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Passing Through, Settling In: Contemporary Photographs of the Desert
October 12-December 23, 2006

Exhibition curated by Kate Bonansinga

   

Passing Through, Settling In: Contemporary Photographs of the Desert consists of perspectives on the environmental complexity, politically charged history, and cultural diversity of the desert Southwest. Each photographer takes a close and critical look at recent developments here, including rapid and perhaps unsustainable population growth, drilling for gas and oil, failed building projects, tourism and its drawbacks, limited rainfall and water, the ruined locales of what has become the mythic Wild West, and the human connection to the land.

 

*Displayed at both Rubin & L Gallery
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Multiplicity: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture
June 29-September 23, 2006

Exhibition co-curated by Kate Bonansinga and Vincent Burke
 
 
 
 
 

    Multiplicity presents recent work by eight U.S.-based artists who create large-scale works by combining small-scale repeated clay forms. The primary intention of the exhibition is to present and discuss this trend in the field and to lend it theoretical credence by showcasing some of the best artists working in this vein today.
    Most of the eight pieces in Multiplicity are part of a lineage of installation art that began in the 1970s, because they activate space and are more monumental enough to incorporate the viewer. In process, these artworks draw upon a much older history, one connected to the Arts and Crafts Movement, when ceramic vessels were produced in multiples, designed with consideration and finished by hand.

"Art is the imposing of pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of that pattern."
                                                                    -Alfred North Whitehead

*Displayed at both Rubin & L Gallery
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Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art
April 7-June 10, 2006

Exhibition curated by Nada Shabout
   
Dafatir (an Arabic word that translates as "notebooks") is organized by Dr. Nada Shabout, a native of Iraq and Assistant Professor of Art History at UNT, who is recognized as a leading world authority on contemporary Iraqi art.
Featured works were selected to reflect experimentation by three different generations of artists. Notebooks, or small-scale works in various book formats, have become an important vehicle of expression and communication for artists whose roots are planted in one of the world's oldest cultural region.

"Dafatir brings contemporary Iraqi art to Texas for the first time, and shows a different face of a nation that currently is part of our daily news."
                                                                                                                                                                       -Dr. Nada Shabout

Seventeen contemporary Iraqi artists including: Sadiq Kawish Alfraji (Netherlands), Ammar Dawod (Netherlands), Mohammad Falkher (Iraq), Ismail Fattah (Iraq, deceased, September, 2004), Ghassan Gha'eb (Jordan), Nedim Kufi (Netherlands), Hana'Malallah (Iraq), Rafa al-Nasiri (Jordan), Mahmmud al-Obidi (Iraq), Shakir Hassan Al Said (Iraq, deceased, April, 2004), Mohammed al-Shammarey (Jordan), Samar Usama (Jordan), Nazar Yahya (Jordan).



2006 Annual Juried UTEP Student Art Exhibition
March 9-March 25, 2006
Rubin and L Galleries
 

 

 

 

 

Fine Arts Juror: Beverly Adams, Curator of the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art, Phoenix, AZ.

Graphic Design Juror: Dirk Fowler, Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University School of Art; F2 Graphic Design, Lubbock, TX.




UTEP Department of Art Biennial Faculty Exhibition
January 2-February 25, 2006

 
 
  The 2006 UTEP Department of Art Biennial Faculty Exhibition is the first to be exhibited in the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts. It is the largest faculty exhibition of recent years: Extending through the two main galleries of the Rubin Center, it includes work by all twenty-five studio faculty members, and therefore reflects recent growth in the Department of Art. The artist's pedagogical dedication is evident daily on campus, but only once every two years does the public experience the results of their studio practice. Here they communicate their ideas through objects rather than words or actions.

