| CONDUIT GALLERY // AUG 7 // 7 - 8.30PM |
| Conduit Gallery 1626 C Hi Line Drive. Dallas, TX 75207 214.939.0064 www.conduitgallery.com Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 AM – 5 PM |
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| THE SECOND PROGRAM Art Beyond the Frame Presented by the Video Association of Dallas Curated by Charles Dee Mitchell |
| The exhibition will be on view July 31 through August 28, 2010. The Second Program The Video Association of Dallas, the Conduit Gallery and the Dallas Museum of Art present the biannual exhibition "The Program," a collection of contemporary video art from nationally and internationally known artists. Artists: David Askevold, Jonathan Gitelson, Matthew Day Jackson, Luke Murphy, Jason Rhodes, Erin Shirreff and Bill Viola. Curator: Charles Dee Mitchell Additional Events: In addition to the opening reception there will be a second event at Conduit Gallery in conjunction with The Program, a seated video complilation of video shorts curated by Bart Weiss. Saturday, August 7, 2010 from 7:00 – 8:30. Artists include; Jem Cohen, Guy Ben Ner, Wago Krieder, Pawel Woitasik, Erin Cosgrove, Kenneth Tin Kin Hung & Meiro Koizumi Both events are free and open to the public. Seating for the August 7 screening is limited and on a first come, first serve basis. Exhibition notes from the curator: From its inception this was to be a “theme-free” exhibition. I don’t really like theme shows, shows where part of the work invariably seems to have been selected just because it fit the chosen theme, and other work has been distorted in the effort to wedge it in and make it fit. I prefer exhibitions where a group of pieces simply play well together, and if there are dots that may be connected it is up to the viewer to connect them. That said, this untitled, unthemed exhibition turns out be about time, which is as sorry and self-evident a theme for a video exhibition as “light” would be for an photography show. Video is a time-based medium, so of course video art is inescapably about time. I was choosing artists based on my own enthusiasms, a commitment to gathering a broad age range, and an effort to put together an exhibition that could isolate individual pieces without distracting, overlapping sound. When I described the selections to friends, they almost |
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| Six heads by Bill Viola |
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