Culture Lab

Statement

The Culture Laboratory Collective comprises a diverse group of artists working loosely around the question of social cohesion within the context of aesthetic fragmenta-tion. While focusing collectively on a syn-thetically established social identity the work presented paradoxically strives to break free of group-think aesthetics in favor of the individual voice, the point of dissonance opposing the attempt at collaborative co-hesion. Retaining a focus on craft and the object, Culture Laboratory Collective oper-ates as an ongoing investigation in media interchangeability and aesthetic fluidity.

Exhibitions

2011 “Co: Modify” Curated by Shreepad Joglekar Nave Museum, Victoria, TX

Ideaology as a commodity or industrial product in order to validate a lifestyle.

2011 “Response” Curated by Ryder Richards Richland College, Dallas, TX

Each artist responds to 1 word from a 12 word sentence provided by Ben Lewis of “Art Safari,” London.

2009 “Culture Lab: So Say We All... Sort of...” Curated by JD Durham Texas State Univ., San Marcos, TX Introductory exhibition to ascertain the confluence of aesthetic.

Est. 2009Culture Laboratory is a collective of

artists from the United States.

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Education2012 MFA Cornell Univ., NY2007 BFA Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX

Residencies2009 Hilmsen 1, Hilmsen, Germany

Solo Exhibitions2010 Inhabited, Richland Collge, Dallas, TX2009 The Living Room Scale Project Kansas City Artist Coalition, Kansas City, MO2007 Jerry Rigged Co-op Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX

Group Exhibitions2010 Persistent Breach East Central Univ., Ada, OK2010 BURB, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH2009 Gaungzhou International Photo Biennial Gaungzhou, China2009 Amerikanisches, Tangermünde Kirche Museum, Tangermünde, Germany.2009 Art LA Expo, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA Awards2009 Baum Award Nominee2009 Puffin Grant2009 Kimbrough Fund Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX2009 Lighton International Exchange Grant Kimbrough Fund Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX2009 Santa Fe Prize of Photography Nominee

Collections 2010 Texas Tech Museum Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX2009 Center for the Study of Inequality Cornell University, Ithaca, NY2007 The Strake Jesuit Art Museum Strake Jesuit College Prep., Houston, TX

Statement / BioThough only three years have passed since he earned a B.F.A. in sculpture/photography from Texas Tech University, Piotr Chizinski already has exhibited his works nationally and internationally.

In 2009 he was selected for the GuangzhouInternational Photo Biennial, China, where he exhibited and discussed his research methodology for “Inhabited: The Living Room Scale project.” He has been part of many national juried exhibitions, including Texas National, Digital Art LA, and Viewfinder. His work can be found in many permanentcollections including those of the Center for the Study of Inequality at Cornell University, New York, and the Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

Piotr Chizinski

Falls Village, CT[806] 786.7114 piotr@chizinski.com / www.chizinski.com b. 1981, Sharon, CT

Piotr Chizinski

Piotr is proudly homeless.

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Education2006 MFA, The University of Texas at San Antonio Solo* and Two Person Exhibitions 2010 *Ghost Receptacle, Three Walls, San Antonio, TX2009 *Aether Drift, Joan Grona Gallery, San Antonio, TX 2008 *Across the Sky, Sound Art Space, Laredo, TX 2008 Ping-Pong (with Josh Rios), MASS Gallery, Austin, TX

Group and Juried Exhibitions 2008 New American Paintings, No.78, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA (Juror: Andrea Karnes, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth). 2008 American Summer ’08, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA2006 Artists Looking at Art, Marion Koogler McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX2007 Loyal Opposition, Joan Cole Mitte Gallery, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

Publications2008 Northup, Holly. Texas Seen: “J. Derrick Durham at Joan Grona”, NY Arts Magazine, May-June 2008.2008 Lozano, Ivan. “Ping-Pong: J. Derrick Durham and Josh Rios”, Glasstire.com. Ed. Rainey Knudsen. June 2008.2008 Balasco, Jennifer, “Look and Listen: Durham Strives to Makes Art and Experience,” San Antonio Express News: 210SA

Awards/Residencies2008 Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center Artist in Residency Program, Johnson, VT

