"XX Century Parade" by Armando Romero
"Tigersprung: Obscure Couture", curated by Dr. Charissa Terranova
"C.G’s Playhouse" by C.G. Ingram
Opens May 9th and continues through June 20th 2009.
Opening reception will be Saturday, May 9 from 5:30 – 7:30pm.
In the large gallery, XX Century Parade will show nine paintings and three sculptures, including the single-tone marble “Grand Pierrot,” by Armando Romero. In this series, Romero assembles a parade of characters from various areas of the last century, including the film industry, science fiction, professional wrestling, the circus and superherodom. According to the catalogue essay, “As with Romero’s paintings, the sculpture invokes a laughter driven by the farce of what we see and the subtle anxiousness that follows. It is a humor powered by an existential guffaw – laughter at life’s meaning manufactured circus-like from the contradictory follies of pop culture and its forefather, putative western civilization.”
The exhibition opens simultaneously in New York, Dallas and Los Angeles.
The square gallery will feature "Tigersprung: Obscure Couture". The exhibition’s title comes from the fashion historian and researcher Ulrich Lehmann’s book, Tigersprung: Fashion in Modernity, based on the writings of Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin. Curated by Dr. Charissa Terranova, Assistant Professor of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas and Director of Centraltrak: The UT Dallas Artist Residency, the exhibition features fashion-based art objects by artists from North America and Europe.
Participant artists in the show are Libby Black from San Francisco, Amy Revier, Sunny Sliger and Keri Oldham from Dallas, and artists-in-residence at Centraltrak James Gilbert from Los Angeles, Thera Hillenaar from The Netherlands and Gabriel Dawe from Mexico.
The New Works Space will show CG’s Playhouse, an installation and performance by CG Ingram. The exhibit features a fashion-show-based performance and installation by Dallas artist CG Ingram, also known as The Cow Goddess. Based on poignant childhood memories, this project unfolds in time as a performance and video and in space as series of objects that unite modernity and mythologies of the South and ancient cultures. In Ms. Ingram’s words, “From an early age, I have been intrigued by the transformation of the outer self and fascinated by its impact on the inner self. Never feeling comfortable in my own skin lent itself to an entry into physical transformation.” Works include a tricked-out Cow Goddess Aprilia motor scooter “Bullie”, a Bovine artcar parked in the front lot “Betsy II”, and a ten-minute Bovine-Based couture with collaborative hair stylings By Briola Designs on opening night. Please note that some of the content of Ms. Ingram’s show might not be suitable for children under the age of 17.
The May-June Exhibitions at The MAC has been made possible by Tasende Gallery, Light&Sie Gallery, General Consulate of Mexico in Dallas, Sandy Winn and Rick McCance of Synthetic Turf of North Texas, Dan Pritchett, and John Reoch.
The opening reception will be Saturday, May 9 from 5:30 – 7:30 pm at our galleries located at 3120 McKinney Avenue, which is in the Uptown District of Dallas.