My My Misfire

Spent some time at Deep Ellum Windows for the one-day pop up exhibition curated by Stephen Lapthisophon on Saturday. 

Michael Mazurek -  "House Plant" 

Lana Paninchui - "Foie Gras"

 

Sharon Turner -  "Established"  

Hayley Fowler -  "I'd rather be sleeping" performance
 

Pierre Krause - "Ritual", detail

 

Pierre Krause, a student at University of Texas at Dallas, work was a pleasant surprise.  A small unlit room with an arrangement of found objects.  Raw, very much like the space.

 

 Pierre Krause -   "Ritual", detail

 

Stephen Lapthisophon - "untitled", Hannah Hudson - "Non Meaning" 

 Michael Wynne - "All My Scars Are on the Inside"

 

 Michael Wynne's first peformance piece  - "Sweeping Up"

 

I showed up at Deep Ellum Windows at noon and happy I did.  Michael Wynne had his first peformance piece and I was able to record most of it.  See the link for Sweeping Up above to read about the peformance piece.  See this link for the recording.

master format - michael mazurek @ Oliver Francis Gallery

It seems to be Michael Mazurek's year.  This is the 4th exhibition this year alone that I have seen his work.  This time at the new Oliver Francis Gallery which also has a promising future.

Tree stand in the slaughter room. 

 (I don't kow the title) Fast Cars, video

Kevin Ruben Jacobs, an art student at UTA, opened Oliver Francis Gallery on Peak Street near Deep Ellum last July.  The gallery, is an experimental 1,000 square-foot art space that shows current work and projects by local artists that engages, challenges and pushes boundaries. 

Oliver Francis Gallery

+1 817 879 8231

oliverfrancisgallery@gmail.com

Hours
*by appointment  - Call, don't let the "by appointment" keep you from calling.

Location
209 S. Peak St.
Dallas, Texas 75226

Love Come Down

A friend and I saw the extraordinary installations of Stephen Lapthisophon, Michael Mazurek and Jesse Morgan Barnett entitled "Love Come Down" at 301 Toronto Street in a deserted West Dallas warehouse.  Take time to see these installations before the exhibition closes.  Check the link to contact the artists.

Stephen Lapthisophon
"On the Nature of the Deictic (Why I Write Such Good Books)", 2011
Light fixtures, power cords, latex, spray paint, potatoes, salt, radio, casket, flour, shirt, hanger, ladder, bricks and dirt.

Jesse Morgan Barnett

"Structure for Looking at Directions of a Ripe Old Age", 2011

Bird bath, wood, garden bust, neon light, power cords, fluorescent tubes and fixtures, milkfish, glasses, white gypsum cement, paper towels, plastic, clamps, spray paint, palm tree carcass, parking block, water

Michael Mazurek
"Arrangement and Classification of Building Materials", 2011
Lumber, PVC tarps, weed barrier fabric, work lamp, DVD projection

Michael Mazurek: Not to Scale, Subject to Change @ Plush Gallery

Corner Relief

Untitled No. 72

Untitled No. 112 (with coffee table and lamp)

M61, photo on paper



NEST

Featuring Michael Mazurek and Jesse Morgan Barnett
at Bows and Arrows
February 19-March 23, 2011
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Bows and Arrows presents “Nest” featuring Michael Mazurek and Jesse Morgan Barnett, curated by Anne Lawrence, opening Saturday, February 19, 2011, 6-9 p.m. The exhibition will include site-specific installations by each artist.

“Nest” centers on the question how do artists respond to having a child? While feminist and conceptual artist Mary Kelly’s seminal “Post-Partum Documents” tracked the evidence of the child with forensic precision creating a subtle narrative of the mother’s relationship with the growing child, Mazurek and Barnett, both fathers, are each known for their elaborate constructions and installations; thus turning away from the processes of the body towards the process of making and building.

By changing the physical space of the room, they are reordering the spatial experience. New parents, like other animals, are hit with a powerful urge to create a safe place for the birth and infancy of their offspring. This need to “nest” goes beyond cleaning clutter and nursery decorating often giving way to a process of self-reflection and evaluation of the pre-child state. There is a need to put the house in order, literally and metaphorically.

Michael Mazurek

After the birth of his first child, Mazurek was motivated to make a dramatic change. Quitting his full-time job he enrolled in graduate school, first in architecture, then fine arts. Mazurek’s work has shown a strong inclination toward building and construction evolving into complex, even chaotic, structures of ever increasing size, with strong references to architecture and theatrical stage-setting. Mazurek stated, “I returned to art and chose this path very specifically due to the birth of my daughter. The clarity of that moment still amazes me. She put everything in perspective, practically immediately.”