiseled body builders. By using pro-wrestlers and bodybuilders as subject matter, I am able to appropriate body types, costumes, and gestures to exploit contradictions and reassess a pop-culture inheritance of what it means to be male.”

Nick Naber, Visage (insufferable), 2022, marker, graphite on watercolor paper, 25.5 x 40 inches

Nick Naber—The Built

“My work is concerned with the means through which architecture can address the body in ways that regulate social and psychological inclusion, exclusion, and observation and that expose systems of visual control. I draw on a history of architectural representations as, on one hand, tools of power and, on the other, as models for utopia, through an investigation of imagined environments informed by comprehensive investigations of art and philosophy.”

Margaret Inga Urias, Eons, Epochs & Eras / Now Is All the Time There May Be (detail), 2022, ink on paper, 22 x 30 inches

Margaret Inga Urias—The Universe

“My work tells the story of time, evolution, and dust. Rooted in research across the sciences, including planetary geology, evolutionary biology, cosmology, and astronomy, my work examines how we are born of dust, how we return to it, and how we are all forever connected through it. If examined closely enough, I believe dust could tell the story of everything that ever existed—simultaneously illustrating the what-was, the what-may-have-been, and the what-is yet-to-come.”

Christopher Fitzwater, Beach, 2022, oil on canvas, 62 x 48 x 1.5 inches

Christopher Fitzwater — The Self

“I most often work from photographs and reproductions of paintings. I find that, in the studio, the photo is subservient to the immediate experience of paint/painting. In this way, I’m able to create and destroy within what paint is capable of conveying. The whole of my process can be understood as an investigation of self and other, offering an experience of my interior life.”