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BOXer artists head north for residency programs.

For the month of May, Kia Neill will be enjoying the mountains, snowfall and abundant studio time while at the Tin Shop residency in Breckenridge, Colorado. She's sorry to miss the next Box13 reception as her "Boulder" installation will debut its next phase of evolution. Check it out!

Kathy Kelley, will be headed to Connecticut to the artist enclave i-park for a one month residency. She'll be sewing tubes into tree canopies on site. She is looking forward to some cool weather and shade.

BOX 13 Artspace
Presented

Exhibitions on view March 13- April 15, 2010
Opening Reception March 13, 7:00-9:30pm
Open Saturdays, 1-5pm and by appointment

Downstairs & Upstairs BOXes
Panta Rei - Leigh Brodie, Elizabeth Chiles, Anna Krachey, Jessica Mallios, Sarah Murphy, Mike Osborne, Jason Reed, Ben Ruggiero, Adam Schreiber, Susan Scafati Shahan, and Barry Stone

Installation BOX
Boulder - Kia Neill

Closet Box Gallery
From the Forge - Emily Link

Red White Yellow
HEADSPACE - Ryan Lauderdale

The Kenmore Ice Box
Ink - Michael Brims

Houston, Texas - BOX 13 Artspace is pleased to present five exhibitions opening March 13, 2010. In conjunction with Fotofest 2010 the work of eleven Austin photographers will be presented in the exhibition Panta Rei in the upstairs and downstairs main gallery spaces. The artists in this group exhibition utilize a diverse set of methodologies bound by their exploration of contemporary and historical practices of photography. The upstairs long-term Installation Box will feature the installation Boulder by BOX 13 member Kia Neill.  Fresh off exhibitions at Lawndale Art Center and Women and Their Work, Neill will install an environment that “will be something to visit again and again as its theatrics will evolve throughout the 6-month exhibition period.” In the Closet Box Gallery, Box13 member Emily Link will create a diorama pertaining to one of the few items of legend that still exists readily in North American culture in From the Forge. For the second show in the Red White Yellow video gallery, Ryan Lauderdale, another Austinite, continues his self reflective archaeological vision quest through video, digital prints, and sculptures of relics and artifacts of his "sacred" juvenilia in HEADSPACE. And in our newest and smallest exhibition space, The Kenmore Ice Box, Michael Brims presents Ink. In the 6”/6”/10” space he will show a tiny video of a partial portrait. The exhibitions continue through April 15, 2010. An opening reception will be held on Saturday March 13, 2010 from 7:00-9:30 pm.

 

Downstairs and Upstairs BOXes
Panta Rei
Leigh Brodie, Elizabeth Chiles, Anna Krachey, Jessica Mallios, Sarah Murphy, Mike Osborne, Jason Reed, Ben Ruggiero, Adam Schreiber, Susan Scafati Shahan, and Barry Stone

In conjunction with Fotofest, Panta Rei is an exhibition featuring eleven photographers from Austin, Texas who meet regularly to share and discuss images. Panta rei, translated from the Greek, means “everything flows.” Thought to be first uttered by Heraclitus, panta rei describes a worldview of things in constant flux, famously positing that one can never step in the same river twice.
Artists in the exhibition include: Ben Ruggiero, Susan Scafati Shahan, Leigh Brodie,
Jason Reed, Mike Osborne, Barry Stone, Adam Schreiber, Jessica Mallios, Sarah Murphy, Anna Krachey, and Elizabeth Chiles. These artists utilize a diverse set of methodologies bound by their exploration of contemporary and historical practices of photography.  All the artists live and work in Austin.
For more information about the artists, please visit:
http://charminglands.blogspot.com/2010/02/box-13-for-fotofest-2010.html

Installation BOX
Boulder
Kia Neill

Through sculpture and installation, Kia Neill creates embellished simulations of nature. She is drawn to extraordinary, almost extraterrestrial landscapes, such as caves and coral reefs, as well as the diorama of miniature collectable counterparts that serve in household aquariums, gardens, souvenir cases. With her installations, Neill's aim is not a realistic replication, but to place emphasis on gaudy or absurd embellishment so to render an enhanced synthetic ideal. The installation Boulder will fill the gallery as though a gigantic rock has plopped itself in the space. Within the boulder form, holds an interior chamber illuminated with crystals, mystical plants, and other obscure glittery forms. The environment will be something to visit again and again as its theatrics will evolve throughout the 6-month exhibition period.

Native to Chicago Illinois metropolitan area, Kia Neill received her BFA from The Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus Ohio, and her MFA from The University of California in San Diego. Currently, she resides in Houston Texas. Recent exhibitions include the solo exhibition “Grotto” at Lawndale Art Center in Houston, and the solo exhibition “Terrain” at Women & Their Work in Austin. Neill is a 2009 Houston Art Alliance Individual Artist Grant recipient.  She has exhibited nationally at venues including the LA Design Center and Acuna Hansen, Los Angeles, CA; Limbo Fine Arts, San Diego, CA; Arthouse, Austin, TX; and Diverseworks, Houston, TX.
http://www.kianeill.com

Closet BOX
From the Forge
Emily Link

Our lives become folklore, as each time a memory is recalled, it is rewritten. Emily Link works to expand upon existing myths and legends to create another dimensional layer that stems from her life experiences. In these legends, she acts as Shaman; the expert of their origins. From the Forge is part of an ongoing series of works dedicated to the excavation and reinterpretation of personal narratives. For the Closet BOX, Link will create a diorama pertaining to one of the few items of legend that still exists readily in North American culture.

Born in Syracuse, NY, in 1985 and raised in rural Pennsylvania, Emily Link spent her youth immersed in wilderness, remnants of the Civil War and Native American legend. Since being transplanted to Texas, she has worked to build an enriched cultural past in an environment that exists only for the future. In 2008 she received her BFA from the University of Houston. Emily Link is currently based in Houston, TX, working from her studio at BOX13 ArtSpace. 
http://www.flickr.com/eelink

Red White Yellow
HEADSPACE
Ryan Lauderdale

As a child in rural Oklahoma, life consisted of very little in the form of cultural stimulus. Outside of the hallways of high-school, church and music offered opposite paths towards a cultural identity. Re-defining oneself took invention and appropriation. This resulting identity, and the intersection of religious repentance and youth rebellion, has become a central tenant in Lauderdale's work.
For this exhibition, Lauderdale continues his self reflective archaeological vision quest through video, digital prints, and sculptures of relics and artifacts of his "sacred" juvenilia. With the current economic and political state looking progressively bleak, sorting through his naive past helps to understand and make sense of what may come to be.
http://vimeo.com/user814857
For more information, please visit: http://redwhiteyellow.com/

The Kenmore Icebox
Ink
Michael Brims

Michael Brims' exhibition consists of a video of a partial portrait which appears more like a still image. Nothing changes in the portrait, except for the occasional movement of the eye. Contrast exists in the amount of detail conveyed through the use of High Definition video in comparison to the ambiguity of the portrait. The title Ink is a word game to be played with by the audience, tying into the notion of ambiguity.
http://www.michaelbrims.info./
For more information please visit: http://the-kenmore.blogspot.com/

Napping Affects Performance (NAP)

opens Friday, May 14 (6-8pm) at Art League Housotn and runs until June 25.  NAP is a generosity (free) service and a participatory/performance project offering people a place to take a nap.  NAP’s relation to performance is two-fold:  its benefits on day-to-day functioning and the context participants are placed in while experiencing performance art whether a reading, interaction, etc.
Participants may drop-in or make an appointment to nap by calling 713-582-1198 any time during Art League Houston hours.  Special group/community events including bedtime stories and lullabies will be scheduled throughout the run of the show. 
The projected affects of NAP are a more restful community, a unique experience of performance art, and a new context for artists performing.
NAP can be followed at www.nappingaffectsperformance.blogspot.com.  For an appointment to nap, please call:  713-582-1198. 
Location:
Art League Houston
1953 Montrose Blvd.
Houston, TX 77006
May 14-June 25, 2010

