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MARFA- Donated artwork will be sold to raise funds for art classes at Marfa Elementary School. “Made for Marfa” is organized by the Marfa Studio of Arts to support the Studio in the Elementary School Art program.

The preview and sale of artwork will be held at the Marfa Studio of Arts Gallery 6-9pm on Friday, October 6, during the annual Chinati Open House Weekend “Made in Marfa” event. Viewing and sales of work will continue from noon-4pm on Saturday, October 7 and from 11am-3pm on Sunday, October 8. Marfa Studio of Arts Gallery is located on 106 East San Antonio (Hwy 90), next to the Marfa Public Radio station.

Artists were asked to donate works that were 12 inches or less in any direction and were inspired by Marfa. Purchases will be brisk so be prepared to make a quick decision to buy.

Artists participating include Mary Baxter, Maryam Amiryani, Nick Terry, Barbara Tennant, Jennifer Lane, Bob Wade, Nina Dietzel, Rusty Martin, Camp Bosworth, Malinda Beeman, Wendy Lynn Wright, Holly Everett, Faith Gay, Michael Phelan, Edward Kawecki, Leslie Wilkes, LeAna Clifton, Glen Clifton, Mary Shaffer, Rae Anna Hample, Anthony DeSimone, Julie Speed, Jack Massing, Bob Wade, Keri Blackman, Sam Schoenzeit, Tyler Spurgin, Elise Sibley Chandler, Ross Cashiola, Janelle Borberry and Pauline Hernandez.

Raffle tickets will also be available for the “Marfa Experience” ($10) and “Marfa Essentials” ($5).

The “Marfa Experience” prizes will include two nights at Hotel Saint George, dinners and services. The “Marfa Essentials” has two packages, each with a hotel (Hotel Paisano and El Cosmico), meals and gifts. The drawing for the raffle prizes will be at 9pm on Friday night.

The Marfa Studio of Arts is a non-profit organization founded in 1999. The Studio in the Elementary School arts program (started in 2006) funds professional artist/teachers and gives art classes to all children during the elementary school year in Marfa.

“In Our Nature” by Molly Bounds

MARFA – RULE Gallery is pleased to present Where You Are Not, a duo exhibition of new work by Caleb Hahne and Molly Bounds, at the Marfa gallery.

The show will open with a public reception from 6-9pm on Friday, October 6, and will be on view through January 6, 2018.

RULE Gallery is located at 204 E. San Antonio St.

“Where You Are Not” is an intimate discussion between artists Caleb Hahne and Molly Bounds regarding themes of vulnerability, sacrifice, and cycles of dysfunction. The collaboration is fueled by a joint desire to expand the boundaries of emotional balance through shared but separate experiences of longing.

In a new series of paintings Caleb Hahne navigates a narrative of loss and self-reflection exploring the formative experiences throughout his life and into the present. Poignant depictions of draped cloth and abstracted figures suggest embedded memories contained within. Both subjects evoke the melancholy of those we have lost and how we hold onto them by keeping items, like clothing that retain their shape and smell. From a technical standpoint, Hahne’s paintings conduct a forensic study into a palette of blue, which both emits and imbibes deep engagement with physical and psychological distance. Hahne, in dealing with his own dualities of desire and loss; societal expectation and internal motivations, sees these aspects of blue as an apt metaphor for where he is now.

Conversely, Molly Bounds’ work explores a history of emotional labor by working across mediums significant to the women of her lineage. The artist blends lived experience of heredity with antiquated icons of femininity in an attempt to measure the outcome and benefits of traits commonly connoted with goodness. This includes the perceived universality of empathy in women. The work on display questions how far women choose or are held back by emotional subservience. Through ceramic sculpture, portraiture and gestural renderings, Bounds re-imagines primordial relics, cautionary tales and moral warnings for posterity on the dangers of being selfless.

