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DIVERSEWORKS ON WEDNESDAYS DiverseWorks Associate Curator Rachel Cook will give a gallery talk and lead a discussion about the current exhibition, Chelsea Knight &  Mark Tribe: Posse Comitatus.

DIVERSEWORKS ON WEDNESDAYS Five University of Houston graphic design graduate students - Jim DeVega, Laura Hill, Seth Lapeyrouse, Allen Van Luu, and Jason Wheeler - were tasked with conceptually responding to exhibition artists Chelsea Knight and Mark Tribe's work through personal investigations that converge cultural, social, historical, methodological, and/or technological contemporary issues within a graphic design context. This graduate-level graphic design seminar offered through the University of Houston School of Art encourages students to pursue advanced research in graphic design and critical theory. The students worked together with Professor of Art Sibylle Hagmann and DiverseWorks Associate Curator Rachel Cook to push the boundaries of design thinking and visual expression. Each student will give a presentation about their project and process, and each project will be on view in the DWOW gallery space.

Oliver Herring (b. 1964, Heidelberg, Germany) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, England and an MFA from Hunter College, New York. In 2002 Herring created the improvisatory art event TASK, an ongoing series of events, workshops and parties in which participants of all ages and demographics collectively dream up instructions and carry them out with the materials provided. Increasingly, TASK is becoming a tool in classrooms and communities to access contemporary art in a way that is experimental, open-ended, and accessible to anyone. Herring’s work has been exhibited widely. In the United States, his work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, NY; the Whitney Museum of Art, NY; Performa 09, NY; the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; and the Denver Art Museum, CO. Elsewhere, he has exhibited at the Camden Art Center, London, England; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; The Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan; the Xth Lyon Biennale, […]

Presented by Artist Board Member Mark Hirsch, Tat2 is a sound driven tattooing machine. Tracking the frequency and envelope (volume) of your voice, the tattoo gun travels upon a canvas and draws the sound as you talk, sing, hum, whistle, whisper and make any other noise you please. Some canvas will be available to make your own personal sound-tattoo art, and feel free to bring other materials to try—t-shirt, tablecloth, wedding dress, you name it. Just no skin…yet. Mark Hirsch describes himself as an InterArtist, communicating in languages of sound, film, code, and design to realize his ideas. Through his work, Hirsch seeks to use experimental technology to create new connections to the important, personal aspects of our lives. A native of the American Midwest, Hirsch currently resides in Houston, teaching New Media Technology in the Arts at St. Stephen's School, creating art, and playing in the ol' softy punk band Money Bear. DiverseWorks on Wednesdays is sponsored in part by Saint Arnold Brewing Company and Topo Chico USA.