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Celia Eberle: Unintended Garden February 24 – March 31, 2018

Celia Eberle: Unintended Garden
February 24 – March 31, 2018

Celia Eberle: Unintended Garden February 24 – March 31, 2018

Celia Eberle: Unintended Garden
February 24 – March 31, 2018

Celia Eberle: Unintended Garden February 24 – March 31, 2018

Celia Eberle: Unintended Garden
February 24 – March 31, 2018

Celia Eberle: Unintended Garden February 24 – March 31, 2018

Celia Eberle: Unintended Garden
February 24 – March 31, 2018

Celia Eberle, Hermit's Grotto, 2016

Celia Eberle

Hermit's Grotto, 2016

Baroque pearls, concrete, coral, shell, wood

44h x 12w x 15d in

CE058

Celia Eberle, Moss Grotto, 2016

Celia Eberle

Moss Grotto, 2016

glazed ceramic, steel, nail polish, bone, copper

84h x 72w x 24d in

CE059

Celia Eberle, Neptune, 2016

Celia Eberle

Neptune, 2016

driftwood, coral

37h x 26w x 7.50d in

CE065

Celia Eberle, Breathless, 2017

Celia Eberle

Breathless, 2017

glazed ceramic, nail polish

dimensions vary

CE066

Celia Eberle, Specter, 2017

Celia Eberle

Specter, 2017

carved bone

dimensions vary

CE067

Celia Eberle, Flowers for the Grotto, 2017

Celia Eberle

Flowers for the Grotto, 2017

carved bone and copper

dimensions vary

CE068

Celia Eberle, Black Sky, 2018

Celia Eberle

Black Sky, 2018

jet

dimensions variable

CE072

Celia Eberle, Voiceless Series

Celia Eberle

Voiceless Series
(Bundles, Sunflowers, Calla Lillies), 2018

ceramic and copper

dimensions vary

CE069

Press Release

Cris Worley is proud to present our third solo exhibition of Dallas-based artist Celia Eberle. Unintended Garden opens with an artist’s reception Saturday, February 24, from 5-8pm, and will run through March 31, 2018. The artist will be in attendance at the opening reception. 

Throughout her 30+ year career, Celia Eberle’s work has reflected eternal themes that pervade the course of time. With almost childlike innocence, history repeats itself. All of the knowledge we have acquired over the years cannot seem to stop us from our basic instincts. The Unintended Garden looks at man’s relationship with his subconscious self, and in turn, with nature.

Eberle expands on man’s fateful relationship with nature in works like, “Moss Grotto”, a large-scale, ceramic “cavern” intended to provide respite for contemplation. Its shaggy, green glaze evokes dampness from an invisible source. The figure of “Neptune,” acts as a physical chimera of mythologies, conflating classical and Christian motifs into one “idol.” Themes of fetishism, loot, and plunder are underscored by the use of natural and often precious materials, and further illuminating our conflicting relationship of simultaneously worshipping and destroying mother nature. The Unintended Garden, is an elegy for processing this paradox.

Celia Eberle has exhibited extensively throughout Texas as well as in Chicago, New York and Oregon. She was invited to first exhibit “Moss Grotto” at the Silos during Sculpture Month Houston in the summer of 2017. In 2015, she received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Recipient. Likewise, she was an inaugural recipient of the Nasher Sculpture Center Artist Microgrant. In 2014, Eberle’s mid-career retrospective, In the Garden of Ozymandias, debuted at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas. Her work is currently in the collections of: The Dallas Museum of Art, the J. Wayne Stark University Gallery at Texas A&M, and the Longview Museum of Fine Arts

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