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Ben Aqua,
From the series Business Deals in the New Future, 2007
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Rebecca S. Carter, Selections from My Own Backyard, 2007
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FotoFest and Houston Center for Photography
present
VIEWFINDER:
New Images by Texas Artists
November 6, 2008 - January 10, 2009
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FotoFest Headquarters
Mon - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat noon - 5pm
Houston Center for Photography
Wed & Fri 11am - 5pm, Thur 11am - 9pm,
Sat & Sun noon - 6pm |
Photography and its inherent properties (light, lens, image)
is the primary medium of some artists. Others use photography as a tool,
picking up a camera when it suits the conceptual and material needs of their
ideas. The images included tell us as much about the medium of photography—its role in our lives and the possibilities it presents for
art-making — as they tell us about the people, objects and moments they
represent.
- Risa Puleo, Curator
FotoFest and Houston Center for Photography (HCP) join together in a first-ever exhibition collaboration to commission and present a new show of emerging Texas photographic artists. The organizations have commissioned Arturo Palacios (Director, Art Palace, Austin) and Risa Puleo (Assistant Curator of American and Contemporary Art, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin) to co-curate the exhibit, the third the Talent in Texas series. The exhibit is presented in both spaces – FotoFest Headquarters Downtown and Houston Center for Photography in the Museum District.
VIEWFINDER explores the wide scope of photographic art practice today from traditional film-based still photography to video and installation work and features 15 artists from 11 Texas cities - from Beaumont to El Paso and Lubbock to Laredo:
VIEWFINDER opened:
Thursday, November 6, 2008, 6 - 9pm
FotoFest Headquarters at Vine Street Studios
with Emergency Soundcast System
(Eduardo Garcia and Alex Rodriguez)
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Friday, November 7, 2008 6 - 9pm
Houston Center for Photography
with DJ Zeque Peña |
Refreshments provided by Tito's Handmade Vodka and Saint Arnold Brewing Company
>> SPONSORS
>> Press Release
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FotoFest programming is free and open to the public.
| Saturday, November 8, 2008, 2pm |
| Saturday Matinee Artist Talk at HCP |
| with Rebecca Carter, Piotr Chizinski, Emilie Duval, Anna Krachey, Zeque Peña , and Lupita Murillo Tinnen |
| Saturday, December 6, 2008, 2pm |
| Saturday Matinee Artist Talk at FotoFest |
| with Ben Aqua, Beau Comeaux, Robin Dru Germany, Ivan Lozano, Justin Parr, and Ansen Seale |
| Saturday, December 13, 2008, 11am |
Curator Walk and Talk
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with curators Arturo Palacios and Risa Puleo and artist David Waddell
The gallery walk through begins at FotoFest and is followed by a discussion over lunch
at an area restaurant with the curators. After lunch the tour resumes at Houston Center for Photography
Please call for details and reservations:
FF: 713.223.5522 ext 19 or HCP: 713.529.4755 |
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FotoFest's 2008-2009 Interbiennial Exhibits are sponsored by:
Houston Endowment, Inc.
The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston
Houston Arts Alliance
The Wortham Foundation
Vine Street Studios
FotoFest Board of Directors
iLand Internet Solutions
Hexagroup
The Houston Press |
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Houston Center for Photography is supported by its Members and in part, by:
Texas Commission on the Arts, a partner agency of National
Endowment for the Arts
Houston Arts Alliance
Houston Endowment, Inc.
Cemo Family Foundation
Clayton Dabney Foundation
H-E-B
Charles Butt
James Edward Maloney
David McClain and Jane Schmitt
Drs. Patricia Eifel and James Bell
Joan Morgenstern
Mike Plank
Antonio Manega, Gazer Design Group
Pia Puno
QUE Imaging
Sinapps
Anonymous
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VIEWFINDER is supported in part by:
Cemo Family Foundation, Southern Union Company, Robert Abbinanti, Jay Munisteri, Kerry F. Inman, Tito's Handmade Vodka Saint Arnold Brewing Company, Under the Volcano, Sharp Egg, Sicardi Gallery, QUE Imaging, and Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand |
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FotoFest offers free guided tours to groups of all sizes and ages, both students and adults.
To schedule an adult or college tour please contact Jennifer Ward, Exhibitions Coordinator
at exhibits@fotofest.org or 713.223.5522 ext. 18
To schedule an primary or secondary school tour please contact Emily Neal, Literacy Through Photography Director
at ltp@fotofest.org or 713.223.5522 ext. 11
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