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Anthony Sonnenberg at Big Medium, Austin, TX
Aug 7, 2024
https://www.bigmedium.org/anthony-sonnenberg
on view: August 23 – October 5, 2024
My Eyes Are Starving for Beauty by Anthony Sonnenberg at Big Medium, Austin, TX
My Eyes Are Starving for Beauty is a site-specific installation and performance in celebration of the role that beauty and fantasy have played in queer self-empowerment for the last century and beyond. Using common materials, such as recycled clay, thrift store blankets, and scrap lumber, the artist, (a fat gay man) seeks to create a moment of pure fantasy, continuing to defy beauty standards and experience what it means and how it feels to be beautiful.
Stephen Lapthisophon at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Aug 1, 2024
(June 6, 2024 – La Jolla, California) – The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego is proud to announce For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability on view from September 19, 2024 to February 2, 2025. The exhibition is organized as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide, an initiative of the Getty Foundation. Bolstered by the support and structure of the Getty Foundation, the special exhibition, organized by Senior Curator Jill Dawsey, Ph.D. and former Associate Curator Isabel Casso, is PST ART’s largest presentation by square footage this year.
Kathryn Kanjo, the David C. Copley Director and CEO at MCASD notes, “The artworks featured in For Dear Life bring compassion and criticality to the conversations surrounding health today. For Dear Life extends the museum’s legacy of presenting rigorous exhibitions that speak to societal consciousness through the art of our time.”
For Dear Life is the first survey of artistic responses to illness, disability, and the vulnerability of the body in American art since the 1960s. In recent years, the art world has seen an explosion of activity confronting issues of illness, disability, and forms of unruly embodiment more broadly. Tracing genealogies of art practices that have shaped contemporary currents, For Dear Life explores how this turn was preceded by the work of artists and activists beginning in the 1960s and 1970s.
Susie Phillips Video: Voices on Art-At the Tyler Museum of Art-Artist talk with Susie Phillips
Mar 7, 2024 | by Art This Week & the Tyler Museum of Art
https://artthisweek.com/voa-at-the-tyler-museum-of-art-artist-talk-with-susie-phillips/
Voices on Art-Episode 96-Posted March 1, 2024
On February 25, Art This Week Productions filmed this artist talk by Susie Phillips at the Tyler Museum of Art. This talk was filmed in conjunction with the exhibition, The Way I See It: Works by Cindi Holt and Susie Phillips on view at the gallery December 15, 2023 – March 10, 2024.
Jeff Gibbons at Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Feb 3, 2024
https://paam.org/fawc-fellows-at-paam/
January 12, 2024 — March 3, 2024
Curator: Christine McCarthy
Provincetown Art Association and Museum is pleased to present the 2023-24 Fine Arts Work Center Visual Fellows.
Since its creation 50 years ago, the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship has become one of the leading residency programs in the world and has hosted more than 1,000 Fellows since 1968, nurturing an accomplished and far-reaching alumni network. The impact of the experience is best illustrated by the extensive list of awards Fellows have gone on to win, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellowship, Prix de Rome, Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize in Literature.
This year’s multi-disciplinary exhibition explores the layered experiences with which these artists are contending through sculpture, painting, film, photography, installation and printmaking. Featuring Miguel Braceli, Micha Patiniott, Rehab El Sadek, Jeff Gibbons, Oscar Morel, Tinja Ruusuvuori, Zeinab Shahidi Marnani, Agnes Walden, and Sasha Wortzel.
Susie Phillips included in By Hand exhibition at Blue Line Arts in Sacramento, CA
Jan 27, 2024
https://www.bluelinearts.org/byhandinfo
The exhibit, By Hand - An International Fine Craft Competition is on view at the Blue Line Arts Center, Sacramento, CA through March 2, 2024.
Susan Barnett's Mandala IV turned into circular puzzle by Pomegranate Press
Jan 27, 2024
From the Pomegranate website" "Susan Barnett’s works are created at the intersection of systemic pattern, culture, and art. Her Mandala IV painting might at first appear static, based on an underlying geometric pattern, but its overlaid shapes and color juxtaposition reveal an immersive space where new patterns emerge and the boundary between viewer and painting dissolves. “I am interested in the patterns that exist beneath the surface of our lives. These patterns act as an unconscious director,” she says, “emphasizing one aspect and hiding another.” Contemplate life’s complexities and meditate on Barnett’s mandala as you assemble this 500-piece circular puzzle."
Annette Lawrence at The Warehouse Dallas
Jan 17, 2024
https://thewarehousedallas.org/exhibition/forwhatitsworth/
Annette Lawrence's work will be included is in the exhibition, For What It’s Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960
Curated By: Thomas Feulmer & Lisa Le Feuvre
On view at The Warehouse Dallas - February 2 - June 29, 2024
How can we attempt to understand the value systems that surround us and guide our lives?
With this question, For What It’s Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960 brings together 80 artists from across generations and geographies to explore one of the most urgent concerns of our time: the growing challenges to value systems that have arisen out of confrontations with social, political, and cultural power structures. Grounded in the international conceptual art tendencies of the 1960s and 1970s, the exhibition builds on the strategies of this era that continue to reverberate through art and the world today.
Vincent Fasletta video interview on Glasstire
Glasstire | Jan 16, 2024 | by Michael Flanagan
https://glasstire.com/2024/01/16/video-getting-to-know-vincent-falsetta/
This interview with Vincent Falsetta was recorded in December 2021 during the filming of Breaking the Code, the Texas Independent Film Award-nominated documentary directed by Michael Flanagan about Texas artist Vernon Fisher.
While the conversation with Falsetta focused on the two artists’ decades-long relationship as colleagues teaching at the University of North Texas, Falsetta also discussed other subjects, including what initially drew him to Texas from the East Coast, and his own artistic practice.
During the making of Breaking the Code, several hours-long interviews were often required to be condensed into only a few minutes of material in the final film, leaving many fascinating stories on the cutting room floor. Falsetta’s interview is the first in what will be a series highlighting this additional material, published on Glasstire.
Vincent Falsetta Retrospective: Works from 1975 – 2023, a show highlighting over 45 years of the artist’s work, is on view at Conduit Gallery in Dallas through February 17, 2024.
Video Credits:
Directed and Produced by Michael Flanagan
Camera: Davin Fitch
Sound: Jeremy Rovny
Annette Lawrence in Afro-Atlantic Histories exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art
Nov 16, 2023
https://afro-atlantic-histories.dma.org/p/1
On view through February 11, 2024
Afro-Atlantic Histories takes us to Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe, but at its heart is Africa. Displaying works from the 17th century to the present, the exhibition explores the diverse visual cultures of the Afro Atlantic—places marked by the transatlantic slave trade and its brutal forced movement of African peoples across the Atlantic Ocean.
Heyd Fontenot in KALTBLUT Magazine
KALTBLUT Magazine | Nov 14, 2023
"Fontenot deftly unmasks the inherent queerness concealed beneath the fig leaves of mythology in his thought-provoking exhibition. “When I Think about a Minotaur” invites viewers to delve into the multifaceted narratives of Greek mythology, which symbolically explore the diverse spectrum of LGBTQ+ relationships and identities. The artist’s work emboldens mythology, not as an antiquated storytelling form, but rather as a vibrant and evolving commentary on human experiences and sexualities that defy societal norms."