los americanos e-catalog / rough

group video exhibition featuring six Texas-based artists 19 JANUARY - 31 MARCH 2013

e-catalogue

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EXHIBITION SPONSORSHIPS BlueLabel.net, London, England Nona and Richard Barrett

EXHIBITION MANAGEMENT CREDITS Peter Doroshenko, Director Erin Cluley, Associate Exhibitions Director Lilia Kudelia, Adjuct Curator Christos Polemenakos, Videographer

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Los Americanos is rated T due to Texas-related art, artists and other references. Not suitable for viewers outwardly against Texas art.

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HELLO

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ESSAYS

. 4 - 6 Victor Zamudio Erin Cluley Lilia Kudelia

LA EXPOSICIĂ“N

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INSTALLATIONS

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ARTISTOS

. 15 - 26 Morehshin Allahyari Joshua Bienko Chivas Clem Hillary Holsonback Bogdan Perzynski Jason Reed

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DIRECTOR FOREWORD PETER DORESHENKO

DALLAS CONTEMPORARY ANNOUNCES LOS AMERICANOS GROUP VIDEO EXHIBITION FEATURING SIX TEXAS-BASED ARTISTS 19 JANUARY - 31 MARCH 2013 Curated by Dallas Contemporary’s Director, Peter Doroshenko, the exhibition will feature the work of Morehshin Allahyari (Dallas), Joshua Bienko (College Station), Chivas Clem (Paris), Hillary Holsonback (Dallas), Bogdan Perzynski (Austin), and Jason Reed (New Braunfels).

Each artist has been commissioned to create his or her own independent project examining Texas in the past, present, or future. Inspired by the cinematic history of the region, Los Americanos will explore the ephemeral in nature, through various metaphors of identity, travel, culture and consciousness. Los Americanos will be installed inside and outside of Dallas Contemporary.

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ESSAY NAME (in Spanish) ERIN CLULEY

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ESSAY NAME (in English) LILIA KUDELIA

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LOS AMERICANOS DESCRIPTION

LOS AMERICANOS SIX-CHAPTERED REFLECTION ON TEXAS THROUGH CINEMATIC METAPHORS. Usapiet, temquo modi quiam er quunt aut res pe non re prestius nobis eum sit ut doluptu rempore perunt venimusanto temolorro volorio minvenis alic torehent poriasp erferero cones dolluptae. Aeped et lati aut omnimagnis molorunt, sequasperepe lab iur alia nobit quia net omnimi, si od quiam ditatem fuga. Luptasi abori opti voluptam, cuptae explabo.

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LOS AMERICANOS LOCATIONS

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MAP KEY Morehshin Allahyari Joshua Bienko Chivas Clem Hillary Holsonback Bogdan Perzynski Jason Reed

Dallas Contemporary 161 Glass Street Dallas Texas 75207 United States of America American Airlines Center 2500 Victory Avenue Dallas Texas 75219 United States of America 8

ALLAHYARI . STATEMENT

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MOREHSHIN ALLAHYARI Joshua Bienko Chivas Clem Hillary Holsonback Bogdan Perzynski Jason Reed

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BIENKO . STATEMENT Usapiet, temquo modi quiam er quunt aut res pus nobis eum sit ut doluptu rempore perunt venimusanto temolorro volorio minvenis alic torehent poriasp erferero cones dolluptae. Aeped et lati aut oms molorunt, sequasp voluerepe lab iur alia nobit quia net omnm fuga. Luptasi abori opti voluptam, cuptae exp abori opti rehent poriasp ebit quia net omnimi.

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Morehshin Allahyari JOSHUA BIENKO Chivas Clem Hillary Holsonback Bogdan Perzynski Jason Reed

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CLEM . STATEMENT

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Morehshin Allahyari Joshua Bienko CHIVAS CLEM Hillary Holsonback Bogdan Perzynski Jason Reed

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HOLSONBACK . STATEMENT Usapiet, temquo modi quiam er quunt aut res pus nobis eum sit ut doluptu rempore perunt venimusanto temolorro volorio minvenis alic torehent poriasp erferero cones dolluptae. Aeped et lati aut oms molorunt, sequasp voluerepe lab iur alia nobit quia net omnm fuga. Luptasi abori opti voluptam, cuptae exp abori opti rehent poriasp ebit quia net omnimi.

