a reflection in the water, rippling from a breeze that touches the tops of mountains. a cosmic sunrise on the tongue of whispered dreams, tanning shapes of locked doors. faces collapse like rocks bouncing on beds. it’s all so pretty and yet where is the moon? here is the shadow but where is the light? look to the sky with your magic eye and behold the silence of air.
For their first two person show together in Houston, Orr + Peña have produced new work that continues to explore their sensiti...
a reflection in the water, rippling from a breeze that touches the tops of mountains. a cosmic sunrise on the tongue of whispered dreams, tanning shapes of locked doors. faces collapse like rocks bouncing on beds. it’s all so pretty and yet where is the moon? here is the shadow but where is the light? look to the sky with your magic eye and behold the silence of air.
For their first two person show together in Houston, Orr + Peña have produced new work that continues to explore their sensitivity to material, interest in light as a phenomenon and how perception can break down leading to mysterious encounters.
May 30 – July 4, 2015
Houston, TX
BOX 13
Downstairs Back BOX
Tom Orr received his BFA in Sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design in 1973. He has exhibited extensively during his career both in the United States and in Japan. His site-specific works have been installed in places ranging from John Michael Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, to the 21st Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture in Ube Japan. The many collections in which he is represented include the Foundation of Culture in Osaka, Japan, The El Paso Museum in Texas and the Utsukushi-Ga-Hara Open-Air Museum in Nagano, Japan. Among his public art projects are two large-scale wall installations in the international terminal at the Dallas Ft. Worth Airport and a station design for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Orr and fellow artist Frances Bagley designed the sets and costumes for the Dallas Opera’s production of Verdi’s Nabucco, which celebrated the Opera’s 50th anniversary season in November 2006. This project was followed by an invitation from The Dallas Museum of Art to create a museum installation based on the set designs from the opera for the exhibition Performance/Art. He is represented by Barry Whistler gallery in Dallas, and In 2011 he was awarded a Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant and in August of 2013 he installed a major public art installation in Love Field Airport, Dallas,TX.
Websites: www.tomorr.net
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Arthur Peña is a painter, arts educator and contributing writer to Arts & Culture TX, New American Paintings and ART HAPS. He is the founder/director of experimental art space WARE:WOLF:HAUS, DIY roving music venue VICE PALACE and co-founder of Deadbolt Studios in West Dallas. Peña has shown throughout Texas including group shows PRTY PPL at Circuit 12 Contemporary (Dallas, TX, 2015), One Night Stand at Barry Whistler Gallery (Dallas, TX, 2014), Boom Town at Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, TX, 2014) and the 2013 Texas Biennial at Blue Star Contemporary Museum (San Antonio, TX 2013). His solo shows include upcoming the wants and needs of a fearful life at the Latino Cultural Center (Dallas, TX, 2015), don’t wake up at This Friday or Next Friday (Brooklyn, NY, 2014), nothing lasts at the Ruby Room (Dallas, TX, 2014), slight shift/ steady hand at Dallas Contemporary Museum (Dallas, TX, 2013) and ever/always/elsewhere at Oliver Francis Gallery (Dallas, TX, 2012). Two person shows include Grind Stone with Sean Pearson at Et Al Projects (Brooklyn, NY, 2013). Peña received his Post Baccalaureate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010 and his MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 2012. He currently lives and works in Dallas.
Websites: arthurpena.com
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