Oxide @ Banter exhibit to open with reception Friday
Oxide @ Banter will open its latest show at 6 p.m. Friday at
Banter, a downtown Denton bistro and bar.
The show will feature an eclectic range of artwork by local and
regional artists. Oxide @ Banter is an extension of Oxide Gallery,
a downtown gallery dedicated to Denton County artists.
The upcoming show at Banter, located at 219 W. Oak St., will
feature painting, drawing and photography as well as mixed media
and two-dimensional pieces.
Admission to the reception is free, and a live band plays at 8
p.m. For more information, visit www.oxidegallery.com or view a
short film of an earlier reception at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y95CVYw4V3A.
Banter's hours are 10 a.m. to midnight daily.
The exhibit runs through March 13.
CVAD dean has artwork in Dallas-area gallery
Robert Milnes, dean of the University of North Texas College of
Visual Arts and Design, has artwork in a shared exhibition at the
Forum Gallery at Brookhaven College.
Milnes' cheeky, skillful sculptures will share the gallery with
earthenware ceramic sculptures by artist Jerry Austin through Feb.
3. Milnes has sculptures in earthenware.
Milnes uses animated forms with limbs and faces to illustrate
and explore deeper ideas. In his earthenware piece Karma, a form
reminiscent of Mr. Potato Head has seven gloved hands in different
postures and gestures. Austin's pieces are more abstract,
suggesting vessels and bowls.
The exhibition is free. Brookhaven College is
located at 3939 Valley View Lane in Farmers Branch.
The Forum Gallery is located in Building F, Room F101. Galleries
are open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
A reception will be 6 to 8 p.m. Friday.
Photographers bend reality in new shows
Two photographers have exhibitions at the Texas Woman's
University East and West Galleries.
Kelli Connell, a graduate of the TWU photography programs,
returns with a solo show titled "Double Life" that intrigues the
viewer by creating a whole narrative by putting two separate images
- mostly of the same model - in the same setting. Meanwhile, in
"Within Shadows," Susan Burnstine explores the line between sleep
and wakefulness.
In "Double Life," Connell gets to follow the kinds of fantasies
- or at least the kinds of questions - that can emerge when one
notices strangers doing things that could catch attention. Connell
manipulates separate negatives using a photography software
program. Using the computer, she fabricates people laughing, making
out or arguing in a restaurant - when in real life, the figures
never occupied the same space.
Burnstine's "Within Shadows" is part of an art "trilogy"
inspired by vivid nightmares the artist had as a child. Each image
starts with "a significant metaphor, contemplative moment or
pathway" inspired by a dream the night before. Burnstine captures
the fading memory on film that very same day using details from her
imagination.
An artist's reception will be 5:30 p.m. Jan. 31 in the gallery.
Books by both artists will be available at the reception.
The exhibition runs through Feb. 15.
Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday when
the university is in session. The East and West Galleries are
located on the first floor of the Fine Arts Building, at the corner
of Texas and Oakland streets, on the TWU campus.
Former local recording engineer dead at 49
Dana Townson, an alumnae of the University of North Texas and
onetime Denton recording engineer, died Dec. 21 after a battle with
pancreatic cancer. She was 49.
Townson studied music at UNT before she earned an electronic
engineering degree at DeVry University in 1990. At the time of her
death, she had been living in San Jose, Calif., for many years.
Townson worked as an audio engineer and recording studio owner,
and her studios, Castle Audio of Dallas and Alley Cat Productions
of Denton, recorded many world-famous performers and Grammy
Award-winning clients, including Brave Combo.
Born in Rochester, N.Y., Townson was a top player in softball
and soccer, and a devoted alto saxophonist in her childhood.
She is survived by wife Amy Quate, also formerly of Denton.
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