The Art Foundation presents Altered States, an art party fundraiser in support of Ruined State(s) No. 2, a project by UTD CentralTrak artist-in-residence, Robert Andrade. The fundraiser will help the California-based artist create a conceptual multi-site, privately-funded public work in Dallas, TX.

The Art Foundation hosts this night of music and art near Andrade’s proposed Ruined State(s) No. 2 project sites in West Dallas. The party will feature DJ sets by The Contempt Collective, comprised of D Magazine music critic, Christopher Mosley; artist and semigloss. Magazine editor, Sally Glass; artist and writer Cassandra Emswiler; and artist and musician Kathryn Falvo. Robert Andrade will also create art prints related to Ruined State(s) No. 2, with the support of Tarrant County College, which will be available for purchase during the party.

What: Altered States: A fundraising art party with The Contempt Collective, $10 at the door, BYOB
Where: The Old Tornado Bus repair station, 3016 Gulden Lane, Dallas, 75212.
When: Saturday, February 9th, 2013 from 8-11 PM.

Sponsored in part by the generous support of Butch McGregor; The Contempt Collective; Tarrant County College print department chair, Joshua Goode; and The Art Foundation.

About the project: Ruined State(s) No. 2

Images:

twain
October 27- December 15, 2012
Opening reception: Saturday, October 27, 6-9 PM.

Gray Matters Gallery
113 N Haskell, Dallas

CLOSING RECEPTION & ARTIST TALK: Thursday, Dec. 13th @ 6PM
Richard Patterson and Shaun “El C” Leonardo
(video of the discussion by Vance Wingate)

The Art Foundation presents twain, an examination of the alter ego as an artistic method of expansion and safe haven.
Concerned with the increasing burden of reputation as a stultifying constraint upon artists, the exhibit allows its artists to take-up an artificial duality, promoting unfulfilled desires by negating a recognizable identity through the person of the alter-ego.  This anonymity of the true individual leaves objects and embedded concept free from qualifying associated status.

Capitalizing on this highly democratic method of exhibiting, The Art Foundationhas invited a range of internationally recognized artists, art groups, and writers to participate in the exhibition, many of whom will remain anonymous. Specific works will: engage reflections on both local and international issues, address the phenomena of the alter-ego’s persona eclipsing the artist’s original identity, allow for the permissive recreation of works previously authored, promote dubious legitimacy, and highlight the written word as contextual subterfuge.

Recognizing the internet as a primary source of avatar dissemination, The Art Foundation will also provide a partner, online, catch-all exhibition to further explore these themes at  http://theartfoundation.tumblr.com/

 PRESS:

D Magazine FrontRow: This Week’s Openings, interview with Jans Van Toojerstraap

D Magazine: This Week’s Visual Arts,  by PETER SIMEK _ December 13th, 2012

MAP to Gray Matters Gallery

Facilitated by The Art Foundation, Robert Andrade proposes Ruined State(s) No. 2, a public work in Dallas, TX exploring issues of state power related to the communal environment and physical site from which authority derives validity. As the project progresses it has evolved to question the role of the proposal and efforts to realize the project as art in itself.

About the Project

The project was proposed publicly at “Art in the Public Sphere” on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012 to coincide with the proposal exhibition at Richland College’s Brazos Gallery on display Aug. 9 through Sept. 7, 2012.

An art party acting as fundraiser, “Altered States,” was held near the site on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 to coincide with Andrade’s UTD CentralTrak artist-in-residence project.

“The project is meant to consider change within States of dominance along with the connected ideology and its effects on the ground within the realm of the everyday,” states Andrade. By excavating the city plan of Washington D.C. -a global power center- into Dallas a comparison is enacted by mobilizing the symbolic structure of power into a semi-permanent state. The excavated earthwork will allow individuals access to meander the streets of the signified, yet physically failing, state of power. Locally, the project exposes conflicting stratifications and hierarchies concerned with urban development for the arts.

Part I:
Robert Andrade: Ruined State(s) No. 2 (a preliminary investigation)
Aug. 9- Sept. 7, 2012
Brazos Gallery, Richland College, Dallas TX

Part II:
“Art in the Public Sphere” (public art lecture series)
Aug. 8 from 7-9 p.m.
The MAC, Dallas, TX

Part III:
Altered States: An art party/fundraiser
February 9, 2013
Tornado Bus repair station, 3016 Gulden Lane, Dallas, TX 75212

Part IV:
Robert Andrade artist-in-residence (one month)
Jan 28 – Feb 28, 2013.
UTD CentralTrak, Dallas, TX

Part V:
Robert Andrade: Ruined State(s) No. 2 (public work on display)
February 25 – March 23, 2013
vacant lot near 425 Singleton, Dallas, TX

“Art in the Public Sphere” a series of brief art talks
Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 7-9 PM
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, 3120 McKinney Ave., Dallas 75204 {MAP}

Organized by The Art Foundation, “Art in the Public Sphere” will be a series of brief slide presentations on the subject of public art, in its myriad iterations, by a panel of artists, curators and art facilitators. A wide-range of perspectives on the function of art in the public sphere will be addressed, from fostering community through one-time, participatory events, to beautifying the urban landscape with objects, to the nuts and bolts of acquiring sites and working with commercial entities to realize a project, as well as the notion of the Internet as public domain.  Though their approaches are varied, each contributor in “Art in the Public Sphere” believes in the importance of artists activating public space in nontraditional ways .

