labotanica offers Paint as Efficiency

labotanica offers Paint as Efficiency. Event Opening: Friday, March 25, 2011, 6-8pm. Exhibit Days: March 25 - April 30, 2011.
Paint as Performance is a team event that frameworks non-traditional methods to paint. Featuring artworks by Melanie Jamison, Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud, Erin Joyce, Rebecca Novak, and Damon Johnson, artists use the trajectory of paint as a beginning point and embed and expand the medium with performative, sculptural, and sonic elements. The process of making these outputs frequently entails a performative aspect. The artworks leap off of the two-dimensional flight to require a lot more from the musician / audience, challenging a normal static encounter typically experienced in painting birmingham al and in this method ended up being performative.
Melanie Jamison graduated with a BFA in Picture from Parsons Institution of Style. Throughout her years in Nyc, she came to be involved with the MELA Structure Dream House, where she ended up being a vocal raga pupil of Los angeles Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. Melanie continuouslies practice extended vocal methods in the Houston girl band of rotating fruit labels and turning members. She gets involved in the multimedia, somewhat multidimensional prank job "Incoming Telephone call" with Aisen Caro Chacin and Al Eckstue. Melanie has teamed up with Ayanna McCloud on exploring solid structures of the physical and visual realms. Her tactile aesthetics are rollovered in to recently developed sound band VRS with Mary Sharpe and Erika Thrasher. Melanie functions in the warehouse district of Houston where industrial influences are widespread in her work.
Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud is an artist, writer and manager. Her fine arts method which manifests itself in different forms draws focus to the unseen, thought of and failed to remember. Born in Houston, Texas, she obtained a BA in Visual and Crucial Researches from the College of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has actually taken part in events and residencies throughout the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin The united state. She is founder of labotanica, an artist-run resource and research laboratory in Houston, Texas and is presently an Artist-in-Residence at Project Row Houses.
Erin Joyce is a painter, sculptor, performer, manager and Houston local. She has actually exhibited in community venues such as labotanica, DiverseWorks, Lawndale Art Center, New Gallery, and Café Brazil. In all her mediums, she develops intimate encounters where audiences and subjects (and the musician) encounter concealed or subdued feelings. To include to her self-taught drawing abilities and individual sensation she got a BFA in paint from the Rhode Island School of Style in 2008. Erin has also lived, worked, and displayed in Divine superintendence, RI, St. Petersburg, Russia, New york city City, and Santa Fe, NM.
Birthed in Chicago, Rebecca Novak invested youth years in Miami and Michigan, where she attended Interlochen Arts Academy. Early studies on French horn led her to return to Chicago, where she received a Bachelor of Popular music in Efficiency from DePaul College, and a Professional of Music in Efficiency from Northwestern University. After transferring to Houston for a popular music fellowship at Rice College, Rebecca made a shift to exercising aesthetic fine art, studying at MFAH Glassell Institution of Art. All-natural sensation, ecology, and society's tenuous partnership to nature are checked out in her output, which commonly addresses setting in a broader sense. On-going tasks feature helping in the cultivation of a permaculture storage space at Project Row Houses through the greenHouse cumulative, an artist-based gardening job. Rebecca recently took part in artist residencies at Task Row Houses (2009) and labotanica (School of Latitudes # 1, 2010). Her work has actually been revealed at Lawndale Art Center, MFAH Glassell College of Fine art, Job Row Houses, labotanica, Houston Neighborhood College, and the Houston Factory.
Damon Johnson's fine art practice consists of sound, painting, video, visuals and standard scores, photography, sculpture and drawing. His output had been shown Galleries in the San Francisco bay location, MassMOCA, Vienna, Munich and Denton, TX. An on-going partnership with musician Daniel Healey is an important job. He studied dual bass with Lisle Ellis and Bertram Turezky. He has dealt with dancing, movie theater and movie including soundtracks for Werner Herzog's "Grizzly Man" & & "Encounters at the end of the Globe" and an early efficiency with the Merce Cunningham dancing business. He has worked together with a wide range of artists including Cecil Taylor, Marshall Allen (of Sunlight Ra ´ s Arkestra), Henry Kaiser, Peter Brötzmann and Peter Kowald. He has explored Europe, Israel and North America and functioned frequently in the San Francisco Bay Location Creative Songs Area before moving to Houston in 2010. For more information browse through our website.