Space in Between - Margarita Cabrera
GEOMORFO - Fidel Ordonez
Tuff Enuff - Jenny Schlief
Dylan Reece
A tiny war between racists about the origin of Adam - Cody Ledvina

Closing Reception Saturday, February 13, 7:00-9:30pm
On view January 16- February 18, 2010
Open Saturdays, 1-5pm and by appointment

Houston, Texas: For the first exhibitions of 2010, BOX 13 Artspace is pleased to present three shows beginning January 16, 2010. In the downstairs gallery spaces, in a nod to the beginnings of the building as a singer sewing machine warehouse, Margarita Cabrera will transform the space into a workshop for Space in Between. During the exhibition seamstresses she has hired will sew a variety of desert plants that will gradually fill the space.  In the Upstairs Box, former Box 13 member, Fidel Ordonez presents GEOMORFO, an installation investigating the underlying relationships of mathematics and geometry to the arts. In the upstairs Closet Box/Micro Gallery, Jenny Schlief explores aspects of identity and consumer culture through detailed pencil drawings, and a new sound sculpture involving a Cadillac rim in her show Tuff Enuff. The exhibitions continue through February 18, 2010. The galleries will be open to the public Saturdays, 1-5pm, beginning January 16, 2010. Because of the nature of Cabrera’s installation, the reception for the exhibitions will be held the end of the exhibit, on Saturday February 13, 2010 from 7-9:30 pm.

Closing Reception February 13, 7:00-9:30pm
On view January 16- February 18, 2010
Open Saturdays, 1-5pm and by appointment

Downstairs BOX

Margarita Cabrera
Space in Between

Utilizing discarded Border Patrol uniforms, Margarita Cabrera’s soft-bodied indigenous desert plant sculptures, such as the Nopal and the Yucca, navigate within a conversation on craft, immigration, labor, and community in contemporary border politics.

Set in traditional terra cotta pots, long hand sewn threads resonant of cactus spines, Cabrera presents the dichotomy of traditional sewing practice and the mass production labor market in place today; as well as the complexity of the socio-economic issues of migrant labor and their implicit gender associations. Leaving details such as clothing labels, buttons, and zippers intact in the fabric develops a theme of camouflage in the American landscape, while the natural forms shed light on the social construction of this system.

Throughout the duration of the exhibition the space will effectively be transformed into a workshop, where laborers use both industrial capacity sewing machines and hand techniques to produce a variety of desert plants, filling the space and culminating in a landscape that conceptually mirrors the latent volatility of its actual counterpart. 

Margarita Cabrera was born in Monterey, Mexico, and lives and works in Houston, Texas.  Her sculpture has been included in various exhibitions, among them Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (traveling); Nexus Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX; Trabajo Mexicano/Mexican Work, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID and Domestic Odyssey, San Jose Museum of Art, CA. In 2008 she was a resident artist at ArtPace, San Antonio, TX and had her fourth solo exhibition at Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY. Cabrera is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and was a finalist for the Texas Prize in 2007. 

For more information on Space in Between, please contact Eleanor Williams, 713.907.4845, eleanor.l.williams@gmail.com.

Upstairs BOX
Fidel Ordonez
GEOMORFO

In GEOMORFO, Fidel Ordonez presents a graphic display based on geometric art. Ordonez uses geometry as an essential element in the creation of this work in order to transmit emotions and aesthetic pleasures.  He is in search of a common language with the audience. The exhibition will consist of a large installation built with references to geometric abstraction, and projections of lines doing simple forms. He will be playing with perspective by screening simple but interesting shapes onto a basic composition of cardboard boxes. With this, he tries to demonstrate the underlying relationships of mathematics and geometry to the arts, while referencing the history of geometric abstraction. Alongside this installation Ordonez will show some recent work in watercolor and other media.

Ordonez is a self-taught painter born in Mexico City. He began his studies of fine arts at the age of 10 in elementary school. He was immersed in the world of skateboarding for much of his youth, which was where he had his first contact with traditional graffiti, music and street culture of that time.  This all had strong influence on his lifestyle and is reflected later in his early graffiti murals.  In 2000 the project of "Lauve" in Mexico City, he began to use images by means of stencils on posters and propaganda, and this became a new avenue of expression for Fidel. He later put aside traditional graffiti to dedicate himself to this new phase of urban expression. In February 2007 he traveled to the city of Houston where he currently resides. His passion for exploring new ground in art has continued to develop into his first installations and sculptures.

Closet BOX
Jenny Schlief
Tuff Enuff

For Tuff Enuff, Schlief creates new work consisting of several rim drawings and a rim sound sculpture/iPod dock. The subject matter is a collection of Houston area rap culture removed from its original context by a white female conceptual artist. The work explores themes of identity associated with certain consumer goods and consumer cultures, with a glance towards the bravado and ridiculousness this consumer culture promotes. A Cadillac rim is transformed into an iPod dock that blares a screwed and chopped version of Michael Jackson's Thriller, and pictures of custom rims are rendered tenderly in pencil.

 

Jenny Schlief's work has appeared in numerous group shows of both regional and national prominence, as well as three solo shows in Houston; Mature Milk and Beautiful Beasts in 2005 at the Deborah Colton Gallery, jennybunny bunnyjenny at Redbud Gallery in 2006 and PLUR: 2009 vs 1998 at The Joanna in 2009. Her videos, drawings and installations explore objectification, confusion of sexual roles, exploitation of sexual prowess for individual gain, insecurity, vulnerability and doubt.  In 2004, Jenny founded the Young Republic, an arts group committed to providing a venue for the performing, visual and literary arts by hosting and organizing events in alternative spaces.  Jenny lives with her husband and their two children in Houston.

Red White and Yellow [Jenny Schlief]

Dylan Reece
Join us for our first show, an exhibition of work from Austin based artist, Dylan Reece. Show Statement: Dylan will be showing a video work called “Luminous Livingston Seagull.” It is a mash-up of the 1973 film, based of the book, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, and a 1998 computer generated psychedelic video called Luminous Visions. The two films are superimposed and allowed to run without any additional editing or manipulation. Through this one simple one device, many surprising alignments and potentially meaningful synchronicities unfold, calling into question the role of chance as a neutral artistic device and highlighting the absurdities inherent to both films.

Dylan Reece was born in in Garland, Texas in 1982. He received a B.F.A. in Design from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. He has recently exhibited work at MASS Gallery, UT Dallas CentralTrak, Okay Mountain Project Space, The Creative Research Laboratory, LMNL Gallery, The Austin Museum of Digital Art, and the Helen Day Art Center in Vermont.

The Kenmore Ice BOX [Emily Sloan]

A tiny war between racists about the origin of Adam...new artwork by Cody Ledvina. 
About The Kenmore:  Not just another white box, The Kenmore is an artist-run gallery space measuring 6"x6"x10". It is located inside a mini-fridge at Box 13 ArtSpace. An offspring of the N Gallery, The Kenmore is devoted to keeping ideas fresh! 

