Best Art Invasion
here's that link for the Best Of Dallas stuff....
and here's what they had to say:
2005: Culture
Best Art Invasion
Pigeon-Stone Project
www.pigeonstoneproject.com
You can't fling a paintbrush/film canister/chisel/flashcard/pencil/found object in this town without hitting an artist. They're sketching at White Rock, shooting Deep Ellum in gritty black and white and wandering downtown, picking up lost Post-It notes and other detritus for assemblages. For most, the biggest opening reception their art will see is when they pop the top on a Bud Light after hanging their latest masterpiece over the couch. But if they're lucky, they'll catch the discerning but unpretentious eyes of Sarah Jane Semrad and Nyddia Hannah of Pigeon-Stone Project, which gives local artists and curators opportunities to show off their work in public by giving local businesses new, innovative local art to display. The duo currently books exhibits--with receptions and everything--in the Continental Lofts, the bar at the Magnolia Theater, Sozo Salon on Knox-Henderson, Zeo Salon on Travis Walk, Two Sisters Catering in Deep Ellum, Counter Culture at Mockingbird Station and the Elbow Room near Baylor Hospital on the edge of Deep Ellum. But look for them to expand to every nook and cranny with enough blank wall space to accommodate a piece or two.
i'm kinda giddy. this is very exciting.
and congrats to other personal friends:
The Happy Bullets and Tah-dah's for Best Local CD Release ,
the bee-yoo-tee-ful tania rivas for Best Open Mike and
Counter Culture (a PSP venue) for Best Culture Club.
Thursday, September 29, 2005 @ 09:15 AM press
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 29 is turning out to be a very BIG DAY!!!!
Pigeon-Stone Project at Two Sisters Catering presents:
Venice Paradice by continental gin artist Donna Ball.
Reception // Thursday, September 20, 5:30 to 7:30. comlimentary wine and apps. YUM!
Pigeon-Stone Project at Counter Culture Mockingbird Station presents:
photographs by Leslie Lee and monoprints by Beth Mahy
Reception // Thursday, September 29, 7:00 to 9:00. complimentary wine and apps. double YUM!!!
Pigeon-Stone Project at The Elbow Room presents
Mood Swings by Joey Seeman, Nicole Cullum, and Scott Roever...
Reception // Thursday, September 29, 6:00 to 8:00. complimentary pizza samples and happy hour pricing on drinks. COOL!
notes:
check out each venues website for directions etc. elbow room and two sisters are within walking distance.... no brainer there, folks. :)
ALSO! (no link yet,) but pick up the Best Of Dallas Issue.... i spied a little article about Pigeon-Stone Project. We're the 'Best Art Invasion', apparently. sounds so sci-fi! *chills*
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 @ 07:36 PM gallery events
junk culture : people fascinate the $*#@ out of me
once a month it's bulk trash pick-up in my neighborhood. typically the last monday of the month. most months all we have to put out front is assorted limbs, bags of leaves, maybe some scrap wood or something. this month, i got inspired and cleaned out the office. among items in the pile are two completely delapidated bookshelves, in such bad shape they won't even stand up. also: a faulty step-ladder, some old screens, and an upright wire rack, among the typical branches and bags of leaves (i can only throw so many in the compost heap, people). it's unsaid, but totally understood that whatever's on the curb is up for grabs. (hey, i'm guilty, i scored a table a hundred years ago this way.)
sitting in the dining room at the computer, i can directly see the street. this morning, no less than 10 cars and trucks (some already LOADED with junk) have stopped to look at our crap. after each vehicle leaves, i go out front to check out how the stuff rearranged and/or what's disappeared. fascinating. the good stuff clearly went fast. (i actually prefer donating annonymously the smallish-big stuff this way, rather than with free-cycle.) check this: someone took the screen frames. not the screen themselves in their intact perfection, but the frames. the screens and the rubber trim are in a neat pile. bizarre. wonder what they're gonna do with them.
