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The 30th Anniversary Silent Auction features four special works by DiverseWorks-commissioned artists from the past year: Franklin Evans, Tony Feher, Liz Magic Laser, and Marina Zurkow.
Online bidding is available Thursday, May 16 – Thursday, May 23 at noon. Bid online here: www.32auctions.com/diverseworks
Bidding will then continue at the Luck of the Draw event on May 23. The auction will close at 8:30 pm on Thursday, May 23.
Item #1
Franklin Evans
franksimile_yellowruleswhitered01, 2013
acrylic on canvas
26″ x 34″
courtesy the artist and Federico Luger, Milan
value: $10,000
Franklin Evans, …
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30th Anniversary Silent Auction
List of Participating Artists
Thanks to Our Supporters
April 26 & 27, 8 pm
Presented at Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex
2201 Preston, Houston, TX 77003
TICKETS: $15 / $8 DW Members/Students/Seniors
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60 minutes / no intermission
FRIDAY, APRIL 26
7:30 pm: Pre-show discussion with Susan Sutton, Curatorial Assistant, The Menil Collection
9 pm: Post-show discussion with Nora Chipaumire and Okwui Okpokwasili, moderated by artist Regina Agu
SATURDAY, APRIL 27
7:30 pm: Pre-show discussion with Amy Powell, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Curatorial Fellow, Blaffer Art Museum
Okwui Okpokwasili and Nora Chipaumire perform “Miriam”
Photo by Antoine Tempe
Written and choreographed by …
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L to R: Shannon Buggs, Nick Anderson, Linda Lorelle, Lizette Garcia
Photos by Patrick Bresnan
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 7 – 9 PM
Liz Magic Laser’s live performances and videos often intervene in public spaces such as banks and movie theaters, and have involved collaborations with actors, dancers, surgeons, market research analysts, and motorcycle gang members. Tell Me What You Want To Hear is a video installation that explores story-telling methods and interview techniques employed by politicians and newsmakers to elicit public support. Utilizing the format of a political talk show, Tell Me What You What To Hear poses a dialogue …
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Slinging Ink is a a war of words in which you are invited to submit your own texts about a given theme. A blind panel selects the finalists, who will read their entries aloud for a live audience at DiverseWorks as part of DWOW. The audience then selects the winner, who receives a cash prize!
TO SUBMIT: Download and fill out the Submission Form. Email submission form and your text (between 1500 and 1800 words, in .DOC format) to slingingink@diverseworks.org by February 20.
This round’s theme: LOST AND FOUND
Submission Deadline: Wednesday, February 20
Live …
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Tony Feher, “Untitled,” 2011 (detail) Photography by G.R. Christmas, courtesy The Pace Gallery
January 19 - March 16, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, January 18, 7 – 9 pm
an interactive, peformative installation combining art, music, dance and language
Performances: Wednesday evenings (7pm) and Saturday afternoons (2 pm) through March 16
Tony Feher is known for creating strikingly beautiful sculptures out of seemingly mundane objects. For this experiment, DiverseWorks invited the artist to consider how his sculptural work might inform, relate to, or translate into live performance – a discipline largely unexplored by Feher to date. Encompassing the main gallery …
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Elia Arce: “First Woman on the Moon” photo credit: Martin Cox
Conceived, designed, written, directed, and performed by Elia Arce
Technical Director: Jose María Francos
November 30 & December 1, 7:30 pm: PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
Presented by DiverseWorks at FRENETIC THEATER, 5102 Navigation Blvd, Houston
Originally commissioned by Highways Performance Space (Los Angeles), First Woman on the Moon is historically important as one of the earliest performance pieces to give a different voice to the Latino identity movement, focusing more on issues of class and spirituality rather than race and ethnicity. In First Woman, Arce leads the audience through a series of …
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Franklin Evans, “eyesonthedge”, 2012, mixed media installation (detail). Courtesy the artist and Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY. Photo: Adam Reich
November 17, 2012 – January 5, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, November 16, 6 – 8 pm
Artist’s Talk: Saturday, November 17, 2 pm
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO FRANKLIN EVANS TALK WITH TROY SCHULZE ON KUHA FM’S THE FRONT ROW
DiverseWorks is pleased to present the first exhibition in our new Midtown space, houstontohouston, a large-scale installation by New York-based artist Franklin Evans. Evans’ work takes advantage of the indexical nature of materials and …
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Keren Cytter, "Vengeance" (working title), 2012, HD video still, courtesy of the artist
DiverseWorks opens the 2012-13 Season with Keren Cytter: Video Art Manual
DOWNTOWN – 1117 East Freeway, Houston, TX 77002
September 8 – October 20, 2012
OPENING PREVIEW: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 8-10 PM
GALLERY TALK: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2 PM
MIDTOWN – 4102 Fannin, Houston, TX 77004
(entrance on Cleburne between Fannin and Main)
OPENING SOON
Video Art Manual is a major survey exhibition of works by Israeli-born artist Keren Cytter, whose experimental videos mix disjointed cinematic, literary, and theatrical conventions to …
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