Representation Joan Grona Gallery, San Antonio, TX

StatementOn the Current Work..My most current work in painting evidences an aesthetic firmly rooted in hard-edge graphics and digital design. The appeal of these works is to a series of images seem-ingly devoid of expression, as if made by mechanical processes such as digital print. The forms that inhabit these most recent works are aerodynamic in appearance though their claim to aerodynamicsufficiency is challenged by their slight, though significant, structural deficiencies. The nexus for these compositions has its basis in philosophical and theological inves-tigations relating directly to epistemological crisis. Seizing upon the still familiar images of aerodynamic catastrophe associated with 911 I invest these works with a highly charged metaphorical language that speaks directly to the challenge of systems of belief (or faith) in a world increasingly guided by science and reason. These paintings are my attempt at an aesthetic manifesto for secular humanist aspirations.

JD Durham

San Marcos, TX[281] 638.5344 drekstar68@yahoo.com / www.jddurham.com b. 1968, Del Rio, TX

JD D

urham

JD is speaks real good.

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Education2007 MFA, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland 2005 BFA, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Solo Exhbitions2010 Love and Leaking, Stand Alone Gallery, New York, NY 2009 I am a small love. Be mine., Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT 2008 Tracks, The Seltzer Art Space, Minneapolis, MN

Group Exhibitions2010 Glitch Generation, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY2009 GalleryELL, Governors Island Art Fair, New York, NY 2009 Open Call, Location One, New York, NY2009 Love, Hinterland Film Festival, North Hampton, MA 2009 Trilogies, The White Room Gallery, Galway, Ireland 2008 DDWW, The Plaines Project, Chicago, IL

Publications 2010 Poemeleon, May 2010, Winter/Spring, The Collaboration Issue2010 The Invisible Seeing Machine - I take back the sponge cake. pending by Q Ave Press.2007 “I am a Monster: The Indefinite and the Malleable in Contemporary Female Self- Portraiture,” Circa 121: Contemporary Art in Ireland, Autumn 2007

Awards2010 Prize for Collaboration, NYU Washington Square Review 2006 Michael Greene Scholarship, Burren College of Art Sculpture Space, Utica, NY Residencies2010 Sculpture Space, Utica, NY 2010 Art Farm, Marquette, NE2008 The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

StatementIn a culture where divisions and borders serve as a means to enforce order that which disregards boundaries quickly be-comes taboo. There is little patience for the ambiguous or the unresolved. Yet many of us identify with the unstable composite, above imagery of the stable and singular. This ‘monstrosity’ is a potential representa-tion of a self that refuses to heed existing cultural and physical boundaries.

My sculptures, drawings, performances and video speak to a life of daily transformation. They are relentlessly shifting hybrid forms, taking elements from their environment, from their interpersonal interactions and from their own experiences to continually redefine themselves. Each is a snapshot of interper-sonal and personal mutation and incongruity. They revel in the absurdity one feels amidst constant change.

Loren Erdrich

Brooklyn, NY347.225.5209loren.erdrich@gmail.com / www.okloren.com

b. 1978, Boston, MA

Loren Erdrich

Residency Pro

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Education2006 MFA Ceramics, Central Washington Univ., Ellensburg, WA 2002 BFA Ceramics, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH

Solo Exhibitions2009 Ticky Tacky, Gallery One Visual Arts Center, Ellensburg, WA 2006 Four Rooms, MFA, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, CWU, Ellensburg, WA

Selected Juried Exhibitions2010 Rogue Space Chelsea Int’l, Chelsea Space Gallery, New York, NY2010 Academy of Fine Arts Annual, AFA, Lynchburg, VA2009 Art at the X, Xavier Univ. Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2008 New Hampshire Institute of Art Ceramics Biennial, NHIA, NH2008 Clay3 National, Clay Space Ceramics Art Center, Warrenville, IL 2008 Clay and Fiber, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL2008 Tablets: Text & Image in Clay, Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, CO

Honors and Awards2010 Summer Studio Assistantship, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN2009 Best in Show, Room for Eleven, RJP Nomadic Gallery at NCECA, Phoenix, AZ 2009 Cable Griffith Award, Kittitas County Juried Exhibition, Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA 2008 Best in Show, Alpan Int’l, Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY

StatementIn today’s world of rising expectations, I am somehow overwhelmed by what I have yet to achieve in my role as a female. More so, am I a passive empty vehicle through which advertisers and wider cultural influences can inject a particular want or an active individual who is making choices and fulfilling personal desires? I long to play the traditional female role and simultaneously reject the notions of femininity it thrusts upon me. My work is an examination of these longings for domesticity.

