Houston Fryer, Cristina Goletti, Justin Korver, Jason Eric Gonzales Martinez
Curated by Christie Blizard and Mark McCoin
October 17 - November 16, 2018
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 17, 2018, 5:00 - 7:00pm
Blizard and McCoin are interested in how artists have adapted/responded to the idea of a control society, particularly one where the conditions of surveillance are both imagined and real. How does this not only affect personal liberties but the censorship of artistic freedom? How do artists function in such a culture? Is acting as believing enough of a gesture to affect the potency of an artistic work?
Houston Fryer is an instructor of Foundations and New Media at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Houston’s time is also spent as the Gallery Coordinator for UTSA's Terminal 136 in San Antonio's Blue Star Arts District. Born in San Diego, California, Houston earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. A later Master of Fine Arts was earned from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Houston’s awards include being a Wayne L. McAffee scholar of HSU, earning the Kaufman Graduate Fellowship in Art at UTSA, receiving the Art Presidential Fellowship in art at UTSA, and having earned an International Education Fund Grant for study abroad research in Mexico City while a graduate student at UTSA.
Artist and educator, Cristina Goletti is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Theatre and Dance department at UTEP and is serving as President for the World Dance Alliance Americas. She holds an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a secondary emphasis in Gender Studies and Somatics and previously trained at the London Contemporary Dance School where she gained a Postgraduate Diploma with distinction dancing and touring across Europe with Edge, the Postgraduate Company of LCDS. As a dancer, she performed works by Hofesh Schechter, Jonathan Lunn, Charles Linehan, Maresa Von Stockert and Yann Lheraux, Arno Schuitemaker and Darrel Jones amongst others. In Ireland as part of the Daghdha Mentoring Programme, she was in Michael Klien’s “Sand Section” and in “Ruins” for Myriad Dance Company. In 2007 she co-founded together with Nick Bryson Legitimate Bodies Dance Company, the dance company in residence at Birr Theatre and Arts Centre and supported by Offaly County Council. The company has toured to some of the most important venues and festival in Europe, the USA and Mexico like Aerowaves Dance Festival at The Robin Howard Theatre London, Dance House Limassol, Auditorium Theatre Rome, the European Parliament in Brussels, the Dublin Absolute Festival and Tanzmesse Dusseldorf, Purdue University and the Black Box at the National School of Contemporary Dance in Mexico City, thanks to the support of Culture Ireland.
Cristina's awards include “DanceWEB European Scholarship”, two Bursary Awards, the Project Award and several travel awards from The Irish Arts Council and the European Cultural Foundation. From 2008 until 2014 she was the director of I.F. O.N.L.Y. the first and only festival in Ireland dedicated to dance solos. In 2013 she moved to Mexico to work at Universidad De Las Americas Puebla as a full-time professor, becoming the Chair of the Arts Department there in 2015. During her time in Mexico, she co-directed the festival Performatica and was a finalist in the 4x4 choreographic contest in Tijuana. Cristina has presented her scholarly work in several conferences in the US and Europe, like CORD, SDHS, SECAC and MACAA and has created original choreographies and performances for several universities like UTSA, Purdue University, Texas State University San Marcos and Texas A&M Corpus Christi. Her research interests lie in dance dramaturgy, interdisciplinary performance practices and gender studies
jason eric gonzales martinez is a San Antonio based artist who creates visual art that articulates his Xicano experience living in the spaces “in between” creativity and cultural identity. His work reveals a sensibility that connects the contemporary with loss and remembering; creating a site for negotiating memory, the tangible and the imaginary, the historical and the personal, the familial and the sacred. Each composition establishes a visual dialog based on a critical mestizaje, the area of overlap that constructs identity beyond race and ethnicity.
Justin Korver is an artist living and working in San Antonio, Texas. He is originally from a small town in the northwest corner of Iowa which he credits for his penchant for minimalism. Korver moved to Holland, Michigan to complete his undergraduate work at Hope College. While in Michigan, he was influenced by the heritage of mid-century design and discovered a passion for hardware stores. He also lived and worked briefly in New York through the N.Y.C.A.M.S. program where he interned with Phoebe Washburn who served as an early influence on his studio practice. Korver received his MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is now a full-time lecturer at Texas A&M San Antonio. He exhibits his work extensively in Texas and nationally and is the recent recipient of an artist residency at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien awarded through Blue Star Contemporary.
Above image: Houston Fryer, still image from Bullrun video, 8:20, 2018
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