BOX 13 Artspace Presents
Fragile Truth || Jeff Forster
Grand Measures of Human Achievement || Cheryl Childress/Larry Robinson
Trophies || Anna Krachey
Generations || Tim Brown
The Water Series: Wave Event || Teresa O’Connor
Opening May 23, 2009, 7:00 – 9:30pm
On view through June 25, 2009
Houston, Texas: BOX 13 Artspace is pleased to present five exhibitions opening May 23, 2009, 7:00 – 9:30pm. In the downstairs Front Box Jeff Forster is creating a large-scale architectural installation using ceramic materials and processes in his exhibition Fragile Truth. In the downstairs Back Box, Grand Measures in Human Achievementpresents photographs by St. Louis artists Cheryl Childress and Larry Robinson, who are both working with realms of fantasy within the present cultural landscape. In the Upstairs Box, the exhibition Trophies, by Austin based photographer Anna Krachey, developed out of an exploration to identify where the energy to create and the impulse to shop intersect. In the Window Box, using the pastiche of flea markets and antique malls, Tim Brown stocks his would-be booth with leftover relics of his childhood for his installation Generations. Finally, in the Green Box, BOX 13 member, Teresa O’Connor presents new video work in the exhibition The Water Series: Wave Event. The exhibitions continue through June 25, 2009.
Downstairs Front BOX
Jeff Forster
Fragile Truth
Using ceramic materials and processes Jeff Forster creates spaces that address the fragility of our natural and urban environments. Fragile Truth juxtaposes traditional religious beliefs against those of his own with the intent of revering the temporal paradigm of history.
Jeff Forster received his BA in Art Education at St. John’s University, and his MFA in Ceramics at Southern Illinois University. He is on the National Council for Education of the Ceramic Arts and a member of the Clay Houston Organization. He has shown across the nation, including at The Art Studio Inc, Beaumont, TX, the Gallery at the Art Institute of Phoenix, Phoenix, AR, 18 Hands Gallery in Houston, TX, and Colaciello Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL. A recent Texas transplant, he is currently teaching ceramics at North Harris College in Houston.
Downstairs Back BOX
Cheryl Childress and Larry Robinson
Grand Measures in Human Achievement
Grand Measures in Human Achievement is an exhibition of photographs by St. Louis artists Cheryl Childress and Larry Robinson. While both artists focus on different issues in today’s society, both bodies of work parallel each other, working with realms of fantasy within the present cultural landscape, both visually and conceptually.
Childress’s work is an investigation into mankind’s need for control, his substitution of fiction for reality, and the ultimate failure in one’s search for a utopian destination. By staging petty acts of accomplishment, in junction with text excerpted from newspapers and crime testimonies, her work explores realms of fantasy and delusion while questioning the difference between the two.
Larry Robinson uses pop culture and media advertisement of fast food as a vehicle to explore the environmental impact of American agricultural production. By building fantastical sets of televisions and glowing candy colored corn in wooded areas, these media representations become fairytale-like, reflecting on the consumer daydream.
This exhibition at Box 13 Artspace is Childress and Robinson’s first exhibition together outside of the St. Louis, Mo Area. Both recently graduated from Webster University in 2007, and have exhibited in group exhibitions in the St. Louis Area. This is Larry Robinson’s first exhibition of his work outside of the St. Louis area, while Cheryl Childress recently had her first solo exhibition of work at Cactus Bra Space in San Antonio, TX.
Upstairs BOX
Anna Krachey
Trophies
The photographs that constitute Trophies developed out of an exploration to identify where the energy to create and the impulse to shop intersect. The images highlight what has become the homogeneity of craft and allude to the failure to foster creativity and originality in its simplest forms.
In 2008 Anna Krachey received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin after receiving a Post Baccalaureate Certificate from School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA in 2005. She attended the Book Arts workshop in 2003 at Penland School of Crafts, Asheville, NC and L’Atelier de Livre, Paris, France in 2001. Her work was recently shown at the Scope Art Fair in NY, NY as part of Okay Mountain Gallery. She was also part of Viewfinder: Emerging Texas Talent with Fotofest, at Houston Center for Photography. She has an upcoming show, with writer Daniel Boehl, at TESTSITE in Austin, TX. Anna is represented by Marty Walker Gallery in Dallas, TX.