Sarah Haven

Ellenburg , WA[509] 312.9789 sarahbethhaven@yahoo.com / www.sarahhaven.com b. 1977, Columbus, OH

Sarah Haven

Sarah applied for a ceramics show in the back of a truck.

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Education2006 MFA University of Texas at San Antonio2004 BFA University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Solo Exhibitions2011 Untitled, Middle Space, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX2010 Continuum, Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville, TN2009 Tuft vs. Turf (Fire Escape), Site-Specific, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions2009 ʻXʼ – 10TH Anniversary Exhibition, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, NY2009 Perceptible Systems, NYCAMS Gallery, New York Center for Art and Media Studies, New York, NY2009 It’s All Part of the Plan, Soil Cooperative Art Gallery, Seattle, WA Awards2009 Curatorial Stipend, Perceptible Systems, NYCAMS Gallery, New York Center for Art and Media Studies, New York, NY2006 McNay Museum Lasting Impressions Award, Contemporary Art Month Awards, San Antonio, TX Publications2009 Jacquelyn Lewis, “Artists to Watch at the Governors Island Art Fair”, Art in America, September 2009

Collections University of Texas at San Antonio

Statement

Systems in nature, like the self-similarity of fractals, are my motivation. They expose lifeʼs minutiae – a hidden vitality beneath the surface. I replicate repetition in nature through detailed process-oriented sculpture.I channel energy into meticulous organiza-tion and establish a sense of order through the assemblage of objects. My materials are industrial, chosen with the intent of being recontextualized when combined en masse. Within installations, the context of site chieflydetermines the final form.

Brian Jobe

Knoxville, TN865-765-0995brian.r.jobe@gmail.com / www.brianjobe.com

b. 1981, Houston, TX

Brian Jobe

Dude, zip-ties?

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Education2006 MFA Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, Texas.1998 B.FA Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai (Bombay), India.

Solo Exhibitions2008 Tele Caste System, LHUCA, Lubbock. TX

Collaborative Installations2009 Invited to create one night only art installation at Miko Kuro’s Midnight Tea, Vancouver B.C. Canada2008 Tele Caste System, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christy, TX. 2008 Lost in Translation, Asian American Cultural Center, Austin, TX. (NEA Grant support)

Residencies2006 Artist residency at The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY2005 Artist Residency at the Weir Farm Trust, Weir Farm National Historic Site, Wilton, CT

Awards2008 Best in Show, Third Annual National Juried Competition, Katherine Butler Gallery, Sarasota, FL2007 Juror’s Choice, Annual Juried Photography Show, Academy of Fine Arts, Lynchburg, VA2007 Honorable Mention, Outside the Box, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christy, TX

Publications2009 American Book Review, Univ. of Houston (Victoria) May/June 2009 -Volume 30, Issue 4 (artwork used as the cover image). 2008 Two Men Fighting With a Knife, Story Line Press (2008), book of poetry by John Poch, artwork used as the cover image. 2005 Frontiers – A Journal of Women’s Studies, Univ. of Nebraska Press, photographic work reviewed and published Volume 26, Number 3, 2005 pp 34- 35

StatementThrough the transformation of land into property a landscape (d)evolves into a humanscape marked with boundaries, pits, and mounds. Our inevitable interactions with the space and efforts to tame it into a (productive) place shape our identity as human beings. My work addresses the equally inevitable vestiges of such transformations and their impact on the identity of the place that, we think, belongs to us.

Shreepad Joglekar

Victoria, TX[806] 543-1030shreepadjoglekar@aabhaa.com / www.aabhaa.com b. 1976, India

Shreepad Joglekar

Shreepad loves Texas and philosophy, if that is possible.

