links galore
mmkay. Let's get down to business. Welcome Art and Soul folks. Isn't Shelly awesome? Here's some of the collages I mention in the interview:
March 2007 work.
August 2007 work.
Amazing how revealing this stuff is. There's more, I just haven't photographed them and posted them yet. Sheer laziness. Plus, part of my portfolio isn't working properly. Eh, these things happen.
Moving on. The last few days have been a glorious whirlwind of meetings, emails, and generally fabulous fun. Paul's birthday was Saturday and part of my present to him was to not open my computer for the whole day. And I didn't! Instead we hung out with the kids and later in the afternoon I sent him off to the junk yard to go exploring old cars while the kids and I made him a cake. Then it was off to see Greendale! It was my first time since it opened early April. If you can possibly go, please go. It's the coolest thing I've seen in a long time and I don't even care for Neil Young (shocking). Not even so much for the content, but for the sheet bizarreness of a theatrical presentation of a rock album with a plot. The band totally rocked the house and I especially loved how the music is a character in the piece. They'll be going to NY in July. Awesome.
Life is really good right now. Lots of beautiful things are present. Hope it's well with you and yours. Peace, everybody.
Monday, April 14, 2008 @ 09:59 PM press
local press - for my archive's sake
here's a link to the awesome DMN article about la reunion i keep getting emails about.
and here's a link to a funny article written by lovely leah shafer about paul and i first dating. pal andrea roberts has a sweet quote as well.
tis all for now.
Wednesday, September 05, 2007 @ 10:26 PM press
THINK
i was on tv for the first time yesterday - to speak about la reunion. i wasn't nervous at all until i was in the green room watching the live taping of mayor laura miller and it occurred to me that i was about to have to go do that...! and then i instantly started sweating even though it was freeeezing in that little waiting room. in hindsight i suppose i wish i'd responded slightly differently to questions. and worn an outfit with a lapel. and not bumbled some words. and dropped the la reunion website into the dialogue. alas. it is what it is. and it was a great opportunity.
link. fastforward to about 19 minutes into the video for the segment featuring la reunion.
Saturday, February 17, 2007 @ 10:42 AM press
primer : tomorrow night
Oberver blurb:
Get Ready
by Merritt Martin
Before the long-awaited Art Conspiracy coming December 1 to the Longhorn Ballroom, curator and art/event coordinator Sarah Jane Semrad (and CorinthPark owner Herschel Alan Weisfield) offer an artistic amuse bouche of sorts with the appropriately titled Primer. The group exhibition features works from local artists Kate Nelson, Tim Stokes, Ronald Radwanski, John Holt and Nevada Hill and is part of the Cedars Open Studios Tour. The show will be open during the tour from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and later, for an artists reception, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Just enough whet the artistic appetite. CorinthPark is located at 1837 Corinth St. Admission is free. Call 469-951-7323.
Date/Time: Sat., November 18, 10am-10pm
Friday, November 17, 2006 @ 10:03 AM press
vladimir zimakov in the observer
Illustrating the Theater
By Jennifer Medina
Here's one more reason to eschew the cineplex down the street: The Magnolia Bar Gallery (located inside the Magnolia Theatre in the West Village) is putting the art back into the art house theater. In an attempt to bring more attention to the regional art scene, the Magnolia Bar Gallery offers exhibitions from local artists such as Vladimir Zimakov, a 1996 graduate of Booker T. Washington Arts Magnet, who presents Musicians and Inventors: The Beginning, a new collection of paintings. Russian-born Zimakov has a special knack for illustrations, which have donned the covers of everything from books and magazines to CDs. His interest in publication design is one rarely seen these days, making his work all the more interesting and accessible. (Picture a pen-and-ink Edward Gorey illustration fusing with Kafka and you'll begin to understand.) Next time you go see a movie at the Magnolia, get there early, because there's more to a theater lobby than giant cardboard cut-outs of Tom Hanks. The Musicians and Inventors: The Beginning reception is June 16 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., and all art will be on view through July 27 during regular theater hours at the Magnolia Bar Gallery,3699 McKinney Ave. Call 214-764-9106 or visit vladimirzimakov.com.
