Jed Foronda & Emily Link – False Face High
October 1 – November 5, 2011
Jed Foronda & Emily Link
False Face High
Upstairs BOX
False Face High is a series of new work from Jed Foronda and Emily Link. Through installation, sculpture and 2D works, Foronda and Link articulate shared cultural apprehensions in tandem.
Jed Foronda’s work is influenced by notions of identity through personal history and daily observations. These ideas are portrayed through an array of unconventional sources to the viewer. Emily Link works to expand upon existing myths and legends to create another dimensional layer that stems from her experiences. In these legends, she acts as Shaman; the expert of their origins. Link’s work is part of an ongoing series of works dedicated to the excavation and reinterpretation of personal narratives through the employment of soft sculpture forms and recurring characters, illustrative drawings, and hand-crafted artifacts.
Sentition – Joe Meiser
August 6 – September 10, 2011
Downstairs Front BOX
Sentition
Joe Meiser
“Our human perceptions and faculties are limited, allowing us only a partial understanding of the world around us. Many of our questions about the true nature of things cannot be answered conclusively, and yet, humans have a fantastic tradition of explaining the unknown. These explanations can offer us comfort, and can make it possible to be at ease with a world which might otherwise overwhelm us. The human tendency to mythologize is both the subject and strategy of my work-while analyzing our compulsion to create metaphysical narratives, I simultaneously weave my own.
“Our physical bodies are limited and impermanent, and in humanity I observe a universal desire to transcend these limitations, whether it is through the cultivation of metaphysical beliefs, or the modification and augmentation of the physical body. The body feels quite permanent to its owner, but it is actually a temporary material object. Each owner of a body is well acquainted with, and necessarily bound up in the physical. My interest in sculpture is connected with my acute awareness of the physicality of my existence. Sculpture provides a means for me to solidify my thoughts materially, with a broad range of motions that are often physically challenging.
Response – Culture Laboratory
August 6 – September 10, 2011
Downstairs Back BOX
Response
Culture Laboratory in collaboration with Noah Simblist
Artist and writer, Noah Simblist, has offered a statement to the members of Culture Laboratory Collective: ”I am writing this (self reflexive) sentence but it is writing you.” In “Response” the artists have each taken a word from the statement and developed art, interpreting and elaborating on their fragment of the sentence.
The exhibition pinpoints the individuality of the participating artists and their localized attempts to remain part of the larger group discussion, while inversely opening the artist community to influence from an outside source. The exhibit allows multiple interpretations and relational aesthetics, favoring the complexity of individuation and community vitality over homogenization.
A version of “Response” in collaboration with Ben Lewis of “Art Safari,” London, was held at Richland College, Dallas in early 2011. The success of the exhibit prompted another collaborative effort to further explore the discourse and relation of object to context.
Trigger – Jonathan C. Leach
August 6 – September 10, 2011
Window BOX
Trigger
Jonathan C. Leach
As we drive on highways through the city, the blur of the surrounding landscape becomes streamlined and unnoticed with the exception of bold adverts and vibrant warning signs. The signs that caution and direct us instill a confidence in us that guides us on a path as natural as if were hiking on a trail through the woods. This installation is inspired by the impulses triggered within us by these roadside patterns and colors. I exploit this vibrant visual language to guide the viewer through the work, but the way I construct the painting allows that direction to be questioned and subverted.
Nohegan East
August 6 – September 10, 2011
Upstairs BOX
Nohegan East
Nohegan is an art-making weekend with a focus on community. Thus far, the event has brought together hundreds of Texas-based artists for a weekend of art making inspired by the summer camp experience of our collective youths. The original 4-day/3-night event was held in 2006 at McKinney Falls State Park, about 30 miles outside of Austin, Texas led by Director of Operations, Nancy. After 4 successful years in Austin, Nohegan headed east. Nohegan East was born in 2010, and was inspired by the original Nohegan and the many friendships made at McKinney Falls.
In the beginning of June, Nohegan East took place at a private ranch outside of Brenham, TX. Nohegan East 2011 brought together 27 artists from Houston and Austin for camping, swimming, art making, friendships and, most importantly, fun. After her hiatus in 2010, 2011 saw the return of Nancy. Funded in part by The Idea Fund, Nohegan East was able to award twelve campers funds to lead workshops and activities while at camp. The activities ranged from blanket-fort building to cyanotypes. They even included helpful artist skills such as how to pack your artwork, and how to publish a book. Some workshops only survive in memories and photographs, while others produced amazing artifacts such as magic stixs and personal caricatures. Selections from these items and more will be on display in the exhibition at Box 13 ArtSpace. The camp was also the backdrop for the filming of the first ever music video for Nohegan born, PM Dawn cover band, AM Sunset. Their video will have its world premiere at the exhibition.
This exhibitions features select works made by Nohegan East participants:
Seth Alverson, Brit Barton, Elaine Bradford, Cole Carter, Erin Curtis, Sasha Dela, Bren Gorman, Rachel Hooper, Anna Krachey,Jonathan Leach, Emily Link, Dean Liscum, Caitlin McCollom, Daniel McFarlane, Paul Middendorf, Gene Morgan, Dennis Nance, Nancy Pangallo, Ryan Perry, Mikey Pomeroy, Carlos Rosales-Silva, Timothy Sanders, Jenny Schlief, Xochi Solis, Emily Sydnor, Laura Uhlir and Raymond Uhlir
Nohegan East 2011 is supported in part by The Idea Fund!
