Skydive to Publish Houston Fringe Art Omnibus in March
Houston artspace Skydive has announced a forthcoming publication: Satellites and Socialists: On the Fringe of Houston Arts, a book of “essays, letters, fictions, floorplans, scandals and more”, to premier in March 2013. Edited by Sasha Dela & Nancy Zastudil, and published in conjunction with the Temporary Art Review, the proposed publication includes contributions from nearly [...]
See it before it closes!: CINEPLEX, Sasha Dela, Harvey Bott
Sasha Dela: The Emotional Life of a Spy closes this Friday, July 6th at the Art League Houston so you don’t even have the weekend to catch it. If you haven’t seen it, you should. Using Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps as raw material Dela retells the story, cutting scenes with her own text and images [...]
Sustainable Practice: Sasha Dela
Sasha Dela moved to Houston about seven years ago as a fellow in the MFAH Core Program and quickly became an important part of the Houston art scene as a founder of SKYDIVE Art Space and regional editor of Temporary Art Review, where she recently wrote an insightful take on our city that recognized the [...]
Skydive Celebrates Its 4th Year
Four years ago, Sasha Dela and Ariane Roesch opened a studio on an upper floor of an outdated and slightly ominous looking office building across from Montrose Krogers and the Chinese Consulate after the artists were both in the 2008 Houston Area Exhibition at Blaffer Art Museum. They decided to curate small exhibitions in [...]
Moody Begs for Bise: New Hearts are Expensive. Obamacare, we need you now!
Setting a high-water mark for art-dealer niceness, Moody Gallery has sent out an open letter asking for help for artist (and Glasstire contributor) Michael Bise, who, as you may have heard, is awaiting a heart transplant: November 4, 2011 Dear Friends, Recently we have been confronted with the news that Michael Bise is now on [...]
Boyd adds 10% to Skydive Many-Mini donations, putting the grass in grass-roots
Houston art fan Robert Boyd, whose The Great God Pan Is Dead blog enlivens the art scene here, is enlivening it in a more direct way by offering to add 10% to donations for Skydive’s upcoming Many Mini Residency program. The proposed mini-residencies, all crammed into a couple of days, have their own Kickstarter campaign, [...]