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New American Talent / Arthouse at the Jones Center

New American Talent: The Nineteenth Exhibition will be on view at Arthouse at the Jones Center from Saturday, June 12 and through Sunday, August 22, 2004. This nineteenth annual juried exhibition is fresh; there is something for everyone; and it's a good barometer of what's going on in contemporary art around the U.S. Included is a variety of media, such as painting, photography, sculpture and mixed media.

The New American Talent series seldom disappoints due to Arthouse's choice of jurors. Through the years, Arthouse has secured some of the most relevant and renowned curatorial talent to jury these shows. Former jurors include Dominic Molon (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago), Kathryn Kanjo (ArtPace, San Antonio), Anne Umland (The Museum of Modern Art, New York), and Robert Storr (The Museum of Modern Art, New York).

This year, honors went to Jerry Saltz, Senior Art Critic for the Village Voice in New York. Saltz currently teaches at Columbia Graduate School of Art, New York and The Art Institute of Chicago. A contributing editor at Art in America, he has written for Frieze, Parkett, Flash Art, and Time Out, New York. Saltz was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism in 2000 and 2003. He was nominated for a compilation of his writings entitled Seeing Out Loud: Village Voice Art Columns 1998 - 2003.

With regard to his selection process (and when simply viewing art), Saltz looks for three things, "Vision (or The Visionary), Originality, and Burning Bush energy." According to Saltz, two artistic tendencies emerge from the remarkable 80+ works on view: craft and collage. The former reflects the artist's meticulous attention to the crafting, or the making of the object, and the latter to his or her desire to create paintings from materials other than paint. This year's New American Talent offering showcases the work of more artists than ever before - 82 artists from the United States - 34 of whom currently live and work in Texas.

Fuzzy Logic / Women and Their Work

Women & Their Work is pleased to present Juror's Choice: 2004 Members Show. Regine Basha, Curator, selected works from Women & Their Work artist members online slide registry. The exhibition titled Fuzzy Logic includes installations, photography, video, and works on paper by the following eight artists: Brian Alesi, Tiffany Coffman, Gail Dawson, Phyllis Finley, Michele Grinstead, Susan Simmons, Cornelia White Swann, Kathy Van Torne.

Juror, Ms Basha remarks about her selection of the works that "Jurying an exhibition, particularly of art work you are coming in contact with for the first time, can result in one of two things; either the making of a greatest hits, list of works based on a mostly subjective process, or the attempt to create a visual dialogue among the works selected. I chose the latter approach, hoping that the viewer might also enjoy the relationships that arose for me in the process. There is a computing term, Fuzzy Logic, that seems an apt overall moniker for this selection of works. Fuzzy logic argues that people do not require precise, numerical information input, and yet they are still capable of highly adaptive control to their environment. Fuzzy logic accepts imprecise, vague, and ambiguous information as part of a truth value. It is a human standard that computers are still trying to live up to. Many of these works, whether painting, drawing, photography or video seem to be affirming the value of that kind of logic.
Where would we be without Fuzzy Logic?"

This show runs through Sunday, September 12.
The opening reception is Thursday, August 5, 6-8 pm

Frontier Collage Society Annual Juried Exhibition /
Guadalupe Arts Center

The First Frontier Collage Society opens their 5th Annual Juried Exhibition on Thursday August 5th at the Guadalupe Arts Center. Artists from vastly different geographic locations join in this juried show with a common purpose-collage art. The results are an endless combination of colors, textures, styles, shapes, lines and expression. The mission of the First Frontier Collage Society is to educate and increase public awareness of collage and mixed media as a visible fine art form, and to provide educational opportunities and support for artists in a tangible way through workshops and exhibitions.

This exhibition runs through August 31.
The opening reception is Thursday, August 5, 6-9 pm

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