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Education2003 MFA Texas Christian Univ., Ft, Worth, TX 2001 BFA Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX

Solo Exhibitions2010 Trajectory, Cactus Bra Space, San Antonio, TX and Third Space, Dallas, TX2009 The Last One to Hit the Ground Wins Gallery 219, Mesquite, TX

Group Exhibitions2010 PAC: Richards and Rische Runnels Gallery, ENMU, Portales, NM2010 Texas National Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX2010 Persistent Breach East Central Univ., Ada, OK2009 Mercurial Imagination Hardin Simmons Univ., Abilene, TX2009 Amerkanisches Tangermunde, Germany

Residencies2010 PAC, Portales, NM 2009 Hilmsen 1, Hilmsen, Germany 2008 Vermont Studio Center, Johsnon, VT

Awards2010 Merit Award Americas 2010 Paperworks, Minot State, ND2009 Puffin Grant2009 Purchase Award Works on Paper, McNeese State Univ., LA

Publications2008 “New Wave: 100 Years of Art” Lubbock Centenial Catalogue, LHUCA2008 “Travelling Gallery: RJP Gallery” NPR Radio interview, San Antonio, TX

Collections2009 Works on Paper, McNeese State Univ., LA2008 Kopriva, Houston, TX

StatementIn 1906 William James, a pacifist, makes this observation: “the possibility of violent death [is] the soul of all romance.”

This romance of the West has been closely tied to my personal history. Here, a por-trayal of strength and civic nationalism is paramount, as is a respect for violence as a historical proving ground. Within this ‘Culture of Honor’ manhood is developed through emulation and one’s salvation is earned through action. My current work is an investi-gation of the perception of power within such societal structures.

Ryder Richards

Dallas, TX[806] 790.5508 ryderrichards@gmail.com / www.ryderrichards.com b. 1977, Roswell, NM

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Ryder R

ichards

Ryder is a pyro.

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Education2005 MFA Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA 2000 BFA Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX

Solo Exhibition2009 Coalesce, Gallery 219, Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX2009 Transformations LHUCA, Lubbock, TX

Group Exhibitions2010 P.A.C.: Richards and Rische, Runnels Gallery, ENMU-P, Portales, NM2010 Persistent Breach. Shirley Pogue Gallery, East Central Univ., Ada, OK.2010 Art In the District. Dallas, TX2009 No.3: What you do After No.2. RJP at the Waypoint Gallery, Marfa, TX2009 Word Works, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO2009 Compact, Ryder Jon Piotrs Gallery, Plano, TX 2009 Moment’s Notice LHUCA, Lubbock, TX. 2008 Innovation by Limitation, Nau Haus Gallery, Houston, TX 2009 No. 2: At Your Doorstep, RJP at Waypoint Gallery, Marfa, TX. 2009 Annual Faculty Art Exhibition, Landmark Arts Gallery, Lubbock, TX. 2009 U-Turn, RJP Gallery, San Antonio, TX. 2009 New Wave, RJP Gallery, Lubbock, TX. 2009 Door to Door, RJP Gallery, San Angelo, TX2009 Transparent/Opaque, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO.

Residencies2009 Vermont Studio Center. Johnson VT. 2009 Hilmsen 1 Residency. Hilmsen Germany.

Collections 2009 Kopriva, Houston, TX.

StatementI am interested in what’s hidden beneath layers. With my work I pursue beauty and spirituality. I am drawn to semi-transparent materials, and ritual, mystical and symbolic subjects. The pleasure of my art is for me, in the making of it, but I do begin with a vision.

Sue Anne Rische

Dallas, TX[806] 773.7159 sarische@yahoo.com / www.sueannerische.com b. 1971, El Paso, TX

Sue Anne R

ische

Sue Anne recycles EVERYTHING.