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Box 13 Artspace
November 14 – December 17, 2009
Opening reception Saturday, November 14, 7-9:30pm

BOX 13 ArtSpace is pleased to present three exhibitions opening Saturday November 14, 2009, 7:00 – 9:30pm. The bulk of the exhibition spaces will house Hasta La Basura Se Separa [artcrush], an exhibition curated by the Austin-based group Los Outsiders: Salvador Castillo, Michael Anthony García and Hector Hernandez. Originally presented at the Galleria del Espacio Cultural de la Antigua Aduana in the border town of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Hasta La Basura Se Separa [artcrush] features the work of 13 contemporary artists from Texas, New York & Utah. In the Green Box, current Lawndale Art Center resident, and former Box 13 member, David Waddell, presents Botanical Formations, his latest endeavors in stop-motion animation, which include a robotic moving species. Finally, in the Closet Box, Houston sculptor Jonathan Clark attempts to create a Golden Spiral within a realm of boundaries in order to challenge ideas of nature evolving around a point of endless possibilities.  The exhibitions will be on view through December 17, 2009.

Salvador Castillo, Michael Anthony García and Hector Hernandez

Downstairs Front BOX, Back BOX, Upstairs BOX and Window BOX
Hasta La Basura Se Separa [artcrush]

Hasta La Basura Se Separa [artcrush] is an exhibition curated by the Austin-based group Los Outsiders: Salvador Castillo, Michael Anthony García and Hector Hernandez. Originally presented at the Galleria del Espacio Cultural de la Antigua Aduana in the border town of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Hasta La Basura Se Separa [artcrush] features the work of 13 contemporary artists from Texas, New York & Utah.

The artists in this exhibition, Robert Boland (Austin, TX), Jaime Castillo (Austin, TX), Hunter Cross (Austin, TX), Michael Anthony García (Austin, TX), Katy Heinlein (Houston, TX), Hector Hernandez (Austin, TX), William Hundley (Austin, TX), Kathy Kelley (Houston, TX), Michelle Mayer (Brooklyn, NY), Eduardo Munoz (Austin, TX), Teruko Nimura (Austin, TX), Jared Steffensen (Salt Lake City, UT) and Jade Walker (Austin, TX), consist mostly of sculptural and installation practices. With a special emphasis on found objects and the use of recycled materials these artists relate the identity of objects, whether in their present states, altered or how they are represented in images, to their individual connotations as well as their shared meanings.

Consolidating the histories of the materials, the artists, the gallery and the city itself, Hasta La Basura Se Separa [artcrush] pushes the viewer beyond what has already transpired.  Waste is no longer a discarded remnant, memories have not faded into obscurity, architecture has not been forgotten and life has not ended.  Instead of lamenting shifting realities, this group takes the products of transition and rebuilds looking toward tomorrow.  New objects, new structures and new relationships take form and renewed hope becomes possible.

For further information please visit http://bit.ly/2zxGHV
or contact Los Outsiders at los_outsiders@yahoo.com.

El uso de los materiales rescatados de los basureros, hablan de "presentar lo representado y usado".  < The use of materials salvaged from garbage dumps, they speak of "presenting what’s used and represented”. >

- Diana Deándar, Lider Informativo: Hojalata #34, November 2008

La complejidad conceptual de las intervenciones nos remiten a un cuestionamiento sobre el exceso de desechos por el consumismo desbordado. Demuestran la inquietud por encontrar alguna solución.  < The conceptual complexity of the interventions refer us to question the excess waste of overwhelming consumerism. They express concern for finding a solution. >

- Diana Deándar, Lider Informativo: Hojalata #34, November 2008

Hasta La Basura Se Separa [artcrush] will be on view Nov 14 thru Dec 31, 2009.
For further information please visit http://bit.ly/2zxGHV or contact Los Outsiders at los_outsiders@yahoo.com

Closet BOX
Jonathan Clark
The Golden Spiral

Jonathan Clark has found the realms of art and nature to be a places that have no boundaries.  He believes nature evolves around a point of endless possibilities as it grows and adapts to its own environment. Art can be a direct response to nature’s wonder. The Golden Spiral is a mystical shape that is an absolute in both abstract mathematics and chaotic nature. The Golden Spiral is one of nature’s most magnificent blueprints; its geometry, with its harmonious proportions, is found in Art, Architecture, Music, Mathematics, and Science. The Phythagoreans loved this shape for they found it everywhere in nature: the Nautilus Shell, Ram's horns, milk in coffee, the face of a Sunflower, your fingerprints, our DNA, and the shape of the Milky Way.
           
In the Closet Gallery: micro gallery/ wonder emporium, Clark has interpreted the fundamental characteristics of art and nature.  Responding to the environment using natural materials he will attempt to create the Golden Spiral within the realm of boundaries of the closet, in order to challenge his idea of nature evolving around a point of endless possibilities.

Jonathan Clark has been an active local Houston artist for 4 years. He graduated from the University of Houston in 2007 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.  Clark has since created multiple interior and exterior environmental art installations in residential neighborhoods around Houston.

The Green Box
David Waddell
Botanical Formations

David Waddell presents his latest endeavors in stop-motion animation, which include a robotic moving species.  Pulled out of a collaged world which has been pieced together from a range of magazine images, these subjects come to life by mimicking actions of living organisms found in this world. The viewer is confronted with both old and new technologies that describe cultural views of evolution, monstrosity and the unfamiliar.  The images are pared down to botanical and specie studies and recontextualized with the help of slide projections of environment in combination with a wall installation.

David Waddell is currently a resident at Lawndale Art Center.  He is the Director of Media Studies at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.  He has shown his films most recently at the Aurora Picture Show and Fotofest.  He has shown work in Chicago, New York, and Washington D.C

www.greenboxgallery.com
(For more information about the Green Box contact Michael Henderson: michael@box13artspace.com)

 

Currently accepting exhibition proposals
10/25 review of proposals will take place over the next couple of weeks

Past Exhibitions

September 2009

New Solutions For Old Problems- Matthew Guest

Homemade Men and a Dog- Glenn Downing

The Sky Has No Memory- Renata Lucia

One Night Stand- Carmen Flores

Bawdy Issues- Alison Kuo

Shorted Circuits- Barna Kantor

Opening Reception September 19, 2009, 7:00-9:30pm
On view through October 22, 2009
Open Saturdays, 1-5pm
And by appointment

Houston, Texas: BOX 13 ArtSpace is pleased to present six exhibitions opening Saturday September 19, 2009, 7:00 – 9:30pm. With the addition of a small gallery in a hall closet, this will be more exhibitions than ever before exhibited at BOX 13. Downstairs will present dense candy- colored compositions by Matthew Guest, large scale humorous constructions of crude lines and found objects by Glenn Downing, and beautifully constructed couture dresses made of recycled paper by Carmen Flores. Upstairs, one year after Box 13 lost windows due to Hurricane Ike, Renata Lucia presents an interdisciplinary installation dealing with the inevitable rhythms of the recent hurricane seasons. The Green Box presents a series of works by Barna Kantor, combining video technology with other electronic gadgetry to produce projections and kinetic sculptures. In the brand new Closet Box, Alison Kuo installs soft, fleece organs that can be touched, rearranged, and manipulated to interact with each other. The exhibitions will be on view through October 22, 2009.

Downstairs Front BOX
New Solutions For Old Problems
Matthew Guest

Matthew Guest's exhibition New Solutions for Old Problems is a collection of recent drawings and paintings. These dense candy-colored compositions are collisions of iconic vernacular representationalism and abstract expressionism. Each work is formulated to diagram the mutant trinity of commodity culture, spiritual obligation and personal need. Together they serve as a cluttered catalog of visual obsessions, compulsive desires, and unrestrained phobias. A veritable junk drawer, this exhibiton has everything you never needed but cannot throw away.