The Magnolia Theatre
3699 McKinney Ave.
Dallas, TX
Thursday, June 15, 2006 @ 04:29 PM press
Brock Rizy and David Hopkins on Unfair Park
david hopkins and brock rizy on unfair park. here's the original link.
and the part that mentions them:
"In fact, BenBella’s pop-culture library has proven so successful Yeffeth’s company has launched an imprint called Smart Pop, which includes some 30 books ranging in subject from King Kong to Star Wars to The Simpsons; if something’s got its own DVD boxed set, BenBella has a book to go with it. But, I gotta say, these books aren’t just dork-lit: “They’re very accessible,” says David Hopkins, the Arlington-based comic book writer who does in fact have a wife and a very adorable daughter. Hopkins and illustrator Brock Rizy have a new book, the astounding Emily Edison, due in stores June 28 (but more about that in coming weeks). Hopkins also contributed an essay to BenBella’s new book The Man from Krypton: A Closer Look at Superman; his is titled “A History of Violence,” and it reads like a smart-ass National Public Radio commentary in which he chronicles Superman’s murderous early days with his later tendencies to punch out…uh, snowmen wearing top hats.
“It’s not super-academeic, but it’s not talking down to you,” Hopkins says of the publishing house’s titles. “Most people with a decent college education would get what’s going on in the books… They have this really nice niche. There may be other publishers doing it, but I haven’t seen it. My wife was big into the Pride and Prejudice book they did [Flirting with Pride and Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives on the Original Chick-Lit Masterpiece, published last September]. She read it cover to cover and loved it.” Hopkins is also finishing an essay for an upcoming Spider-man book of essays; I’d call him a dork, but I think he’s just about the coolest guy in the whole wide world." –Robert Wilonsky
yay for david and brock getting a little more press! (brock's work comes down from the magnolia tonight and up goes vladimir's.)
Thursday, June 08, 2006 @ 02:44 PM press
did i mention already i'm mortified by the name 'team evil'
my FOB (father-of-baby) has a gig at bar of soap friday night. i'll be there after i ring-master the magnolia. i'm stoked because i haven't seen paul play live since course of empire days. what fun! they're opening for black heart society and the tah-dahs. it's sure to be an entertaining evening.
here's a tiny little blurb in the observer this week in mr sam machovech's column:
"Course of Empire's Paul Semrad recently hipped us to his latest band, Team Evil, and the straight-out southern-rockers on the trio's MySpace page are pretty bitchin'. See the band open for the Tah Dahs at the Bar of Soap on Friday."
yeah, we're all a little confused by the 'southern rocker' label. but whatever... it's better than what they really are: drunk rock. not that they're drunks. but you know... nevermind.
Thursday, April 20, 2006 @ 01:13 PM press
cristina's book in frontburner via gawker
yay for press. even if it's in a round about way in frontburner via gawker.
"RE: GIANT
A book- and/or PR-minded FBvian notes something more Dallas-friendly on the web than the demise of Giant:
'It’s nice that the most recent item on Gawker right now is a plug for Dallas-based Cristina Enriquez’s reading in Chelsea tonight. Good stuff, as is her author photo snapped by local photographer, Sarah Jane Semrad.'
Rod Davis · April 12, 2006 01:37 PM"
thanks lady, you know who you are. ;)
Wednesday, April 12, 2006 @ 08:29 PM press
george lacy at the magnolia : recepetion 3.10.06
Unused Paintings
George Lacy's work is all new
By Andrea Grimes
Art is all about coming up with something new with which to excite the imagination of one's audience. Thus, you'll have to forgive me if my mind is less than stimulated by an art exhibit titled New Paintings. I guess it's better than Paintings, Slightly Worn, but in VG Condition. Luckily, local artist George Lacy's uninventively titled showing is being put on by the Pigeon-Stone Project, which has a pretty cool name, even if it is likely to raise some eyebrows over at PETA. (Whatever, pigeons are annoying. Chunk those stones hard, kids.) Lacy says his paintings are about the "mystery of life as I experience it," if that's esoteric enough for you. The work is on display for free, Thursday through April 19 during regular theater hours at the Magnolia Theatre, 3699 McKinney Ave.
thank you dallas observer for the press. and come ya'll. it's my last official pigeon-stone project gig, although i'll still be curating the space, it just won't be PSP anymore. kah-raze-ee. RECEPTION 3.10.06 from 6:30 to 8:30.