Both artists, in their practice and process, express visual field notes in a common pursuit of the question, “What makes us human?” While their perspectives come from oppositional margins of experience, where the grass is always greener, the distance to the center may be closer than you think. Where You Are Not may not be far from where you are.

Caleb Hahne (b. 1993) graduated from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in 2014 and currently lives and works in Colorado. His art has been included in multiple solo and group exhibitions in Denver, New York, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, Portland, Montreal, Berlin, and the United Kingdom and most recently at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver as well as the New Museum, NY, in collaboration with adidas. His first solo exhibition with RULE came in Denver in 2016. Hahne has been featured in Juxtapoz, Hi-Fructose, and Booooooom.com. Denver Westword named Hahne, at age 21, one of the 100 Colorado Creatives of 2014 and one of the Top 10 Artists to watch in 2015. He is also listed as one of the top 10 contemporary artists under 40 by WideWalls.

Molly Bounds (b. 1990) is a Texas-born artist raised in Colorado. After receiving her BFA from Metropolitan University of Denver in 2014, her work was included in multiple group shows in Denver, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Portland, and recently had solo exhibitions at Leisure Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, after which she was awarded Best Solo Show in 2016 by Denver Westword. She is a current resident artist at RedLine Contemporary Art Center and has recently begun running an art book residency out of her home in Denver.

RULE Gallery has exhibited contemporary, abstract and conceptual works, including paintings, sculpture, photography, and works on paper, by both established and emerging national artists, since 1991. The gallery has locations in Denver, Colorado, and Marfa, Texas. For more information, visit www.rulegallery.com or (303) 800-6778. RULE Marfa is located at 204 East San Antonio St, Marfa, TX. Hours are Wednesday – Saturday 11a – 5p and by appointment.

Artist Billy L. Keen
Keys to seeing a Prairie Falcon
Size: 40″x30″x2″

MARFA – Brothers Art Marfa will again proudly take part in the annual Chinati Weekend Celebration and Made in Marfa open studio and gallery event this Friday evening. I am thrilled to show off new work by many renowned Texas artists like Billy L. Keen, Richard Reher, and Joan Fabian as well as new work by the internationally celebrated artist Inge H. Schmidt from Berlin, Germany.

Billy L. Keen’s mixed media works, exquisite landscape paintings contained in beautifully shaped panels expressing the abstract take of the very same landscape with added sculptural pieces completing the art piece, are filling one of the walls at the gallery. The question as in how one’s place of birth influences one’s choices in life and the quest to be spiritually free from these pressures is the recurring them in his works and a subject almost all of us can identify with.

Billy’s art was honored many times at the Midland Museum of the Southwest and at a retrospective art show recognizing his more than 30 years of creative work at the San Antonio Art League Museum.

Big single trunks of solid, hard Texas mesquite were transformed by artist Richard Reher into gracefully flowing “Effluxions” as he calls his sculpture series of life-size plant “beings”. Richard is after the sheer essence of the organic “being” and the underlying grace and movement that is true to the beauty of plants.

Joan Fabian is diving deep into the mysteries of urban living. Beyond what meets the eye, Joan is intrigued by How much of our soul remains in a place abandoned years ago How much of our soul remains in a place abandoned years agohow much of one’s soul remains in a place abandoned years ago or how much meaning is lost forever or even found? Between growing up in Chicago, a year stay in Pakistan to teach art after receiving a Fulbright Scholar award, or an art residency in Delft, Holland, Joan experienced many different societies. Joan became fascinated in how these different belief systems manifest themselves in the outward appearance of the environment people live in.

All these thoughts are expressed through colorful multi-media compositions covered in layers of graffiti like patterns bursting with cultural residue and references.

Looking forward to seeing you on Friday, October the 6^th, from 5 to 10pm, for the Made in Marfa open studio and gallery event. You can also come by and visit during regular hours thereafter from 10am to 6pm. Please call 432 729 4327 for any inquires.

