Back in May, I created an installation at El Rincon. I also curated an art show. Here is a photo of the installation.
The opening was May 16th, with a performance by Architects of Cinema and Alex Tu. On the 24th, I played in a trio with Ronnie Yates and Ryan Edwards. Melanie Jameson, Rebecca Novak, Parham Daghigi and Steve Jansen performed in an ensemble.
Here is my curatorial statement and a list of the included pieces:
The Transferable Image: Art, Performance & Sound
El Rincon Social
3210 Preston Street, Houston TX
May 16 & 24th, 8:30-11PM
Curated by Sandy Ewen
Compare the relationship of art as an object to art as a transferable image. We are asking: where does art live? In 3dimensional reality, as a digital file, as a print? Projection? Installation? Experience? Memory?
This show presents a variety of work that deals with the fluidity of art mediums & the recycling of image, sound and object through a variety of art pieces. Ewen’s work in particular lives in this type of flux. Hand made slides become projections, projections become installations, installations become performance, become video, become performance again. Materials shift from physical object to photograph and mediums are repeatedly collaged, recycled & reimagined.
Presented alongside Ewen’s work are assemblages, drawings and performances by local artists including Damon Smith, Alex Tu, Rebecca Novak, Traci Matlock & Y.E. Torres and Ben DeSoto. These works repurpose materials, memories, and older artworks to create new work. The artworks are enriched through the reuse of materials and ideas. They become tied to their histories and suggest a dialogue through time, creators & objects.
Projection Installation
Fabric, wire, string, projectors & handmade slides
Sandy Ewen, 2010-2014
thanks to Chris Nelson, Ryan Edwards
& Damon Smith for assistance.
Videos
Chris Nelson, Sandy Ewen & Y.E. Torres, 2012-2014
Three Photographs
Traci Matlock & Y.E.Torres, 2014
Untitled
24×36 Archival print, edition of 1
Sandy Ewen, 2014
Source
Plastic & mixed media
Sandy Ewen, 2014
Mountain
30×36 Archival print, edition of 1
Sandy Ewen, 2013, printed 2014
Apparition
30×36 Archival print, edition of 1
Sandy Ewen, 2013, printed 2014
Time & Distance
Recycled aluminium
Alex Tu, 2014
Seven Photographs
Ben DeSoto
Lilacs in the Rain/One Hour With You/
I Had the Craziest Dream/El Rancho Grande/Exodus
Rebecca Novak, 2014
Painting in three parts on fabric
Daniel Healey & Damon Smith
Box in Nazareth
Acrylic & photo on clayboard
Damon Smith, 2014
Untitled
Collage on foam core
Damon Smith 2012
DMA
Acrylic, oil, oilbar, graphite & collage on linen
Damon Smith
Roll of paper on wood used in “Branches”
Damon Smith, 2014
Triptych from C.O.
Collage on illustration Board
Damon Smith, 2014
Used Paint
Latex paint, dirt, washers, screw
Damon Smith / Patrick Renner, 2014
Untitled
Rust, graphite, gesso on paper
Damon Smith, 2014
Untitled
Acrylic & gel medium on panel & canvas
Damon Smith
Chance Triptych
Damon Smith, 2014
Heart
16×20 Archival print, edition of 2
Sandy Ewen 2014
Remnants 2
16×20 Archival Print, edition of 2
Sandy Ewen 2014
Image of the Source (previously Untitled)
16×20 Archival print, edition of 2
Sandy Ewen 2014
Untitled
Styrofoam, crayon & wire
Sandy Ewen, 2014
Performance relic. Expired icon.
projector lamp, wire, frame.
Sandy Ewen, 2014
Holes & Loops
Wire, frame, plastic.
Sandy Ewen, 2014
Inverted Packing Material
Wire, frame, packing material.
Sandy Ewen, 2014
Untitled
16×24 Archival print, edition of 1
Sandy Ewen, 2014
Untitled
Frame, beeswax, crayon, plastic, etc.
Sandy Ewen, 2014