Opening Saturday January 12, 2013 7-10PM

C4

January 12 – February 2, 2013

C4-a malleable plastic explosive; a pre-workout supplement which
ignites mind and body; acronym for composition 4.

The work of Christine Bisetto, Colette Copeland, Clayton Hurt & Chancellor Page is an exhibition composed of the ideas, whether lyrical or igniting alternate realities, that address: remembrance, ephemera and happenstance (Bisetto); history, gender politics and the macabre (Copeland); the act of forgetting in relation to time and the use of symbolism (Page); struggle and humor (Hurt).

Christine Bisetto, The Ties

Colette Copeland, video still from Ghost of Susanna Cox, 2012

Chancellor Page with Bryan Scott, Missing 1972, Mary Trlica, digital print

Clayton Hurt, detail from BARK, 2012, mixed media

In the Project Spaces-
Downstairs-
Bernardo Cantu

Upstairs-
Monthly Weather Review with Chief Meteorologist Harold Taft
Diane Durant with Devyn Gaudet

It’s that time again!
Are you ready?

500X presents:
EXPO 2013

Juried by Iris Bechtol
Submission Deadline: February 1

500X Gallery Presents:

EXPO 2013
A juried exhibition for artists in Texas Juror: Iris Bechtol
February 16- March 3, 2013
Opening Reception: February 16, 7-10pm

Submission Deadline: February 1

About EXPO  2013

500X Gallery, Texas’ oldest artist-run space, hosts one of North Texas’ most anticipated annual juried competitions. 500XPO 2013 is open to all artists over the age of 18 living in Texas. All visual media are eligible, including drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and video (artist must supply all required electronic equipment).

About the juror 

Iris Bechtol is an artist, curator, and professor of art.  She was a member of 500X Gallery from 2001 – 2005.  Iris earned a BFA from the Univesity of North Texas School of Visual Arts in 2001 and an MFA in Intermedia from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2010.  Ideologically, her work is a phenomenologically induced practice of how we (I and the other) encounter and perceive the ordinary.  Her work has been featured in national and international spaces such as Lumenhouse Project in Brooklyn, NY and BLOK Gallery in Belgrade, Serbia.  Iris is currently the Gallery Director of the Eastfield College Art Galleries and Coordinator of the Permanent Art Collection.

The Rules

*To submit work, please visit http://500x.slideroom.com

*The exhibition is open to all artists over the age of 18 living in Texas.

*The entry fee is $30 for up to 3 images (includes details of work).

*All visual media are eligible, including drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and video (artist must supply all required electronic equipment).

*Artists will be notified via email Wednesday, February 7 by 8pm if the work has been accepted into the exhibition. If you do not receive an email, your work has not been accepted.

The Exhibition

*Work must be exhibition ready (with securely attached D-rings, cleats, etc). Works without hanging hardware will be rejected, not included in the exhibition, and there will be no refund of the entry fee.
*Complex installations will be considered only if the artist is available to install.
*Securely label each work with your name, title of work, media, dimensions, date of execution, and price.You will be asked to fill out a form with this information for our records again on site.
*The gallery retains a 30% commission on all artwork sold during the exhibition.

Calendar

January 1-February 1: Submission of work online at http://500x.slideroom.com
February 7 : Accepted artists notified by 8pm
February 9 & 10, 2-5pm: Artists drop-off work
February 16 : EXPO Opens (Opening Reception: 7-10pm that evening)
March 3 : Exhibition Ends
March 4 & 5, 2013, 5-7pm: Artists Pick-Up Work

December 1-January 6, 2012

In the Downstairs Main Gallery

Elaine Pawlowicz  & Irby Pace

Elaine Pawlowicz, Rainbow Roots

A series of oil paintings by Elaine Pawlowicz reinterpreting images found in nature located the bottom of the world and responding to the phenomena of gravity, attachment, suspension, and vertigo.

Irby Pace, Red Pop

POP!

With Pop! I am creating a new way to view the traditional landscape through photography. I am painting the sky with clouds of colored smoke which are released via canisters that I am levitating into the physical space. 

500X Presents

In the Upstairs Gallery

White Lie

Benjamin Terry

Goodbye To Sleep, 60″ x 80″, mixed media on panel

Working with memory, fantasy, dreams and time, I create narrative sequences that reflect on internal conflict, self-doubt, ulterior motives and emotional trauma. The complexity of relationships with loved ones serve as a constant resource for narrative content. Like a memory or dream, parts of those stories become blurred or fragmented, and the original thought is always transformed. Each painting’s evolution, whether through multiplicity, incompleteness or obliteration implies that my subjects are odd fragments of a half-forgotten memory.

In the Project Spaces- 

Downstairs-

All in All
Jonathan Snow  

Upstairs-

Project_Space_Runway

Matthew Clark, Clayton Hurt, Tiffany Wolf

500x Presents

FOUR INTO ONE

November 3-25, 2012

Buste, Screenprint, 2012

Bruce Monroe-

AIDS forms the core of my being and therefore the core source of much of my work. Much of my imagery alludes to a physical “safety net” that my doctor once warned me could only take so much of a beating before it failed and led to a cascading fall in health.  With each cut I make in my work, I attempt to reconstruct the destruction of the body — seeking the failure point of the material — following with reinforcement to shore up and reconstitute the self.  The resulting end is an embodied labyrinth of the myriad paths that anyone with a disease must follow to achieve a form of stasis within their own bodies and in the world.

