SHOWMEN

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February 28, 2012

FORT WORTH, Texas - brand 10 art space is pleased to announce Showmen which runs March 9 – April 28, 2012. The exhibition features work of artists: Tim Best, Titus O’Brien, Tom Orr and Cameron Schoepp. 

Showmen brings these four artists together in an exhibition that investigates space, material, narrative and intuition. Each artist offers a unique inquiry into various degrees of thought about the physical world contrasted with interior lives. Their work addresses: a fascination with simplicity and universality (Schoepp), the space between painting and sculpture focusing on idea driven site-specific installation (Orr), narrative using metaphor as inner struggle (Best) and the intuitive and expressive inquiry into fundamental existential realities (O’Brien).

IMAGE: Tim Best “ Behold the Man”  

Showmen is organized by the brand 10 art space founders Heagan Bayles, Christine Bisetto, Matthew Clark and Kathy Webster. An opening reception for the artists will be held on Friday March 9 from 5pm – 9pm.

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TOWN AND COUNTRY

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December 16, 2011

FORT WORTH, Texas - brand 10 art space is pleased to announce Town and Country which runs from January 13 – February 25, 2012. The exhibition features work by a collection of Texas-based artists: Mark Collop, Josephine Durkin, John Frost and David Willburn and two artist collaborations by Joel Kiser + Todd Hayes and Benito Huerta & Janet Chaffee.

Town and Country traces the terrain where urban merges with rural and explores the distinctions that define one from the other or where they blur. How does living in a town or out in the country affect work and leisure time and thinking about the world in a larger sense? For those who live in the city or suburb, is the notion of a town romantic or the countryside nostalgic? Is it a luxury or a burden to live in either scenario? Does one long for open spaces of nature or for the company of others in the urban center? 

Utopian ideas of civic planning have tried to balance both town and country with varying degrees of success and failure.  The artists in Town and Country live and work all over the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in suburbs, mid-cities, and on the cusp of urban sprawl. Their work investigates isolation and privacy (Hayes + Kiser), intimacy and domestication (Willburn), cooperation and communication (Durkin), constructive and destructive forces (Frost), the beauty of ambiguity and anticipation (Collop) and physical and psychological boundaries (Huerta & Chaffee).  

IMAGE: by Josephine Durkin

 Town and Country is organized by the brand 10 art space founders Heagan Bayles, Christine Bisetto, Matthew Clark and Kathy Webster. An opening reception will be held on Friday, January 13 from 5pm – 9pm.

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WORDS

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October 17, 2011

FORT WORTH, Texas - brand 10 art space is pleased to announce “WORDS” videos from the Collection of Marlene Nathan Meyerson, which opens November 4 and runs through December 18, 2011. WORDS brings together video works from the private collection of Marlene Nathan Meyerson and features the work of Anna Barham, Rainer Ganahl, Mary Reid Kelley, Christian Marclay, Laurina Paperina, Diller + Scofidio and Hugh Walton.

Each work in the exhibition relates to various forms of language and communication whether the work addresses language and fear (Ganahl); blends art historical references, humor and contemporary fascination with cartoon imaginations (Paperina); addresses consumer society and seduction (Diller+Scofidio); uses words as raw material as well as to express an aggressive dynamism (Walton); features tour-de-force editing of found film footage focusing on the most frequently used mode of communication (Marclay); incorporates text as visual language by creating a composition in continuous motion (Barham); or uses stop animation in combination with narrative and clever wordplay (Kelley).

Marlene Nathan Meyerson is a native Texan whose passion for art has taken her all over the country. Currently, she divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and New York City. Her work with Site Santa Fe, the city’s leading contemporary arts center, has elevated Santa Fe’s art scene, making it a premier destination for contemporary art in the western United States. In New York, Marlene serves on the Contemporary Arts Council of the Museum of Modern Art and the Visiting Committee of the Department of Photography of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Meyerson’s love of video art, specifically those that incorporate words, stems from her lifelong love of film and literature. Both her New York apartment and home in Santa Fe are homages to video installations. The videos she has selected for the Words exhibition are both philosophical and humorous, testifying to her discerning taste as a collector and art enthusiast.