    "The participants in this exhibition do not accept conventional limitations: a designer paints, a ceramicist employs synthetic media, and a sculptor writes poetry."
                                                                                      -Joachim Homann

*Displayed at both Rubin & L Gallery
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L Gallery    
Matta: Paintings from the Thomas Monahan Collection
April 7-June 10, 2006

Exhibition curated by Joachim Homann
 
 

















   
Matta's paintings and drawings from the Chicago-based collection date from 1943 to 1983 and display many facets of the artist's work.
    Roberto Matta (1912-2002) is internationally recognized as a great master of Modern art. Vibrant and imaginative, conceptually probing and sometimes vulgar, his paintings and drawings still defy categorization
    Matta: From the Thomas Monahan Collection intends to make apparent the visual strategies the artist used to reach out to diverse audiences. The exhibited paintings include abstract as well as figurative pieces and present spontaneous gestures along with carefully constructed virtual spaces. They can also be interpreted as visual documents of Matta's dialogue with contemporary artists, and were even meant to serve as a comment on current historical event .

 
  

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Project Space    
Frontera: Current Work by Patricia Henriquez
September 21-October 28, 2006

 
 
   Mexico City artist Patricia Henriquez exhibits current works including series of paintings created during her residency at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in China, one of the oldest and most highly respected art schools in the country.
    The largely black and white images show an Asian influence with shadowy pictures of caged geese like those found in Chinese markets, silhouettes of men filling their wide open mouths with chopsticks and the dripping limbs of a willow tree.
    Henriquez will also be creating a site-specific mural in black acrylic on the wall of the Project Space Gallery.

    Patricia Henriquez was born in Mexico City in 1967 and graduated from the "La Esmeralda" National School of Painting Sculpture and Engraving.



     


Crosscurrents: Isabella Gonzalez
June 6-October 27, 2006

 
    El Paso-born artist Isabella Gonzalez created a site-specific installation in conjunction with Multiplicity.
    Crosscurrents consists of different sized porcelain rings with oxidized, pounded copper running through the hollow area of the center. In preparing the piece Gonzalez looked at aerial photos of the Rio Grande as it runs through El Paso. The piece reflects the meandering form of the river. The artist works in copper in part because of its connection to the history of El Paso and of her own life - her father worked at Phelps Dodge for 38 years.

    "The 'currents' part of the title describes the different cultural currents that affect the area and also references the industrial nature of the place. Border cultures have a pulse that is all their own."
                                                                                                                  -Isabella Gonzalez




Bruce Berman:  Border Document
February 22- April 1, 2006

 

  "To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality."
                                                            -Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

  It is Henri Cartier who is credited with capturing the "decisive moment" in photographs: He was on the street, in the parks, amongst the public, constantly shooting the people and activities in the place that he called home, documenting magic and humor of these interactions and, in doing so, creating art. Bruce Berman does this, too. For the past thirty-plus years he has resided in El Paso, which together with Juarez, is the largest bi-national urban environment in the world, and probably the most densely populated area in the borderlands between the United States and Mexico. Berman reveals this area's tension and complexity, its poignance, tragedy and relentless activity, in the extensive body of photographs that he has developed since 1980.

     


The Dream of Earth: 21st Century Tendencies in Mexican Sculpture
November 17, 2005-February 11, 2006

 

   Mexico's ceramic sculpture is the outcome of a millenary tradition. Since pre-Hispanic times, the use of clay has been a characteristic element of diverse and very sophisticated forms of artistic expression. The Dream of Earth: 21st Century Tendencies in Mexican Sculpture is an exhibit that shows the vitality and diversity of an art with ancestral roots, projected to the future as a form of profound expression. It's the exhibit of six of the most renowned representatives of Mexican contemporary clay sculpture.
    The six sculptors represented in "The Dream of Earth" do not constitute a group. They are united simply by their use of clay. Each one of the artists has obtained critical and public acclaim for their talent and artistic mastery.

    
 
 
   "The Dream of Earth will open a new path for dialogue between Mexican and  American artists, given that clay sculpture has developed strongly in the US in the last few years."

    "The Dream of Earth attests to the vitality and assertiveness of Mexican contemporary art: an encounter of civilizing tradition and the most refined expressions of global art."
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