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Getting ready!

FRANKENSTEIN has arrived! Artspace111 and Leslie Lanzotti are preparing for Thursday nights opening reception of THE FRANKENSTEIN FILES! Don't worry if you can't make it Thursday night please join us Saturday for a HALLOWEEN EVE PARTY! Check out our ad in this week Fort Worth Weekly.

Long time Friend of the Gallery - Vernon Fisher at the Modern.

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Vernon Fisher: K-Mart Conceptualism
September 25, 2010–January 2, 2011

Vernon Fisher: K-Mart Conceptualism is a survey of the artist’s entire career to date, incorporating paintings, sculptures, and installations from the late 1970s to the present, from both public and private collections in the United States and Europe.

Fisher has lived and worked in Fort Worth since 1977, and is one of Texas’s most internationally recognized artists. The exhibition is organized by Michael Auping, the Museum’s chief curator. “The show,” Auping comments, “will be a revealing look at a body of work that represents an especially interesting moment in contemporary art history in the late 1970s and early 1980s—a time when the legacies of Pop art and Conceptual art created a unique hybrid between painting and installation, inspiring narratives derived from juxtapositions of language and vernacular imagery. The subtitle of the exhibition refers to Fisher’s interest in philosophical enigmas coming out of working-class backdrops and situations.” Fisher comments, “I have an attraction to that kind of subject matter, and have written my share of pieces featuring Dairy Queens, grocery stores, Laundromats, third-rate hotels, etc.”

The exhibition will showcase the early collages that combine abstract painting, text, and image; and a selection of many of the artist’s best-known blackboard paintings, in which a faux blackboard surface is used as the ground for realistic, painted vignettes adjacent to fragments of different stories that suggest variously ambiguous meanings. A number of large, room-sized installations will also be included.

Historic Fort Worth, Inc.

ARTSPACE111

was please to receive a 

CERTIFICATE OF PRESERVATION ACHIEVEMENT 

for significant contributions to the preservation of:

111 Hampton Street (1911)

on September 23, 2010

Leslie Lanzotti: The Frankenstein Files October 28 - November 30, 2010

-save the date-

THE FRANKENSTEIN FILES

HaLlOoWeeN eVe PaRty 

Saturday, October 30, 2010

7 - 10 pm

Costume is optional. 

BENEFITTING THE TARRENT AREA FOOD BANK

5 cans or 5 dollars

LA turns to Fort Worth portraitist for ‘the art of jackass’

Sarah Green to unveil her collection October 14, 2010 at the Thought Gallery

10.05.2010 – Fort Worth artist Sarah Green’s portraits hang in the homes of Van Cliburn, Kirk Douglas, the family of late President Gerald Ford ... and her show, “the art of jackass", is part of the LA scene as “jackass 3D” opens October 15th in theaters nationwide.

Green’s show opens with a 9 p.m. reception October 14th at The Thought Gallery in Los Angeles at 1621 Cahuenga Blvd.
How did Green go from former presidents to the disgusting, dangerous, hilarious MTV phenomenon that caught on, caught flak from irate parents and then was made into three movies?

Says Green, “‘jackass’ has artistic merit: If we say that art can spur social change, alter our perspective, influence our society, then ‘jackass’ is a successful artistic venture. It's a social and media phenomenon that has swept the world over the past decade. ‘jackass’ has broken down media and societal taboos: Graphic displays of male nudity, physical injury, vomiting and defecating are shown in a spirit of gleeful tomfoolery and complete, breathtaking honesty, without malice.”

A few of the portraits of will even be in “jackass 3D”.
Green has created portraits of Johnny Knoxville, Jeff Tremaine, Steve-O, Rick Kosick and the rest, along with an iconic image of a finger dipped in -- you’ll have to go to her website, www.sarahgreenart.com and see for yourself.

“All the guys are gifted creatives of some sort,” says Green. “They're very talented musicians, actors, visual artists, athletes, writers. I can relate to them.”

She says she was given complete freedom to paint “the guys” any way she chose. “They're not hung up about their images, and collectively, they have a wonderful sense of the absurd, which they allowed me to utilize fully in each portrait.”

The back story
Sarah Green, 51, was born in London, England, and received a bachelor of arts degree in vocal performance from Texas Wesleyan University in 1984. She learned figurative drawing from her father, Christopher Hill, and has studied intaglio etching and other techniques, as well as photography with well-known artists. She was a commercial artist from age 15, and that work included several years with the Texas Refinery Corp. and the Pate family of Fort Worth. Says Green, “Many people find it interesting that I am a 51-year- old mom who is friendly with the ‘jackass’ boys. The guys are very respectful of moms and they think I am a ‘nice lady.’ They usually don't swear in front of me too much.”