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January 23 – February 28, 2009 In the space of absence | Kathy Kelley John M. O'Quinn Gallery “This project is composed of a series of visual explorations toying with the ideas of continuous consumption, the stunting of growth via unending wanting, the never ending suckling of consumer goods without fulfillment, in conjunction with some of Melanie Klein's object relations theory on personality development, envy and gratitude or lack thereof, her referencing of the experience of breast feeding as being determinant in much about who a person becomes (old theory coming on the heals of Freud but interesting). The work is a visceral response to this dissection of the incessant wanting of consumer culture on the self with each element becoming referential of the shadow self.” – Kathy Kelley |
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found sound (Public Music Reconnaissance) | Patrick Renner Mezzanine Gallery Patrick Renner will present an installation consisting of found telephone poles with attached sound-harvesting devices. These mechanisms, based on the function of the standard music box, will be activated by all the leftover nails, staples, and hardware used to hang public notices of garage sales, lost pets, property listings, et al. The random melody the devices produce is the reinterpretation of imbedded information that we see all the time as we pass through the urban landscape. |
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Highway 71 Revisited | Barry Stone Grace R. Cavnar Gallery Highway 71 Revisited is ongoing and multifaceted project. The series includes photographs of Stone’s family, strangers under highways, fake flowers, abstracted galaxies made from flour, field recordings, and collage. Through the juxtaposition of many different kinds of imagery and methodologies, Stone creates a malleable language depicting a sense of place, and the artist’s place within it. Stone’s goal is not to coolly document the margins of highway culture, but rather to bring a personal and poetic point of view. In this way his picture-making builds a symbolic system, a framework for the perception of the world or a meditation on a set of ideas. |
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Battle Play Set | Aram Nagle Project Space Aram Nagle transforms the Project Space into a jungle-gym-battle-ground-parody of the Iraq War. Creating child size toy army men and Iraqi insurgent weeble wobble soldiers, Nagle constructs an interactive diorama depicting a slice of life for the men and women of all nationalities in Iraq. The subject matter's seriousness is accentuated by portraying it in innocent, child like and pop imagery. |
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Museum Educators Open House | January 24, 2009 Lawndale Art Center will operate a booth hosted by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for Houston Area educators. Area museums will provide information for educators about activities, events, group visits and other educational programs. For more information or to register, please visit www.houstonmuseumdistrict.org |
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March 13 – April 18, 2009 Ritual Prototypes for the Afterlife | Dennis Harper John M. O'Quinn Gallery Ritual Prototypes for the Afterlife is a sculpture installation meant to evoke the interior of a spacious tomb within which monumental archetypal artifacts representing the needs and desires of one traveling to the next realm are prescriptively arranged. The furnishings suggest ritual preparations of an aggressive and indulgent culture anticipating a hereafter purportedly lacking in the activities and amenities it has grown accustomed to in life—sex, entertainment, and high-speed internet. Discrepancies between secular and religious expectations are examined by presenting them in the context of an ancient culture that made little distinction between secular and religious life. Ritual artifacts provide a common point of reference. The video component, while helping to establish the context of the installation, presents a narrative that examines the extent to which culture and circumstance shape the life of an individual. |
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Ta Marmaruga | David Waddell & Kelly Ulcak Mezzanine Gallery Ta Marmaruga, loosely translated from the ancient Greek, describes the dazzling things that an escaped prisoner encounters in Allegory of the Cave from Plato’s Republic. Illustrated in this tale is the suggestion of seeing the enlightened truths lying under the apparent surface of things and the notion that education is not only the input of knowledge into empty minds but making people realize that which they already know. This project is an experimental collaboration; beginning with a simple premise and a literal narrative. Combining Ulcak’s quirky narratives and drawing style with Waddell’s abstracted and painterly stop-motions these two come together to attempt to tell a story about knowledge and knowing. |
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The Listening Post | Tim Brown Grace R. Cavnar Gallery The Listening Post takes the viewer into the world of the contemporary call center, where the anonymous is personal and the personal is anonymous. Part illustrative documentation, part confessional, part sociological experiment, The Listening Post explores the contrast between the isolated and hermetic environment of the call center and the human and sometimes messy connection between caller and operator. |
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Silent Topographies | Brent Fogt Project Space Silent Topographies is an exhibition of highly detailed drawings that explore growth and metamorphosis at both the micro and macro levels. These drawings borrow from a wide range of visual imagery, including maps, aerial photography, plants and sixties-era psychedelic patterns. The exhibition invites viewers to explore these complex micro and macro worlds from vantage points both close and far. |
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Lawndale Art Center's 14th Annual 20th Century Modern Market O'Quinn, Cavnar and Mezzanine Galleries
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