Houston show opens tonight
Apr. 7th, 2005 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avadI should be at this opening tonight dangit. :(
*sigh* I've got to work on being more able to coordinate mini-travels like this...It just..well, the idea of flying there and getting around and finding a hotel..all intimidated me..and then with us moving and my finances being what they are it just seemed a big expense...so, *sigh* I decided not to. But now of course, the day of the opening, I wish somehow I had worked it out. I should be there.:(
pooey on me. OK I think from now on...no excuses. I just bite the bullet and do it.
M A A S P R O J E C T S
is pleased to announce
EXCAVATING REALITIES: DARLENE CHARNECO AND CHRIS NATROP
opening reception - Thursday, April 7, 7 to 9 pm.
April 7 until May 7, 2005
Press Release:
Altering their surrounding environment, artists Darlene Charneco and Chris Natrop provide an innovative glimpse into the reality of our lives while delineating differing insertion points that identify our place in the world. Looking both to nature and man-made structures, each artist exposes surprising relationships between memory, perception and the factual elements of our existence to create poetic works that hover between the real and the imaginary.
Utilizing nails, resin and mixed media on wood, Darlene Charneco’s artworks map the hybrid spaces that we live in. Zeroing in—primarily from an aerial perspective—to focus on cities and roads in an altered and abstracted way the artist references the evolution of digital networks that inform the world today. By exploring the similarities of our cities and roads to the internal structures of a large and complex organism, Charneco draws links to the Internet envisioning it as a growing nervous system, full of sensors, gathering and sending information to and fro. Based in Southampton, New York, Charneco has exhibited and guest lectured at numerous museums, galleries, and arts councils including the Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, Connecticut, Parrish Museum, Southampton, New York and the Hecksher Museum, Huntington, New York. MAAS Projects is pleased to exhibit Charneco’s work for the first time in Texas.
Chris Natrop, a San Francisco, California based artist delicately draws with a knife, shaping his perceptions of the world into cut paper works that reshape space. The gestural and intricate sculptural drawings transform areas by incorporating shadows that act as a conduit between the second and third dimensions. Color—subtle in some areas and bold and bright in others—highlights movement while referencing the voids and spaces that configure his world. Natrop’s work has been included in exhibitions at museums and galleries including the Yoo Projects, San Francisco, California, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, Spike Gallery, New York, Headlands Center for Arts, Sausalito, California, and Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany. This will be the artist’s first show of his work in Texas.
Guest Curator Jennifer Jankauskas is an independent curator and writer currently based in San Antonio, Texas. For almost fifteen years, she has focused on contemporary art and photography exhibitions along with organizing panel discussions, symposia, and film and video series for various museums, galleries and art spaces. Recent curatorial projects include Character Studies at the University of San Antonio, Texas, Houston: Suitcase Series #4 at The Lab Gallery at the Roger Smith Hotel, New York, and Beth Campbell: Make Belief at Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas. Her writings have appeared in such publications as ArtLies, perla, and on Glasstire Texas Visual Art Online among others.
Initiated as a venue to show a wide variety of one-time exhibitions, Maas Projects allows the gallery to show works we would not otherwise have the opportunity to show, such as guest-curated exhibitions, oversized installation works, or works by younger artists. Maas Projects will also house a flat file of works on paper, prints and photographs by a wide range of artists from Texas and from across the country. Maas is the middle name of Daniel Maas Fergus, the owner and co-director of both spaces.
Maas Projects is located at 2609 Dunlavy, around the corner from our main space. Maas Projects will be open on Friday and Saturday, from 11 to 7 and will also be open by request during the same hours as Mixture Contemporary. For more information about visiting Maas Projects, please email Adrienne at adrienne@mixturecontemporary.com.
Mixture Contemporary is located at 1709 Westheimer at Dunlavy in Houston, Texas. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11 to 7. Please contact either Lisa Cooley or Dan Fergus at 713.520.6809 with questions or direct email inquiries to lisa@mixturecontemporary.com.
*sigh* I've got to work on being more able to coordinate mini-travels like this...It just..well, the idea of flying there and getting around and finding a hotel..all intimidated me..and then with us moving and my finances being what they are it just seemed a big expense...so, *sigh* I decided not to. But now of course, the day of the opening, I wish somehow I had worked it out. I should be there.:(
pooey on me. OK I think from now on...no excuses. I just bite the bullet and do it.
is pleased to announce
EXCAVATING REALITIES: DARLENE CHARNECO AND CHRIS NATROP
opening reception - Thursday, April 7, 7 to 9 pm.
April 7 until May 7, 2005
Press Release:
Altering their surrounding environment, artists Darlene Charneco and Chris Natrop provide an innovative glimpse into the reality of our lives while delineating differing insertion points that identify our place in the world. Looking both to nature and man-made structures, each artist exposes surprising relationships between memory, perception and the factual elements of our existence to create poetic works that hover between the real and the imaginary.
