Fine Art America

Click this link for information about our upcoming show:

http://fineartamerica.com/events/bryan-blankenship-metes-and-bounds.html

John Sosh - Very Cool

John Sosh is a successful abstract painter that Gallery Fifty Six is very proud of.  Please turn the volume
up as you watch this slide show of  his work:

http://animoto.com/play/Z79uojfkKVmG0A3EDfYxsg

Bryan's Coming!

Opening on July 8th, Bryan Blankenship will present his colorful wall pieces made of painted masonite pieces.

Read the Review

The June 17th issue of the Commercial Appeal's GO MEMPHIS magazine has a review by Fredrick Koeppel of Niles Wallace's show at Gallery Fifty Six.

Click here to read the article:
http://www.gomemphis.com/news/2011/jun/16/art-vs-craft-misses-point-in-sticks/

Looking Ahead To July

Bryan Blankenship will present his creative work at the gallery during the month of July.

Bryan Blankenship was born in West Plains, Missouri in 1965. He currently lives and works in Memphis, Tennessee, where he is the 3-D Building Technician for the Department of Art at the University of Memphis. His sculptures, paintings, and pottery have been exhibited both locally and nationally. He has been working as a functional potter for 20 years, and is a member of the Memphis Potters’ Guild.

1994 B.F.A. Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas
1998 M.A. Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas

2000 M.F.A. University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee

We look forward to Bryan's exhibition of his recent work.

Memphis Flyer Article - Niles Wallace Review

Click below to read the review of Niles Wallace's show by writer Carol Knowles.

Be sure to scroll down to the bottom.

http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/art/Content?oid=1104341

or read it here:

Through June 30th

Some of the most sensual and iconic works of Niles Wallace's career are currently on view in his Gallery Fifty Six exhibition "Sticks and Stones." Dozens of deliberately misshapen stark-white ceramic bowls fill the top shelves of Wallace's 8-foot-tall Collection Cabinet. Fired with a single glaze, Wallace's colors are sometimes as crisp as the white and black halves of a yin-yang symbol, sometimes as nuanced as tea stains against hairline cracks in a porcelain cup, sometimes as sleek as the petal of a rose.

On the bottom shelves, Wallace places one plastic container inside another and warps both bowls with a heat gun. These surprisingly beautiful bowls writhe, reach out, and fold back upon themselves — sometimes tortuously, sometimes with delicate grace. These asymmetrical, shape-shifting works of art speak to every aspect of the creative process — ideas gestating, art and life evolving, and imagination as malleable as molten plastic.



Fantastic Opening for Niles Wallace

Click Here To See An Animated Side Show http://animoto.com/play/17C3GGxWz5eyxJ0mDWffJQ

Niles Wallace reception photos.

TONIGHT - FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2011

Be sure to attend the reception tonight for NILES WALLACE.  His show is titled "Sticks and Stones (one thing follows another). The reception is at Gallery Fifty Six, 2256 Central Ave., Memphis, TN. from 5 until 8 pm.  The public is invited.

Simple and Complex

From "Sticks and Stones" by Niles Wallace

Ceramist Niles Wallace has transformed Gallery Fifty Six.  His exhibit is both

simple and complex, as well as beautiful. 

Niles has created a wall of porcelain 'blossoms' in one room, and a wall of delicate transparent 'blossoms' in another .

He has created a mysterious 'China cabinet' composed of lacy plates and biomorphic 'bowls'.  The artist has

used the beautiful wood of the crepe myrtle into four complex sculptures.

Make it a point to see the show and meet the artist on Friday, June 3, 2011 from 5 to 8 PM.