IMAGE: TOTALLY FUCKED by Hugh Walton

WORDS is organized by the brand 10 art space founders Heagan Bayles, Christine Bisetto, Matt Clark and Kathy Webster. An opening reception will be held on Friday, November 4, from 5 to 9 pm.

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SELFLESS. SELFISH. SELFINESS.

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August 22, 2011

FORT WORTH, Texas - brand 10 art space is pleased to announce Selfless. Selfish. Selfiness. which opens September 9 and runs through October 15, 2011. The exhibition features works by selected artists expressing their visions of what comprises the self and addressing issues of identity.

Selfless. Selfish. Selfiness. brings together works by Annie Arnold, Carol Benson, Shelby Cunningham, Val Hunnicutt, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Kerry Pacillio, Terri Thornton, Kathy Webster and Tiffany Wolf. Each work in the exhibition relates to the idea of self - whether the work addresses seduction and failure (Pacillio); documents the passage of time (Webster); is inspired by narcissism, impression management, and the "do-it-yourself" pursuit of celebrity (Arnold); addresses obsessive behavior (Cunningham); reconfigures identification (Hunnicutt); taps into the contemplative and conceptual (Thornton); addresses identity with cynicism, vulnerability and humor (Wolf); focuses on identity as dependency (Benson) or engages in personal as well as physical explorations of movement and mark-making across land, water and air (Ogunji).

IMAGE: by Wura-Natasha Ogunji

Selfless. Selfish. Selfiness. is organized by the brand 10 art space founders Kathy Webster, Matthew Clark, Heagan Bayles and Christine Bisetto. Join the artists for an opening reception on Friday September 9 from 5pm – 9pm.

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TOMORROWS

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May 24, 2011

Subtext Projects is proud to present the exhibition Liz Rodda: Tomorrows,which opens June 3, 2011 at brand 10 artspace and runs through July 23, 2011. Featuring Rodda's most recent videos, photographs, and sculptures, Tomorrows embraces the uncontrolled spontaneities and unknowns that comprise the future, time, and life itselfand eloquently renders them in a manner that is intimately personal, yet partly based in fantasy.

In her multi-part exhibition, Rodda accentuates that control is an illusion, and that chance, freewill, and causality altogether factor into life's narrative. In Rodda's Triple Possibility, for example, three filmed segments display different fortunetellers that she consulted in Beijing; each one is seen interpreting her dreams from the night before in order to shed light on her destined career path, health, and love life. What results are three divergent, yet sometimes overlapping portraits of Rodda that are, to skeptics, purely driven by speculation. By seeking multiple oracles for second and third opinions, Triple Possibility offsets the notion that a sole configuration-to be deduced through premonition-exists. Instead, the work metaphorically conjures a dice roll, emphasizing how life can offer multiple outcomes and the future is, therefore, shrouded in probabilities. As the artist states, "Mimicking the uncontrollable nature of the future, Tomorrows consists of multiple experiments in which the object of the investigation is, in varying degrees, unforeseeable. I am interested in what is beyond here and now. The work does not attempt to clarify any mysteries, but is intended to offer ways of thinking about what is currently indefinite or unknowable."

Liz Rodda earned an MFA in the Studio for Interrelated Media Program at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at venues such as Domino Gallery, Liverpool; Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin; Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn; 808 Gallery, Boston; Mix 18 New York Experimental Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY;and the Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga. Rodda is currently Assistant Professor ofMedia at the University of Oklahoma.

IMAGE: by Liz Rodda

Liz Rodda: Tomorrows is organized by Alison Hearst and Leslie Murrell of Subtext Projects. 

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