Opening Reception: Saturday, February 29th, 12:00 - 4:00 PM
Open Saturdays and Sundays 12:00 - 4:00 PM and by appointment. On view February 29th through March 8th.
The Tack Room
4690 Live Oak Canyon Road
La Verne, CA 91750
Munro Galloway
California House
Esther McCoy once observed that “California changes everyone." I sense this vividly in my recent work. I started drawing from life three years ago, after moving to Southern California. The drawings are based on everyday life: a table, a window, a bookshelf, a room, a family, a house. As McCoy writes in “The California House...How It Started,” “the builders, intuitive rather than trained, had a knowledge of climate control, indoor-outdoor relationships, and site planning, which came to them firsthand.” My drawings evolve intuitively, spaces and objects transform and shift location. Interiors become exteriors, figures emerge and disappear. The transformation can also be physical, when a fragment of one drawing is collaged into another. The drawings are a prompt for beginning a painting. In the paintings I'm trying to create lived spaces. Not a representation of life, but life as we experience it—through our sense of space, movement, and touch. I want the colors in the paintings to exude a specific temperature or to evoke a time of day, and for the architecture and scale to produce a feeling of proximity or distance. Here in the Tack Room the drawings and paintings occupy a California House, an indoor-outdoor space, which has been adapted to its site by Kari and Michael.
Munro Galloway
Biography
Munro Galloway is an artist based in Redlands, CA. Past solo exhibitions include “Green River” at Murray Guy, New York, “Chairs Missing” at Studio 10 in Brooklyn, New York, and “Four Years” at the University of Redlands Art Gallery. His work is currently on view in the group exhibition “Someone Else’s Ghost” at MiM Gallery, Los Angeles, and will be included in the exhibition “Dust: plates of the present” in October 2020, at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, France. He is Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Redlands.