Matthew Guest earned an MFA at University of South Florida. His work has been exhibited in galleries nationwide including the Contemporary Art Museum; Tampa, FL, Texas Biennial; Austin, TX; and Purdue University; West Lafayette, IN. In addition to gallery art he has comics published with Fantagraphics Books; Seattle, WA, and spent three summers drawing caricatures at Six Flags Over Texas; Dallas, TX. He currently resides in Huntsville, TX with his wife, Jennifer, and teaches at Sam Houston State University.

Downstairs Back BOX
Homemade Men and a Dog
Glenn Downing

In the exhibition entitled " Homemade Men and a Dog," Glenn Downing constructs a humorous installation of sculptures made from found objects. It is a group of sculptures that Downing has been working on over the past 2 years. Some are images of the artist himself, while others represent men he has known or wished he knew. And of course every good man must have his dog.

Glenn Downing is from Waco, Texas. He grew up learning to put things together and telling stories. After getting his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University he spent 2 years in the Peace Corps in the island nation of Tuvalu. While there he constructed things out of coconuts and created a video using a flying fish as a camera. He later roamed the USA living in L. A. and Austin, before finding his way to N.Y.C. in 1988. In NYC he met and worked for the video artist; Nam June Paik until is death in 2006. He is now back living in Waco, (if you call that living) and teaching at McLennan Community College.

Upstairs BOX
The Sky Has No Memory
Renata Lucia

“The Sky Has no Memory” is an interdisciplinary installation that manifests the inevitable rhythms of tropical cyclone activity using data from the 2004-2008 hurricane seasons of the Gulf Coast, Atlantic, and Caribbean. The installation is composed of sculptural, mixed media works, and sound maps which translate the map language of the National Hurricane Center’s seasonal archives into objects and contextualizes these intense but ephemeral events. The recycling of found urban building materials, gathered from demolitions and sites of natural entropic decay within the Houston cityscape, reinforces the cyclical pattern of the seasons and the relationship of civilization to nature. Because storm activity is presented sequentially and within seasonal/yearly groups, this installation allows a visual comparison of individual storms as well as a comparison between seasons. Seeming discrete catastrophic events can be put into the perspective of a natural order that is not evident without examining the overarching pattern of activity. Reuniting five ephemeral seasons clarifies the order within the chaos. These works illuminate the visual aesthetics of chaotic pattern and the insights of chaos theory, which include humility before nature and the need to understand the whole to understand a part.

Renata Lucia is an art making, technical writing, cancer surviving, beach loving, Texas Gulf Coast native. Lucia worked as a classically-trained professional violist in the 1980s and early 90s. After a Chondrosarcoma diagnosis in 2000, Lucia began her first art class at age 34. Although she underwent multiple surgeries culminating in radical limb reconstruction, she is now a healthy survivor.“Making art let me step outside my fear and gave me back what I had lost to cancer:  peace of mind, self-esteem, joy, and community. In six crazy years, I went from reading New American Paintings in the hospital as an art-world outsider to being featured in that publication.” Lucia works as a Quality System Manager for a microwave radio company in Stafford Texas. She is a former Box13 ArtSpace Resident and 2009 Project Row Houses Summer Artist Resident.

Window BOX
One Night Stand
Carmen Flores

One of the most significant constituents of the physical appearance is clothing. People choose the clothes they wear; therefore, clothes have an important social meaning. They transmit messages individuals want to send in order to create a positive reaction on others. A person chooses the most accepted image of the moment.  And this image is the product of the most popular stereotypes that guarantees the inclusion of such person into a desired social group.  Stereotypes are built by mass media, so, massive diffusion of images legitimizes behaviors, personalities and "looks".  These ideas led Flores to create a series in which some of fashion’s features are evident: eccentricity, impracticality and ephemeral quality.  She created haute couture designs, which are perceived to have more social status. Through the manipulation of newspaper, magazine sheets and yellow pages there is a direct reference to the mass media, which institutionalizes social forms. Being made from paper emphasizes the ephemeral quality of her "constructions".

Matthew Guest paintings in background behind model wearing works by Carman Flores at BOX opening..

Carmen Flores is a Mexican artist who was born in 1980 in Culiacan.   In 1998, she obtained the Mary Street Jenkins Scholarship that helped her through her college studies. Two years later she studied Art in Spain. There, she started to develop the ideas for her thesis in order to obtain in 2003 her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at the Universidad de las Américas-Puebla in Mexico. In 2005, she won the Sinaloa State Fund for Culture and Arts and the Antonio López Sáenz painting award. After getting those awards, the Banco del Bajío and Mazatlan Museum of Art acquired her work. Recently she started her Master’s Degree in Arts in Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2009.  Flores now lives and works in Houston, TX.

Closet BOX
Bawdy Issues
Alison Kuo

Growing up the daughter of a doctor and working for many years for the family business, Alison Kuo learned that the intimate workings of the human body, the organs that keep us functioning, carry a certain mystique. When they are working properly they are wholly ours to do with as we please. When a glitch in the system arises they can become the business of others, experts, and we are alienated from them in the process. Her sculptures are inspired by a desire to reclaim that ownership and have a little fun with it. They are soft, fleece organs that can be touched, rearranged, and manipulated to interact with each other, and the people who play with them, in improbable ways. Her installation at Box 13 will display a tableaux of the exuberant outgrowth of these toy body parts, the creation of which began with the innocent notion that sewing would be a relaxing hobby.

Alison Kuo received her BA from Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX where she studied Ceramics and never quite completed her minor in Biology. In 2007 she traveled to China with the University of West Virginia to ride on trains, learn about ceramics production from the master craftsmen and artists of Jingdezhen, eat well, and discover her own family's secret history of involvement in the arts. She now lives in Austin, and spends most of her time working at Domy Books and hand-stitching sculpture. She recently collaborated on an installation called Cat's Cradle with Lauren Cardenas and Carling Hale for the Colab new media space in Austin.

The Green Box
Shorted Circuits
Barna Kantor

The Green Box presents a series of works by Barna Kantor, a 2005 MFA graduate of the University of Texas Transmedia Program. Kantor combines video technology with other electronic gadgetry to produce projections and kinetic sculptures. The camera is one piece of equipment he does not use. The videos and moving images in this exhibition are made by a deft manipulation of the technology itself. Kantor is interested in watching our own visual process: the way we process visual data. He is searching for the fastest loop between 'the way we see' and 'what we see'. His goal is to short the visual cortex through the ultimate seizure.

Barna Kantor's work has been exhibited at Lawndale Art Center, the Austin Museum of Art, the Galveston Art Center, the Texas Biennial and at University Galleries throughout Texas. He currently resides in France.

www.greenboxgallery.com
(For more information about the Green Box contact Michael Henderson: michael@box13artspace.com)

 

July 2009

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

Downstairs Front BOX
Enchantment
Kia Neill, Lauren Obenour, and Emily Sloan
Guest curated by Rachel Hooper, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Curatorial Fellow at Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston

In Enchantment, the natural landscape is reimagined by Kia Neill, Lauren Obenour, and Emily Sloan. A miniature buffalo stampede sculpted by Neill cascades from the ceiling towards a window framed by the artist's jewel-encrusted stalactites. Obenour's individually sewn rabbits of brightly colored paper and foil cover an entire wall surrounded by her stiched tree stumps and clouds, while Sloan shows us landscapes as memento mori snowglobes or as an extension of our domestic space with her gigantic outdoor lampshade. These and other meticulously crafted sculptures and installations in the exhibition evoke a child-like amazement that delights in fantastic storytelling, clever imitation, adornment, and ornamentation. The intelligent innocence in Enchantment thus engages our imaginations and opens us up to a sense of wonder.

