BOX 13 Artspace
Presents
Exhibitions on view July 24- August 19, 2010
Opening Reception July 24, 7:00-9:30pm
Open Saturdays, 1-5pm and by appointment
Downstairs Front BOX
Objects of Nostalgia - A. Dawn ChatoneyDownstairs Back BOX
Moving the Horizon Line - Jason UrbanWindow BOX
Movable Garden -Valerie PowellUpstairs BOX
Something to Put Something On - Martha Clippinger, Russ Havard,
and Isaac Powell (curated by Emily Sloan)Around the BOX
Battle of the 13th Vault – Matthew Glover
Houston, Texas –Box 13 Artspace is pleased to present five new exhibitions for our summer shows. In the front downstairs gallery, A. Dawn Chatoney casts soft objects such as pillows and lifevests in ceramic for her exhibition Objects of Nostalgia. Jason Urban presents “sculptural printworks”, which combine three-dimensional objects and two-dimensional images in Moving the Horizon Line, presented in the back downstairs gallery. In the Window Box, Valerie Powell creates Moveable Garden, in which viewers are invited to play gardener and rearrange the installation throughout the exhibition. In the upstairs gallery space, Emily Sloan curates Something to Put Something On featuring Martha Clippinger’s, Russ Havard’s, and Isaac Powell’s explorations involving paintings on objects or object-like forms. Throughout Box13 Artspace you will run across tiny installations of knitted ninjas fighting to the death in Matthew Glover’s Battle of the 13th Vault. The exhibitions continue through August 19, 2010. An opening reception will be held on Saturday July 24, 2010 from 7:00-9:30 pm at Box 13 Artspace, 6700 Harrisburg, Houston, TX 77011.
BOX 13 ArtSpace is an artist run nonprofit innovative environment for the creation and advancement of experimental contemporary art in Houston. BOX 13 artists create this environment through the offering of affordable workspaces for emerging and established artists, dedicating five interior spaces to the exhibition of artistic explorations, a window gallery for installations and an outdoor courtyard space. BOX 13 promotes dialogue among artists and the art community on current trends affecting the arts.
Downstairs Front BOX
Objects of Nostalgia
A. Dawn Chatoney
For her BOX 13 exhibition, Dawn Chatoney shares her Objects of Nostalgia. The life preserver is a symbol Dawn uses to reference preparation and recovery. The surfaces of each numbered lifejacket reveals the history of their making. The pillows in Dawn’s installation Love Loss reflect impressions made by the body. She references human fragility and fortitude by using reshaped life vests and pillows to celebrate things recovered and the gift of experience.
A. Dawn Chatoney recently graduated with her Masters of Fine Arts Degree from Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU) in May 2010. In December 2005 she received her Masters of Art with a concentration in ceramics from SFASU. Dawn began her career in art at the School of Fine Arts at McNeese State University in 1998, and received her Bachelor of Arts degree December 2002.
Downstairs Back BOX
Moving the Horizon Line
Jason Urban
Jason Urban’s work for his BOX 13 exhibition, Moving the Horizon Line, focuses on a deconstruction of iconic images representing the momentous and monumental in the natural world- sunsets, sunrises and mountaintops. Taking the form of sculptural printworks, the work underscores an ambiguous relationship between three-dimensional objects and two-dimensional images. By adhering digital output to wood and cardboard units, Urban creates piles and stacks that reveal pictures when viewed in their entirety. His influences range from camouflage and op-art to minimalist sculpture and games of skill (like Jenga, Tetris, and pick-up sticks). Urban uses traditional (even cliché) motifs and reinterprets them through a series of digital filters to create images that viewers feel familiar with regardless of their actual experience (or lack thereof) with the moment itself.
Jason Urban is an artist/writer/designer/curator/teacher living and working in Austin, TX. Originally from Northeastern Pennsylvania, Urban earned his BFA from Kutztown University in Kutztown, PA and then his MA and MFA from the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA. His prints, drawings, paintings and installations have been featured in numerous venues both nationally and internationally. Urban is also co-editor of HYPERLINK "http://printeresting.org" \t "_blank" http://printeresting.org: "the thinking person's favorite online resource for interesting printmaking miscellany." Currently, Urban teaches Printmaking and Foundations Drawing at the University of Texas at Austin.
Window BOX
Moveable Garden
Valerie Powell
Upstairs BOX Something to Put Something On
Martha Clippinger, Russ Havard and Isaac Powell Curated by Emily Sloan
Something to Put Something On features Martha Clippinger’s, Russ Havard’s, and Isaac Powell’s explorations involving paintings on objects or object-like forms. In their artwork, the "something" and the “something it is on” become equally important.
Havard and Powell both arrive at their creations from a painting background. Their artworks consist of paintings on elaborately constructed forms. In their writings about their artwork, both artists mention arriving at this physicality of form from physical limitations. Havard's delicate landscapes on intimate, curved forms evolved into their current state after finding out he had an auto-immune illness, while Powell addresses the challenges of being handicapped with visual problem solving as seen in his finely rendered paintings on forms with shelves, sleeves and propped pieces.
Clippinger addresses the object first and often creates pieces to be experienced in the round. Clippinger utilizes found objects which she then paints. These objects are collected from sites all around her, often initially in the form of scraps and discarded materials which are then given a new life with colors and patterns. She links her attraction to color and pattern to an upbringing surrounded by domestic fabrics such as upholstery and her grandmother’s quilts which adorned every bed in their house.
