WILLIAM LAMSON at IMA **UPDATED**

Lamson during performance at the Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion,

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, April 7, 2011

Indianapolis Art Museum celebrates artist William Lamson's Divining Meteorology radio tower installation currently on exhibit in the Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion.

Lamson extensively explored the tower's sound-making possibilities with unconventional audio devices in his studio in Brooklyn, then transported and installed the piece at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, giving a sound performance during his artist talk on April 7.

Lamson using electric guitar pickup to generate sound during performance

The combination of tower engineering, radio waves, and sound-generating devices "make apparent the unseen forces that surround us, as a radio signal (also linked with the weather) is made audible and tactile through the vibrations in the tower," Amanda York of Indianapolis Museum of Art (link to full article).

Radio tower construction, Pierogi Boiler Space, Brooklyn, New York

Links to read more:

Blog @ Indianapolis Museum of Art: William Lamson

Minus Space: reductive art

On view through August 28, 2011

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion

4000 Michigan Road

Indianapolis, IN 46208

Images courtesy of Indianapolis Museum of Art

Video courtesy of ArtBabble.org

WILLIAM LAMSON at IMA

William Lamson has created an installation at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and will be giving a free artist lecture on April 7, 2011 to discuss his work of interventions between the natural and man-made landscapes. His installation at the museum is a re-configured radio tower, bent-up and built to fit the space so that when receiving radio waves, the sound vibrates throughout the pavilion.

Lecture will be held at the Indianapolis Museum of Art
4000 Michigan Road
Indianapolis, IN 46208

Thursday, April 7 » 5:30-8 pm
The Toby & Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion

click here for more information

SUSTENANCE, site-specific installation

Site-specific installations by 24 artists -including video + sculpture + performances + sound installations, will occupy a vacant two-story building in West Dallas during the exhibition Sustenance, curated and organized by Stephen Lapthisophon and Anne Lawrence, opening Saturday, September 11, 2010, 11am-10pm.

Participating artists include: Kimberly Aubuchon, Frances Bagley, Jesse Barnett, Iris Bechtol, Shannon Brunskill (with Courtney Brown), Brian Fridge, Justin Ginsberg, Linnea Glatt and Jim Cinquemani, Matt Hanner, Chris Hefner, Kate Helmes, Sedrick Huckaby, Devin King, Darryl Lauster, Lou Mallozzi, Kristin Mariani, Michael Mazurek, Patrick Murphy, Tom Orr, Ludwig Schwarz, Lizzy Wetzel, and Jeff Zilm.

SUSTENANCE / Opening day—Saturday, September 11, 11am-10pm

Open Saturday & Sunday, September 11-October 3, 2010, 11am-7pm

337 Singleton Blvd, Dallas TX 75212 / FREE: Open to the public [MAP]

For the full press release, click here & for further information, and artist updates, visit: sustenanceexhibition.blogspot.com

And also, check out coverage on the exhibition at D Magazine's Front Row to the Arts:

...we don't know yet, but we sure are looking forward to it!

TOM ORR @ BROOKHAVEN COLLEGE, FORUM GALLERY

Currently on view: Tom Orr's new installation is the subject of the current exhibition at The Brookhaven College Forum Gallery. (image: detail of Orr's installation at The Forum Gallery)

The opening reception is August 29, 6-8pm, and the exhibition will be on view through September 29, 2010.

Brookhaven College: 3939 Valley View Lane, Farmers Branch, Dallas, TX 75244 P:972-860-4101 [MAP]

BAGLEY & ORR @ DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART -ENDS SOON

Not to be missed! -visit the Dallas Musuem of Art this weekend for the last weekend of Performance/Art featuring Marty Walker Gallery artists Frances Bagley and Tom Orr:

TOM ORR & FRANCES BAGLEY
Performance/Art installation at The Dallas Museum of Art

In Performance/Art, artists Frances Bagley and husband Tom Orr have reinvented elements from their set and costume design work commisioned for The Dallas Opera's 50th anniversary production of Verdi's Nabucco in 2006.

