Internationally Known, Locally Fresh

International Discoveries
October 25 - December 8
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 25, 6-9pm

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FotoFest creative directors chose nine artists for the exhibition, some of the best work they have recently encountered in their travels.

The exhibition’s artists are Chan-Hyo Bae (South Korea), John Chervinsky (U.S.), Kelly Flynn (U.S.), Roberto Fernández Ibáñez (Uruguay), Jesús Jiménez (Mexico/London), Lydia Panas (U.S.), Przemyslaw Pokrycki (Poland), Diego Ranea (Argentina), and Alessandra Sanguinetti (Argentina).

Alessandra Sanguinetti, The Necklace, 1999

"Chan-Hyo Bae's work reflects his feelings as an Asian immigrant in the West. Lydia Panas examines her family and community. Alessandra Sanguinetti profiles the relationship of two young children as they grow into adulthood. Diego Ranea takes an unconventional and abstract view of landscapes. Kelly Flynn's look at sexual iconography and gender roles is serious and funny. Przemyslaw Pokrycki documents rituals from birth to death. John Chervinsky's scientific schemata reflect his career as an engineer. Roberto Fernández Ibáñez addresses nature and the seasons through the pairing of haiku and equally poetic photographs. Jesús Jiménez brings a sense of play to the camera. All of these artists show serious attention to their subjects and a decidedly contemporary aesthetic."


Lydia Panas, Tatiana, 2005

Michael Bise- Death in October

Calling an exhibit that is filled with the images and demeanor of death Birthday is more than a little ironic. Check out the Moody Gallery exhibit HERE- but it is missing the best piece, a 15 foot drawing of a funeral service with pews filled with everyone the artist knows. Gael Stack, Aaron Parazette and Rachel Hecker are easy to spot.

Thinking about death and fucking too...

untitled, 2007

julia's parents are out of town, so we burned things

1. Defining space
= separation from American house and create my personal space

2. Putting TV and DVD
= Preparation by placing common electric machine

3. Watching DVD about reforming home
= Implication of my activity and referring to the tile of the piece

4. writing poem based on the DVD
= consuming the content of current topic, preserving tradition with modernism

5. cooking rice and putting red plum on it
= representation of my country’s flag

6. Writing Buddhism chanting
¬= One of religion that we have and also to worship for the dead and any kind of life going to decease

7. Eating rice and red plum
= Consuming my own culture by me who left my country for certain period of time

8. Worshipping for Shinto god
= Another religion to maintain social order or controls mythology and superstition

9. Burning the Buddhism chanting
= Worship for the deceased and sending the chanting for the dead who no longer exist in this world

10. read poem aloud
= Presentation of my thought about transition between tradition and modernism or cultural relationship between people and home, and etc…

ASS

i think that's a Peruvian mummy...

Picking on Dallas

Look like Texas to you?

How can I not? First off there is the ludicrous Bearfire Resort; then there is their logo, ripped off from Survivorman, and exposed HERE.

Best Westfest Pic Ever!

Dude. Nice Style.
pixeltopia

Weak

These pieces of crap are all over University of Houston and the internet too...

What makes Dr. Pepper think that they can ask for free art
from latino artists so they don't have to ask their
white graphic designers to mangle an ad campaign?
(sabrosura= tastiness)

"you could win a cash prize if your art is reduced to part of the
2008 Dr Pepper Hispanic Marketing Campaign"

Are latino and hispanic interchangeable? I don't think so...

Up Right Now, Skullage!

Lawndale's Dia de los Muertos exhibit of retablo tins is open for business today (no one else is open on a Monday); check it out before the $40 a pop gala and auction this Friday!

Tijuana Dia de los Muertos altar

Scrappy

As museums fill in the gaps in abstract expressionism's history we have gotten shows in town proclaiming the ascendancy of minor or forgotten painters. Terry Gilliam sauntered his way through town last spring (the rumor is more people came to the museum and shot straight downstairs for Robert Pruitt's solo exhibit) and now we will be graced by Mary Heilmann and her "deceptively simple, even offhand, approach to painting". What do you think of her paintings? Are they worth the attention? HERE is an article from 1993.

GRAFFITI, 1998


Joaquin's Close Out, 2006


All Night Movie, 1991


Sunday Morning, 1987


21st Century Fox, 1998

Heilmann's work was last in town for the POPulence show at the Blaffer Gallery. Her All Tomorrow's Parties exhibit (HERE) in Vienna is a good approximation of what the CAMH show might look like.

photo by sweety billy

Bashed by Bill! The Free Press Block Party takes a licking HERE.

Go West Young Man

Fort Wayne, Indiana native Bruce Nauman got to Cali as fast as he could. Within two years of completing a master's he had signed with dealer Leo Castelli and it was all a downhill slope to canonization from there. Listed in 2008 as the #1 living artist by artfacts.net, Nauman beat out Rauschenberg and Gerhard Richter for the arbitrary crown presented by a website. His most famous quote? Taken from the 60s neon sculpture Window or Wall Sign:

"The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths."

A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s
Menil Collection
Opens Wednesday, October 24, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Join the Menil for better than average wine and Lynn Wyatt's company this Wednesday for a chance to consider why this thinly veiled symbolist gained acclaim riding the wave of a dealer who shaped our postmodern artworld.

Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and William Wegman 60s videos on the lawn; free screening in the Menil Park on Saturday, October 27, 8 pm.

For Those About to Rock

The post that was here did not ruin the performance, I just wanted to pique interest. No details, just hot air- but I will bend to the will of others, no problems HERE.