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By Sarah Fisch on October 2, 2012
This is an essay about learning Photoshop. I have to learn it for a class. I am in graduate school, see. I still have a hard time believing this. I’m in this multimedia experimental MA program in Specialized Journalism The Arts at the University of Southern California. I’ll tell y’all more about tall this later. So, [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged barbara kruger, Chupacabrona, cow tools, electracy, graduate school, greg ulmer, los angeles, photojournalism, photoshop, Sarah Fisch, university of southern california, USC, wendell willkie |
By Sarah Fisch on September 7, 2012
Hey y’all. This morning, I went to an intro to meditation workshop held at Shambhala Center Los Angeles. I woke up early to go! To a meditation workshop! it felt vaguely like I was going to church except the Shambhala Center is in a sort of Zen late midcentury low-slung combination office residential compound in [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Yauch, Buddhism, Chupacabrona, glasstire socal, graduate school, Judi Dench, meditation, Pema Chodron, Sarah Fisch, Shambhala, USC |
By Sarah Fisch on August 20, 2012
There’s this faction of contemporary artists who seem to feel at pains to jargonize, obfuscate and otherwise Other-ize their own work. If you need to have read Derrida and to have seen the whole canon to get what an artist is doing, that’s cool. But cool is a value of middling worth. The pernicious cycle of [...]
Posted in Article, Review | Tagged african american contemporary art, atlanta, DNA, henry louis gates jr, high museum of art, knock knock joke, McNay Art Museum, memory as medicine, middle passage, morley safer, Radcliffe Bailey, San Antonio, Sarah Fisch |
By Sarah Fisch on June 15, 2012
There’s been a grave interruption in my tour reporting, I realize. Rigoberto Gonzalez Facebooked me thusly the other day: WTF? (I’m paraphrasing). Here’s what happened: from January through May, I amassed more than eight hours of video footage, about that many hours of audio field recordings, including interviews and some highly trippy bits of RGV AM [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged Brooks County, chupacabrona tour, corpus christi, edinburg, Falfurrias, freddy fender, Glasstire, hard disk crash macbook, hidalgo county, Jim Wells County, road trip, san benito, Sarah Fisch, SMART Supporting Multiple Arts Resources Together, tech problems, united states artists |
By Sarah Fisch on March 29, 2012
Continued from Part I… V. Reynosa, Narcolandia and sad, sad data It’s important to point out that Rigoberto Gonzalez is not a Chicano artist, though he shares a lot of the same concerns, and is deeply interested in Chicano art and culture. But he’s a Mexican artist living (legally, understand) in the United States. He [...]
Posted in Article, Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged baroque on the border, border issues, Christina Rees, chupacabrona world tour, Ciudad Juarez, corridos, delilah montoya, figurative painting, harlingen, Houston, ican artist, jennie ash, la llorona, mcallen, me, Reynosa, rigoberto gonzalez, San Antonio, Sarah Fisch, social realism, spider-man, Tamaulipas, Tejano culture, The art league of houston, the Rio grande Valley, University of houston, video |
By Sarah Fisch on March 22, 2012
I. Some Art Context I have so much to show you. This is the first painting I ever saw by Rigoberto Gonzalez. It appeared in the Virginia Rutledge-curated Texas Biennial show of 2011, and it stopped me cold. The marriage of subject matter and technique felt shockingly fresh. This is a hell of an accomplishment; [...]