"Bagley and Orr's installation is fully in keeping with Verdi's grand work yet stands on its own as a powerful and mysterious sculptural environment in which viewers virtually become performers themselves." -Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas Museum of Art [MAP]
1717 North Harwood
Dallas, Texas 75201
P : 214-922-1200

Hours: Tuesday* and Wednesday: 11:00 pm–5:00 pm, Thursday: 11:00 am–9:00 pm,Friday**, Saturday, and Sunday: 11:00 pm–5:00 pm, Closed Mondays. *FREE First Tuesday of each month **Late Night Fridays (third Friday of the month) the Museum is open until midnight.

MODERN RUIN -a strange and spectacular two-day art event

MODERN RUIN -PRESS RELEASE:

On Thursday, September 25, 2008 the U.S. Government took over Washington Mutual, selling most of it to JPMorgan Chase.

Roughly a year earlier, at the height of a frenzied economic bubble, Washington Mutual began building a new 1 million dollar branch at 5030 Greenville Avenue, just south of Lovers Lane. Just after its completion, the government seized WaMu, and JPMorgan Chase decided not to occupy the building.

The new building was never opened, never used, and has sat as an empty shell for more than a year.

On February 20, 2010, *Modern Ruin*--a two-day exhibition organized by Christina Rees and Thomas Feulmer--will open. The two-day exhibition will be the only use for the million-dollar building before the demolition process begins the following week. The bank building is a truly modern ruin - a building that never met its purpose, and only existed as potential activity, potential economy, and hoped-for growth.

Seeking to take advantage of the space--its social and cultural connotations, its materials, and its presence as direct and immediate evidence of the current economic condition--15 artists will create work inspired by and in dialogue with the building. Some artists will alter the building's materials and corporate interior, while others will stage actions and interventions within, and still others will use the background of the space as context for their work.

Artists in the exhibition are:

Frances Bagley
Tim Best
Michael Corris
Thomas Feulmer
Annette Lawrence
M
Margaret Meehan
Tom Orr
Richard Patterson
Cam Schoepp
Noah Simblist
Christoph Trendel
Terri Thornton
Kevin Todora
Jeff Zilm

Please join us for the opening reception/intervention with the artists the night of Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010, 8-11pm. The exhibition will be open to the public on February 20th and 21st, 12-5pm, though in the case of some artists the work left behind will be documentation of the actions that took place the night before.

MODERN RUIN
5030 Greenville Avenue
Dallas, TX 75206 [MAP]

FRANCES BAGLEY & TOM ORR, TALKS @ DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART

Mark your calendar for these upcoming events at The Dallas Museum of Art with Marty Walker Gallery artists Frances Bagley and Tom Orr:

12:15 pm, Wednesday, January 20, 2010: GALLERY TALK with Frances Bagley and Tom Orr. The Performance/Art artists discuss their work in the exhibition.

7:00 pm, Thursday, January 28, 2010: STATE OF THE ARTS with Frances Bagley and Tom Orr, artists featured in the exhibition Performance/Art at the DMA; and Kim J. Campbell, Founder and Executive Director of the Dallas Wind Symphony.

TOM ORR & FRANCES BAGLEY
Performance/Art installation at The Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas-based artists Frances Bagley and Tom Orr were commissioned by the Dallas Opera to create the sets and costumes for the Dallas premiere of Verdi’s Nabucco in 2006 (scroll through this link for info and to view images from the blog). Bagley and Orr created a gallery-scaled installation based on that production for the Museum’s current special exhibition Performance/Art, on view through March 21, 2010. Frances Bagley received her M.F.A. from the University of North Texas and an M.A. and B.F.A from Arizona State University. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is included in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., among many other private, public and corporate collections. A native of Dallas, Tom Orr holds a B.F.A in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design. Orr has been commissioned for a number of public art projects, including Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport’s Terminal D and the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Plano Station. His work is included in private collections throughout Texas, the U.S. and abroad.

Join Dallas Museum of Art Director Bonnie Pitman and KERA host and producer Jeff Whittington for an innovative new series exploring the creative process and the nature of performance. Hear Dallas’s key artistic leaders discuss the future of the city’s cultural landscape and what lies ahead for the nation’s largest urban arts district.On Thursday evenings, join us before the talks to enjoy live jazz, a casual dinner, and cocktails in the Atrium Cafe. Lectures take place in the Horchow Auditorium.