Following a brief video by the creator of Aesthletics, artist Tom Russotti, opening remarks will be made by Nasher Sculpture Center Senior Curator, Jed Morse. Presentations will then be given by Dallas artist/curator Cynthia Mulcahy, Austin artist Shawn Smith, Dallas’ Henderson Art Project coordinator Scott Trent, and members of the artist-run Dallas Biennial. A public works fundraising video by Claude Collins-Stracensky will be show and plans for a proposed land art project in West Dallas by San Diego artist Robert Andrade, in collaboration with The Art Foundation, will also be presented.

The Art Foundation is a Dallas-based art collective that aims to cultivate rigorous artistic dialogue and innovative art exhibition stragedies. Joshua Goode, Ryder Richards, Lucia Simek, and Andrew Douglas Underwood are The Art Foundation.

(image: “1954 – 1976″, 2010 courtesy of Robert Andrade)

“Art in the Public Sphere” was recorded and has been made available by ART THIS WEEK

Part 1-Tom Russotti

Part 2-Art Foundation Introduction

The complete 9 part series of talks can be viewed here: ART THIS WEEK

Press: “Is public art in Dallas an Oxymoron?” by Jerome Weeks, Art n’ Seek, Aug 14

The Nasher’s Big Book of Urinals

How the museum came to own Fountainhead, the baddest tome ever to come out of Dallas.

About The Art Foundation (est. 2012)

The Art Foundation is an artist collective based in Dallas, with current members Andrew Douglas Underwood, Ryder Richards, and Lucia Simek. Formed as an investigative endeavor employing open intellectual practices, the group aims to cultivate artistic dialogue in Dallas through concise critical and aesthetic explorations in the form of exhibitions, interventions and the written word.

Founding members: Andrew Douglas Underwood, Ryder Richards, Joshua Goode, and Lucia Simek.

Events

April 15, 2012
Fountainhead: the enduring influence of Marcel Duchamp, Gibson Lofts, Dallas

Summer 2012
Fountainhead, the book, is accepted into the Nasher Sculpture Center’s permanent collection.

August 8, 2012
Art in the Public Sphere, The MAC, Dallas

October 27- Dec 15, 2012
twain, Gray Matters, Dallas

Press

D Magazine: “The Nasher’s Big Book of Urinals” by Peter Simek

Art This Week: Video documentation of “Art in the Public Sphere”

Art N Seek: “Is Public Art in Dallas an Oxymoron?” Jerome Weeks

Temporary Review, Site/Project Profile

Fountainhead
April 14-15, 2012
Opening reception Saturday, April 14, 6-9 pm

The Gibson Company Lofts, 824 Exposition Ave. #6, Dallas (MAP)

For its inaugural curated exhibition, Fountainhead, The Art Foundation has solicited the alteration of various photographic iterations of Marcel Duchamp’s readymade, Fountain, by a number of local and international artists. The altered images have been compiled in an outsized book that will be exhibited during the weekend of the Dallas Art Fair, April 14-15, alongside a small exhibition of art objects that explore themes of authorship, receptivity, deception and manipulation.

Referencing the prankster quality of Duchamp’s decimation of the existing art structures of his time, Fountainhead parrots the language of the traditional exhibition structure while reveling in the paradoxes and latitudes allowed in our current poly-post-ism of art. Flexing ideas of attribution, the works presented inFountainhead alternately specify and misconstrue authorship, as a means of bothering the leveled readings of the objects and actions presented in the exhibition.

Contributing artists featured in the Fountainhead book include: Frances Bagley (Dallas), Jesse Morgan Barnett (Dallas), Laetitia Benat (Paris, FR), Richie Budd (Fort Worth), Rebecca Carter (Dallas), Steve Cruz (Dallas), Matt Cusick (Dallas), Laura Doughtie (Dallas), Erika Duque (Fort Worth),  Celia Eberle (Dallas), Cassandra Emswiler (Dallas), Teresa Gomez-Martorell (Barcelona, SP), Brenton Good (Harris, Pennsylvania), Sara Hignite (Dallas), Kelly Lynn Jones (San Francisco, CA), Gerald Lopez (Corpus Christi, TX), Stephanie Madewell (Brooklyn, NY), Sam Matineau (Brooklyn, NY), Lindsay McCulloch (Washington, DC), Ruben Nieto (Dallas), Tom Orr (Dallas), Sara Pringle (Brooklyn, NY), Teresa Rafidi (Dallas), Adam Raymont (Berlin),  Enrico Riley (Vermont), Gregory Ruppe (Fort Worth), Gretchen Schermerhorn (Washington, DC), Shawn Smith (Austin, TX), Ian F. Thomas (Slippery Rock, PA), Karen Weiner (Dallas),  Jonathan Whitfill (Lubbock, TX), and Zero (location unknown).

Exhibited art objects by Jesse Morgan Barnett (Dallas), Brian Jobe (Knoxville, TN), Kelly Lynn Jones (San Francisco, CA,) Brandon Kennedy (Irving), Gerald Lopez (Corpus Christi,) Jeff McMillan (London, UK), James Sullivan (Dallas), and Carla Nicolás (Zaragoza, Spain).

+ portfolio of participating artists [link]

Exhibition hours: Saturday, April 14, 12:00 pm – 9 pm; Sunday, April 15, 1-4 pm.

Fountainhead

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(press: Art This Week, video interview )