Maria Zerres at the Ayn Foundation

The Ayn Foundation is pleased to present paintings by German artist, Maria Zerres titled September Eleven, in Marfa, Texas. Zerres said that she was deeply affected by the violent destruction of New York's twin towers in September 2001. Zerres describes the towers' office light as a sort of beacon for her life as she walked with her children at night in the area around her apartment. Twelve large-scale paintings fill the Ayn Foundation gallery with Zerres' memory of the September eleven event.

The Ayn Foundation would like to thank the artist for her generous loan.
Viewing hours are 12-5 pm weekends or by appointment.

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Galleri Urbane Opening Tonight

Tonight, Sept 18 from 6-9 p.m is the opening of Galleri Urbane's Fall Exhibit “reaction to space”, featuring gallery artists, Gail Peter Borden, a former Chinati Artist In Resident, Ted Larsen, a recent recipient of the Pollack-Krasner Award and Marfa artist Jason Willaford, with visiting artists, Monica Goldsmith, recently added to New American Painters 2008 and Austin artist Rebecca Rothfus.

This year’s group exhibit “reaction to space” is a compilation of 5 artists and their parallel interpretations, questioning how line and mass interact, how manmade and natural structures in the exterior or interior view play against and within space.“ Reaction to Space” will be on exhibit in Gallery One and Four.

In Gallery Two a solo exhibit “STACKS” featuring gallery artist Kate Carr. Stacking and layering have long been tools of Ms Carr’s visual vocabulary, with the use of cloth and wood, the artist associates these utilitarian materials with line. Edges of cloth and wood are stacked or coiled into repeated multiples—creating densely textured, multi-layered fields that hum with line.

In Gallery Three will be selected group of PLATE de composites by gallery artist Michael Berman. The plate itself is a relic, cut and filed by hand, layered with paint into which the photograph has been set, abraded back through the pentimenti, rubbed with graphite and pure pigments, and, finally, waxed. Mr. Berman’s work has been exhibited throughout the U.S and is included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Amon Carter Museum to name a few, Mr Berman is also a recent recipient of The Guggenheim Award 2008.

Also new to the gallery, will be 4 interior and exterior wood sculpture from artist Munson Hunt, the gallery has selected 3 pieces from the HIVE series, The gallery will also have new work from gallery artists Peter Voshefski and Andrea Zuill. View a portion of the fall show at the Galleri Urbane website.

El Cosmico Party Coincides with Chinati Dinner

"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." Walt Whitman

El Cosmico's party this year happens (?) to fall on the same weekend as Chinati's Members Dinner (October 10 and 11, 2008). El Cosmico will have all the same great events as last year and they hope to see you by the campfire.

This year there will be a very special night of music by Alejandro Escovedo - Friday night at 9 pm. This show is included in the price of camping. If you aren't camping at EC, cost is $10 at the front gate. If you are, it's $30 per tent/ trailer.

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KRTS: Upcoming Talk Show Guests

Local and visiting personalities are interviewed weekdays on TALK AT TEN on Marfa Public Radio (KRTS, 93.5 FM).

The Trans-Pecos talk show is broadcast weekdays at 10 AM; it is replayed weekday evenings at 6:30 PM.

UPCOMING GUESTS: Thursday Sept 18: Marfa artist Adam Bork, with new exhibit at Marfa Book Company. Friday, Sept 19: Oscar Mestas, Regional Urban Forester, with "Tree 101." bonus show Friday Sept 19 (at 3:30 PM): Touring musician Cory Morrow Monday, Sept 22: Tim Roberts on rock art in Big Bend Ranch State Park Tues to Thurs, Sept 23-25: Artists from The Marfa Sessions, new installation from Ballroom Marfa

AND ONGOING THIS WEEK: Tuesday, Sept 16: Singer-songwriter Erin Ivey, performing tonight in Marfa. Wednesday, Sept 17: Marfa city councilman David Beebe on rising garbage rates; also Marfan John Wotowicz, explaining the current upheaval in the finance industry.

Ballroom: THE MARFA SESSIONS

Saturday, 27 September 2008 - Sunday, 1 February 2009

>>Performance by Steve Roden & Stephen Vitiello: Fri. 26th, Chinati, Dusk
>>David Toop & Joshua Kun in conversation: Sat. 27th, Liberty Hall, 4pm
>>Music with Kurt Wagner of Lambchop & DJ Damon Locks: Sat. 27th, Liberty Hall, 9pm

The Marfa Sessions, curated by Regine Basha, Rebecca Gates and Lucy Raven presents a series of individual sound projects, each engaging some aspect of Marfa's geographic, historical and unique social character. Basha, Gates and Raven have selected fifteen artists with specific interests in sound work and its potential as a transgressive medium within place and geography. Seven of these artists have been invited for individual site visits and residencies in Marfa, Texas in the year before the exhibition to collect field recordings, record interviews and document the landscape. The Marfa Sessions includes new contributions from Nina Katchadourian, Christina Kubisch and Kaffe Matthews, as well as collaborative work by Deborah Stratman/Steven Badgett, Steve Roden/Stephen Vitello and Steve Rowell/Simparch. Pertinent work from Emily Jacir, Louise Lawler, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, Dario Robleto, and Julianne Swartz will also be featured in specific locations for the exhibition.

Following the opening reception on Saturday 27 September, there will be a conversation at Ballroom Marfa between authors Josh Kun and David Toop on the various ways of listening to place, and the overlaps of history and personal memory.

Curated by Regine Basha, Rebecca Gates and Lucy Raven

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Chinati Members Dinner, October 10

On Friday, October 10, to coincide with the opening of the Olle Baertling exhibition, the Chinati Foundation will host a special dinner to benefit the museum, open exclusively to Chinati members. The dinner, catered by Shelley Hudson and Food Company of Dallas and accompanied by Swedish music performed by Paul and Daniel Dahlin, will be held at 7:00 PM in the Arena, with a preview of the Olle Baertling exhibition and a cocktail reception starting at 5:00 PM.

Tickets are $300 per person and seating is limited. For on-line reservations, please email membersdinner@chinati.org or call the Chinati Foundation office at 432 729 4362.
The Chinati Members Dinner is generously sponsored by Scion.

Olle Baertling: Paintings 1952-1980

Opening October 10, 2008

The Chinati Foundation is pleased to announce a special exhibition by Swedish painter Olle Baertling (1911-1981) opening on Saturday, October 11, 2008. Baertling's work is widely recognized in Scandinavia — in 2007-08 a major retrospective of his work was co-organized by the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo and... full article.