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MARGARITA CABRERA: PULSO Y MARTILLO (PULSE AND HAMMER)
Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2011 · April 2, 2011
Opening reception: February 5, 2011 – 6PM-9PM
| Location: | UCR Sweeney Art Gallery |
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In her first solo museum exhibition on the west coast, Margarita Cabrera: Pulso y Martillo (Pulse and Hammer) presents both past sculptures and a new installation/performance exploring the intersection of contemporary art practices, indigenous Mexican folk art and craft traditions, and US-Mexico relationsPRESS RELEASE:http://sweeney.ucr.edu/exhibitions/_pdf/PressRelease_Cabrera.pdf |
NEW IMAGE SCULPTURE
Date: Thursday February 17, 2011 – May 8, 2011
Opening reception: February 17, 6PM-9PM
| Location | McNay Art Museum |
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Organized by the McNay’s Chief Curator and Curator of Art after 1945, New Image Sculpture assembles works by emerging and mid-career artists who freely appropriate from art history, ethnographic artifacts, fashion, folk art, hobby crafts, popular culture, and the world of do-it-yourself. These artists transform widely available materials, many found on the shelves of hardware stores and building suppliers, into fanciful re-creations and interpretations of ordinary and mundane things. Styrofoam, corrugated cardboard, and duct tape replace marble and bronze as primary materials, while ersatz tractors, musical instruments, sofas, and suitcases take the place previously held by portrait busts or minimalist cubes. |
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MARGARITA CABRERA: PULSO Y MARTILLO (PULSE AND HAMMER) FLOREZCA BOARD OF DIRECTORS PERFORMANCE
Date: Saturday, March 5, 2011
Time: 3:00pm – 9:00pm
| Location: | UCR Sweeney Art Gallery |
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Margarita Cabrera: Pulso y Martillo (Pulse and Hammer) presents two bold, experimental new installation/performances, Pulse and Hammer and Florezca Board of Directors: Performance. The impetus for them is Cabrera’s grand vision to create a corporation, Florezca, Inc., in which undocumented workers are shareholders so that they might be protected by the legal status of a corporate entity. The performances will embody the “corporation” (“corp” references “corpus” or “the body”) in which the bodies of the undocumented are “given a voice” through representation in the corporation. |
MARGARITA CABRERA: MATERIAL EVIDENCE: A CONVERSATION AND PRESENTATION
Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2011 @ 7PM
| Location: | Trinity University |
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| The presentation “Material Evidence” will occur at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, in the Ruth Taylor Recital Hall. Margarita Cabrera, born in Monterrey, Mexico, and currently assistant professor of sculpture at the University of Houston, is best known for her carefully handcrafted sculptures of industrial objects, such as automobiles and vacuum cleaners, which explore complex socio-economic issues of industrial production and traditional craft along the U.S.-Mexican border. She has exhibited widely across the U.S., and was awarded an ArtPace Residency in 2008 and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 2007. Alison de Lima Greene will serve as curator for the Trinity exhibit. Greene is curator of contem-porary art and special projects at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Among the exhibitions she has organized are Czech Modernism: 1900-1945 (1989), Twentieth-Century American Sculpture at the White House (1995), and Kenneth Noland: The Nature of Color (2004). Upcoming projects include surveys of Jules Olitski and James Turrell. |
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TRANS/ACTION
Date: Thursday, April 7, 2011 @ 6PM-9PM
| Location: | Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center |
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| Trans/Action presents four artists’ investigations into economy, corporate models and current marketing practices. With our growing culture’s preoccupation with materialism and consumerism, these artists offer a fresh look into today’s view of money and how it has become a new indicator of value, power and love. Trans/Action artists include Kim Aubuchon (San Antonio, Tx), Margarita Cabrera (El Paso, Tx), Maximo Gonzalez (Distrito Federal, MX) and Ester Partigas (New York, NY). Exhibition continues through June 25, 3011. Gallery hours: Mon – Fri 10 am – 6 p.m.; Sat 12 – 5 p.m. Thursday, April 7, 6-9 p.m. Guadalupe Gallery, FREE | |
DIALOGUES EVENT: MARY ROSS TAYLOR AND MARGARITA CABRERA
Date: Friday, April 8, 2011 · 1:00pm – 4:00pm
| Location | University of Houston – Clear Lake |
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| One of the founding organizers of the 1980 Dinner Party exhibition, Mary Ross Taylor, will share her experiences in building community support and engage a discussion with volunteers and participants who were vital to the event.In conjunction with remembering the historical process, artist Margarita Cabrera and Christine Kovic, UHCL Professor of Anthropology, will discuss the current innovations of the “Space in Between” project. The symposium promises a rich conversation about past and present performances of feminist art. | |
TEXAS BIENNIAL 2011
Date: Saturday April 16, 2011 ·