 

Group Entering the Woods, oil on linen

Michael Francis- 

This work explores the fringes of our constructed world; spaces where nature begins to reclaim forgotten areas. Showing cycles of life, death and rebirth in dreamlike scenes that fade in and out of our consciousness.

 

eso eso eso, mixed media

Bernardo Cantu-

Bernardo navigates between the spaces of: 2d and 3d, fabric and paint, uncertainty and certainty,  high art and low art, tex-mex border cultue and pop culture, minimal and baroque, painting and sculpture, sci fi and anthropology.

 

3 Hour Tour

John Alexander Taylor-

Peso Whistle Park

Growing up one of my favorite places was Penny Whistle Park – an indoor amusement park for children, which closed decades ago. In an effort to recall the fun-loving, exciting, colorful memories I created this work to expose my inner child through the seemingly impromptu carnivals that pop up in retail parking lots, particularly Hispanic grocery stores.  I hope the images invoke carefree memories of childhood fun.

 

In the PROJECT SPACES
Downstairs-
Laura Doughtie and John Nicholas Hutchings
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Upstairs
Bradly Brown and Shelby David Meier
Mercury Retrograde

NEW CROP: 500X College Expo

Opening October 6, 7-10pm

Jurors: Barry Whistler and Allison V. Smith 

About NEW CROP: 500X College Expo

500X Gallery, Texas’ oldest artist-run space, continues our annual juried show for college students!

Like the annual Expo juried show, NEW CROP: 500X College Expo aims to bring together artists from around the state. The exhibition offers college students an opportunity to enter into a dialogue with their Texas-based counterparts and to see work by their colleagues at other institutions. The exhibition will offer visitors an overview of the variety of perspectives that exist throughout colleges and universities in Texas.

Artists

Amanda Amaral

Joseph Browning

Kerry Butcher

Bryan Clocker

Hannah Corley

Sheryl  David

JoyEllis

Jarrod Estes

Morgan Everhart

Sarah Francis

Abhidnya Ghuge

Corey Gossett

Christopher Green

Laura Horner

Stefany Johnson

Kyle Jordan

Ashley Kauschinger

Kelsey Kilcrease

Hiroko Kubo

Alan Linnstaedt

Jessica Martinez

Thomas Menikos

Daniel Miller

Randall Mosman

David Namaksy

Alizsha Pennington

Jess Peri

Maria Pizzarello

Allie Regan

Milton Rodriguez

Glen Rust

Caroline Sharpless

KT Shiue

Kristina Smith

Brandon Snow

Lisa Tremaine

Mariah Tyler

Ethan Wang

Zach Welch

Kathryn  Young

Representing

University of North Texas, Stephen F. Austin State University, Texas Christian University, Texas Woman’s University, Collin County Community College, University of Houston, Richland Community College, Houston Baptist University, University of Texas at Arlington, University of Dallas, and University of Texas at Tyler

 About the Jurors

Barry Whistler is the owner and director of Barry Whistler Gallery. Established in 1985 in Dallas, Texas, Barry Whistler Gallery primarily focuses on Texas artists exhibiting and selling contemporary paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and photography as well as installation and performance works. Represented artists from Texas include: The Art Guys, Scott Barber, Kelli Connell, Linnea Glatt, Toni LaSelle, Lawrence Lee, Michael Miller, Betsy Odom, John Pomara, Allison V. Smith, Ann Stautberg, Lorraine Tady, John Wilcox, Danny Williams; as well as Bob Wilhite and Skeet McAuley from California, and Johnnie Winona Ross from New Mexico.

The gallery has also exhibited and handles inventory by New York artists Mark Williams and Adam Raymont, Irene Roderick from Austin, Michael C. McMillen from Los Angeles, Darryl Lauster from Houston, and Kirsten Macy from Dallas.

Dallas native Allison V. Smith took her first snapshot when she was 8 years old, and she’s been taking pictures ever since. After earning a degree in journalism from Southern Methodist University, she worked as a staff photographer for newspapers such as the Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star Telegram, and Santa Fe New Mexican. In 2003 she made the decision to become a freelance photographer, yet her photojournalism continues to make itself evident in her portraits, magazine work, and fine art work. Smith’s portraits have appeared in a number of publications, including Texas Monthly, The New York Times, Dwell and the Oxford American, and her Marfa, Texas series has been exhibited in galleries in Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, and Los Angeles. The photographer wanders the world with her red Hasselblad and her two yellow Labs-Bucks and Daisy. They patiently ride to Marfa with Smith several times a year, Maine once a year, and wherever else the work takes them (37 states so far). Smith’s work is in the permanent collection at the Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Art in Houston and private collections in Dallas, Los Angeles, and Moscow. She is represented by Barry Whistler Gallery in Dallas, Texas.