Opens Saturday, May 9, 5:30 - 7:30.  See you here!

This exhibition is a short run.  Meadows Art Now - SMU Art Faculty and Etty Horowitz close end of day on Saturday.  Its is definitely worth the visit.

A visitor came into the MAC tonight and said he had a complaint.  He said the Olin Travis painting, Church at Forney, 1954, was NOT in Forney!  It was in Kaufman.

I replied that it was not our mistake, that Olin Travis had named it that, so that if the title of the painting was "wrong", it was Olin Travis' "wrong."

Our visitor was of course right.

Painting:

Church in Kaufman (Our Merciful Saviour Episcopal Church):

This is the film on Saturday. It translates to "Hungarian Wanderer."  From what I can tell it is about some Hungarian huns, traveling thru time, and appearing in Nazi Germany, early 20th century England on a soccer field, in a Persian Harem (with a FANTASTIC, frenzied, erotic, choreographed harem musical number), et al.  Price is $6 for members;  $10 for non-members.

Check out images on our photosteam on flickr (pages 2 & 3)

DADA Walk,  Deep <Ellum> Art  Walk, & a GREAT Hungarian film here at the MAC @ 3pm ($6/$10). Come By!

this appeared 5 minutes ago on Facebook:

Paul Slocum

Might as well say it here: I'm moving to NY, probably around September. The gallery will be doing one or two more shows. I may find somebody to take over the gallery space here, but I will no longer be curating. I will probably eventually open a space in NY, but it'll be a while. I ♥ Dallas, but it's just become totally obvious that it's time to go...

Paul is one of the leading advocates in Dallas for video art.  His gallery, and/or (http://andorgallery.com/) was a vital part of the Dallas art community and he will be missed.  We wish him the best of success!

and/or gallery
4221 Bryan St. Ste B
Dallas, TX 75204
tel: 214 824 2442
hours:
W 5p-8p, Th-Sa 12p-6p

This blog is about a blog I just discovered:

Voices on Art  (http://voicesonart.com/)

It was created and is run by a guy here in Dallas, Richard Serrano (Richey for short).

Self-funded and self-maintained, he says he does it because it lets him do all the things that interest him, all at once: art, writing, blogging.

I learned about Voices on Art because The MAC's own staff member Autumn Lopez often is the blog's trademark newsvideo newscaster, and this evening, our own Emily Cheek, read her first newscast for Voices on Art, filmed here in The MAC galleries.

Voices On Art is about art, media, news, curiosity and thinking.

Give it a read.

It was quite the Art Talk last night here at The MAC with some of the SMU faculty now exhibiting in "Meadows Art Now."

Cortney Garman, who curated the exhibition, was moderator, and SMU artists/faculty/panelists in attendance were Susan Barnett,  Rebecca Carter, Carola Dreidemie,  Debora Hunter, Jay Sullivan and Mary Vernon. (I hear Michael O’Keefe and David Dreyer sat in the audience.)

All were impressive and insightful.

The conversations ranged from Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bracha Ettinger, and tropism, to the color ochre as cultural memory.

It was taped, and we hope to have it online sometime in the near future.

A very interesting thing about the new exhibition "Meadows Art Now" is the surprise of scale - between my expectations of scale from seeing the images of the works and the reality of the actual pieces.

The invitation images were Susan Barnett's "Adrift" , Du Chau's "Fern Leaf II" and Mary Vernon's "Still Life with Dictator."

Susan Barnett, "Adrift", 2008, Oil on canvas

Du Chau, "Fern Leaf II", 2007, Porcelain

Mary Vernon, "Still Life with Dictator", 2008, Oil on Masonite

In my mind, Barnett's painting was 14 feet wide.
Here it is in person:

Susan Barnett, "Adrift", 2008, Oil on canvas, 15" x  42"

Du Chau's piece also seemed epic in scale.. massive, heavy and monolithic.  But in reality, it is oddly small and intimate:

Du Chau, "Fern Leaf II", 2007, Porcelain, 116" x 14" x 2.5"

Mary Vernon's paiinting I also imagined large scale (is there a trend here in my visualization?): an 8' square painting with life-size figures.   It also is not:

Mary Vernon, "Still Life with Dictator", 2008, Oil on Masonite, 30" x 30"

The conclusion to this experience is good and valuable: each piece is BETTER than I had imagined it from photographs:  quirkier, smarter, more immediate and more compelling.

Art in person is a good thing.

Opening this evening, in a couple of hours.

"Meadows Art Now" Work by the Faculty of the Meadows School of the Arts

Michael O'Keefe, Deposition Figure, 2008, plaster- in the Square Gallery