
TJ Hunt- Head Displacements I-IX After Robert Smithson Head Displacement III (I-IX). 2010 Photograph, earth and mirror Dimensions variable Carlos Rosales Silva- White Savage. 2013 18×18″ TJ Hunt- Painted Bronze Lone Star Samantha Scherer- Did You Hear That 22″x30″, watercolor and gouache, 2009 Samantha Scherer- What Was That (I)= detail 22″x30″, watercolor and gouache, 2009 Gregory Ruppe- The Long Pause- detail 2014 Libby Black- Roseanne. 2012 7”x8.5” Pencil on Paper Libby Black- Whitney Houston. 2012 10.5″ x 10.5″ Pencil on Paper Libby Black- Martina, 2012 12″x8″,. Pencil on Paper Libby Black -Birth. 2012 7.75”x 9.5” Pencil on Paper Libby Black- Queers Are Dears, 2012 10-5×12-5″. Pencil on Paper Libby Black – Darth. 2012 6.5”x8.5” Pencil on Paper Lauren Woods- The Teenth of June Digital Video Looped TRT: 00:07:00 Lauren Woods- The Teenth of June Digital Video Looped TRT: 00:07:00
The STUFF of Legends, curated by Margaret Meehan at Gray Matters Gallery in Dallas, Texas April 12- May 10th 2014. The exhibition brings together a diverse range of artists who reference mythic figures, evoking gender, fame, popular culture and politics. Using sculpture, painting, photography, works on paper and video these artists ask: how do we understand our world in an age of constantly changing, copied, pasted and linked information? Does historical context have a place in an ever-evolving present when most of what we see, hear and read is based on a subtle mix of truth, distortion and lies? The show includes the melancholy glam rock performance of Glitter Chariot; uncomfortably humorous and horrific work by both Libby Black and Lauren Woods; and sculptures by Gregory Ruppe and TJ Hunt, who reference art historical icons. All eight artists ask us to pause in the space between fact and fiction, playing on the assumed distance between collective memory, reinvention and pure imagination.
Libby Black / Glitter Chariot / TJ Hunt / Jim Nolan / Carlos Rosales Silva/
Gregory Ruppe / Samantha Scherer / Lauren Woods