Three good shows up at Alabama and Main!
I'll go back and get some pics of the paintings and more work- but for now here's the pics that ended up on my camera thanks to Elia Arce (I took some of 'em). Good turnout of parents and artists for the kids- spotted David McGee and Caroline Goeser...
CSAW openings next week... can't say I won't root for them but I hope these arent the last ones!
In the Main Gallery
Ten x Ten: A hundred times more than ever
A group exhibition of The University of Houston Graduate Sculpture Department opens at the Commerce Street Artists’ Warehouse. The show represents the unusually wide range of interests and directions being taken by the current batch of sculpture graduate students, who in turn reflect the growing diversity in today’s art world. It is a sort of “state of the department,” which has been under the direction of Professor Cory Wagner this fall semester. The exhibiting graduate candidates are: Joey Bender, Nancy Douthery, Woody Golden, Dennis Harper, Iskra Ivanova, Robyn Lehmer, Samantha Medellin, Richard Nix, Emily Sloan, and Keijiro Suzuki.
For further information contact Dennis Harper at: dlharper@uh.edu
Studio C and Studio F
Beyond the Expanded Field
Hope that rain doesn't come through til tomorrow!
Itinerary:
Bering & James: Holiday Yard Sale Art Box
Friends in a big group show! Proceed go to DePelchin Children's Center, bring a toy to donate.
3900 Block of Main
Inman brings Angela Fraliegh and Michael "I Wasn't in Spinal Tap" Jones McKean back to Houston; MKG, CTRL and Finesilver too.
The Big Block
Joan Wich has spun gold from the conventional wisdom straw- committing to selling art by U of Houston graduate painters and selling a lot of it... group show 2-5pm...
The Station
Bombastic video from Russian group AES+F
always a good party and good margaritas
The Joanna
I saw Jeanne and Reggie making a tree out of paper boobs last night...
Maggi Battalino no longer consults CSAW members or board members as to new artists coming into the building. You can be sure that she is carefully handpicking artist to try to counter her future removal from office.
Maggi in spite of having sent the by-laws to committee this past year has decided they are not valid. Though she regularly makes statements saying something is against policy, she refuses to disclose what that policy is.
She claims if we un-elect her and elect new representation she will have the owners give us 30 days notice.
Additionally Maggi claims to have been the sole rescuer of CSAW after previous member artists incurred a large debt to the owners of our building. Yet this is not true. The board and artist members chose to increase their monthly fees in order to pay back CSAWs debt. Each artist who stayed or joined helped pay back this debt. Artist members maintained the building. Maggi still collects the excess we agreed to pay (to pay off the previous debt) and uses it however she pleases with absolutely no accountability.
Because her behavior is unethical, illegal, eradicate, and hostile she is a liability to the owners as well as the current members. She should be removed from office. Unfortunately, the owners believe based on Maggi’s evaluation that it is the current set of artists (whom Maggi helped select) who are the problem.
It is not mutiny to expect an elected official to uphold their duties and account to the body that elected them. We have tried to handle this internal. It seems to me it is time to involve lawyers.
Citizens for Animal Prevention Celebrity Pause Gala chair Ratfink Regan couldn't stop smiling, and it wasn't just because of the massive amount of Botox in her face .
The joy came from disgracing the biggest CAP gala to date, with 8 million guests raising more than $500.
Ratfink Regan and animal haters took over the bathrooms of the Hilton Americas-Screwston, where "10 Rich Cocaine Addicts" were presented with their pets in "Châteaux des Paws" vignettes created by expert Chinese slave-labor designers. The pets were euthanized for their own good after their traumatic experience.
Each year, the honoree heavy petter spending the most money on cocaine is the winner, while the designer garnering the most votes from judges is allowed to leave their Chinese labor camp for a two day vacation in Belize. Celebrity Heavy Petter of the Year honors went to Lisa "Don't Call Me Shirley" Massey's mixed-breed Weezie McNasty. Jill "I'm Not on Probation" Gracely's severely handicapped Maltese, placed second.
The Elite Honoree competitors included Gracie "Roe" Cavnar, Debby "Longhorn Leghorn" Leighton, Carolyn "Fuck Farb" Mann, Iris "Tipple" McWilliams, Bruce "The Moustache" Padilla, Karan "The Linebacker" Robinson, Shawn "Frosted Tips" Stevens and Susan "Pit Bull" Vick. Serving as junior honorees were several people who didn't pay enough for me to mention them.
For as many years as we can remember, designer Xiao Peng again took the top "Châteaux des Paws" award, winning for his "My Dick in the Ruff" château for Elite Pornstars McWilliams and Cavnar. Peng faced competition from others at the camp, but managed to shiv several women and cut out Lee Wong's left eye.
The evening, which included a seven-course dinner of rare and endangered meats, herbal supplement auction and surprise entertainment by the Aristocrats, honored Diane and Jim Mattel, Ellen and Barney Kotex, Brenda Love and The Colonel and Barry Sanders. Channel 13's Don Nelson served the meal, introducing the endangered South Africa Quail wrapped in albino Bison bacon and the Haddock stuffed with Tiger penis. Vikki "Ben Dover" Vines took up the gavel as auctioneer.
From the classroom session by Amiri Baraka, November 17th. Video on view in Otabenga Jones' installation at the Menil Collection.
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