Art Talk Series 2010
recent Art Talks @ the MAC
Saturday, January 8th
The opening reception for Beasts and Bunnies begins with
a special gallery tour at 5:30
with Beasts and Bunnies artists
Helen Altman, Frances Bagley, Celia Eberle and Margaret Meehan
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November 20th, 5 pm
Edward M. Gómez
"Critic's Notebook: A Look at Art and Artists in
Post-postmodernist Times"
"Critic's Notebook: A Look at Art and Artists in Post-postmodernist Times" is based on research done for a forthcoming new book of art-themed essays. Gómez will examine the legacy of postmodernist critical theory, the role of craftsmanship as a powerful, expressive language in art-making and the blurring of the aesthetic line between works made by academically trained artists and their self-taught counterparts.
Laray Polk
Special Guest Critic of the 2010 Membership Show
Wednesday August 11, 6:30pm
Art Talk :: ALL 3 exhibiting artists!
Ginger Geyer and Kenneth Hale from Austin
& Jacqueline Bishop from New Orleans!
Wed, April 28th, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Art Talk :: Sandow Birk, and "The Depravities of War" woodcut suite
Wed, March 31, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
The MAC Black Box Theater
Art Talk & Workshop: barquitos de papel and other stories
with the artist Muriel Hasbun
Saturday, March 6, 2010
4:00pm - 5:30pm
March 3, 6:30pm
Art Talk : CentralTrak Artist in Residence Stefan Dunlop
Art Talk:: with the artists
Anita Holman Knox and Jack White
Sat. Feb 27th at 4pm
Art Talk :: Châteaux de Chantilly
with Alliance Française
Thursday, February 04, 2010
7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Speaker: Celine Glon
A visit to the Châteaux de Chantilly
$12 for General Admission / $9 for AF Members, Students & Teachers
Art Talk :: Sedrick Huckaby
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
6:30 PM-7:30 PM
Sedrick Huckaby will talk about his work.
Art Talk Series 2009
Art Talk :: Philip Van Keuren
Art Talk :: Philip Van Keuren
The MAC Black Box Theater
Art Talk :: Ivan Stoytchev and Eric McGehearty
The MAC Black Box Theater
Art Talk: Ansen Seale
Special Lecture - Auguste Rodin & Camille Claudel
(in conjunction with Alliance Francaise)
The stormy encounter of two geniuses.
Matthew Lopas - Art Talk
4pm - 5pm
(and listen to the interview of Matthew on Quin Mathews' "Art Matters"
radio program on WRR 101.1, podcas)
BLUEPRINT
4pm - 5pm
The MAC Black Box Theater
James Cope, curator of BLUEPRINT and Associate Curator at The Goss-Michael Foundation, discusses the exhibit along with the four BLUEPRINT artists: Brian Fridge, Amy Revier, Edward Setina and Paul Slocum
GAIL SACHSON
Enjoy your Fifteen Minutes of Fame as ART GURU GAIL SACHSON MFA, founder of ASK ME ABOUT ART, Vice-Chair of the Cultural Affairs Commission and a member of the Public Art Committee, returns by popular demand to light-heartedly critique this year's membership show of "Fifteen Anything". Celebrating the MAC'S Fifteenth Birthday, Ms. Sachson will choose fifteen artworks, which she finds especially appealing, perplexing, and/or provocative to spotlight. Party clothes optional. Playful attitude essential!
6:00 - 7:00pm
The MAC Black Box Theater
Art Talk: Dr. Tania Pleitez:
Synopsis:
This art talk will compare the works of two culturally mixed authors who share the use of aquatic metaphors. Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and Julia de Burgos' poetry both use the imagery of water to emphasize social, cultural and emotional marginalities. Erdrich's characters and Burgos' poetry remain on the edges of society, rejected not only by a European-American hegemonic and Eurocentric culture, but also by their own communities. Thus, the characters and poetry are melancholic yet imaginative survivors on rootless shores.
June 3, 2009
6:30 - 7:30pm
CG Ingram The Cow Goddess
will speak about herself and her work
Black Box Theatre
Autumn Lopez
Dr. Charissa Terranova will discuss her curatorial process with a walk-through of the exhibition, along with a performance by Amy Revier.
Robert Flowers and Thor Johnson that encompass a synesthesian experience.
Rhythmic patterns, colorful form and serial sound thread the work of the three
together. The never ending, open-ended possibilities stretch ones’ imagination
to think about data as infinite and the works as eternal algorithms that collapse
back on themselves.
Art Talk from Meadows School of the Arts' panelists
Panelists: Susan Barnett and others
Wed 4/8/2009
6:30 PM
Etty Horowitz Art Talk
Wed 4/15/2009
6:30 - 7:30
MAC exhibiting artist, photographer and educator Angilee Wilkerson
discusses her work.
The MAC welcomes "Sprawl" to Dallas! The 46th SPE National Conference at the Fairmont Dallas Hotel, March 26 - 29, 2009. The Society for Photographic Education is a non-profit membership organization that provides a forum for the discussion of photography-related media as a means of creative expression and cultural insight. Through its interdisciplinary programs, services and publications, the society seeks to promote a broader understanding of the medium in all its forms, and to foster the development of its practice, teaching, scholarship and criticism.
Dallas-based and nationally recognized artist, filmmaker & videographer Quin Mathews
discusses his work. Also featuring a special reading of
The Futurist Manifesto (1909) of F. T. Marinetti in its original italian.
Artist and curator Mary Benedicto discusses her work.
There is a certain triangulation that encompasses Mary Benedicto’s work, the haptic, the optic and the sonic. She deploys repetitive pattern-like images and sound in her video work. Benedicto’s goal, in bringing together image and sound as such, is to lay bare the manner in which serial sounds can take on pattern-like qualities. This in turn reveals a fourth leg to her work, synesthesia: the cross-wiring of the senses when ballistic images become ballistic sounds and the two are interchangeable. As a curator, uniting sense to sense and image to sound, Mary Benedicto’s work is the conceptual red thread uniting all.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
6:30 -7:30 PM
MAC staff member Autumn Lopez presents
Contemporary Japanese Art (Superflat)
From devastation came a strong economy and a powerful visual culture system that is responsible for producing cute art and products. How and why did massive destruction of a country create cute and popular visual culture? After World War II Japan was left scrambling to find itself after the American occupation and one outlet it chose was manga (Japanese comic books). This media proliferated a new generation of contemporary artists that created cute and sexualized artworks that possessed deeper meanings beyond their "Superflat" surfaces. This lecture will briefly discuss the events that happened in Japanese history to bring about a westernized change during the Meiji Period of Japan and examine the material culture of manga and how it has influenced today's contemporary artists, Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara.
image: Takashi Murakami, My Lonesome Cowboy
January 14@6:00PM Rusty Scruby movie screening: Beyond the plane
January 28@6:30PM Charlotte Smith and Paul Abbott: The Synthetic Landscape
Previous Screenings:
French Film Night
(presented by L'Alliance Francaise, North Texas)
Samedi 14 mars, 14h au MAC
Saturday, March 14th, at 2pm, at the MAC
La Fille sur le Pont
De : Patrice Leconte
Avec :Long métrage - Couleur - France - 2002 - 1h30
In French (English caption) - Rated: R
Thursday, February 26, 7:00 pm
L'HOMME DU TRAIN
De : Patrice Leconte
Avec : Johnny Hallyday, Jean Rochefort
Long métrage - Couleur - France – 2002 - 1h30
In French (English caption) - Rated: R
Previous Screenings:
Hungarian Film Screening