Kia Neill was born and raised in the northern suburbs of Chicago, IL. She moved from Los Angeles, CA to Houston in July 2006 where she currently is a full-time faculty member at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Glassell School of Art and an instructor at the Houston Center for Photography. Neill is a 2009 recipient of the Houston Art Alliance Individual Artist Grant and will be exhibiting in HAA’s 125 Gallery in September 2009. Additional future projects include a solo exhibition at Lawndale Art Center in November 2009 and at Women and Their Work in January 2010. Neill received her BFA from The Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio, and her MFA from The University of California, San Diego. Previous residencies include the Johannstädter Kultutreff in Dresden, Germany and the Diverseworks "Real Art World" in Houston. Neill was the juror of installation for the 2008 Artist Fellowship Grant for the West Virginia Division of Culture and History.

Lauren Obenour received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999 majoring in Fiber Arts, Artist Books, and Cultural Anthropology. From 1999 to 2001, Obenour attended the graduate program at the University of Washington in Seattle and received her MFA in Fibers, focusing mainly on representation of self and home. Her work explores the relationship of hand to thread to paper. Every stitch is a second of reflective thought and a moment marked by thread in time. Every scrap of paper is the evidence of something bigger that used to exist. Her influences are love and exploring the personal relationships she sees between the people, animals, and objects around her. She was born in Houston and currently lives in Portland, Oregon, city of roses, bridges and friendly cats.

Emily Sloan was born and raised in Diboll, Texas and currently lives and works in Houston.  Sloan has exhibited at the Target Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia, The Dallas Contemporary, Deborah Colton Gallery, and Lawndale Art Center. She created the Burning House installation on Highway 59N in Polk County, the Sabine Street Bridge Lamp at the City of Houston's Buffalo Bayou Art Park, and To Whom it May Concern a public work created as part of her Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts Residency.  Last fall, she had two site-specific projects featured at the Texas State Fair and a solo show at Gallery 1724 Artspace in Houston.  Earlier this year, Sloan had a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and finished her MFA in sculpture at the University of Houston where she was a teaching fellow.  She has an upcoming site-specific public art project for Hermann Park as well as a solo show at Redbud Gallery.

Downstairs Back BOX
Stephanie Toppin
Oneself by oneself

The exhibition will display one piece: an abstract self portrait in progress. A piece made up of smaller panels but displayed one after the other that is read left to right in the form of a timeline. An entire life is a self portrait, unbroken breath after breath that flows from one thought seamlessly to another. In the same way, each panel added to the whole may stand alone as one thought but needs the assistance of the panel that comes before and after to get an honest understanding of the entirety. A continuous ever expanding self portrait helps the viewer not quickly judge from one piece but helps them see a progression, change, and similarity. A personality. The viewer travels through all of someone.

Stephanie Toppin was born and raised on the southwest side of Houston, Texas where the wall often changed colors. She grew up in a very religious house hold with a diverse background that consisted of European and Caribbean decent. She broke away from the religion and kept the culture. She likes plants, books, riding her bike, and loves grocery stores. Toppin was the recipient of a 2008 Houston Artadia Award.

Upstairs BOX
Anthony Day
Zen and the Indulgence of Environmental Destruction

Artist Anthony Day presents an installation of sculptures and paintings featuring brightly colored totems and other objects of meditation. Day has composed these new idol figures from found polystyrene foam packaging that he has embellished with vibrant abstract expressionistic mark making. In transforming common packaging materials into colorful sculptures of playful reflection, Day underlines the modernist beauty that these readymade forms have. Day's polystyrene totems transcend a once expendable function without loosing the connection to society’s materialistic needs and environmental burden.

Anthony Day, a native Houstonian, attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. He then spent two years in Queretaro, Mexico making art and concentrating on his practice. After which he returned to Somerville, MA and maintained a studio for ten years at Vernon Street Studios. In 2005, Day received a Masters in Art and Education from Harvard University. Currently, Anthony Day lives in Houston, TX where he has been teaching visual art at Regan High School. Recently, he has presented his work at the CAMH Slide Jam lecture series. In his art practice, Day is committed to the connections between art and life, depicting accidents that happen at the intersection of the personal and the social, the private and the public, the internal world of urges and memories and the uncontrollable external forces of human and natural history.

Window BOX
Fidel Ordonez
Objects of desire

Objects of desire is a representation that is based on the most precious organ, the heart. Metaphorically man steals hearts of other people on a sentimental way, sometimes without measuring the consequences, this is the case of a lover who is devoted to collecting, but this fact away from feeding his spirit will dries his soul, "to steal hearts dry soul" and that love becomes part of a second term. Fidel Ordonez visually presents a man of action and reaction of this idea.

Fidel Ordonez was born in 1974 in Mexico City, his first contact with art was at age of 10 but his academic training was as a piping designer for petrochemical and chemical plants, he found a refuge in what was his tool of expression since 1993 with the traditional graffiti letters. There were no longer attractive after a while, giving way to other forms of expression concept: since 1999 he started the project called “Lauve” in Mexico City, street art project based on the ancient technique of stencil and propaganda. In 2004 he created the mural project LOSDELAEFE in the city of Monterrey. Today is as a visual artist in the city of Houston since 2007, currently is an artist member of box13 art space, doing projects like mural-painting and installation. His works was viewed and published on Mexico, USA, Spain, Brazil, Argentina and England.

 

May 23, 2009, 7:00 – 9:30pm
On view through June 25, 2009

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

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

 

May-June

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March 28 – April 30, 2009
Opening Saturday, March 28, 2009
7:00 – 9:30 pm

University of Houston College of Art
Senior Photography Exhibition
Downstairs BOXes.

“A Minute from Brazil Nº CX (2008)” by Chuck Ivy

Relational Dialectics is a concept from communication theory which describes the challenging and often conflicted nature of relationships. The UH Photography/Digital Media exhibition explores the relationships between artists and their work, their viewers, and the world at large. The work explores issues of femininity, environment, cultural heritage, family, fear, absence, and mediation.

Artists: Sarah J. Bircher, Lindsey Bryan, Rocio Carlon, Camilo, Gonzalez, Chuck Ivy, Shauna Martin, Victor Matsumura, Nathan Munier, Tu-Anh Pham, Christopher Pickett, Kelly Quarles, Nathalie Rodriguez, Maurice C. Saavedra and Gregory Whittaker.

The show is curated by Dr. David Jacobs.
http://www.relationaldialectics.org/

The fourteen graduating artists of the program come together at Box 13 ArtSpace, March 28th from 7-9:30 pm through April 30th. Gallery hours Saturdays from 1-5 and by appointment.

University of Houston College of Art
Senior Painting Exhibition
Upstairs BOX

Animation from Sam

The Green Box presents "Animation from Sam," March 28-April 30, featuring work by students in Sam Houston State University's Computer Animation Program. The short animated films in this exhibition include narratives, abstractions, and humorous cartoons. The work includes pixar-like shorts created using high end 3D software, a re-telling of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the style of a primitive video game, and 2D animations created by both groups and individuals.

Student artists included are Nathan Smith, Lauren Feehery, Christian Hidalgo, Cody Cormier, and more.

The opening reception is Saturday, March 28, 7-9pm. Gallery hours are Saturday 1-5. For more information contact Michael Henderson at michael@box13artspace.com.

Disturbance of Distance

interview with Eleanor Williams, curator.

Live! from PantsuitLand: "Disturbance of Distance" at Box 13 Artspace from Skote on Vimeo.

Pantsuit Jill (PJ) Chavez and BlayneBlayne are back bringing you the "art beats from the streets!" This time they're making your acquaintance outside the "Disturbance of Distance" show at Box 13 Artspace in Houston, Texas. Eleanor Williams curated this show, "a site-specific exhibition," which brings together the work of Hana Hillerova, Leslie Mutchler, Jennifer Prichard, Emily Sloan, Gabriela Trzebinski, and Skote, a collaboration by Jill Pangallo and Alex White.