(photo by STEVEN KRUPNICK)
Capri sign

MARFA – The International Woman’s Foundation (IWF) presents in the ballroom of Building 98 “There Is No Such Thing as The End” – recent paintings and sculpture by Alexandra ELDRIDGE and Walter W. NELSON, October 5-8.

In collaboration with Marfa Open, IWF also hosts former Bldg 98 artist-in-residence Stephen KRUPNICK for an exhibition of his photographs in the front gallery through October 8th.

Sculptor Paul OGLESBY unveils on Friday morning HIGH Plateau curated shop in the former northwest gallery.

Artists represented include Nicholas Diertien, Mery Godigna Collet, Luis R. Gutierrez, Matt Jones, Melissa Livingston, Ender Martos, Andy St Martin, Agnus Seabass, Sylvanus Shaw and Sara Ullman.

Gallery hours are 10am-6pm with the opening reception on Thursday, October 5th, 5-8pm. The public is welcome to the exhibitions and reception; all are free.

According to Alexandra Eldridge, her “paintings emerge from a place where contradictions are allowed, paradox reigns and reason is abandoned. Her search is for the inherent radiance in all things – the extraordinary in the ordinary. Her paintings explore the ‘Eternal Worlds’ of the imagination using the language of metaphor, symbol and dream to aid in accessing these worlds. Her stories are suggested here with no beginning and no end. Instead they hint at a relationship to a Visionary World and realms between.” Her latest body of work takes the form of largely photo-based paintings. The photographs are scanned from glass plate negatives dating from the turn of the century and printed on tyvek. Re-imagining the subjects of these vintage glass negatives (mostly of children) by adding wings, moons, animal allies, stone circles, birds and amphibians, becomes a meditation on death and resurrection. There are also a number of overlay paintings on old Chinese scrolls, suggesting the fragility of life and it’s transient nature. Additionally, there are three paintings, altered photographs in their original bubble glass and frames, and a nun’s rough linen nightgown, re-animated with images and objects of magic and healing included.

Walter W. Nelson is a multi-disciplined artist working in photography, painting, sculpture and sculpture-relief paintings. His past sculpture-relief paintings have become more complex using an impressionistic pallet – color and texture with various materials to achieve an end never repeating himself after completing a series.

Exhibited works span 2014-2017 with his recent work moving into a broad color field abstract expression with symbolist forms combined with drawings. Walter believes that, as an artist, he “is [on] a constant journey into the unknown, always looking ahead never behind, a positive and spiritual quest to understand and portray inner and outer existence.”

More informationa: International Woman’s Foundation, 432.729.1852.

William Cordova, installation view of exhibition Smoke Signals: Sculpting in Time, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY, 2017.

MARFA – In “ankaylli: spatial and ideological terrain,” opening at Marfa Contemporary on Friday, October 6 artist William Cordova exposes relationships between Pre‐Columbian traditions, modern architecture, and spiritualism as inflected through Marfa, a town where the three intersect.

The installation involves sculptures, collages, photographs, a film, and a constellation of objects placed at sites of significance around Marfa.

Cordova is skilled at creating images and structures that are poetic yet charged with symbolism, and that connect places, traditions, and people that are often perceived as distinct.

Recently, as at Marfa Contemporary, Cordova’s installations have revolved around labyrinthine scaffold-­‐like wooden structures. Constructed out of two-­‐by-­‐fours and other common material, these structures, which spiral inward, have no clear entrance but are installed with objects that encourage exploration: the chipped remains of a graffitied mural (quilt (metaphysics of space & time), 1981-­‐2013), a record playing the sounds of ants at work (physical graffiti (or synthesis we knew about), 2016), a feather and stone attached by wires and a hairband (untitled (transmissions), 2016), a trail of palm-­‐sized spheres made of concrete and organic materials from various locales (untitled (follow the drinking gourd), 2017).