Monday, September 26, 2005 @ 11:01 AM proof that i'm a nerd
Magnolia Reception : Kate Nelson
latex and rubber on street signs. gorgeous stuff.
3699 mckinney @ lemmon in the westvillage.
friday, 23 september, 6:30 to 8:30. $2.00 margaritas etc etc.
www.pigeonstoneproject.com
Friday, September 23, 2005 @ 09:31 AM gallery events
the shams
the shams played an awesome show last night a the doublewide:
Friday, September 23, 2005 @ 09:30 AM
hurricanes are good for something
hurricanes are great for reuniting college pals.... ayesha, my freshman year roommate, is coming up tomorrow from the houston area! terrible circumstances, but yay! she and i clicked the first time we met and have kept in touch all these years trying to see each other fairly regularly. but if she comes here, i may put her to work: cooking up some bona fide pakistani food. mmmmm.
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 @ 09:35 PM
lone star beards
having been aquainted with the beautiful josh for about 10 years now.... somehow, i'm not surprised by this in the least. www.lonestarbeards.com
Tuesday, September 20, 2005 @ 08:37 AM
IR Gallery has been transformed
i wish van ditthavong well in taking over the 830 expo space.
i'm so glad i don't own IR Gallery anymore. sure, i miss it sometimes, but geeze, it's a lot of work. seeing those pics on his site made me remember the difficulties of that space. he's done a great job with it though. good luck van!
Monday, September 19, 2005 @ 12:37 PM
full-moon croquet: september
bulb setting and a guess on how long to expose = fun.
Sunday, September 18, 2005 @ 07:03 PM
local secret: but not for long: the strange boys
shot the strange boys today. they're all so cute i can't stand it.
Sunday, September 18, 2005 @ 06:32 PM
happy birthday jiri
it was 4 years ago that my little boy was born at home under the supervision of a midwife. his birth is in the top 5 most profound experiences ever.
Friday, September 16, 2005 @ 03:54 PM my family
back in business
finally i get my site back after 4 days. after checking her out and making sure she’s ok, i have many catch-ups to do.
first: why my website was down. see, when i throw art shows at each of the PSP venues, i have out a sign-in sheet. people come to the show, see the work and voluntarily sign up on the list. no problem, right? then when i have another show featuring another artist, and email goes out to those people about it and violia! more people come to the next one. cool huh? it’s called DIY marketing. due to the way i send these emails out, sometimes they end up in peoples SPAM folder and their nifty little office email robots clean me out and report me directly to my hosting company. so then i’m a spammer after that and they flag me and shut me down. as in shut down my site, my email, everything. totally rad, huh?
second: jason roberts and i went to the Texas Theatre the other evening:
we’re planning a benefit that will be held there later this fall. think cool local bands coming together with cool local artists in the historic Texas Theatre to directly benefit hurricane victims that have ended up in dallas.
third: oooooo, last night at the new barley house. (the old one was obviously much cooler, this one is like a chili’s or a bennigan’s, or a harrigan’s or some other dime-a-dozen chain restaurant inside…. think hunter green, wood, and brass. ewww.) regardless of the less than interesting décor, palaxy tracks (my new fave band, omg) and the happy bullets played. Check it:
palaxy tracks
a few more happy bullets pictures here. i took like 80 in all. geeze.
Friday, September 16, 2005 @ 09:52 AM
continental gallery reception pics
more pictures here.
Monday, September 12, 2005 @ 02:36 PM gallery events
PSP presents Mark-Brian-Nevada-Abel
Saturday, September 10, 7-10PM // Continental Gallery // 3311 Elm Street.
featuring the crazy-amazing-bizarre-repetitive work of Michael Abel. Plus Art Prostitute founders Mark Searcy and Brian Gibb and their super cool intern Nevada Hill.
also, nyddia and i are launching the new pigeon-stone project shirts, screen-printed locally on american apparel t-shirts. come-n-get-em before they're gone.