Houston Chronicle

January 2009

HANA HILLEROVA, Houston
LESLIE MUTCHLER, Austin
JENNIFER PRICHARD, Austin
Skote: JILL PANGALLO, Austin and ALEX WHITE, New York
EMILY SLOAN, Houston
GABRIELA TRZEBINSKI, Houston
Curated by Eleanor L. Williams

Box 13 ArtSpace is pleased to announce the opening of Disturbance of Distance, a site-specific exhibition curated by Eleanor L. Williams, which brings together the work of Hana Hillerova, Leslie Mutchler, Jennifer Prichard, Emily Sloan, Gabriela Trzebinski, and Skote, a collaboration by Jill Pangallo and Alex White.  Upon entering the exhibition visitors will be greeted with comedic “art-o-tainment” provided by Skote as a prelude to the exciting sculpture inside by Hillerova, Mutchler, Prichard, and Sloan, and a video installation by Trzebinski.  The opening reception for the exhibition will be Saturday, January 17, 2009 from 7:30pm – 9:30pm.  The exhibition will be on view from January 17, 2009 through February 19, 2009 with a curator and artists talk to be held on Thursday, February 19, 2009, at 7:00pm at Box 13 ArtSpace.

In Disturbance of Distance, Hana Hillerova offers what the artist describes as a utopian city of Buckminster Fuller design built by hippies that oscillates somewhere between chaos and order. Leslie Mutchler investigates the consumer desire to purchase an organized lifestyle focusing on furniture that functions as storage that unifies an accumulation of belongings into a minimal guise of solidarity.Ceramic artist Jennifer Prichard creates wall installations made of hundreds of handcrafted porcelain pieces that resemble beautiful new forms of lichen that propagate throughout a space. Emily Sloan proposes ideas regarding containment and nostalgia in her domestic-themed, life-sized snow globes. Gabriela Trzebinski presents a visceral and moving video installation examining the struggle against poaching in Africa. Finally, as guests arrive to and depart from the exhibition, Skote, a collaboration by Jill Pangallo and Alex White, will be staging a Live! From Pansuitland performance. Using the classic language of popular television formats — the talk show, the sitcom, and 70’s variety shows — Skote presents a comedic, art-o-tainment spin on celebrity-culture, object worship and reality TV, and at the same time exposes our own relationship to the phenomenon.

GREEN BOX
"AVB RE-Performs"
Austin Video Bee is a multimedia video collective based in Austin, Texas that seeks to promote experimental and innovative pieces and to be an integral part of the vital Austin arts community. Seven of the members of AVB have mined the history of performance art to find works that they felt were not "alive" or available to newer generations of artists and audiences. They each "re-performed" the work of an artist they admired and created video documentation of their performances. Stringing these documentation videos together becomes analogous to a game of "telephone," where our potential misunderstanding of what the performance originally was becomes a generative process, like covers of songs that retain the essential qualities of the original but become something new in the process.

"AVB RE-Performs" includes:
Elizabeth Abrams re-performs an excerpt from Hannah Wilke's "Gestures"
Anna Krackey re-performs Jill Pangallo's "Some Lady Kickboxing"
Ivan Lozano re-performs Ana Mendieta's "Body Tracks"
Jill Pangallo re-performs Vito Acconi's "Theme Song"
Corkey Sinks re-performs Marina Abramovic's reperformance of Gina Pane's "Conditioning"
Lee Webster re-performs Marina & Ulay's "Great Wall Walk"
Jamie Wentz re-performs Phyllis Baldino

The Green Box is a space for video and media installations and is upstairs at BOX13 ArtSpace.
For more information please contact Michael Henderson at michael@box13artspace.com and visit the website
http://www.greenboxgallery.com

BOX OFFICE
My Weltanschuung: Sentient Memory Reified
Artist: Whitney Riley

 

BOXers outside the BOX

Fidel Ordoñez Rueda

HUMANIMAL
ArtStorm Gallery at Caroline Collective
March 21- April 18, 2009
Opening reception March 21 7 to 9 pm

ArtStorm | 713.568.8174 | artstorm.houston@gmail.com
4828 Caroline St
Houston, TX 77004

Elaine Bradford

Museum of Unnatural History: New Works by Elaine Bradford
Art League Houston
January 9-February 20, 2009

As part of Museum of Unnatural History, two free docent led tours will be conducted for the public on January 10 and February 7th at 2:00 p.m.

For Museum of Unnatural History, Houston-based artist Elaine Bradford has created a faux natural history museum filled with a variety of animals and specimens "discovered" by the fictitious fringe scientist Dr. Thomas Harrigan during his explorations into a dimension known as "The Sidereal". According to the museum's pseudo-scientific text, The Sidereal is "in many ways a mirror image of our world [that] has produced a variety of species possessing adaptations wildly divergent from those we see on earth."

A visitor to Museum of Natural History will view creatures that include the Pushmi-pullyu (Tragus januali), a lichen eating two headed sheep; the longcat (Lynx metamorpha), a blue mite covered feline whose powerful limbs and body can expand up to ten times their at-rest length; and the Procyon besheret, fondly known as the "pair-bears" due to the permanent fusing of tails during a secret mating ritual.

The animals on view are constructed from taxidermy animals, sometimes in their original state, other times cut in half or fused with the bodies of others, which are then sheathed in outfits which Bradford carefully crochets, an art taught to her by her grandmother, when the artist was a child growing up in Alice, Texas.

Elaine did not really appreciate the calming, repetitive act of crochet, nor did she take it seriously as an art, until she was in graduate school at the California Institute of the Arts. Here Bradford developed a project in which she crocheted individual sweaters for everything in her refrigerator, including all the baby carrots.

"I was really interested in the connotations that came along with crochet for me, ideas of comfort, warmth, and family; the absurd act of making labor intensive objects for things that have no need for them always makes me chuckle."

Around 2004, the artist decided to make crochet clothes for taxidermy, after sitting in her parents' house and looking up at the hunting trophies on display. Bradford remarks, "It struck me how beautiful the deer head would look in a sweater."

For the next five years she produced numerous and more and more fantastical variations on this theme. Elaine considers Museum of Unnatural History the culmination of all her taxidermy animals, as it will be the most elaborate presentation of the work to date and the last opportunity for audience members to view her crochet covered animals.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Elaine Bradford received her BFA from The University of Texas at Austin in May 2000, and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in May 2003. She is now living and working in Houston, TX. Her most recent work involves crocheting sweaters for taxidermied animals. She has shown extensively across the United States. Her work has recently been exhibited in group shows at Greenlease Gallery in Kansas City, MO, MassArt in Boston, MA, Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA and in the Galveston Art Center in Galveston, TX. In 2007 she had solo shows at Women and their Work in Austin, TX, Hunt Gallery in St. Louis, MO, and Cactus Bra in San Antonio, TX. Bradford is the recipient of a 2008 Individual Artist Fellowship Grant from the Houston Arts Alliance.

Kathy Kelley

In the space of absence | Kathy Kelley
January 23 – February 28, 2009
Lawndale Art Center | 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.

A bunch of BOXers participate in unBOXed

Crazywood Gallery in Huntsville, Texas presents unBOXed, an exhibit of works by thirteen artists who are resident members of BOX 13 ArtSpace in Houston. The exhibit includes painting, sculpture, printmaking, video, and installations by

Crystal Benavides, Elaine Bradford, Woody Golden, Michael Henderson, Kathy Kelley, Kia Neill, Jennie Nuttall, Teresa O'Connor, Eric Pearce, Whitney Riley, Mark Schatz, David Wang, David Waddell.

