FIONA BUCHANAN / TED MINEO
TRAIN DREAMS

NOVEMBER 6 - DECEMBER 22, 2023

EVENTS

RECEPTION
Friday, December 8, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm 
Wege Gallery 

GALLERY TALKS WITH FIONA BUCHANAN & TED MINEO
Saturday, December 9, 10:00 am CT - 12:00 pm CT
Wege Gallery
In conjunction with the Wege Gallery exhibition TRAIN DREAMS, Fiona Buchanan and Ted Mineo will speak about their work in the exhibition.

TRAIN DREAMS brings together the work of Fiona Buchanan and Ted Mineo. Departing from Buchanan’s painting in the exhibition of the same name, the artists’ approaches diverge in response to the concept of the exhibition’s title.  

In Buchanan’s oil paintings, subtly surreal landscapes are pictured, constructed from memory and conveying a sense of yearning within the artist. In her work, the train is a noun--the vehicle which passes through the New England and East coast inspired worlds. The train is not visible, but the notion of the artist’s body traversing through her collected memories becomes apparent. The landscapes emit an ethereal quality, more allegiant to the way things are remembered, rather than the way they are observed. 

Ted Mineo’s drawings in the exhibition present the idea of TRAIN DREAMS with a different linguistic structure--train is a verb--to coax into a shape, guide or discipline. Mineo’s drawings in the exhibition depict invented scenarios in medical spaces. The shallow trays in the intricate works maximize their versatility, functioning as containers that display surgical tools and organic matter and as shallow stages within the image that allow the artist to test out sculptural and compositional ideas within the work.  

In TRAIN DREAMS, the artists present a set of stirring images that gently rhyme across different visual languages and subject matter. In Mineo’s quest to shift his own perception, Train Dreams becomes a self-directed mandate. Buchanan’s Train Dreams illuminate the fleeting passage and subjective quality of her pastoral reveries. 

(words that are nouns and verbs are emboldened)