Not Tourists – Dumitru Gorzo & Tudor Mitroi
June 18 – July 23, 2011
Downstairs Front BOX
Not Tourists
Dumitru Gorzo & Tudor Mitroi
Not Tourists intends to focus on people and places as an expression of the complexity of human experience. Gorzo’s work focuses on people as they relate to a variety of places and the artist’s relationship with them. Mitroi’s work constructs places based on maps, found geographies and imagery of both personal and historical significance, such as those of air raids over Romania during WW2.
Gorzo’s paintings focus on people: those he has seen around him (peasants from his ancient native village, or anonymous inhabitants of big cities like Bucharest, Istanbul, or New York), as well as those from the pages of Romanian art and history, old and new. Mitroi explores places in his paintings that become objects with irregular contours based on a variety of sources. They are containers that condense personal experiences into maps combining disparate locations, the randomness of the immediate environment, and personal and historical imagery.
Both artists are aware of their status: at once participants and spectators to different cultures, trapped between mainstream and periphery, past and present.
The Clearing – Joey Fauerso
June 18 – July 23, 2011
Downstairs Back BOX
The Clearing
Joey Fauerso
“Over the last few years I have become interested in the dominant themes of Romanticism in the literary and visual arts, and how these themes, including nature, imagination, erotic love, and the development of self, are influenced and in many cases defined by gender. A lot of my work attempts to re-frame the historical gendering of nature as feminine. In a recent series of watercolors on paper, anthropomorphized landscapes depict intimate acts of dominance and submission, dissolving the boundaries between “male” and “female” “inside” and “outside”.
Jenny Schlief Stock Photography: From the Woman Series
June 18 – July 23, 2011
Window BOX
Jenny Schlief Stock Photography: From the Woman Series
Jenny Schlief
Jenny Schlief Stock Photography is an ongoing project where Jenny Schlief assumes the role of the identity-less models in everyday situations sold for companies to use in a variety of promotional uses. This particular series is based on a search in shutterstock and istockphoto called “fun woman.” The photos will be available on flash drive and online through these websites. Photography by Jenny Antill.
Gawd parents: I am real. – Cody Ledvina
June 18 – July 23, 2011
Upstairs BOX
Gawd parents: I am real.
Cody Ledvina
“I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I love the Views’ ‘Hot Topics’. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition. I want the viewer to have a heightened sense of not ennui, not tedium, but the strangeness of repetition.
“Invention, movement, entertainment, sincere excitement about life, sincere confusion about meaning, and competition are major themes as well.”
- Cody Ledvina
BOX of Curiosities – Portable On Demand Art Project
Houston Arts Alliance, American Association of Museums (AAM), PODS Houston and Discovery Green present the Portable On Demand Art Project (PODA). The P.O.D.A. Project is a temporary public art exhibition featuring the work of Aerosol Warfare, BOX 13 ArtSpace, Jillian Conrad, The Joanna, Lynne McCabe, Gabriel Martinez, Metalab, and Anthony Shumate. Each artist or collective of artists has uniquely transformed a PODS® container into a work of art.
BOX 13 ArtSpace artists Heather Bause, Elaine Bradford, Dennis Harper, Michael Henderson, Kathy Kelley, Emily Link , David McClain, Tudor Mitroi, Dennis Nance, Kia Neill, Mark Ponder, Jenny Schlief, Emily Sloan and Maria Smits transformed their PODS container unit into a Box of Curiosities. Artists worked collaboratively and independently to create a time capsule of culturally significant artifactsreferencing both true and imagined knowledge of local history, science, geography, space exploration and beyond. The installation explores the role of museum collections and their influence on artistic practice while introducing visitors to the vibrant East End Houston art community at BOX 13 ArtSpace.
Created in conjunction with the 2011 American Association of Museums (AAM) Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo™ and in partnership with PODS Houston, the City of Houston, Discovery Green and the Houston Arts Alliance, the P.O.D.A. project provides a non-traditional platform for artists to explore the cultural, ecological, political, scientific and socio-economic forces shaping Houston’s aspirations for the future, and showcases our city as a vibrant arts and cultural capital and museum mecca for locals and visitors alike.
The P.O.D.A. Project was first revealed on May 19, 2011 at Discovery Green and after six weeks at the park the containers were moved to six Neighborhood Centers, Inc. locations throughout Houston through the end of 2011. The P.O.D.A. Project is generously funded by PODS Houston and a grant from the City of Houston’s Special Initiative Grant Program through the Houston Arts Alliance and Houston Museum District Association.
For more information, please visit www.portableondemandartproject.com.
BOX of Curiosities Venues:
Discovery Green
Cleveland-Ripley Neighborhood Center
Ripley House Neighborhood Center
Friendswood Public Library
Houston Fine Art Fair
University of Houston