Posted in Article, Feature | Tagged baroque on the border, border issues, Christina Rees, chupacabrona world tour, Ciudad Juarez, corridos, delilah montoya, figurative painting, harlingen, Houston, jennie ash, la llorona, mcallen, mexican artist, Reynosa, rigoberto gonzalez, San Antonio, Sarah Fisch, social realism, spider-man, Tamaulipas, Tejano culture, The art league of houston, the Rio grande Valley, University of houston, video |
By Sarah Fisch on March 6, 2012
Basketball season brings out the aggrieved San Antonian in me. I am a Spurs fan, of course. Not a basketball enthusiast, necessarily, but a Spurs fan. This is a congenital condition. It’s brought on not just because San Antonio has no other major league sporting teams to diffuse our ardor, but because San Antonio is [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged amanda alejos, au naturale, Chupacabrona, chupacabrona tour, contemporary art, douglas clark, Glasstire, marilyn careen, mass media texas, mcallen, phillip field, rio grande valley, San Antonio, san antonio spurs, Sarah Fisch, south texas college, south texas identity, tom matthews, university of texas pan american |
By Sarah Fisch on February 6, 2012
Did you go to this thing? Houston’s Art Ball — aka Disaster Ball, a fundraiser for this here publication, it was. I went all the way from San Antonio. I was impressed by the breadth and inventiveness of the costumes, the tipsy friendliness of the crowd, and the funky hauteur of the Colombe D’Or. There [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged Apocalypse Ball, art auction, Bar F, Chupacabrona, cockroaches, costume party, gay bars, Kelly Klaasmeyer, La Palm d'Or, Michael Jackson tribute band, people dressed as Aztecs, rainey knudson, Sarah Fisch |
By Sarah Fisch on January 23, 2012
My former landlord in Williamsburg, Brooklyn—a sphinx-like Teutonic manchild who sublet me one of the ad-hoc drywall sleeping lofts in the colossal warehouse he leased near the Bedford Avenue subway stop—still owes me $1200. It was my security deposit from 2008 and I don’t expect to get it back. I don’t mean this story as revenge [...]
Posted in Art Narc, Article, Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged bad art, Beuys, Chupacabrona, contemporary art, Glasstire, good art, landlord, New York, opossum, possum trap, Sarah Fisch, Stella, warehouse, Warhol, Williamsburg |
By GT contributors on January 3, 2012
Glasstire’s contributors suss out the season’s most promising shows. AUSTIN Evidence of Houdini’s Return Arthouse/AMOA January 4 – March 4, 2012 Arthouse and AMOA are officially conjoined twins and, as such, will be mounting an abstraction exhibition, Evidence of Houdini’s Return. While the title is slightly obscure (it’s also the title of a painting by [...]
Posted in Article, Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged amoa, arthouse, Bill Davenport, Diana Al-Hadid, Facundo Argañaraz, J. Parker Valentine, katie geha, Katja Mater, lucia simek, rainey knudson, Sarah Fisch, spring preview texas, Sterling Allen, Visual Art Center |
By Sarah Fisch on December 27, 2011
Justin Boyd’s Window Works installation at Artpace is called “Natural Black, Sprinkled With Cosmic Iridescence.” This title struck me as maybe unnecessarily long when I first heard it, but after “seeing” the installation several times and talking to Justin Boyd about it, it’s won me over. Because not only does ”Natural Black, Sprinkled With [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged art, Artpace, Artpace Window Works, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, Chupacabrona, field recordings, Glasstire, grackles, hills snyder, Justin Boyd, San Antonio artists, Sarah Fisch, sound art, Soundcloud interview, Texas wildlife |
By Sarah Fisch on November 15, 2011
Hi again, Glasstire readers! This is what I think y’all look like: And also like this: Hello to you all. This December, I embark on The Chupacabrona World Tour (of South and West Texas). Over the course of five months, I aim to make ten two- and three-day trips from SATX to urban centers [...]