Curated by students in SHSU's Museum and Gallery Practices class.

October 31-November 21, 2008
Opening Friday, October 31, 5-8pm
Crazywood Gallery
1416 Sam Houston Avenue
Huntsville, TX 77340
936-291-1466

Mark Schatz

Sediment: Mark Schatz and Jared Steffensen
November 6-November 27, 2008
Space 125 Gallery at the Houston Arts Alliance

Prospects
Opens November 22, 2008
Creative Research Lab, The University of Texas at Austin

The Texas Chair Project
November 15, 2008-February 8, 2009
Austin Museum of Art, Austin

Elaine Bradford and Lisa Marie Godfrey

Monster Show 3
Opens: October 31st 7-9pm
Domy Books, Houston, TX
Domy Books, Austin, TX
show runs through December 5th

H. David Waddell

Viewfinder, New Images from Texas Artists
November 6, 6-9 pm
November 6-January 11th
Fotofest

November 2008

WRETCHED LITTLE BRITONS PRESENT ANTI-HEROS

Jennie Nuttall, Chloe Mona Ivy Head, Holly Koch, Cecile Egerode, David Jenkins And Samantha Walton. Curated By Jennie Nuttall
15 November – 1 December 2008

BOX13artspace wishes to announce its forthcoming exhibition, WRETCHED LITTLE BRITIONS present ANTI-HEROES, a group exhibition of six London based artists.

Once upon a time man looked at himself and didn’t like what he saw. Once upon a time man looked around him at his fellows and didn’t like what he saw there either. Man looked into himself and saw that his heart was weak, and was shot with fear that his fellows say the same, and was filled with reservations that theirs were as weak, as softly beating. Man had no time to think about such matters though, as he was building sepulchers and monuments and finding women to bear him sons and understanding planets and fishing and tidying things up and knocking things down. So man built himself a city and in it made people and those people began to understand one another, although there were so many of them and with such different ideas of things that they needed to share a thought, seeing as they couldn’t share a nature, and this thought would be what their world was to them, whether the real world was or not. So they saw how things worked and they made up stories and they started talking about the past until, and one way or another they all decided that this was what the world was.   Samantha Walton 2008

ANTI-HEROES explores how a hero must be built for our new age through the works of seven artists whom embody a sense of depreciating innocence through the use of painting, print-making, drawing, writing and video.  Featuring Chloe Head’s indulgent paintings of a Dionysian modernity reclaiming the antiquated Christian Image, combining traditions of European painting smeared with a little female hysteria,, and Jennie Nuttall’s hand drawn animations which aim to corrupt, through an unspoiled sense of childhood, society’s trials and tribulations, failures and successes. 

 

SEPTEMBER 27 — Ocotober 28, 2008

video interview with some of BOX 13's boxers via the Houston Chronicle.

Opening night for four exhibitions
at BOX 13 ArtSpace

The opening was a huge success. Thanks for coming out. If you would like to swing by before the closing date, give any of our members a call or email and we'll open the door for you (translation view by appointment) or contact Kathy Kelley via email or phone, 713, 299.8582 to schedule an appointment.

Shows run September 27, 2008 through October 25, 2008

Houston Chronicle write up

DOWNSTAIRS BOXes
Architecture of Perception: sculptural show of work dealing with architecture, design, and ideas of perception.
Curator: Elaine Bradford
For this exhibition the artists were put together for what seemed an obvious sense of architectural ideas in their respective practices. They were then invited to exhibit with no constraints on what they may show. In turn, what is produced is a sculptural show of work dealing not only with architecture, but also heavily influenced by design, and in which all the works play with our ideas of perception.

Rebecca Ward

Katy Heinlein.

Eric Zimmerman.

Many Box Amigos came out to view the exhibitions post IKE.

Katy Heinlein of Houston produces new fabric draping pieces, working on a smaller and more intimate scale than her recent show at CTRL Gallery. Rebecca Ward, an artist from Austin, will be creating a site-specific tape installation in the grand stairwell of the main gallery. Jeff Williams, who recently left Houston for a yearlong residency in Rome, will be displaying two pieces that mess with the viewer’s perception. While Eric Zimmerman, another import from Austin, installs a sculptural piece, which creates a mesmerizing light show. And Bari Ziperstein, who comes to us from Los Angeles, is creating a grouping of piñatas designed after modernist lamps, giving a nod not only to design, but also to the neighborhood surrounding Box 13.

ARTISTS: Katy Heinlein, Rebecca Ward, Jeff Williams, Eric Zimmerman, Bari Ziperstein

UPSTAIRS BOX
Without you I'm nothing
Curator: Teresa O’Connor
Artists: Michele Monseau, Matthew Steinke, Vicki Fowler, Philip Schultze

This exhibit, explores the non-distinction between virtual and actual, and how one is able to learn about and communicate with virtual worlds through the internet-that offer actual and sincere non-mediated views of our world.

Michele Monseau (San Antonio),
Matthew Steinke (New York),
Vicki Fowler (Chicago),
Phillip Schulte (Berlin)

GREEN BOX
Drawing in Time: Recent Videos
Artist: Heather Boaz

“Drawing In Time” is an exhibition of video work by Heather Boaz in The Green Box. Heather Boaz is an artist who lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. In her work, Boaz focuses attention on the temporal aspect of drawing by videotaping herself performing repetitive acts. Typing with her fingers dipped in charcoal, tapping out Morse code with a pencil, and blowing charcoal dust onto paper are some of the techniques she uses to make videos and drawings. The process in each drawing has a mildly ironic relationship to the content. For example, the word she repeatedly types with her charcoaled fingertips is the password to her hotmail account and the Morse code she taps out is William Burroughs famous “Language is a virus. . .” quote.
Another series of Boaz’s video work depicts the artist creating drawings using disappearing ink. The video is sped up so the drawings that disappear and are redrawn over and over become animated. Boaz manages to depict the ephemeral nature of fire, tears, the human heartbeat and martyrdom in these videos.
Heather Boaz has an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work has been shown at the Drawing Center in New York,  and in exhibitions on the east coast, in Ireland, and Germany.
For more information contact Michael Henderson: michael@box13artspace.com

BOX OFFICE
My Weltanschuung: Sentient Memory Reified
Artist: Whitney Riley

Artist, Whitney Riley, and sound designer, Doren Bernard, present "My Weltanschauung: Sentient Memory Reified, " at BOX 13 ArtSpace. This site specific installation crates a snapshot illustrating the intangible balance of accepting and rejecting our authentic self through an endless field of memories of the the "other" defining self. These two artist attempt to make tangible the abstract nuances of the mind and the mini asylum we all have inside through this multi-sensory experience.

Elaine Bradford travels to Austin for a little
FICTITIOUS REALITIES / REALISTIC FICTIONS

SEPTEMBER 6 – OCTOBER 8, 2008

Please join us Saturday, September 6th from 8-10 p.m. as Art Palace presents Fictitious Realities / Realistic Fictions, a two-person exhibition featuring the sculptural work of Elaine Bradford and Seth Mittag.

Both Bradford and Mittag build narrative sculptural environments based on stories told to them in their childhoods. Bradford finds inspiration in children's literature, especially Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. The crocheted taxidermied animals Bradford is known for become characters in fantasy worlds she has created for them. Seth Mittag, who draws upon childhood memories and the exaggerated tall tales told by his father, creates sculptural installations that recreate his living environment and convey the expectations of masculinity imposed from father to son. Both artists play with scale and perception to show the viewer how these childhood narratives shift in meaning and significance when seen through the eyes of an adult.

Fictitious Realities / Realistic Fictions is on view from September 6th through October 8th, 2008.