Such items, along with those that will surround the structure at Marfa Contemporary—a suite of polaroids of spherical objects floating in space (pulsar, 2010-­‐2016), renderings of architectural elements drawn with Peruvian cacao, collages featuring vernacular cultural products (a roadside hotel, a boombox), a looped film showing images and sounds from a Peruvian beach—suggest the interconnected traditions that shape culture.

While Cordova makes objects and installations that reflect on the construction of culture, his practice revolves around research and engagement with people. “Ankaylli: spatial and ideological terrain” is inflected by Cordova’s understanding of Marfa.

The project comprises an installation, a workshop with area residents that will

result in spheres used in the installation and at a constellation of locations around town, a free broadsheet featuring source material, and free public programming that will provide various paths to considering Cordova’s practice and project.

The exhibition project “ankaylli: spatial and ideological terrain” connects the seemingly disparate, from the spatial (Marfa and Peru) to the cultural (indigenous practices in the Americas and US-­‐Euro Minimalism) to the temporal (past and present). Using ankaylli, a Quechuan word meaning transformer or revolution, Cordova bridges non-­‐Western and Western ideologies and recovers networks that have been elided from history, suggesting that we all contribute to the construction of culture.

“Ankaylli: spatial and ideological terrain” is curated by Kate Green. A small book will document the project. The book, published in March 2018, will include color images of the installation and essays by Green, Guest Director of Marfa Contemporary, and Franklin Sirmans, Director of Pérez Art Museum Miami.

Opening with Artist + Reception, October 6, 6‐8pm, Remarks 7pm. Free.

Artist & Guests Talk + Brunch: October 7, 11‐12pm. Free.

William Cordova will discuss his work with exhibition curator Kate Green, Marfa Contemporary Guest Director, and Carter Foster, formerly Curator of Drawings at the Whitney Museum of American Art and currently Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Blanton Museum of Art.

MARFA – Save the date for two special events presented by Marfa Live Arts with renowned Japanese sound artists Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda in Marfa October 25th and 26th.

Though they differ in generation and performance practice, the New York City-based Onda (b. 1967) and the Kyotango-based Suzuki (b. 1941) share an astonishingly inventive, open-ended, and spontaneous approach to the infinite and variegated possibilities of sound.

Both events in Marfa will be free and are part of a seven-city North American tour that includes performances with Blank Forms at Pioneer Works in New York and SASSAS at Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook in Los Angeles.

On Wednesday, October 25th, Marfa Live Arts will host an interactive workshop with Japanese sound artists Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda discussing principles of site-specific performance. Participants are invited to bring their own instruments and perform alongside the artists at the historic Marfa Stockyards.

On Thursday, October 26th, Suzuki and Onda will perform at Saint George Hall utilizing unconventional and self-made instruments including analog cassette Walkmans and radios, found pieces of wood, nails, hammers, buckets, marbles, and glass jars, allowing the individual architecture and acoustics of the site to guide the flow and development of the performance.

More information on www.marfalivearts.org.

MARFA – Judd Foundation is pleased to announce Open Hours and Evening Lights in conjunction with Chinati Weekend. An opportunity to visit Donald Judd’s private living and working spaces in Marfa, the visits are self-guided and free to the public.

La Mansana de Chinati/The Block

Saturday, October 7, 10am-3pm, 400 West El Paso Street: Surrounded by an adobe wall one city block wide, the complex includes Donald Judd’s residence and three main studios, with permanent installations of his work dating from 1962 to 1979, along with his library of more than 13,000 volumes.

Cobb House and Whyte Building

Saturday, October 7, 10am-3pm; 104 West Oak Street: Two of Donald Judd’s downtown studio spaces, the Cobb House and the Whyte Building, include permanent installations of his paintings and reliefs dating from 1956 to 1962 as well as furniture designed by Judd and Rudolf M. Schindler.

Evening Lights

Thursday, October 5-Sunday, October 8, 8pm-midnight: Evening lights will illuminate Donald Judd’s downtown studio spaces each evening, including the Architecture Studio, Art Studio, and Ranch Office.

