Sylvester A. Parham
austin, tx
- Gender: Male
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- Member since: 2007-01-21 00:00:00
- Last log-in: 2007-08-13 00:00:00
- Events: 6
Events:
Whitney Lee : Power Craft Opening Reception
Where: Women & Their Work
Date: 2007-06-28 18:00:00
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On exhibit through August 4, 2007 Women & Their Work presents new work by Austin based artist Whitney Lee. Lee has subverted the craft world by interjecting sexy ladies into found latch hook rugs for some time. In her new body of work, Power Craft, Lee continues to subvert, infusing the usually domestic, private world of craft with dominance and power. Lee’s imagery comes from craft stencils: a teddy bear with a balloon, a cat with a halo, a country goose. Lee takes these images that live on bedroom wall borders or on the kitchen dishtowel out of the home and puts them into the public domain. One part of Power Craft is a collection of eight stenciled posters titled Craftiti. Each poster features a saccharine image of an animal that Lee has assigned to a specific Austin neighborhood. In the weeks leading up to the exhibition at Women & Their Work, these seemingly domestic subjects will start to slowly claim their territory taking over public spaces in their appointed neighborhoods. With these posters, Lee slyly comments on the male dominated world of street art giving these cutesy animals power they have never had before. No longer relegated to the domestic world, they now claim their territory like the marks left by inner city gangs. The posters have a political message but above all are intended to make us smile because a goose with braids is definitely a laughing matter. From now until June 28 be on the look out to see what unexpected animal is laying claim to your neighborhood.
Get Bent!
Where: GOMI
Date: 2007-08-03 19:00:00
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Get Bent! will feature a circuit-bending workshop from 7pm to 8:30pm (anyone is welcome to bring toys and/or parts) and then performances from 8:30 to 10pm. So far the lineup consists of: Thomas Fang (Inversion Effect) + members of the Furby Youth Choir Operation Playmate (Erich Ragsdale, Lori Varga, et al) Matthew Thies (Visitor Q, Numbers on the Mast) Eric Archer (Visitor Q, Numbers on the Mast) 19 Lemurs (Kevin Searle / Photon Ghoul)
Prince Sing Along
Where: Alamo Drafthouse Downtown
Date: 2007-04-12 07:00:00
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Sing Along to all Prince's best music and vidoes.
The Golden Boys
Where: Club DeVille
Date: 2008-03-08 21:00:00
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Get ready to rock 'n' roll back in time! Teen idols Frankie Avalon, Fabian and Bobby Rydell are back with all their greatest hits.
Yoon Cho : Nothing Lasts Forever Opening Reception
Where: Women & Their Work
Date: 2008-04-03 18:00:00
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Women & Their Work proudly presents Nothing Lasts Forever, a solo multimedia exhibition by Austin-based artist Yoon Cho. Recently named by the Austin Museum of Art as one of Austin’s “20 to Watch,” Cho uses video and digital photography to examine the ways we constantly create and re-create our identities. Utilizing blurring, pattern overlay, image insertion and other digital techniques to manipulate photography and video installations, Cho trains a sly and poignant lens on the ephemeral and ever-shifting nature of human persona. If life is a stage, Cho’s body of work investigates how we get into character. The digitally blurred faces of family and loved ones in Cho’s Blurred series speak to the fluctuating nature of consciousness and the “official” persona we construct when facing the camera or public eye. Her Texas Self-Portrait series contemplates the relationship between personal identity and physical surroundings, with thumbprints, heartbeats and x-rays overlaying life-sized prints of the artist against the landscape of Texas, her newly adopted home. Learning how to live in the suburbs sparked the inspiration for Cho’s Nuclear Family photo series, in which a silhouetted imaginary baby accompanies the artist and her husband as they build a new life together caught between conflict and conformity in their new surroundings. Yoon Cho received her Masters of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in New York in 1999 and her Bachelors of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1996. She has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions and film festivals throughout the country. Cho has served on the faculty at both Parsons School of Design and at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea. Recently recognized by the Austin Museum of Art in their 20 To Watch triennial showcase, Cho was also awarded an Honorable Mention in the New Art 2007 competition at Boston’s MPG Gallery.