Art Palace is located at 2109 E. Cesar Chavez St., Austin, TX
(next door to Taqueria Chapala) between Chicon and Robert Martinez.

Gallery Hours: Saturday noon to 5pm, Wednesday 7-9pm or by appointment. For further information or images, please contact the gallery at 512.496.0687 or info@artpalacegallery.com.

Mark Schatz travels to Dallas to rethink landscapes

Geomorph: Rethinking Landscape
Centraltrak
Opens Saturday, Aug. 16, 6-8 pm
Through September 15.
800 Exposition Ave | Dallas, TX 75226 | 214-824-9302

Lanie DeLay, Peter Ligon, Jim Malone, Lisa Nersesova, Mark Schatz, and Mike Westfried are all participating artists in Geomorph, and have each reinvented what a landscape painting can be.

BOXers, Renate Jones and Kia Neill, in The Big Show @ Lawndale Art Center.

The Big Show | 2008
Opening Reception Friday, July 11, 2008
6:30-8:30 pm
Show closes August 9, 2008.
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Cohesive Discord opening hugely pleasurable!
Show runs through August 8 @ space 125 gallery of the Houston Arts Alliance

The bunnies and squirrels (Elaine Bradford and David Waddell) were a huge successful delight to all.

The Eater (Elaine Bradford, Kathy Kelley and Mat Wolff) put many a smile on peoples face when they found themselves child-like again embedded in a Dr. Suess story gone wrong.

We gave the Houston Arts Alliance a good scare when they saw torches on our material list. Fortunately we easied their minds but not lighting them with a match (Woody Golden, Lisa Marie Godfrey, Anila Q Agha).

Whitney Riley explains our work to our BOX amigos, Dan Dubrowski, Tom Bacon and associate.

All went home with smiles.

We had fun overwhelming the Arts Alliance beautiful space with art objects and narratives of significant proportions. (Whitney Riley).
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June 6, 2008
When Words Aren't Enough

Solo exhibition: When Words Aren't Enough
Who: BOXer Anila Quayyum Agha
When: Friday, June 6 at 6:00pm
Where: Joanwich Art Gallery
4411 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, TX 77006

Angleton High School art students come for a BOXer studio visit.

Ninety high school students rotated through 5 BOXer studios were artist residents had the opportunity to present their work and discuss their studio practices (May 9, 2008).

photos by elaine bradford. thanks elaine.

May 17, 2008
BBAP & Artscouts Night of the Derby II

No Troy's tree didn't make it down the full lenght of the track, but it did upon stricking the floor at great speeds skid down to the finishline beating a number of vehicles

Fish versus beauty--Fish won.

Derby divas, JoAnn and Elaine.

May 2, 2008
Opening night at the BOX

interpretation of the BOX by Teresa O'Connor

BOXer Meeting
Saturday, May 10, 11:30 am

Friday, May 2, 2008, 7:30 pm
BOX 13 welcomes University of Houston art students.

Sound in Motion

The Sound in Motion show features sound investigations and motion graphics in response to  Andrew Murpie's and John Potts' Culture and Technology and Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium.

Featuring work by University of Houston graphic communications graduate students:
Noora Aslalmam:  Symbiosis, and Sonic Mementos; Sura Khudairi; Tina McPherson: Sonorous Echoes and Metamorphoses; Zack Zwicky: Existential Motion, and Migration

Très Puddle

Color, whimsy, psychological tension, and a penchant for the vaguely irreverent punctuate this group of painters completing the University of Houston Painting Block program under the tutelage of Rachel Hecker and Al Souza.  Visitors can expect to see everything from confectionery installations to experimental suburban landscapes and graffiti inspired sculpture to paintings of dewy-eyed sexpots and the delicately geriatric.

Graduating seniors include: Jessica Childers, Elizabeth Fowler, Tim Garcia, Cameron Kolaja, Scott McCombs, Megan O'Brien, JoAnn Park, Alexandra Quevedo, Lynn Sanders, Shane Tolbert, and Emily Wetterauer

Beyond the expanded field...again

This exhibition is the culmination of the Advanced Sculpture course at the University of Houston. Pieces presented were made to stretch the work spatially (explicit with viewer or particular site), in time (by activating it through motion or use), and/or contextually (how it behaves in the “world”).

Featured artists: Ashley Aichelman, Christa Havican, Brian McCord, Joy Moore Ian Sigley, Alexander Tu, and Anh Vu.

The Green Box presents "800 Meters" a video installation by Kim Cook

The Green Box is an exhibition space inside Box13 ArtSpace with an emphasis on new media and video projects.
Kim Cook is a graduating senior at Sam Houston State University. She will receive her BFA in Studio Art in May and attend the San Francisco Art Institute this fall for graduate study. In "800 Meters" Cook uses video projections and sound to recreate a meditative experience achieved through repetitive actions.

Yum Um

Yum Um, a post modern corporation for a modern-day society, will have its 13th annual “Ultimate Party Bash” from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, May 2 at Box 13, 6700 Harrisburg (at the corner of Caesar Chavez).  Yum Um has brightened up the days of many Houstonians with handcrafted slogans, such as “Life. Catch It.” Yum Um has appropriated products in order to re-contextualize them and highlight Yum Um’s life-affirming messages.  Yum Um is proud to open its archives of precious relics of past Yum Um events throughout history to the general public. 

The Board of Directors: Lindsay Burleson, Nancy Douthey, Paul Huynh, Alex Nguyen, Christian Ochoa, Jere Pfister. 

Spring 2008 will mark the fourth year of the trans-disciplinary course, Collaboration Among the Arts, offered by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts in conjunction with the School of Art, Creative Writing Program, Moores School of Music, and School of Theatre & Dance.

Yum Um a prt of the Collaboration Among the Arts focuses on the process of creating art collaboratively, by challenging and exploring disciplinary boundaries. The course brings together students and faculty from the visual, performing, and literary arts for creative experimentation and project development.

This team-taught class is led by four faculty members selected from Art, Creative Writing, Music, and Theatre. Participating students are divided into small groups to create projects over the course of the semester. Project development includes an in-depth exploration of the range of disciplines practiced by visual artists, performers, and writers, followed by an exchange artistic tools, skills, techniques, and languages.

 

WORKDAYS - prepping gallery walls
Saturday, April 19, 10 am -5 pm

WE NEED HELP prepping the walls for paint in our gallery spaces. Bring your friends, tell your students and come on down to the Box. This is another great opportunity to preview the galleries and studios while getting to know the resident artists and become an official BOX Amigo! Don’t miss the fun!

Saturday, April 19, 10 am - 5pm
We will priming the walls.
BRING (if possible): paint roller and fresh pad for semi smooth/rough surface.
Oh, and cold beer provided.

houston artists forming new nonprofit
alternative exhibition and work space for houston.

We are just moving into an awesome building located at 6700-6702 Harrisburg Blvd, Houston, TX.
We are one block north of Wayside on the corner at Cesar Chavez and Harrisburg.

BOX 13 is accepting application for artists to become a part of BOX 13.

Artists accepted into residence actively participate in the operation, maintenance and promotion of BOX 13. Each artist receives a work space as part of residence/membership. Resident workspaces range from $300 to $600 per month based on square footage plus an annual contribution of artwork(s) to BOX 13.

To become a resident of BOX 13, artists must schedule an appointment for an interview with current artist residents and be prepared to bring evidence of a professional career in the visual or performing arts (slides, cd, dvd, or other visuals), plus personal references and a commitment to support the activities of Box13.

To set up an appointment to interview, meet the other residents, and come and look at the space please email Michael Henderson, michael@box13artspace.com.

 

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© BOX 13 ArtSpace, 2008.                6700 Harrisburg Blvd, Houston, TX 77011.