Diamond Life Curated by Kurt Mueller November 20, 2009 – January 2, 2010
Unit B (Gallery) is pleased to present Diamond Life featuring new work by Jillian Conrad (Houston, TX) and Moo Kwon Han (New York, NY) on view November 20, 2009 – January 2, 2010. Houston-based Kurt Mueller curated the exhibition.
Jillian Conrad and Moo Kwon Han create idealized spaces, fictive structures of time and place through which we are invited to reconsider on our relationship to the real. The effect of their constructions, however, is equally refraction. Poetic dreams are realized as hopeful Chroma-key videos and imagined landscapes manifest as dazzling sculptural installations. The artifice of these mediated views is purposely apparent; lofty reaches are made tangible by humor and humble means. Conrad and Moo Kwon's works pull from natural science, but repurpose its phenomena lyrically, as narratives of discovery and forms of accretion—metaphors for the creative process. Drawings are sculpted, calligraphic poems are performed, and the world is revealed as a multi-faceted prospect: still-forming.
Opening Reception: Friday, November 20, 6:30-10pm Gallery Hours: Saturdays 3-5pm and by appointment.
For more information please contact:
Kimberly Aubuchon Director Unit B (Gallery) 500 Stieren at Cedar San Antonio, TX 78210
312.375.1871 cell www.unitbgallery.com
Please join us December 11, from 7-10pm to welcome Circulatory System (Austin, TX), a new curatorial venture that travels exhibitions connecting the dots between Texas’ various cities, to San Antonio. Their converted school bus will park in the Unit B yard to debut their inaugural program, Traveling Video Show #1, organized by Austin- and New York-based performance artist Jill Pangallo. This one-night only exhibition features seventeen artists from Austin, Atlanta, and New York and was originally screened at the Trans-Pecos Festival of Music and Love in Marfa, Texas (in conjunction with Monofonus Press and El Cosmico); in Austin (Fusebox Festival’s MERGE); and will travel to Dallas in 2010.
