VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

Hooks-Epstein Galleries will proudly open the New Year with an exhibition of assemblages by John Mark Sager. The exhibition opens with a reception for the artist on Saturday, January 17, 2009, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. The exhibition will continue through February 14, 2009.

In The Bookkeeper, Sager is exploring his task as an artist to "tell his tale simply." Literature, music and architecture have always been contributing factors in his assemblages. Sager states, "Though I see great fragmentation in the world today, I also see interdependence and the need to become one, to think globally."

John Mark Sager is an Austin based artist. He received his BA from Texas Lutheran University in Seguin. Hooks-Epstein Galleries has represented him for 15 years and The Bookkeeper will be his 5th solo show. Sager's work has been exhibited in New Zealand, Oregon, New Mexico and Washington D.C., as well as Texas. He has received 16 jurors' awards, including a major award from the McKinney Avenue Contemporary Museum in Dallas, "Best in Show" at the Waco Art Center and two purchase awards from Concordia University at Austin. In 2007 and 2008, he was one of 40 artists selected to display work at the Austin City Hall. In 2006, his work was included in the Albuquerque Museum's Biennial Southwest '06 exhibit and catalog.

John Mark Sager's The Bookkeeper will continue through February 14, 2009.

There will be a "Lite Lunch" and Gallery Talk with the artist on Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 12:30 pm.

Pictured:  The City of Numbered Days, 2008, Assemblage.