BOX 13

Some great pics of the Empty BOX

2008-07-31T15:44:00.000-07:00

Can be found at Dean Liscum's spot (images by Dean and Mari Omari)
http://picasaweb.google.com/Dean4Hire/EmptyBox

Empty Box silent auction :-)

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photos of silent auction artwork

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pics by david wang. thanks.

The Empty Box

2008-07-20T09:31:00.001-07:00

Thank you all for attending our event last night! We had a great turnout and hope to see y'all in
the fall for our first round of shows... Also, a special thanks to all of the artists who donated
their wonderful works to the auction. We had 96 pieces overall.

The Art Guys, Bud, Light, Bud Light

Filling the Box and the Big Show

2008-07-11T14:07:00.000-07:00

I took one for the Box13 team and went to Galveston to pick up some ceramic works from Kamila Szczesna for the upcoming Empty Box Fundraiser on July 19. I really enjoyed the studio visit and Kamila and I are like art-cousins –we both have, to my delight, an interest in the order within chaos. You can see more of Kamila’s work at http://www.kamilaszczesna.com or at the Drawing Room show at the Galveston Art Center through July 29. While I was visiting, we were both happy to realize that we also both have work in the 2008 Lawndale Big Show that opens tonight at the Lawndale Art Center. Her selected work is related to work in the Drawing Room. My selected works are brand new slug patterns and mixed drawing media on vellum. I was so happy I threw a party for my studio assistants…

Open your mouth and say HAA. . . I mean AAH

2008-06-26T11:18:00.000-07:00

Kathy Kelley and Michael Henderson's collaboration at Space 125

(sound by squirrels)

Cohesive Discord was a huge delight

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The bunnies and squirrels were a delight highlight for everyone

Whit's delightful monstrosity

Whit explains things to our BOX amigos

Flame on!

The Eater was like being embedded in a Dr. Seuss story gone wrong
but with the joy of childhood in full swing (or tilt)

Cohesive Discord opening

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Cohes!ve Discord opening Thursday, June 19 from 6-8 pm

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@ space125gallery at Houston Arts Alliance

June 19 to August 08, 2008
OPENING RECEPTION : Thursday, June 19, 2008, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Cohesive Discord
Join space125gallery as we host Cohesive Discord, a site-specific installation featuring eleven artists from BOX 13 ArtSpace. Participating artists have created site-specific works that pensively engulf & personify space125gallery. Each artist has individually worked in his or her medium of expertise but within their collaborative teams has articulated his/her work in an unexpected way. This is the first time BOX 13 artists will be exhibiting collectively in Houston. The exhibit opens on June 19 and will remain on view through August 8, 2008.

Participating artists include: Anila Quayyum Agha, Elaine Bradford, Teresa O'Connor, Lisa Marie Godfrey, Woody Golden, Michael Henderson, Kathy Kelley, Jennie Nuttal, Whitney Riley, Mat Wolff and David Waddell

BROWN BAG ARTIST TOUR/TALK WITH
Elaine Bradford, David Waddell and Kathy Kelley
Tuesday, July 1 noon to 1
Bring your own lunch to space125gallery

3201 Allen Parkway (map)
Houston, TX 77019

Created to promote dialogue amongst artists and viewers. Please reply if you are planning to attend this event by contacting crystal@haatx.com

Weather Report

2008-06-01T17:40:00.000-07:00

Today is the first day of the 2008 hurricane season but Arthur showed up a day early like a willful baby. Yesterday it was a tropical storm, now it’s a tropical depression, and since it’s crossing high terrain in Mexico, it may be downgraded to a remnant by the time it gets in the Gulf. We need some rain but I’m definitely not ready for psychotic window taping or contemplating how to wrangle a herd of cats in an evacuation situation. I don’t know where my batteries are and the pantry would make for some pretty weird eats if power were out. So note to self and fellow boxers - we’re supposed to be gettin’ prepared now.

This might seem out of place on an art blog, but I also still have Lucy Lippard’s May Rothko Chapel/Menil lecture, “Art and Environment”, on my mind. This lecture/slide show was somehow inspiring and messed-up disturbing at the same time. It also had, from my perspective, really low attendance for a Menil lecture. I’ve been frustrated about that on multiple levels but especially since I would have loved to discuss it with other folks who went.

She gave a sharp, sobering introduction that included the jaded but undeniably realistic assertion that art could not directly effect change in the world. Then she introduced work from the 09-12/2007 show she curated at the Bolder Museum of Colorado in collaboration with EcoArts called “Weather Report: Art and Climate Change”, which comprised the majority of the presentation.

From the BMOCA web site: “This exhibit partners the art and scientific communities to create a visual dialogue surrounding climate change. Historically, visual arts play a central role in attracting, inspiring, educating and motivating audiences. "Weather Report: Art and Climate Change" will exhibit artwork, in the museum and our partnering venues, and in outdoor site specific locations throughout Boulder, that will activate personal and public change.

Our collaborating partner EcoArts is a new effort bringing together scientists, environmentalists, and performing and visual artists - along with producers, presenters, scholars, spiritual leaders, policy makers, educators, businesses, and people from all walks of life - to use the arts to inspire new awareness of, discussion about, and action on environmental issues, with new possibilities for envisioning a sustainable future. Its programming principles are artistic excellence, scientific accuracy, environmental effectiveness, ethical practice, and whenever possible, presenting activities that strive to follow ‘the middle way’ of being either non-partisan or bi-partisan to reach the widest audience possible.”

I am also green –with envy – about the whole pairing of artists-with-scientist thing. I need some super geeky scientist friends to help me with my mystery science for artistic good! I’m ordering the catalog for this show today, so if fellow boxers want to check it out, let me know…

And just a little shout out to the BBAP – two of the quotes from my crappy and questionable lecture notes included “public works confront people in the street, unaware. They are harder to conceive and execute but they have the opportunity to surprise” and “women are far more likely to make effective public art.”

cohesive discord process

2008-05-29T07:36:00.000-07:00

further along on making for the HAA show (Houston Arts Alliance)
BUT we've got to generate some TITLES

detail

Derby of Defeat.

2008-05-20T10:31:00.000-07:00

FreshArts Defeat Derby

The Race is On

2008-05-19T21:44:00.000-07:00

Go Speed Racer! Speed Demon Anila and Master of the Track, Kathy....

Elaine had some mad skills at making balloon animals. I asked for a giraffe and I got a white rabbit.

Woody had the right silky twang to his voice to be the announcer for the pinewood derby this past weekend.

In the studio...

2008-05-19T12:50:00.001-07:00

Jennie working hard on her collograph for our collaboration!
We'll be trying to print it tomorrow...

cohesive discord process

2008-05-18T21:40:00.000-07:00

Collaborative stop animation shoots...in process for the HAA exhibition opening June 19.
David Waddell, Elaine Bradford, Teresa O'Connor

Elements in process for site specific collaboration for the HAA exhibition between Whitney Riley and Kathy Kelley

Elements in process for a performance collaborative work for the HAA exhibition with Mat Wolff, Elaine Bradford and Kathy Kelley