Window BOX
Tim Brown
Generations
In Tim Brown's Generations, using the pastiche of flea markets and antique malls, the artist stocks his would-be booth with leftover relics of his childhood. Though nothing is actually for sale in this window display, a printed guide will lead you through the shelves and tables of wares, detailing the commodity of his younger life. Outside a mournful tune plays like an ode to the past.
Tim Brown, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, received his BFA from the University of Kansas in 1991. He currently resides in Austin, TX where he is a founding member, Curator, and Chief Financial Officer, of the artist run gallery Okay Mountain. He has recently shown at Green Papaya Art Project, Manila, The Philippines, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, MO, and Creative Research Laboratories, Austin, TX. In March of this year he had his first solo exhibition at Lawndale Art Center in Houston, TX.
Green Box
Teresa O’Connor
The Water Series
Wave Event
The water series are continuous loop videos with minimal to non-events. Intended to be hypnotic, the series have a similar repetitive audio track.
UP NEXT
July 18, 2009, 7-9:30 pm, (through August 20) BOX 13 Artspace Presents
Enchantment || Kia Neill, Lauren Obenour, and Emily Sloan
Oneself by oneself || Stephanie Toppin
Zen and the Indulgence of Environmental Destruction || Anthony Day
Objects of Desire ||Fidel Ordonez
Houston, Texas: BOX 13 Artspace is pleased to present four exhibitions opening July 18, 2009, 7:00 – 9:30pm. For this round of exhibitions, the spaces focus on Houston artists. In the downstairs Front Box is a group show curated by Rachel Hopper. In Enchantment, the natural landscape is reimagined by Kia Neill, Lauren Obenour, and Emily Sloan. In the downstairs Back Box, Oneself by oneself, will display an abstract self portrait in progress by Stephanie Toppin. In the Upstairs Box, the exhibition Zen and the Indulgence of Environmental Destruction, by artist Anthony Day, presents an installation of sculptures and paintings featuring brightly colored totems and other objects of meditation. In the Window Box, Box 13 member Fidel Ordonez presents Objects of Desire, a representation that is based on the most precious organ, the heart. The exhibitions continue through August 20, 2009.
Opening Reception July 18, 2009, 7:00-9:30pm
On view through August 20, 2009
Open Saturdays, 1-5pm
And by appointment
BOX 13 Artspace
Address: 6700 Harrisburg, Houston, TX 77009
Website: http://box13artspace.com/
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 1-5pm, and by appointment
6700 Harrisburg Blvd, Houston, TX 77011
ABOUT THE BOX
BOX 13 ArtSpace is an artist run nonprofit innovative environment for the creation and advancement of experimental contemporary art in Houston. BOX 13 artists create this environment through the offering of affordable workspaces for emerging and established artists, dedicating five interior spaces to the exhibition of artistic explorations, a window gallery for installations and an outdoor courtyard space. BOX 13 promotes dialogue among artists and the art community on current trends affecting the arts.
We take in new residents as studio spaces open up on an ongoing basis. We review new member aplications as a group. We evaluate applicants both on their work and on their ability and attitude to participate within the BOX 13 community.
We are currently accepting applications for new members see opportunity page for details.
The founding members of BOX 13 are Elaine Bradford, Woody Golden, Michael Henderson, Young-Min Kang, Kathy Kelley, Teresa O'Connor, Whitney Riley and Mat Wolff.
BOX 13 ArtSpace is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
BOX 13 ArtSpace relies on individual donors and its resident artists for funding to cultivate creation, appreciation and accessibility of contemporary experimental visual art within the community for its cultural enrichment. Please join us in this endeavor.
BOX 13 values
artistic experimentation and risk taking
colloboration
community
team work
transparency
self regulation
honesty-call your own foul