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Education2010 MFA, Univ. of South Florida2008 BFA, Univ. of Texas El Paso

Solo Exhibitions2008 ORO, solo performance, Pontifica Universidad de Chile de Arte, Santiago, Chile2008 Neighborhood Watch, installation art and images projected on homes, El Paso, TX; Tampa, FL; and Chicago, IL 2008 Temporary Perceptions: A Sensuality of the Senses, FORUM Arts and Culture, El Paso, TX

Juried Exhibitions2009 From the Ground Up XXIV, Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruses, NM2009 From our Perspective: A National Women’s Art Exhibition, Smith Theatre Gallery, Farmington Hills, MI Events2009 Artist on Art, installation/lecture, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX

Awards2010 Graduate Fellowship in Art, University of South Florida2009 Best in Show, 3rd Costal National2008 Excellence in Sculpture & Outstanding BFA, University of Texas El Paso

Publications2009 Provoke Magazine, El Paso TX2008-9 What’s Up Magazine, El Paso TX 2008-9 El Paso Times, El Paso, TX2008 Newspaper Tree, Online News Blog and Local Paper, El Paso TX

StatementMy art is sensual, ephemeral, and tactile. I try to use all the senses, not just visual stimulation. In recent work I have used milk, honey, sugar, lavender, burritos, ceramic, steel, and recycled objects. My work is performative and installations based. Human contact becomes part of the process during the performances. I have interest in sensual-ity, physicality, social interactions, disposabil-ity, gender, and nature. I want to engage an intellectual dialogue that addresses social disposability. We are all consuming and disposing constantly either ephemerally or physically, like the stories we choose to tell and the ones we choose forget. Taking the function out of an object can change the association and the memory. Temporary moments reflect the fleeting qualities in the idea of ‘disposable’.I am interested in the dichotomy of gender and power. Every culture has developed a set of emotional/physical/intellectual identi-ties associated with a gender. What is truly masculine and feminine and when are those associations blurred? What qualities are determined flawed and weak and what quali-ties evoke strength and power? I believe the value of perfect androgyny is synonymous with unifying absolute chaos and absolute harmony.

Kaletia Roberts

St. Petersburg, FL[214] 679.5129kaletia.roberts@gmail.com b. 1981, Dallas, TX

Kaletia R

oberts

Kaletia has more energy than 3 badgers on redbull.

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Education2006 MFA Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX1999 BFA Slippery Rock Univ., Slippery Rock, PA 1997 Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia Group Shows2010 Feats of Clay, Lincoln Arts & Culture Fndtn. Lincoln, CA2010 Main Lining Ceramics, Main Line Art Center Haverford, PA2009 Out of Hand, Society of Contemporary Craft Pittsburgh, PA2009 Small Packages/Big Time, Philosophy Gallery/Pinecone Gallery, Paducah, KY2008 Redefining Portraiture, Square Inch Gallery New York, NY2008 After China, Las Cruses Museum of Fine Art Las Cruses, NM

Residencies2009 Paducah Art Alliance, Paducah, KY2007 The Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China

Publications2009 500 Ceramic Sculpture, Lark Books, Almont Press, Asheville, NC2007 500 Tiles Lark Books, Almont Press, Asheville, NC2006 Image Transfer on Clay, Lark Books, Almont Press, Asheville, NC2006 500 Pitchers, Lark Books, Almont Press, Asheville, NC

Permanent Collections/Public Works2008 Las Cruses Museum of Fine Art2009 Greenfield Pennsylvania, 24x50ft Mural2009 Strip District, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 40x90ft Mural2008 Spartanburg, South Carolina, 20x40ft Mural Paducah Art Alliance

StatementThe greater envelope of my work revolves around notions of education. Being raised by educators and being an educator myself I an interested in the way we learn.

My currant works are associated with the evolution and education of pharmaceutical drug use. I am looking at the atrophy asso-ciated with motivational effects of drug use and its correlation with the stereotypes of the Lazy American and the degenerative effects on memory. Additional research is in the effect pharmaceuticals have on our notions of acceptability and normality and how this defines a quantifiable cross section of our society.

Ian F. Thomas

Butler, PA[724] 504.3604 ian@ianfthomas.com / www.ianfthomas.com b. 1976, Butler, PA

Ian F. Thomas

Ian is an instigator, but in the nicest way possible.