Please visit our website to learn more about Judd Foundation in Marfa. For more information contact: marfa@juddfoundation.org or 432 729 4406 ext. 1.

MARFA – The Chinati Foundation is pleased to announce the program for this year’s Chinati Weekend, October 6 through 8.

Special features include the opening of a new special exhibition by the British artist Bridget Riley, talks on Riley’s work by art historian Richard Shiff and curator Lynne Cooke, and a Sunday afternoon performance by Solange Knowles Ferguson at the site of Donald Judd’s 15 untitled works in concrete.

There will be open viewing of Chinati’s permanent collection throughout the weekend. Everyone is welcome and all programs are free of charge.

The weekend will begin on Friday evening, October 6, with Made in Marfa, featuring open studios, gallery exhibitions, mercantile events, and performances throughout Marfa from 5- 10pm.

Chinati will host an open studio for artist in residence Rosy Keyser from 6- 8pm at the Locker Plant on East Oak Street.

On Saturday, October 7, Chinati will offer free admission to the museum’s permanent collection and special exhibitions from 10am-3pm. The permanent collection includes work by Carl Andre, Ingólfur Arnarsson, John Chamberlain, Dan Flavin, Roni Horn, Robert Irwin, Donald Judd, Ilya Kabakov, Richard Long, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, David Rabinowitch, and John Wesley.

On view in the museum’s special exhibition gallery will be a new multicolored wall painting by Bridget Riley. Conceived specifically for the building, it is the artist’s largest work to date. The work will remain on view through 2019.

At 3:30pm, art historian and Chinati trustee Richard Shiff will give a talk on Bridget Riley’s work at the Crowley Theater.

From 10am- 3:30pm, Judd Foundation will host open hours of La Mansana de Chinati/The Block, Donald Judd’s Marfa residence and studios with permanent installations of his work dating from 1962 to 1979, along with the Cobb House and the Whyte Building, with permanent installations of his paintings and reliefs dating from 1956 to 1962. Spaces will be open for self-guided viewing, free of charge.

On Saturday evening, Chinati will host a benefit dinner in the Arena from 5:30-8:30pm. The benefit dinner is Chinati’s largest fundraising event of the year and helps support Chinati Weekend exhibitions and programs as well as the museum’s general operations year-round.

Area residents may purchase tickets at a discount. To purchase tickets, please visit the Chinati website or call (432) 729-4362.

On Sunday, October 8, from 7:30-9:am, Chinati will offer early morning viewing of Robert Irwin’s untitled (dawn to dusk) and Donald Judd’s 100 untitled works in mill aluminum and 15 works in concrete.

The permanent collection and the Bridget Riley exhibition will be available for open viewing from 10am-3pm.

At 11am, curator Lynne Cooke will give a talk on Bridget Riley’s work in the special exhibition gallery.

A film will be shown at 2pm in the Crowley Theater featuring Bridget Riley in conversation with author Michael Bracewell in which the artist discusses her new work for Chinati.

At 5pm, Solange will perform her work “Scales,” a choreographed performance featuring compositions from her album A Seat at the Table and original arrangements, on the Chinati grounds in the field where Donald Judd’s 15 untitled works in concrete are sited. Gates for the performance will open at 4pm and the performance will begin at 5pm.

To ensure safety and enhance the experience of the performance, Chinati requests that guests refrain from photography and bringing pets, chairs, and large bags or backpacks onto museum grounds. Bottled water only, please – no food or other drinks. No smoking or flame of any kind. Gates close at 5pm – there will be no admittance once the performance starts. Please wear appropriate footwear for the outdoor terrain and stay on walking paths only as directed by Chinati staff.

The Chinati Foundation permanent collection, exhibitions, talks, and music are all free of charge.

