Printable Chinati OH Program

Attached here is the official .PDF file of the Chinati Open House Program. I suggest you print it out now so that you are ready to roll when you hit the streets of Marfa.

I'll be checking in to Marfa.Org occassionally, but I may not make any more posts during the weekend - there's so much going on that the thought of sitting in front of the keyboard is not appealing.

See you soon friends - stop me and say "hi" if you see me 'round.

Have fun, Mark

500E, Austin-Based Collective

500E, a collaboration of Austin artists, announces a visual art presentation showcasing the new works of Sean Gaulager, Adreon Henry, Germaine Keller, Jacob Villanueva, and Hank Waddell.

The exposition will run during OH Weekend.

Sean Gaulager, an installation artist as well as a co-founder of Cantanker Magazine and the assistant director at Volitant Gallery, will be exhibiting a site-specific piece using art installation materials and empty picture frames.

Adreon Henry creates mixed media paintings made of canvas and vinyl using silkscreens and acrylic. Henry has shown work in various parts of the world including Los Angeles and Biarritz, France.

Germaine Keller works with digital photographs, linear computer drawings and wire constructions. Keller is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including the National Endowment of the Arts, the Athena Foundation, and a residency from The MacDowell Colony.

Hank Waddell is a sculptor whose work frequents the Umlauf Sculpture Gardens in Austin and has shown pieces during OH Weekend for the past 7 years. "My first trip to Marfa was a present to myself for my 50th birthday and the start of a commitment to art as a way of life. This year, I have asked some of thebest talent I know to share in this experience with me," stated Waddell.

Jacob Villanueva is a video installation artist and a member of the Open Doors Collective. Villanueva will be showing a work in progress video for an upcoming show in November 2007 at The Dallas Contemporary.

500E extends its invitation to view the works of these artists to the public. A special performance piece by Bunnyphonic and a DJ set by The Sleeves is scheduled Friday night. A live musical set by Austin-based band,Single Frame, will follow Saturday night. Both events are sponsored by Vitamin Water and Sparks.

Kickball Battle Royale!

Kickball Jesus left a note inviting one and all for a battle on the diamond..... umm, kickball diamond that is.

Marfa Locals vs. “THE ART WORLD” Kickball Game!

When: OH WEEKEND, Saturday Morning, October 6th, 2007, 11am
Where: Coffield Park Baseball Diamond, North Mesa St. @ W. Texas (3 blocks north of San Antonio St/Hwy 90, then just north of the railroad tracks on your left)
Why: All out battle for who owns the soul of Marfa!

Day of Game Info Hotline: 480-694-3715, or check this blog.

Ballroom Marfa Presents Bruce Levingston, Tomorrow

BRUCE LEVINGSTON

4 October 2007, 7 pm

Goode Crowley Theater

Free Concert

New York-based Bruce Levingston is the rarest of modern musicians, a world-class pianist whose reputation is matched by a fearless commitment to the vanguard of new composition.Born in Mississippi, trained in the United States and abroad, Levingston's career has taken him from international festivals and Carnegie Hall recitals to mixed media events at the crossroads of art, music, film and literature.

Stylistically, there is a sensitivity to Bruce Levingston's playing, a serenity that exists without sacrificing excitement or richness. Levingston's live programs reflect his poetic tendencies, favoring masters of the Romantic period like Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms as well as Impressionists such as Ravel and Debussy. With a repertoire that extends from the Baroque period to the present, however, a Liszt waltz is likely to be balanced by a dramatic Webern piano variation or a premiere by a young, cutting-edge composer like Lisa Bielawa.

If Bruce Levingston's own artistic course has been charted through the classical repertory, then he's returned his energies to the very source of the tradition's sustenance: new music. As a founding chair and artistic director of the Premiere Commission, a non-profit organization committed to promoting new music and art, over thirty new works have been commissioned and premiered under Levingston's stewardship. These have included major scores by some of contemporary music's leading composers, among them Philip Glass and Pulitzer Prize winners William Bolcom, David Del Tredici, George Perle and Charles Wuorinen.