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Education2008 MFA Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX 2004 BFA Missouri State Univ., Springfield, MO Solo Exhibitions2008 In/Out, rGallery at RENDr, Lubbock , TX2007 Featured Artist: Dryden Wells, Charles Adams Gallery, Lubbock, TX

Group Exhibtiions2009 Ningbo Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition Season 3, Ningbo Museum of Art, Ningbo, China2009 Peer Influence, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ 2008-9 After China: The Politics of Fabrication, Slippery Rock Univ., Slippery Rock, PA The Ellis Armory, Pittsburgh, PA Las Cruces Museum of Fine Art, NM2008 Clay & The Transferred Image II, Westby Gallery, Rowan Univ., Glassboro, NJ 2007 Combined Talents: Florida International Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State Univ.,, Tallahassee, FL

Publications2008 2010 China-China: Shanghai World Modern Ceramics Art Show, Series 1, Porcelain in Contemporary Discourse (exhibition catalogue) Shanghai Museum of Arts and Crafts, Shanghai Arts & Crafts Association, Shanghai Ceramics Art Association and Shanghai University Fine Arts College.2008 500 Platters, Plates & Chargers, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 2008 Ceramics Monthly, February 2008, p. 21 Collections2009 Ningbo Museum of Art2008 Shanghai Museum of Arts & Crafts2008 Las Cruces Museum of Art, New Mexico

StatementIn each stage of the processes of my creat-ing, new ideas and concepts seem to reveal themselves, bringing a new life to my work. Working devoutly in clay, I continue to be challenged and seduced by the medium. Themanipulation of the material is what excites me, whether I am working big or small, loosely or precisely.

Initially intrigued by interior and exterior spaces as primary oppositions that I was using in my work both formally and concep-tually, I am using figurative forms as subjects for my process and vehicles for my content,to address these spaces literally and meta-phorically. In turn, I am also trying to juxta-pose other distinct opposites such as life and death, positive and negative, moving and motionless. I feel that through this synthesis, I am presenting questions and concerns tha are not necessarily answered in the work.

Dryden Wells

Jingdezhen, China[314] 799.2859dryden@gmail.com / www.drydenwells.com b. 1980, Indiana

Dryden W

ells

Dryden... everyone loves Dryden

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Education2006 MFA Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX 2002 BS Wayland Baptist Univ., Lubbock, TX

Solo Exhibitions2009 Oh, LHUCA, Lubbock, TX2010 Withdrawn – Rearranged Excess Isaac Lincoln Gallery, Northern State Univ., Aberdeen, South Dakota

Group Exhibitions2010 Persistent Breach Shirley Pogue Art Gallery, East Central Univ., Ada, OK 2009 Mercurial Imagination Ira M. Taylor Memorial Art Gallery Hardin Simmons Univ., Abilene, TX

Juried Exhibitions2009 Le Livre est une Oeuvre D’Art, Art Vitam, Juror: Sophie Blachet Galerie Europ’Art, Aigues Mortes, France 2009 Third Coast National, Juror: Fairfax Dorn K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX 2008 Projections Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

Awards2010 SANOFI Library Conference Montpellier, France 2007 Best of Show, National Juried Show. Gallery North, Bloomington, IN Residencies2010 Earthbound Moon Site, Portland, Oregon2010 Northern State Univ., Aberdeen, SD

Publications2009 Sculpture Magazine, January/February International Sculpture Center, Review by Jane Durrell

StatementMy work travels down different avenues while riding in the vehicle of language-based objects and concepts. I use words and text to make connections in meaning, and to ex-ploit the ambiguity present in modern trans-lation and everyday rhetorical dialogue.

I bridge visual, oral and written language, to make art work that is a concrete repre-sentation of the symbols to which we assign meaning in order for written communication to exist.

In my search for authentic and original cre-ation, I have employed direct communication devices to propel my work down this wander-ing semantic path, conscious of the adjacent super-highway.

Jonathan Whitfill

Lubbock, TX[806] 780.0841 jon@jonathanwhitfill.com / www.jonathanwhitfill.com b. 1977, Plainview, TX

Jonathan Whitfill

Jon is a Leo who speaks ‘geodesic’ when he drinks.