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Morehshin Allahyari Joshua Bienko Chivas Clem HILLARY HOLSONBACK Bogdan Perzynski Jason Reed

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PERZYNSKI . STATEMENT

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Morehshin Allahyari Joshua Bienko Chivas Clem Hillary Holsonback BOGDAN PERZYNSKI Jason Reed

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REED . STATEMENT Usapiet, temquo modi quiam er quunt aut res pus nobis eum sit ut doluptu rempore perunt venimusanto temolorro volorio minvenis alic torehent poriasp erferero cones dolluptae. Aeped et lati aut oms molorunt, sequasp voluerepe lab iur alia nobit quia net omnm fuga. Luptasi abori opti voluptam, cuptae exp abori opti rehent poriasp ebit quia net omnimi.

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Morehshin Allahyari Joshua Bienko Chivas Clem Hillary Holsonback Bogdan Perzynski JASON REED

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ALLAHYARI . DALLAS

MOREHSHIN ALLAHYARI Joshua Bienko Chivas Clem Hillary Holsonback Bogdan Perzynski Jason Reed

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Allahyari is a new media artist and activist whose creative interests involve 3D animation, digital filmmaking, web-art design and performance. An Iranian native, Allahyari explores the social, political and cultural issues of Iran. She is an adjunct faculty member in New Media Art at the University of North Texas and in Emerging Media and Communication at the University of Texas - Dallas. She has participated in exhibitions, festivals, and conferences across the United States in Colorado, New York, Chicago and Texas, and internationally in Germany, Brazil, Sweden, Romania, the Netherlands and Canada. She holds a Master of Arts in Digital Media Studies from the University of Denver and a Master of Fine Arts in New Media Art from the University of North Texas.

ALLAHYARI . MOOD BOARD

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BIENKO . COLLEGE STATION

Morehshin Allahyari JOSHUA BIENKO Chivas Clem Hillary Holsonback Bogdan Perzynski Jason Reed

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After graduating from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia, New York native, Joshua Bienko moved to College Station, Texas in 2008 to teach in the Department of Visualization at Texas A&M University. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Drawing at the University of Tennessee's School of Art in Knoxville. Bienko's drawings, paintings, photographs and video works explore themes of desire and obsession in sports, music and fashion, and often reference icons of popular culture. His work has been shown across the United States of America and internationally in Australia and the United Kingdom.

BIENKO . MOOD BOARD

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CLEM . PARIS

Morehshin Allahyari Joshua Bienko CHIVAS CLEM Hillary Holsonback Bogdan Perzynski Jason Reed

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Chivas Clem was born in Paris, Texas and studied semiotics at Connecticut College. He has participated in various group and solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and Paris. His work is also part of the permanent collection at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

CLEM . MOOD BOARD

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HOLSONBACK . DALLAS

Morehshin Allahyari Joshua Bienko Chivas Clem HILLARY HOLSONBACK Bogdan Perzynski Jason Reed

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Hillary Holsonback is a projection-based performative photographer and video artist dealing with appropriation and self-portraiture. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art and Performance and a Master of Fine Arts in Art and Technology from the University of Texas - Dallas. Her work has been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions in New York and Texas.

She recently completed an art residency at CentralTrak in Dallas, Texas.

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PERZYNSKI . AUSTIN

Morehshin Allahyari Joshua Bienko Chivas Clem Hillary Holsonback BOGDAN PERZYNSKI Jason Reed

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Bogdan Perzynski is professor and co-founder of the Transmedia Area at the University of Texas-Austin’s Department of Studio Art and Art History. He was trained in law at the University of Adam Mickiewicz, in Poznan, Poland and in architecture and fine arts at the University of Fine Arts in Poznan. His research and teaching address art’s interdisciplinary character, including the philosophies of communicative action, social pragmatism and individual invention. Perzynski experiments with video, interactive code, computer vision and physical interaction with architectural settings. His work has been exhibited across the globe in Brazil, China, Germany, Greece, Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Thailand and the United States of America.

PERZYNSKI . MOOD BOARD

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REED . NEW BRAUNFELS

Morehshin Allahyari Joshua Bienko Chivas Clem Hillary Holsonback Bogdan Perzynski JASON REED

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Jason Reed holds a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from the University of Texas-Austin and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Illinois State University.

He is currently Assistant Professor of Photography at Texas State University and co-director of Borderland Collective, a youth art project in the American Southwest. Reed has participated in collaborative and solo exhibitions in Texas, New Mexico, New York, Illinois and Mexico. His work explores the complex landscape of politics and culture through various modes of lensbased representation.

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