Friday, September 09, 2005 @ 04:29 PM gallery events
this probably goes on a less public blog but i don't care
what a bee-atch.
are they better off because their families been ripped apart at the seams? or because their tiny babies got raped in the superdome? or maybe they're better because now they have the bare minimum in basic necessities. oh i know! they're better off because they're poor, black, all in one place, and and now she can keep an eye on them, with the weakest having already died.
doesn't that hateful woman have a home in houston? what is she thinking saying such shameful nonsense?
Thursday, September 08, 2005 @ 08:51 AM
Pigeon-Stone Project in the Dallas Observer
wahoo! read full story here.
and the part about us specifically below:
There's an up-and-up ending to this chapter of pared-down art life in the city. And it comes in the form of the Pigeon-Stone Project and the newly reopened Plush Gallery. Run by the girl-power twosome of Sarah Jane Semrad and Nyddia Hannah, Pigeon-Stone Project is a consortium of "do-it-yourself" galleries. The Project collectively manages seven spaces: Continental Gallery and Elbow Room in Deep Ellum, Magnolia Bar in West Village, Sozo Salon on Knox-Henderson, Zeo Salon in Travis Walk, Two Sisters Catering in Deep Ellum and Counter Culture at Mockingbird Station. In many ways, they have realized in three dimensions what's been going on for years in the Internet world. Semrad and Hannah have wisely taken advantage of surplus corners of the overall marketplace, spinning money and offering opportunities for young artists, mostly from Texas, through the interstitial spaces of capital. Offering their curatorial services in the corridors, stairwells and on the surrounding walls of hip coffee shops, rehabbed loft buildings and trendy cinemas, they promise to provide publicity and a constant stream of cool people to proprietors in exchange for little or no rent.
Object, a small exhibition of photographs by Kevin Todora, is showing at Continental Gallery, located in the ground-level hallway of the Continental Loft building. Equal parts neo-appropriationist à la Sherrie Levine and sheer voyeurism, Todora's re-photographs show the faces of women in the buff and men from liquor and cigarette advertisements from old porn magazines. Shown in groups of four, the photographs offer a quiet standoff of luridly askew and piercingly mannish gazes. "Amy," "Sarah," "Angela" and "Amanda" all show willowy, impressionistic views of rouge-faced women in ecstasy. While all of the women look out to the sides with eyes rolled back in the middle of apoplectic pleasure, the male eyes of "Michael," "Christopher," "Jason" and "David" glare grinningly straight at you. For Todora, these images are also an investigation into porn-world demographics, in that the salacious eyes of the men we see are but the idealized version of those who purchased the mags at the get-go. Horny is as horny does.
Wednesday, September 07, 2005 @ 05:07 PM press
more pictures
here's a smattering of pics i uploaded today.... more later.
Tuesday, September 06, 2005 @ 01:06 PM my family
home from the ranch
it's nutty that only 12 hours ago i was standing in the middle of the nueces river.... heaven on earth. we made it home fine and we're happy to be in our house again. so many pictures to post and not enough sanity and time tonight to pull it off. more tomorrow.
our katrina refugee family has moved into an apartment over the weekend for those who wanted to know and i know they're happy to kinda be functioning normally again in a day-to-day routine. i'm happy for them and honored i could host them in my home. now, we're considering hosting another family. we'll see.
Monday, September 05, 2005 @ 11:46 PM my family
i feel sorry for people named katrina
my katrina refugee family is hanging in there and doing alright. it helps me to focus on helping them. i get overwhelmed when i go to cnn.com or whatever and see shocking images of humanity in utter chaos. i don't really know what to tell my kids about this. eva is old enough to kinda understand. jiri? uh, no.
i started crying in the car today listening to npr when robert seigel was interviewing the homeland defense guy, michael chertoff. some 10 year old girl was raped in the super dome and i realized, 'holy s*&t, my daughter is almost 7.' perspective. uck.
