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AT THE SEAMS...
Lynne Harlow and Brett Davidson
curated by Ariane Roesch
July 7, 2009 - August 15, 2009
At the Seams… two places collide, combine, and connect. In a time of reduction and down-sizing, there is a power in simple gestures, such as a stitch, a word, a piece of tape, a draped fabric. This exhibition is a culmination of various media and will feature the book Another Somewhere, the first SKYDIVE publication.
Lynne Harlow’s installation at SKYDIVE essentially is dictated by the architecture of the standard dropped ceiling tiles office environment of the SKYDIVE exhibition space. A piece of sheer fluorescent orange fabric arcs through the space, enforced by metallic golden tape that continues the ceiling tile grid on the wall through the space and into the adjacent spaces as well as marking several places throughout Houston. Brett Davidson’s text reflects on varies places, situations and people. Set in context of quotes, the individual stories muse on situations that are simple in essence yet present a critical commentary on our way of being. Both text and image will be presented together in the book Another Somewhere, available for purchase at SKYDIVE.
SISYPHUS OFFICE -- artifacts on view NOW at the CAMH
Alex Clausen, David Fullarton, Alice Shaw, David Keating, Elysa Lozano, Joe McKay, Brion Nuda Rosch, Susan O’Malley, Ryan Thayer, Lindsey White
organized by Jonn Herschend
SKYDIVE is pleased to announce its most ambitious exhibition in scope and sprawl, Sisyphus Office, organized by San Francisco based artist, curator, and co-founder of The Thing Quarterly, Jonn Herschend. Sisyphus Office will open May 8th from 5-8:30pm. Locations of artist’s projects for Sisyphus Office include The Decorative Center, Nea House of Beauty, Copy.com, the Aurora Picture Show’s office, KPFT 90.1 radio’s offices, Caroline Collective and Skydive’s office.
Based out of Skydive, the artists involved in the project are collaborating
with businesses and offices around Houston in order to centralize art as
an integral and necessary distraction in our day to day life.
The artists
and offices involved in Sisyphus Office are working physically
and conceptually with the notions of existentialism, romantic
capitalism*, artistic romanticism and deadpan slapstickism as
a means to examine and probe the artifice that keeps us clinging
to reality and distracted from the void.
Sisyphus Office is about
punching the clock, and then punching it again…but harder
the second time. It’s about Laurel and Hardy helping
out in a business. It’s also about transcending
the mundane through the beauty and absurdity of distraction and
repetition, like watching paper being fed into a printer, or
waiting for a file to upload. It’s the comedy in
the tragedy of the day to day… and then waking up again
to do the same thing all over again the next morning.
**see videos page for detailed tours of the individual spaces**
Sunday Soup: Houston
Sunday April 5, 2009, 12-4pm
Come have soup ($5) and contribute to a stimulus package for local artists!
On April 5th join members of Chicago-based InCUBATE, guest chef Randall Szott, and fellow members of your Houston community at SKYDIVE for "Sunday Soup: Houston."
"Sunday Soup" is a community meal that functions as a grant funding process.
Congrats to our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place winners:
1st place - Mindy Kober and students at the Houston Outdoor Learning Academy, for their interactive garden full of Texas native plants and vegetables. Students will tend the garden, learn about environmental and community issues, and will harvest their own lunches.
2nd place - The American Wandering Club, proposed by Sean Carroll, will commission public sculpture on abandoned empty sites throughout Houston. "There is no ownership of the public art works, they are paid for and built to be disowned, left on empty properties, atrophied, potentially destroyed and possibly stolen. Bequeathed to the city’s dynamic whim, The American Wandering Club will document the creation, installation and presentation of sculptures wandering Houston."
3rd place - Darcy Nuffer and Leah Davis propose Farm Feed to be stationed in Downtown Houston. This project proposes to "re-introduce the agrarian system, which supports Houston, back into the city the through a series of live-feed sound-enabled digital projections connected to a pasture, orchard, greenhouse, farm field, and feedlot."
February 12 – March 11, 2009
OPEN HOUSE - work by Sarah Wagner and Jon Brumit
curated by Sasha Dela
"Home, for us, has been re-discovered and re-invented in our hearts and minds as the multiform and frequently fugitive structural relationship between ourselves and something larger than ourselves. It is our families, each other, our cats, our friends, former houses, dorm rooms, stories, a houseboat, dreams, foods, moving trucks, our studios, vans, tents, bike bags, friends' couches, an in-progress container home, our newest $100 home in Detroit and most importantly and perhaps most constantly each other - a morphing, evolving and strengthening bond through time and space, going on 17 years as a couple. Over this time we have worked together as artists, sculptors, builders, remodelers, repair-people and most recently as designers, growing through spirited and fierce dialog, sharing dreams, visions and hope." -Sarah Wagner and Jon Brumit
January 6 - January 31, 2009
Butterflies Shift North
Susan Chen presents a new installation using a unique combination of panoramic painting, projected video, and sculpture. Chen’s practice is inspired by 19th century Romantic painting of the sublime landscape and the mythical notion of Arctic Eden, the tropical paradise in the middle of a world of frozen oceans and glaciers. Chen states, “Leftover visual memories stemming from Caspar David Friedrich and John Martin get filtered though stories and pulp fiction from Jules Verne and sci-fi to movies and TV shows like “Lost”. Islands and the arctic regions are my riffing point. These symbolic places for transformation are disappearing and once again the weather or nature has sublime power in it’s original sense of awesomeness and possible destruction of the viewer.” Chen has created a large-scale panoramic experience of a futuristic landscape in the Skydive space.
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photo by Pablo Gimenez Zapiola – bandArt.org |
photo by Pablo Gimenez Zapiola – bandArt.org |
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photo by Pablo Gimenez Zapiola – bandArt.org |
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November 26 - December 24th, 2008
Thick as Thieves
"There is no overarching idea for Thick As Thieves other than the thought that these artists could come together to make a wonderful show. Even though each of the artists practices and products are dramatically different, yet they seem unified and complete. Each peice must be approached on its own terms and not necessarily the terms set forth by the exhibition. It is my hope, however, that settling these works into the same space will expand the scope of meaning and effectiveness, and only serve to intensify what I think makes them truly interesting artists and works of art."
THICK AS THIEVES is curated by A.J. Liberto and features work by Nellie Appleby, Andres Lombana in collaboration with A.J. Liberto, and Rebecca Carter.
October 22 - November 19, 2008
Insurance is Not Always Assured
Commercial and architectural cycles are bulimic in Houston. The lifespans of housing and commercial spaces are brief, and little thought is given to the preservation of history. "Insurance is Not Always Assured" explores the cyclical breakdown and redevelopment of the built environment, and how this affects our sense belonging or detachment from the places we live, the spaces we work, and the buildings and cities through which we move.
"Insurance is Not Always Assured" is curated by Jonathan Durham and will include work by Thomas Doran, Emily Thompson, John Williams, and Katie Grinnan.
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