Utilizing nails, resin and mixed media on wood, Darlene Charneco’s artworks map the hybrid spaces that we live in. Zeroing in—primarily from an aerial perspective—to focus on cities and roads in an altered and abstracted way the artist references the evolution of digital networks that inform the world today. By exploring the similarities of our cities and roads to the internal structures of a large and complex organism, Charneco draws links to the Internet envisioning it as a growing nervous system, full of sensors, gathering and sending information to and fro. Based in Southampton, New York, Charneco has exhibited and guest lectured at numerous museums, galleries, and arts councils including the Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, Connecticut, Parrish Museum, Southampton, New York and the Hecksher Museum, Huntington, New York. MAAS Projects is pleased to exhibit Charneco’s work for the first time in Texas.
Chris Natrop, a San Francisco, California based artist delicately draws with a knife, shaping his perceptions of the world into cut paper works that reshape space. The gestural and intricate sculptural drawings transform areas by incorporating shadows that act as a conduit between the second and third dimensions. Color—subtle in some areas and bold and bright in others—highlights movement while referencing the voids and spaces that configure his world. Natrop’s work has been included in exhibitions at museums and galleries including the Yoo Projects, San Francisco, California, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, Spike Gallery, New York, Headlands Center for Arts, Sausalito, California, and Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany. This will be the artist’s first show of his work in Texas.
Guest Curator Jennifer Jankauskas is an independent curator and writer currently based in San Antonio, Texas. For almost fifteen years, she has focused on contemporary art and photography exhibitions along with organizing panel discussions, symposia, and film and video series for various museums, galleries and art spaces. Recent curatorial projects include Character Studies at the University of San Antonio, Texas, Houston: Suitcase Series #4 at The Lab Gallery at the Roger Smith Hotel, New York, and Beth Campbell: Make Belief at Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas. Her writings have appeared in such publications as ArtLies, perla, and on Glasstire Texas Visual Art Online among others.
Initiated as a venue to show a wide variety of one-time exhibitions, Maas Projects allows the gallery to show works we would not otherwise have the opportunity to show, such as guest-curated exhibitions, oversized installation works, or works by younger artists. Maas Projects will also house a flat file of works on paper, prints and photographs by a wide range of artists from Texas and from across the country. Maas is the middle name of Daniel Maas Fergus, the owner and co-director of both spaces.
Maas Projects is located at 2609 Dunlavy, around the corner from our main space. Maas Projects will be open on Friday and Saturday, from 11 to 7 and will also be open by request during the same hours as Mixture Contemporary. For more information about visiting Maas Projects, please email Adrienne at adrienne@mixturecontemporary.com.
Mixture Contemporary is located at 1709 Westheimer at Dunlavy in Houston, Texas. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11 to 7. Please contact either Lisa Cooley or Dan Fergus at 713.520.6809 with questions or direct email inquiries to lisa@mixturecontemporary.com.
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Date: 2005-04-07 07:08 pm (UTC)Did you ever do a resin pour of long island?
cake bot it lives!
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Date: 2005-04-08 05:38 am (UTC)maybe one day. want a nailhead where you live?;)
ps your icon is naughty.
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Date: 2005-04-08 03:00 pm (UTC)perhaps seagulls? lol
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Date: 2005-04-08 04:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-08 05:09 pm (UTC)I would be game to give it a shot.
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Date: 2005-04-08 05:19 pm (UTC)hmm well I could bring you a couple of the nails I use next time I see ya just to play around with.
I use custom aluminum nails that I buy in bulk.
Any chance you're going to the Islip Museum Show on the 17th?
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Date: 2005-04-08 05:27 pm (UTC)I always thought it was interesting they sell aluminum nails for paneling, but then they don't rust or stain like iron nails do.
I'll try to go it's by the airport?
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Date: 2005-04-08 06:12 pm (UTC)directions (http://www.islipartmuseum.org/directions.html) :)
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Date: 2005-04-08 07:53 pm (UTC)smiles
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Date: 2005-04-08 08:07 pm (UTC);)
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Date: 2005-04-08 08:18 pm (UTC)Friends meaning (my imaginary pet canadian goose)
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Date: 2005-04-08 08:28 pm (UTC)Please though, if you could...not those noises again.
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Date: 2005-04-08 08:40 pm (UTC)Though she has a fondness for tea biscuts now.
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Date: 2005-04-08 12:48 am (UTC)<3
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Date: 2005-04-08 02:25 am (UTC)you actually think I'd protest?;)
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Date: 2005-04-08 05:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-04-08 05:37 am (UTC)well, give me your email address and I'll give you the skinny on the average prices by size.for future reference!;)
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Date: 2005-04-08 08:28 pm (UTC)serious, no joke...
imma totally wowified by your schtuff.
not to mention that you 'da koolest chick on me friendzez page!
keep it up ms. darstar,
you're channelin' the good schtuff from somewhere! :)
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Date: 2005-04-09 03:23 am (UTC)