Posted in Blog, Chupacabrona | Tagged arts journalism, austin film festival, chupacabra, chupacabrona world tour, contemporary art, corpus christi, elizabeth avellan, Glasstire, harlingen, mariella sonam perez, multimedia journalism, rigoberto gonzalez, rio grande valley, road trip, roadrunner, Sarah Fisch, south texas underground film, stuf, Texas Art, texas film, USA Projects |
By Sarah Fisch on November 15, 2011
Hi again, Glasstire readers! This is what I think y’all look like: And also like this: Hello to you all. This December, I embark on The Chupacabrona World Tour (of South and West Texas). Over the course of five months, I aim to make ten two- and three-day trips from SATX to urban centers [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged arts journalism, austin film festival, chupacabra, chupacabrona world tour, contemporary art, corpus christi, elizabeth avellan, Glasstire, harlingen, mariella sonam perez, multimedia journalism, rigoberto gonzalez, rio grande valley, road trip, roadrunner, Sarah Fisch, south texas underground film, stuf, Texas Art, texas film, USA Projects |
By Sarah Fisch on November 2, 2011
My friend Rebecca watches ”RuPaul’s Drag U” with her six-year-old daughter, who’s a big fan. The six-year-old, her mother believes, doesn’t understand that Jujubee, Raven and the other drag queens are not biological women. The little girl watches for more or less the same reason her mom does — for the kitschy glamor (although the kiddo [...]
Posted in Article, Review, Uncategorized | Tagged austin, CHRISTEENE, contemporary art, drag, Glasstire, Heyd Fontenot, Ivete Lucas, jason villegas, K8 Hardy, LGBT, libby black, noah simblist, Otis Ike, queer states, queer theory, Rupaul, Sarah Fisch, University of Texas, Visual Art Center, Wura-Natasha Oganji |
By Sarah Fisch on October 27, 2011
So, the Texas Contemporary Art Fair is over. (Which gives me an excuse to post the above image. This particular Rachel Hecker piece is impactful and funny in-person, too.) So I’m still processing everything I saw, PLUS I’m recovering from a bout of dog-days writer’s block, which I blame on 9/11, heatstroke and having watched [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged art, Artpace, austin, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, chandeliers, crochet, Glasstire, Houston, impenetrable narrative, monofilament, San Antonio, Sarah Fisch, taxidermy, texas contemporary art fair, Texas Gallery, wolves |
By Sarah Fisch on October 23, 2011
Look, these are all gonna be iPhone photos. I’m sorry about that. Soon as I can, I plan to purchase a real camera, but meanwhile, this is what I’ve got to work with. Also, I’m posting this as fast as I can because it’s timely. Part 2 will come this evening, as I have to [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged champion contemporary austin, david shelton, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, jules buck jones, Kelly Klaasmeyer, miniature horse, Sarah Fisch, sonia dutton, texas art fair, Texas Contemporary, vincent valdez, western wear, white people, working animals |
By Sarah Fisch on October 22, 2011
Aaron Forland, San Antonio visual artist, SA’s unofficial DIY/underground/punk rock historian and creator of the “Keep San Antonio Lame” meme, has been and continues to extol the paradoxical and decorate the prosaic. Some of my favorite “undocumented” works by Forland, the clandestine installation of small but potent abstract works affixed to the doors on [...]
Posted in Blog, Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged Aaron Forland, detroit, guerilla public art, Potter Belmar Labs, San Antonio, Sarah Fisch |
By GT contributors on September 6, 2011
Here they are, sorted by city, our picks for the best shows in Texas this fall! ALBANY Eric Zimmerman: Sixteen Tons The Old Jail Art Center September 24, 2011 – January 22, 2012 Hey North Texas: if you missed Eric Zimmerman’s recent shows at the Austin Museum of Art, Art Palace Gallery, or the Southwest [...]