Levingston's recent recording of composer Philip Glass's diptych "A Musical Portrait of Chuck Close" exemplifies the Premiere Commission's vision as well as the pianist's own artistic gifts. Commissioned by and composed for Levingston, "A Musical Portrait of Chuck Close" is inspired by the long-running friendship between painter and photographer Chuck Close and minimalist icon Philip Glass. The work, which appears on Levingston's 2006 Portraits album, is both an elaboration of this musician's elegant style and an appeal to the symbiotic relationship between composer and artist.

Bruce Levingston will feature Glass's "A Musical Portrait of Chuck Close" alongside masterworks by Mozart, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Brahms and Debussy.

Generous support has been provided by Ballroom Board of Trustees with special thanks to Premiere Commission.

Queens Nails Annex: Marfa Exhibition

For its second annual OH Weekend exhibition, The Waypoint Gallery is proud to present Queens Nails Annex: Marfa, a survey show of works from the artist run gallery Queens Nails Annex in San Francisco. The gallery will be bifurcated into two exhibition spaces. The main space will feature a survey of two and three dimensional work, while the side space will function as a dark room for a compilation of recent videos from several artists.

As curator Mike Bianco states, "I imagine QNA must be a lot like what the Ferus Gallery was in L.A. in the late 1950s. It's a beehive for artistic activity and innovation". Queens Nails Annex was founded by artists Julio Morlaes and Brian Storts, and critic Liz Mullholand. Shortly after its inception, artist Bob Linder joined in collaboration and the gallery began premiering some of the most challenging exhibitions in the bay area.

The Waypoint is a curatorial project started by independent curator Mike Bianco in 2006. At the conceptual foundation of the project are notions of mobile exhibition, the renaissance of cartographic techniques in cultural production, and a dedication to promoting and exhibiting emerging cultural practices around the globe. The ambition of the Waypoint is to promote a discourse about contemporary cultural production beyond regional and national borders via a rhizomic curatorial structure that utilizes both nodular exhibitions and information/communication technology.

The opening is scheduled for October 5th from 9 to 11 p.m. Waypoint: Marfa is located at 208 S. Summer St (just behind the Thunderbird office). Gallery hours for Open House weekend will be 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Judd's Concrete Boxes in Print at inde/jacobs

i n d e / j a c o b s presents a limited edition print of Judd's 15 untitled works in concrete by Ted Ollier of Austin, TX . The print, "15 Graphic Judds", is an arial view of the concrete box formations located at Chinati and is similar to Ollier's other "graphic" work of geographic forms and landscapes.

"15 Graphic Judds" is published in an edition of 60 and is priced at $600. Ollier and inde/jacobs will donate 10% of the sales on Chinati OH weekend to the Chinati Foundation.

inde/jacobs will also exhibit one of Judd's copper armchairs, as well as the artist's aquatints, etchings, woodcuts and lithographs. Works on paper are also available by the following Chinati artists: Andre, Chamberlain, Flavin, and Horn.

The annex of the gallery (the house next door to the gallery) will include work by Erika Blumenfeld, Ellen Carey, Danae Falliers, David Hirschi, Ben Meisner and Ted Ollier.

inde/jacobs is a sponsor of OH weekend. Cash and checks required for any purchases.

OH weekend hours: Fri & Sat 10:00 - 9:00. Sun 10:00 - 3:00. Everyone is welcome.

Bosworth and Webb Gallery at The Do Right

As seen at the coffeeshop ...

Campbell Bosworth will be showing new paintings and sculptures. Camp's show will feature a ten-foot replica of the Marfa water tower. The silver-leafed sculpture has been painstakingly engineered to dispense fine tequila. Camp will be showing several new paintings displaying his storytelling skill in his carved wood relief paintings, mostly depicting life in the Big Bend. Also on display, will be over 150 small clay heads of cowboys, wrestlers, bikers and societal misfits.

The Webb Gallery will be showing the paintings of Ike Morgan. Ike paints portraits of George Washington and produces hundreds of paintings a year. His artwork has been featured in many major exhibits including Jean Dubuffet's Collection l'art brut in Lausanne, Switzerland and the Museum of American Folk Art in New York. The exhibit will be open Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m and possibly Friday and Sunday afternoon. The Do Right is located at 108 W. Dallas. It is a church building and recognized by the large, orange horseshoe in front.