Reserve your seat online -online reservations will be accepted until 3:00 p.m. on the day of each event. To reserve seats by phone or for more information, call 214-922-1826 or e-mail publicprograms@DallasMuseumofArt.org

Dallas Museum of Art [MAP]
1717 North Harwood
Dallas, Texas 75201
P : 214-922-1200

Hours: Tuesday* and Wednesday: 11:00 pm–5:00 pm, Thursday: 11:00 am–9:00 pm,Friday**, Saturday, and Sunday: 11:00 pm–5:00 pm, Closed Mondays. *FREE First Tuesday of each month **Late Night Fridays (third Friday of the month) the Museum is open until midnight.

TOM ORR & FRANCES BAGLEY
Performance/Art installation at The Dallas Museum of Art

Visit The Dallas Opera's blog for more photos from the performance of Nabucco in 2006, with the designs of Frances Bagley and Tom Orr.

WILLIAM LAMSON and the NBA (?)

William Lamson: LONG SHOT

September 12, 2009 - January 2010
The Lot Public Opening: Saturday, September 12th
Pick-up basketball game, The Lot: 2–6PM
(food and drink on site - MAP)

William Lamson has installed basketball backboards and hoops enlarged 2.5 times to the scale of The Lot's 25-foot high rigger poles. The poles define the perimeter of the 90’ x 90’ site and the interior open gravel plaza of about 20’ x 40’. The result is the creation of a miniature basketball court of massive proportions. Artspace will provide basketballs to anyone who wishes to use the court through an exchange program with the gallery. You can use your own balls too - please play an enjoy!

The Lot is an 8,000 square foot pocket park located in downtown New Haven, CT [MAP]. Situated between two highly trafficked streets in the historic and culturally diverse Ninth Square neighborhood, this formerly derelict parking lot was redeveloped in 2005 as a public transit site and green space for communal use. LONG SHOT continues in Artspace’s tradition of expanding opportunities for public art and commitment to community. Lamson’s basketball court will create a function for The Lot's underused space, promoting play, community interactions, and physical exercise; it will also activate an otherwise dormant, unkempt area.

LONG SHOT will complement Lamson's solo exhibition at Artspace in November 2009.


The Lot is located on 812 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT -see map

WAYNE WHITE VIDEO INTERVIEW & MORE

In this video, Wayne White gives a teaser for his installation at Rice University Art Gallery. White also discusses his inspirations for the exhibition and we get a glimpse at the installation in progress. The exhibition at Rice University Art Gallery runs through December 13, 2009. (highly recommended -check it out! -MAP)

For more insight into Wayne White's intricately laced history of ideas, inspiration, and past work, visit these links:

• GOOD/MAGAZINE interviews Wayne White and discusses his recent monograph "Maybe Now I'll Get The Respect I So Richly Deserve" from Ammo Books (download interview PDF).
  
• The Houston Chronicle recently published a very interesting and informative article on Wayne White and the Rice Gallery installation (download PDF article).
• Browse the Wayne White Youtube playlist, for videos the artist contributed to, including Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Mrs.Cabobbles Caboose, The Smashing Pumpkins, Peter Gabriel, and a Bruce Campbell Old Spice advertisement...

For acquisitions, more information, or to purchase Wayne White's monograph, please contact Marty Walker Gallery. For more Wayne White, look forward to the artist's solo exhibition at Marty Walker Gallery in February.

SHINN + DEESE: OPENING SATURDAY, MAY 2

Perceptions of space are warped and notions of man versus nature are implied in works that mimic natural properties yet assert a man-made quality by altering and taking control of light, shadow, and space.

Join us Saturday, May 2, 6-8pm for the opening reception of Spatial Shifts: New Work by Jay Shinn + Rupert Deese.

Exhibition runs May 2 - June 6, 2009 - visit Marty Walker Gallery for more info.

pictured above: Jay Shinn's Untitled Installation, 2009, stainless steel and wall paint, 81 x 24 x 6 inches