Posted in Article, Feature | Tagged AIDS, ALBANY, Ann Stautberg, Anne Wallace, annette lawrence, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, ashley hunt, austin, Austin contemporary art, AutoBody (Featuring North of South, Ballroom Marfa, BEAUMONT, Beili Liu, Beto Gonzales, Bill Davenport, Calatrava, Charlotte Smith, CHRISTEENE, Christina Rees, Chuck Ramirez, Chuck Ramirez: Minimally Baroque, climate change, Communograph: Mapping Through Creative Action, Connections: Haley-Henman, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, dallas, dallas contemporary, Dan Havel, David Schalliol, David Schalliol: Isolated Building Series, David Shelton Gallery, David Taylor, Dean Ruck, Devon Dikeou, EL PASO, el paso museum of art, Elisa d’Arrigo, Ellen Frances Tuchman, eric zimmerman, ethel shipton, Fall Preview, Fifth Ward Jam, fort worth, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Frances Bagley, fucked up shit, Gabriel de la Mora, Gaffes and Informations: Kevin Tedora and Jeff Zilm, George R. Brown Convention Center, Haley-Henman Gallery, Hana Hillerova, HCC Central Fine Arts Gallery, HJ Bott, Houston, Houston Art Fairs.Houston Fine Art Fair, Houston Art League, Houston's Third Ward, Hung Liu, jason villegas, Jayne Lawrence: New Drawings and Sculpture, Jayne Lawrences, Jeff Zilm, Jennifer Rubell, Jesse Lott, John Adelman, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Jonathan Whitfill, josef helfenstein, Joshua Bienko, Kevin Tedora, Landmark Arts at Texas Tech University, laura mcphee, Laura McPhee: River of No Return, Lauren Levy, Leigh Anne Lester, libby black, Linda Ridgway, Linnea Glatt, Louise Bourgeois, LUBBOCK, lucia simek, MacDowell Artists Colony, Madeline O’Connor, Marco Maggi, Marfa, Marfa local punk band Solid Waste, margaret meehan, Mary McCleary, Mary mikel Stump, Mel Chin, Mel Chin: The Funk and Wag from A to Z, menil collection, Meredith Danluck, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Modern Ruin, Nasher Sculpture Center, New York musician John Carpenter, Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from The Victoria and Albert Museum Tyler Museum of Art, Obsessive Worlds, patty ortiz, Paul Booker, Perry House, Perry House: Movin On, peter doroshenko, Project Row Houses, queer states, rainey knudson, Ray Carrington, Rick Lowe, San Antonio, San Antonio contemporary art, San Marcos, Sarah Fisch, Sawzall-equipped beavers, shawn smith, Silver: 25th Anniversary Exhibition, SRO (Standing Room Only) Photography Gallery, Stephen Fox, Susie Rosmarin, texas contemporary art fair, Texas State, The Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, The Gallery at University of Texas at Arlington, the guadalupe gallery, The Nave Museum, The Old Jail Art Center, The River of No Return, The Southwest School of Art, Tom Orr, Tony Cragg, Tony Cragg: Seeing Things, TYLER, Vernon Fisher, Victor Zamudio-Taylor, VICTORIA, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Vincent Falsetta, Walter De Maria, Walter De Maria: Trilogies, West of East), Women and THeir WOrk, Working the Line: Photographs by David Taylor |
By Sarah Fisch on August 27, 2011
September 10 will mark the one year anniversary of Douglas Britt’s notorious and fantastic e-mail (which made Gawker!) “Houston Chronicle art coverage in the post-Preview era – Part 2″. (If you’re in Houston you already know this, but the very talented and capable Britt juggles two beats—he’s both arts and “Society” writer for the Houston [...]
Posted in Article, The Ten List, Uncategorized | Tagged douglas britt, gawker, guilt trip, How to piss off an arts writer, press release, San Antonio, Sarah Fisch, trolls |
By Sarah Fisch on August 18, 2011
This is Tapanga Jansen, a San Antonio video and social networking artist. I’m a big fan of her idiosyncratic, deliberately lo-fi, subversively sophisticated short videos, as well as her penchant for speaking in all LOLCats-style pidgin. Here’s the first video of Tapanga’s I saw, “Where’s Lori?” (2010) As you can see, Tapanga [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged animation, DIY, San Antonio contemporary art, Sarah Fisch, satire, social networking art, Tapanga Jansen, video art |