Mo PA
M u s e u m o f Poc ket A r t 2004-2005 Retrospective
bruno david gallery
MoPA
2004-2005 Retrospective September 9 - October 15, 2011 Bruno David Gallery 3721 Washington Boulevard Saint Louis, 63108 Missouri, U.S.A. info@brunodavidgallery.com www.brunodavidgallery.com Director: Bruno L. David This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition MoPA - Retrospective Editor: Bruno L. David Catalog Designer: Alana Downie Design Assistant: Claudia R. David Printed in USA All works courtesy of Bruno David Gallery and MoPA Cover image: MoPA - Retrospective, 2011 (Installation view - detail)
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I WISH I COULD CARRY YOU AROUND IN MY POCKET by Hannah Piper Burns AFTERWORD by Bruno L. David CHECKLIST AND IMAGES OF THE EXHIBITION
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I WISH I COULD CARRY YOU AROUND IN MY POCKET by Hannah Piper Burns 2
Looking back over the years, it’s hard to believe that this time, the exhibition that MoPA will be “leaching” is its own. It is, in a way, the closing of a circle. The museum was started as a way to think more intimately about art and its ability to influence life, with galleries necessitating interaction and artworks necessitating pause. We now invite you to take one of these works home in your pocket, according to the governing principle of MoPA. The word talisman comes from the word for completion or fulfillment. The magic of MoPA ends at the site of presentation, but it begins with the artist who dares to think small. In an age of 3D movies and supercuts, when the world says, “more, please”, we ask our exhibitors to make work that remains small in scale but still feeds the senses to satiation. Far from amuse bouche, each work featured in a MoPA exhibition is a world unto itself- a complex flavor profile packed into a miniature casing. Taken out of their wallets and containers and displayed side by side, these works almost resemble a filmstrip. Each is a moment that contains a world, but assembled en masse they tell a story about how creativity can be unleashed by limitations. This is a history, and also a foundation. There is something here for tastes that run the spectrum from formal to conceptual. There is something here for your pocket.
Hannah Piper Burns is a writer who lives and works in Portland, Oregon. This essay is one in a series of the gallery’s exhibitions written by fellow gallery artists and friends.
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AFTERWORD by Bruno L. David
I am pleased to present a retrospective of the first seven years of the Museum of Pocket Art (MoPA) with the gallery. Support for the creation of significant new works of art has been the core to the mission and program of the Bruno David Gallery since its founding. I would like to express my sincere thanks to Mario Trejo and Robert Jackson Harrington for their endless support and to Hannah Piper Burns for her thoughtful essay. I am deeply grateful to Alana Downie, who lent much time, talent, and expertise to the production of this catalogue. MoPA began in response to author Walter Mosley’s idea that everyone should carry a small piece of artwork in their pocket to brighten their day and share with others. MoPA organizes exhibitions to show in a standard wallet with artwork made specifically to exhibit at a small scale, usually about the size of a business card. The wallet/exhibition circulates from artist to artist for a period of a few months creating a one to one person traveling exhibition. The exhibition MoPA: Retrospective includes over 100 artists who had participated since the first MoPA exhibition including Jeremy Morgan, Amy Elligson, Mario Trejo, Eric Shultis, Robert Jackson Harrington, Josh Keller, Hannah Piper Burns, Donna J Wan, and Jan Bythe. The exhibition is co-curated by Robert Jackson Harrington (Museum Director) and Mario Trejo (Exhibitions Director).
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EXHIBITION CHECKLIST Page 8 Susan Klahr (The Fluffer/Once Upon A Time, 2005) Kate Torgerson (Intimate Cartography, 2008) Heather Bechtel (Fall Exhibition, 2005)
Page 14 Amy Ellingson (Abstract Small, 2011) Josh Keller (Immediate Thought, 2008) Jan Blythe (Intimate Cartography, 2008)
Page 9 Gabriela Gomez (Fall Exhibition, 2006) Jaon Hashitani (Minor Landscapes, 2009)
Page 15 Anna Zusman (Spring Exhibition, 2008) Hannah Elizabeth Ruskin (Spring Exhibition, 2008)
Page 10 Theresa Bauer (Inaugural Exhibition, 2004) Eric Shultis (Holy, 2009) Eddy Escobar (Inaugural Exhibition, 2004)
Page 16 Kit Rosenberg (All Business All the Time, 2011) Adriana Corral (Spring, 2004) Lo Pierce (Fall Exhibition, 2006)
Page 11 Anna So Young Han (Minor Landscapes, 2009)
Page 17 Margarita Estela (Minor Landscapes, 2009)
Page 12 Robert Jackson Harrington (Fall Exhibition, 2004) Jorge Nevarez (Inaugural Exhibition, 2004) Estela Estrella (Fall Exhibition, 2006)
Page 18 Sandra Marchewa (Abstract Small, 2011) Priyanka Gupta (Spring Exhibition, 2007) Robert Moya (Humble Pie, 2007)
Page 13 Jane Phillips (Intimate Cartography, 2008) Sarah Ratche (Fall Exhibition, 2006)
Page 19 Alejandro Almanza (Fall Exhibition, 2005) Christopher Burch (Intimate Cartography, 2008)
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Page 26 Page 20 Daniel Moss (All Business All the Time, 2011) Susan Klahr (The Fluffer/Once Upon A Time, 2005) Robert Jackson Harrington (Intimate Cartography, 2008) Manuel Guerra (The Fluffer/Once Upon a Time, 2005) Theresa Bauer (Inaugural Exhibition, 2004) Manuel Guerra (The Fluffer/Once Upon a Time, 2005) Page 27 Page 21 Marvin Hill (Spring, 2004) Y. Vivian Huang (Fall Exhibition, 2006) Mario Trejo (Intimate Cartography, 2008) Page 22 Robert Moya (Humble Pie, 2007) Kimberly Rowe (Abstract Small, 2011)
Page 28 Matthew Cella (Spring Exhibition, 2007) John Runner (Fall Exhibition, 2004)
Page 23 Josh Keller (Immediate Thought, 2008) Page 24 Daniel Szwaczkowski (Fall Exhibition, 2004) Jan Blythe (Intimate Cartography, 2008) Estela Estrella (Fall Exhibition, 2006) Page 25 Eric Shultis (Intimate Cartography, 2008) Emmanuelle Namont Kouznetosv (Intimate Cartography, 2008)
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ARTISTS Margaret Adams Dickson Beall Laura Beard Elaine Blatt Martin Brief Lisa K. Blatt Shawn Burkard Bunny Burson Carmon Colangelo Alex Couwenberg
Damon Freed William Griffin Joan Hall Takashi Horisaki Kim Humphries Kelley Johnson Howard Jones (Estate) Chris Kahler Bill Kohn (Estate) Leslie Laskey
Patricia Olynyk Robert Pettus Gary Passanise Daniel Raedeke Chris Rubin de la Borbolla Frank Schwaiger Charles Schwall Christina Shmigel Thomas Sleet Buzz Spector
Jill Downen Yvette Drury Dubinsky Corey Escoto Beverly Fishman
Sandra Marchewa Peter Marcus Genell Miller
Lindsey Stouffer Cindy Tower Mario Trejo Ken Worley
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