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Annabel Daou at the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
Jan 26, 2022
https://ulrich.wichita.edu/ulrich_exhibition/annabel-daou-declaration/
Annabel Daou's solo exhibition DECLARATION at Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, opens January 27, 2022 and runs through May 7, 2022.
In 2019-2020, the artist Annabel Daou created and exhibited a 20-foot text-covered sculptural scroll, WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS, titled in an allusion to the Declaration of Independence. The text for the scroll was sourced collectively and contained everyday expressions interspersed with lines borrowed, stolen, or gifted by other artists, poets, writers, and activists. In 2020, Daou created the sound piece DECLARATION (running time: 24 minutes 40 seconds) in collaboration with the sound artist Miriam Schickler. The work features Daou’s voice reciting phrases from the scroll as first-person actions, interspersed with a mix of sounds, both of peaceful city life and chants from recent protests in Chile, Lebanon, and other places around the world. The Ulrich Museum of Art acquired the piece for its permanent collection in 2021.
Annabel Daou at the Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA
Jan 26, 2022
https://arlingtonartscenter.org/exhibits/2022/global-spotlight-annabel-daou/
GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT: ANNABEL DAOU
ON VIEW: JANUARY 29 - MARCH 19, 2022
Truland & Experimental Galleries
The first in a new series dedicated to the work of international artists, Global Spotlight: Annabel Daou features two recent video works by the Lebanese-born, New York-based artist. The two works – A Year Like Any Other (2020), and chou hayda / if you only knew (2017-2018) – offer meditations on the human relationship to time and its passage, particularly in periods of crisis. In both works, Daou blurs the boundaries between the mundane experiences of day-to-day life and the dramatic events that mark moments of political and historical cataclysm, capturing the disorientation that results as individuals are swept up in the narratives of history.
Fahamu Pecou at the The University Art Gallery of the University of the South
Jan 19, 2022
https://new.sewanee.edu/university-art-gallery/current-exhibition-2/
Dr. Fahamu Pecou opens a new exhibit at the University of the South featuring never-before-seen process images and photography.
The University Art Gallery of the University of the South is delighted to present “Behind the SEEN: Process, Performance, and Practice in the Work of Fahamu Pecou” (January 11- March 9, 2022).
Maja Ruznic at Palazzo Pretorio, Prato, Italy
Dec 10, 2021
https://www.artsupp.com/en/prato/exhibitions/hi-woman-la-notizia-del-futuro
Curated by Francesco Bonami, the exhibition HEY WOMAN! includes the work of Maja Ruznic and 21 additional contemporary artists in conversation with the art and artifacts in the collection of the Palazzo Pretorio.
Heyd Fontenot featured in Dallas Voice
Dallas Voice | Dec 3, 2021 | by Jenny Block
https://dallasvoice.com/bewilderingly-beautiful/
Heyd Fontenot's current exhibition Color! Pattern! Propaganda! is reviewed in the Dallas Voice.
Nasher Sculpture Center Acquires Jeff Gibbons' Sculpture B.O.B.O. (Boat O.A.R. (Oceanic Auto-Reclaimer))
Nov 3, 2021
https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/
Nasher Sculpture Center Announces Recent Gifted Acquisitions
Five major works from contemporary artists including Jeff Gibbons
The Nasher Sculpture Center announces recent gifts to the collection: five large-scale works by contemporary artists Jeff Gibbons, Nicolas Party, Kathleen Ryan, Arlene Shechet, and Bosco Sodi. Generously given to the Nasher Sculpture Center by various private donors, the group of sculptures expand the museum’s holdings of works by living artists. Jeff Gibbons is the latest artist based in Texas to join the collection.
“The gifts of these important works of sculpture to the Nasher collection are tremendous, as they each enrich the understanding of the future of sculpture while making evident the deep ties to the traditions of the past still at play in current artistic practice,” says Director Jeremy Strick. “We are exceedingly grateful to the benefactors that have made these acquisitions possible, and we look forward to presenting these new works to the public.”
