Memory and Disappearance: A New Show At the Chapel of Jimmy Ray Gallery
Memory and Disappearance invites us to consider what happens to people, places, objects, relationships, and experiences as they pass out of our immediate lives. What disappears physically may continue to exist in our memories, in the objects we preserve, in cultural traditions, and in the stories we tell.
The work of Meryl Truett, Edward Swift, Anado McLauchlin, Romeria Mancera, Javier Ornelas, Carlos Ramirez, and John Meyer offers a rich framework for exploring these questions. Through photography, assemblage, mosaic, painting, printmaking, found objects, and woodturning, each artist suggests a different way that art can preserve, transform, or recover traces of the past. John Dodge Meyer is a new addition to our collection of artists. John had a successful career as one of the highest profile turners in the world, appearing in top art shows, galleries, and Museums in the United States. Returning artists are showing new works.
John Dodge Meyer – Memory held in Material
Meyer transforms wood into vessels whose form reveals the grain, color, and the particular character of the material. The woodworker does not restore the tree’s life, but he gives its remaining material a new existence, a portrait of a life that are frozen in time
Meryl Truett – Excavating Memory
Truett’s mixed media work offers a way to think about memory as something we uncover rather than retrieve. Images, historical fragments, personal associations, and layered materials can bring overlooked stories back into view.
Edward Swift – Memory as a Private Archive
Swift’s assemblage approach, using unconventional materials, found objects, and his unusual wit, invites viewers to discover their own meanings; memory assembled from fragments. Placed together, the objects suggest the residue of a life whose meaning is not entirely visible.
Anado McLauchlin – Memory as a Living Accumulation
McLauchlin brought together mosaics, mirrors, found objects, religious imagery, personal references, and objects collected from different cultural worlds. His work makes disappearance visible through commemoration.
Romeria Mancera – The Cycles of Life
Mancera’s abstract work provides a way to consider memory as something living and changing. Organic forms transform; memories shift over time. Memory is not fixed; it changes, fades, grows, and reappears, much like the natural world.
Javier Ornelas – The Impression That Remains
Ornelas’s work as an engraver and cultural promoter offers a connection between artistic practice, the preservation of cultural memory, and magical realism. His process offers a metaphor for the way cultural knowledge can travel through images, symbols, and traditions.
Carlos Ramirez – The Passing of Moments
Ramirez’s mirrors and steer skulls offer an immediate encounter with memory and disappearance. His richly decorated mirrors record a reflection that exists only while the viewer occupies a particular position and then disappears as the viewer moves. His skulls transform an object associated with death into something beautiful, expressive, and celebratory.
Please join us for the opening of our new show. As usual, we will be celebrating with food, libations, music, and frivolity – a perfect way to start the holiday season.
Admission is free.
Location: The Chapel of Jimmy Ray Gallery, Temazcal 3, La Cieneguita, GTO, Mexico
Time: Saturday, November 28 from 1 to 5 PM
Website: chapelofjimmyraygallery.com
Hours & Contact Info
The Chapel of Jimmy Ray Gallery and the art compound is open for tours. Tours are at 10:30 on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Reservations are necessary and can be made by email at anado@madebyanado.com or by contacting us at +52 415 150-1461.
We will be closed December 24,25 and Dec 31, Jan 1.
From Centro Historico in San Miguel take Calle San Francisco which later becomes Calzada de La Estacion. Follow this street straight through the glorieta (traffic circle) and proceed to the train station. Follow the road as it winds to the left and crosses the railroad tracks. Take the asphalt road which winds to the right….follow this road through three curves and you will be on a straightaway to La Cieneguita. When you arrive in Cieneguita you will pass over three topes (speed bumps).
You will pass a large green sign pointing to Guanajuato to the left. DO NOT GO LEFT-Continue straight ahead 150 meters past that sign and you will see a small lane on the right. There is a small purple and yellow sign which reads Casa de Las Ranas and Chapel of Jimmy Ray marking the spot and pointing to the right. Take that turn and soon you will come to a small Church…take a half- right turn and follow the road up the hill parallel to the Church. The Gallery grounds begin behind the Church property…you will enter at the first gate on the left. If coming for a tour you will arrive in front of the large colorful home on the left side of the road….
Desde el Centro Histórico de San Miguel de Allende, toma la Calle San Francisco que después se convierte en Calzada de la Estación. Sigue sobre esta calle todo derecho hasta llegar a la glorieta y continúa en dirección a la estación de ferrocarril. Continúa sobre la carretera conforme agarra hacia la izquierda, pasando las vías. Toma entonces el camino de asfalto que va hacia la derecha.
Sigue sobre este camino pasando las tres curvas y te encontrarás en el camino directo a La Cieneguita. Cuando llegues a Cieneguita pasarás tres topes. Luego pasarás por donde está un letrero grande, verde, que señala a Guanajuato hacia la izquierda. NO VAYAS A LA IZQUIERDA – continúa derecho 150 metros pasando ese letrero y verás un caminito a la derecha. Hay un letrero pequeño, de color morado y amarillo, que dice Casa de Las Ranas / Chapel of Jimmy Ray…Da media vuelta hacia la derecha y sigue el camino hacia arriba, paralelo a la iglesia. El terreno de la Galería comienza detrás del terreno de la iglesia. Entrarás en la primera reja a la izquierda. Si vienes para un tour, llegarás frente a la casa grande y muy colorida en el lado izquierdo del camino.
The Chapel of Jimmy Ray Gallery was founded in 2012 as a vehicle to present the work of Anado McLauchlin along with select artists that Anado has bonded with on a visual and oftentimes emotional level. The Gallery is located 5 kilometers from San Miguel de Allende at the Casa de Las Ranas compound in the small town of La Ceieneguita. This is an artist friendly gallery dedicated to the “road less travelled”.