Chinati Weekend 2017 is generously supported by Brooke Alexander, Anonymous, Robert and Valerie Arber, Diane Barnes and Jon Otis, Katherine Bash and Duncan Kennedy, Shari and John Behnke, The Donald and Carole Chaiken Foundation, Cina Forgason, Jeff Fort, Fraenkel Gallery, Matthew Goudeau, Marieluise Hessel, Christopher C. Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Keen, Ben E. Keith Foundation, Kirkpatrick Family Fund, Charles Mary Kubricht and Ron Sommers, Kathy McDaniel and Kevin Flynn, Happy Price, Susan Ringo and Barry Sonnenfeld, Robert Soros, Vault Fine Art Services, and Jill and John Walsh.

The Bridget Riley exhibition has been realized with generous support from Rolf Fehlbaum, Fifth Floor Foundation, Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris, Genesis Foundation, Fredericka Hunter and Ian Glennie, Raymond Learsy, Celeste and Anthony Meier, Caius Pawson and Brenda R. Potter, and David Zwirner, New York/London.

Chinati’s educational and public programming is supported with generous grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Brown Foundation, the Hearst Foundations, the Carl B. & Florence E. King Foundation, the Permian Basin Area Foundation, the Warren Skaaren Trust, the Cowles Charitable Trust, and the City of Marfa. Chinati is grateful for the generous financial support of our members and the support and in-kind contributions of the people of Marfa and far West Texas.

ALPINE – “Clybourne Park,” Bruce Norris’ award-winning drama about race in America and its ever-shifting boundaries and demographics, goes on stage October 22-29 at Sul Ross State University.

Evening performances begin at 8:15pm on October 20-21 and October 27-28 in the Studio Theatre, Francois Fine Arts Building. Sunday matinees will begin at 2pm October 22 and 29.

Directed by Marjie Scott, assistant professor of communication and theatre, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play is set in a house on Clybourne Street – the same house the Younger family purchases in Lorraine Hansberry’s award-winning play, “A Raisin in the Sun” (1959).

In act one of “Clybourne Park,” a white couple in 1959 is selling the house in the suburban Chicago neighborhood, and their white neighbor is upset that the buyers are African-American. In act two, the same house is again being sold, but it is now 2009, and a white couple is purchasing the home from an African-American couple. The two couples argue about the historical significance and shifting demographics of the now largely African-American neighborhood.

Through these two racially charged transactions, Norris writes a spin-off of Hansberry’s compelling drama about race in America. “Clybourne Park” tells the story of a home and a neighborhood, as well as the sense of history and entitlement people cling to in the ever-shifting physical boundaries and demographics of the American cultural landscape.

Cast members include: Gabrielle Rule (Brady), Jonathan Fields (Venus), Michael Emerson (Houston), Cierra Noel (Houston), Theseus Francis (Alpine), Callie Jones (Midland), and Westin Huffman (Fort Davis).

Tickets are on sale now: $10 for adults and $8 for seniors. Sul Ross State University Theatre Season Tickets are also now on sale.

For more information, please call (432) 837-8218 or visit www.sulross.edu/theatre

MARFA – The Marfa Studio of Arts will be accepting art works for the “Made for Marfa” exhibition this week. All works need to be delivered on either Saturday, September 30, 12-5pm or Monday, October 2, 2-5pm to the Marfa Studio of Arts Gallery 106 East San Antonio Street (same building as the Radio Station).

Art works need to be no larger than 12” in any direction. It was suggested that the works be made from something found in Marfa, however, if the artist feels the work was inspired in some way by Marfa, it would be acceptable. Works will be a 100% donation to the Studio in the Elementary School Arts Program of the Marfa Studio of Arts.

The preview and sale of artwork will be held at the Marfa Studio of Arts Gallery on Friday, October 6, 6-9pm during the annual Chinati Open House Weekend “Made in Marfa” event. Viewing and sales of work will continue on Saturday, October 7 from 12 – 4pm and Sunday from 11 – 3pm.

If you have any questions about this event or want to tell us that you will be delivering a work of art for Marfa kids, please contact us at marfastudioarts@gmail.com .