Thursday, March 09, 2006 @ 02:47 PM press
dctv
i was on dctv last night to talk about/promote art conspiracy for dec 2006. it went well, considering it was my first time on television. uh, and everyone else first time, including the sweet girl who interviewed us. here we are doing a pre-interview:
we recorded in studio a. ooooooo. ominous hand.
it went well. the show is called 'art 101'. it will air who knows when but i hope to get a dvd recording soonish. the funny part was when i walked up and who else was standing out front but ole stephen ruiz of zygote. HA! such a tiny tiny world. espesh in dallas DIY circles.
Thursday, March 09, 2006 @ 09:39 AM press
for those wanting to know
the art talk is thursday, january 12.
6:30 to gather.
7:00 is the art talk.
it's over when it's over. we're thinking 8:30.
complimentary wine.
continental gallery
3311 elm in the now-sadly defunct deep ellum.
jason roskey and patrick rhodes will both be in attendance to talk about their work. the conversation will revolve around living in an urban landscape and how that affects the city's residents and it's environment. and not in the obvious ways you may be thinking. it's good stuff.
oh yeah! nice little write-up in the observer. check it.
Monday, January 09, 2006 @ 11:42 PM press
it's a conspiracy!
nice little blurb in the observer this week about something called the 'art conspiracy'.... i think i'm gonna show up for this one.
and wow. here's a nifty article this week in the same publication about oh6 showing with an organization called 'pigeon-stone project'. huh. how interesting.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 08:47 PM press
many treats. many, many treats.
check out the fabu review of the happy bullets album, the vice and virture ministry on popmatters.com. wow. i mean, i know they're really good. but damn. this is such a great thing for them. they've been on a press roll lately.
moving on, band lineup for the art conspiracy is almost final.... i think. i mean, it is. here it is: the happy bullets, the theatre fire, pleasant grove, and salim nourallah. FYI: i still need artists and volunteers.... so call me. email me. anything.
the november issue of modern luxury came out yesterday. um, yeah, there's a huge article about pigeon-stone project. after searching and searching online, i couldn't find a repro of the article anywhere on the site. and because i have little to no shame what-so-ever, i may actually scan it and post it here. **interesting disclaimer: i actually used the word 'pedigree' and was quoted saying so. for the record, i'm mortified.
Thursday, November 03, 2005 @ 08:45 AM press
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
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
Pigeon-Stone Project : Van Ditthavong : Sozo
Van Ditthavong is showing Doll + Dolls at Sozo Gallery through September 5. The reception is this Saturday from 7-10PM. I don't want to spoil all the goodies, but the reception will feature tea-party fare, including spiked lemonade and glazed animal cookies.... in addition, Van will be shooting patrons and potential patrons alike with a polaroid, posing them with various dolls and doll parts. NICE.
lovely article in the Observer this week. check it. yo.
Wednesday, August 17, 2005 @ 08:51 PM press
yowza!
twice in one month. sweet.
Wednesday, August 18, 2004 @ 09:27 PM press | comments > 0
tonight. plano.
a. gallery, 1023 east 15th street in plano.
7-9 pm
art-rageous hogs by kay askew and
paris tabletops by me.
here's the article in the observer.
Friday, August 06, 2004 @ 10:36 AM press | comments > 0
Best of D Magazine
'the best of big d' issue of d magazine just came out. look what i found:
sweet.
pick up the august 2004 issue to read all about the other "best of's" in town. there's also a fantastic selection of plastic surgeons listed in the back.