Martha Clippinger grew up in Columbus, Georgia, and it was there that she experienced the art of regional eccentric artists. She left the South to pursue a BA in Art History at Fordham University and later received an MFA in Visual Arts from Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University. Since then she has worked as Coordinator of New York Semester on Contemporary Art at Drew University. Recent exhibitions include Jettison: New Ideas in Abstraction at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee and I wanna be somewhere, Daily Operation, New York. She is a recipient of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Fellowship for 2010. Past awards include: the Nadine Goldsmith Artist’s Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center, University Merit Scholar Award and Teaching Fellowship at Rutgers University, and Vasari Lecturer at Fordham University. She currently lives in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn where she is the creator and organizer of the basement gallery space, The Dirty Dirty.
Based out of Lufkin, Texas, Russ Havard is represented by George Billis Gallery in New York, New York and Los Angeles, California. Havard has exhibited at The Museum of East Texas in Lufkin, Texas, the Longview Museum of Fine Art in Longview, Texas, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, Texas, Blue Star Art Space in San Antonio, Texas, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art in Austin, Texas, and the Bath House Cultural Center in Dallas, Texas. Havard’s artwork has been featured twice in New American Paintings and is in the collections of Time Life Corporation, Washington, D.C., Longview Museum of Fine Art, Longview, TX, and Vector Corporation, Dallas, TX.
Isaac Powell is a recent graduate of the MFA program at Washington State University who now teaches painting and drawing at Eastern Kentucky University. Powell interweaves the themes of life, growth, reproduction, and creativity with those of his own personal history in his still life and landscape depictions. Having been born without a right hand, the flora in his work directly references the body, its appendages and digits. By addressing his own anxieties through the imagery of plant cuttings and graftings, he has developed his own vocabulary for confronting both awkwardness and beauty. Powell feels compelled to displace this physical handicap by creating highly crafted hand made supports and structures for his paintings and drawings. Powell has an additional show scheduled for Houston this September at Gallery 1724.
Around the BOX Battle of the 13th Vault
Matthew Glover
A quest. But first, a facet of modern society is a pathological inability to look around, to see more than what is presented, pre-consumed, for the viewer to take in. Matthew Glover's work, as a whole, is intended to address and puncture this stance, to make the viewer more active in the "completeness" of the work. Whether it is as simple as having the viewer turn jagged edges into graceful curves, tasking their subconcious with creating forms out of the formless, causing them to find a relationship between words and a static image, or, as in this case, presenting them a wordless story, where the viewer must physically seek out each element to complete the narrative. Back to the quest. Throughout the Gallery, you will find ninjas. Some are in plain sight, and some are, as you might expect from ninjas, quite well hidden. A struggle is going on, lines have been drawn, and a secret, silent battle rages around you. All life is full of such struggles every day. Your quest; bear witness to the conflicts and turmoils of these little assassins, by finding as many as you can, and thus piece together your version of their saga.
Matthew Glover is an emerging artist working in photography, digital media and fiber arts. Originally from Austin, He has been living and working in Houston for seven years. He can be contacted at HYPERLINK "mailto:matthewcglover@gmail.com" matthewcglover@gmail.com. Glover has a BA in Writing and a BS in Economics from the University of Houston.
Also on view:
Installation BOX Boulder - Kia Neill
On view through October 21, 2010
Pay another visit to Kia Neill’s installation upstairs at Box 13. The installation Boulder fills the gallery as though a gigantic rock has plopped itself in the space. An interior chamber illuminated with crystals, mystical plants, and other obscure glittery forms lies within the boulder form. The environment will be something to visit again and again as its theatrics will evolve throughout the 6-month exhibition period. HYPERLINK
Closet Box Gallery
Nohegan East – For more information please visit: http://closetbox.weebly.com/index.html
Red White Yellow
New Work - Debo Eilers For more information please visit: http://redwhiteyellow.com/
The Kenmore Ice Box
The mini-Show - Aisen Caro Chacin, Loli Fernández-Andrade Kolber, Valerie Powell, Emily Sloan For more information please visit: HYPERLINK
BOX 13 Artspace Address: 6700 Harrisburg, Houston, TX 77011
Website: http://box13artspace.com/
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 1-5pm, and by appointment
Press Contact: e_bradford@yahoo.com or 361.219.7603
BOX 13 ArtSpace is a new artist run nonprofit innovative environment for the creation and advancement of experimental contemporary art in Houston. BOX 13 creates this environment through the offering of affordable workspaces for emerging and established artists and the dedication of a significant portion of its building for exhibitions.
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BOX 13 Artspace
Address: 6700 Harrisburg, Houston, TX 77009
Website: http://box13artspace.com/
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 1-5pm, and by appointment
Contact Info:e_bradford@yahoo.com 361.219.7603
6700 Harrisburg Blvd, Houston, TX 77011
ABOUT THE BOX
BOX 13 ArtSpace is an artist run nonprofit innovative environment for the creation and advancement of experimental contemporary art in Houston. BOX 13 artists create this environment through the offering of affordable workspaces for emerging and established artists, dedicating five interior spaces to the exhibition of artistic explorations, a window gallery for installations and an outdoor courtyard space. BOX 13 promotes dialogue among artists and the art community on current trends affecting the arts.
We take in new residents as studio spaces open up on an ongoing basis. We review new member aplications as a group. We evaluate applicants both on their work and on their ability and attitude to participate within the BOX 13 community.
We are currently accepting applications for new members see opportunity page for details.
The founding members of BOX 13 are Elaine Bradford, Woody Golden, Michael Henderson, Young-Min Kang, Kathy Kelley, Teresa O'Connor, Whitney Riley and Mat Wolff.
BOX 13 ArtSpace is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
BOX 13 ArtSpace relies on individual donors and its resident artists for funding to cultivate creation, appreciation and accessibility of contemporary experimental visual art within the community for its cultural enrichment. Please join us in this endeavor.
BOX 13 values
artistic experimentation and risk taking
colloboration
community
team work
transparency
self regulation
honesty-call your own foul