Jeff Gibbon’s B.O.B.O. (Boat O.A.R. (Oceanic Auto-Reclaimer)) offers a potent summation of the artist’s varied artistic pursuits and philosophical perspective, incorporating found objects, movement, and sound in an amusing and engaging sculpture that considers an episode of great personal significance and even greater implications for humanity. Like many of Gibbon’s sculptures, B.O.B.O. (Boat O.A.R. (Oceanic Auto- Reclaimer)) is a functioning machine, composed of a variety of objects oriented abnormally and playfully. The front of the organ sports a rendering of floating ice factories that Gibbons made to illustrate his idea for an invention to help counteract global warming and create more fresh drinking water. The idea expanded on earlier sculptures he had made using refrigeration equipment that grew ice in beautiful forms and patterns. It also serves here as a remnant of a poignant episode in his life when the artist spoke to the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. and later sought a patent for his invention but was unable to see the process through due to lack of funds and advocacy, only to see someone else develop the same process successfully several years later. The title for the work, B.O.B.O. (Boat O.A.R. (Oceanic Auto-Reclaimer)), is also the name Gibbons gave to his invention and underscores the affection he typically places on inanimate objects, activating and personifying them—cast-off, downtrodden objects as stand-ins for human experiences. The work by Gibbons continues the Nasher’s acquisitions of important works by Texas artists and its more recent support of artists in the region. The work also expands the lineage of Dada, represented in the collection by the founding presence of Jean Arp, and adds to the Nasher’s growing range of found object constructions from Joan Miró to Elliott Hundley and including Texas artists Jim Love and David MacManaway.
About Jeff Gibbons | Jeff Gibbons (American, born 1982) is an artist, musician, poet, writer, and curator based in Dallas. His work engages a variety of media and forms including painting, sculpture, photography, video, sound, experimental music, and dance. Over the past decade, he has been one of the most innovative artists working in the region, showing independently at Conduit Gallery and at a variety of non-profit art spaces throughout Texas, including the MAC, the Power Station, and the Goss-Michael Foundation, as well as international exhibitions in Guadalajara and Querétaro, Mexico, and Marseille, France. He has also collaborated and performed with a variety of artists and performance groups, including the Dallas Neo-Classical Ballet and in 2018, for the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family SOLUNA International Music and Arts Festival, with fellow artist and musician, Gregory Ruppe.
Johnny Floyd Hyperblack Spectacle reviewed in Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning News | Oct 15, 2021 | by Darryl Ratcliff
Preorder available for Maja Ruznic In the Sliver of the Sun exhibition catalog
Aug 20, 2021
Preorder available for
Maja Ruznic
In The Sliver of The Sun
Text by Nicole Dial-Kay, Hariz Halilovich, Annie Godfrey Larmon
Harwood Museum of Art, 2021
56 pages, hardcover
10 1⁄2 × 8 1⁄2 inches
Margaret Meehan at Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art
Jul 1, 2021
https://virginiamoca.org/amplify
Margaret Meehan is included in the exhibition Amplify at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art.
JULY 17 - OCTOBER 24, 2021
Amplify focuses on the experiences of woman-identifying artists in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C. Virginia MOCA curators have connected with curatorial colleagues and asked them to share their recommendations of woman-identifying artists who are exploring identity and the gendered roles of women. Constructs regarding a woman’s identity can be complicated and loaded with political agendas and nuances; yet they are also fascinating, beautiful, and filled with joy when embraced in all their forms. Through a variety of media and approaches, the artists in Amplify explore some of the many aspects of what it is to be a woman. They reveal common themes from an intersectional, and deeply personal lens.
Texas Legislature Appoints Annette Lawrence State Artist of the Year 2021-2022, Artist Working in 2D
Jun 9, 2021
www.arts.texas.gov/stateartist
AUSTIN, Texas – May 18, 2021 – The Texas State Legislature made appointments Tuesday, May 18 to the positions of state poet laureate, state musician, state two-dimensional artist and state three-dimensional artist. The positions, created by SB 1043 of the 77th Legislature, are filled for one-year terms. The eight appointees for 2021 and 2022 were selected by a legislative-appointed committee for the exceptional quality of their work and for their outstanding commitment to the arts in Texas. The 2021 appointees include Texas Poet Laureate Cyrus Cassells of Austin, Texas State Musician Leon Bridges of Fort Worth, Texas State Two-Dimensional Artist Annette Lawrence of Denton, and Texas State Three-Dimensional Artist Jennifer Ling Datchuk of San Antonio.