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to Further Seasons
April 28 - June 9, 2018
to Further Seasons is "a group exhibition of unusual images and texts about nature, curated by artist, writer and curator Lucia Simek." The show includes works by Jesse Morgan Barnett, Cassandra Emswiler Burd, Trevor Davis, Michael Dean, Erika Duque, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Jen Porembski, Marjorie Schwarz, and Myron Stout, among other unknown artists.

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Carolyn Sortor: Plied Pipes
Plied Pipes is an intermedia installation with projected HD video. The piece features “text from Disney’s Frozen and Shakespeare’s Hamlet” paired with “ambient plumbing noises and...
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Iva Kinnaird: A Two Page Paper on Impasse
An exhibition featuring works by Houston-based artist Iva Kinnaird. The pieces in the show “explore the labor, anxiety, reaction and unintended comedy involved in the feedback...
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Book Swap
Come to The Reading Room and swap books, pick up micro readings, and talk about literature.

Angela Kallus: Waterloo
A show of works by Fort Worth artist Angela Kallus. The pieces in the show “depict collectible, pocket-sized publications that were mass produced between 1919 and...
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Carlos Ranc: Strange Histories of Failures
A show of works by Guadalajara, Mexico-based artist Carlos Ranc. The exhibition focuses on the idea of Culture Hole as an island/bunker.

Casey Leone: xxxxx Goes to Washington
Casey Leone’s exhibition, xxxxx Goes to Washington, “uses the 1939 Frank Capra film Mr Smith Goes to Washington as source material to create an archive of...
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Olivia Divecchia: Dig/Site
A photo and text installation by Brooklyn artist Olivia Divecchia. About the exhibition (via The Reading Room): “The Dig/Site project explores digging as an action that...
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Deb Sokolow: Conspiracies, Minimalism, and the Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich
A show of hand drawn and collaged books by Chicago artist Deb Sokolow.

Mason Bryant: Mordants
A show of works by Mason Bryant. “Bryant appropriates and recontextualizes gestures, texts and images of artists from the past to conjure new forms.”

Darren Jones: Nine Inch Will Please a Lady: Romance and Ribaldry in the Literary Vernacular of Scotland
A show featuring a text installation by art critic, artist and curator Darren Jones.

Jenny Vogel: In the Absence of Bodies
An exhibition of works by New York-based artist Jenny Vogel. Her mixed media works deal with “history, memory and uncertainty through images of monuments shattered, toppled and...
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ENDLESS/NAMELESS
“ENDLESS/NAMELESS, an ongoing collaborative musical written and directed by Arthur Peña. The performances explore notions of beauty, loss and catharsis through experimental storytelling and song.”

ENDLESS/NAMELESS
“ENDLESS/NAMELESS, an ongoing collaborative musical written and directed by Arthur Peña. The performances explore notions of beauty, loss and catharsis through experimental storytelling and song.”

ENDLESS/NAMELESS
“ENDLESS/NAMELESS, an ongoing collaborative musical written and directed by Arthur Peña. The performances explore notions of beauty, loss and catharsis through experimental storytelling and song.”

K. Yoland: Hidden Histories
An exhibition by K. Yoland. The show is comprised of images and information gathered during Yoland’s year in Dallas. This event is presented in collaboration with The MAC/Cedars.

Jeff Ferrell: American Dirt
An exhibition of photographs found by Jeff Ferrell, author of The Empire of Scrounge, while dumpster diving. The project is organized by Gavin Morrison and Fraser Stables of...
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Colette Copeland: Becoming Colette
An exhibition of new work by Dallas artist Colette Copeland. From The Reading Room: Copeland’s work examines issues surrounding gender, history and contemporary culture. The exhibition will...
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Sherwin Tibayan: Index
For this exhibition, Sherwin Tibayan has “constructed an index for Susan Sontag’s On Photography.”

Book Swap
An event featuring books, beer, readings, and conversation.

OCCIPUT
An exhibition of works by Dallas-based artist, writer, and curator Lucia Simek. The show focuses on themes of exile and insecurity through the lens of nature...
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Aaron Krach: Will You Come Back?
An exhibition of laser cut woodblock prints and a newspaper created by New York City artist Aaron Krach to raise questions of value and accessibility...
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Shape Zines Pop-Up
Zines! Zines! Organized by Randy Guthmiller: Sally Glass, Brooke Granowski, Larry Carey, Evan Henry, Travis LaMothe, Shelby Meier, Patrick Romeo, Lauren Smart, Zeke Williams.

Noah Simblist: Palestine, Texas
An exhibition of works by writer, curator, and artist Noah Simblist telling the parafictional history of a small American town–a mix of colonial histories, holy...
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Carolyn Sortor: Seismic Hive
Videos from Sortor’s Hive series and new, excessively long prints on vintage seismic graph paper from the Los Alamos Laboratory.

Jennie Ottinger: Postal Mortem
San Francisco-based artist Jennie Ottingeris is out to save the U.S. Postal Service and the endangered mode of written communication. The show features postcards with...
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Paho Mann: The Yellow Room
A large photomural of a domestic interior by Paho Mann, who teaches photography at UNT.

Book Swap
Book trades, micro readings and conversation.

The Magician: Chris Byrne
A graphic novel that represents the completion of a decade-long obsession and houses a dozen separate publications, printed and hand bound using a variety of techniques.

never to be yourself and yet always - that is the problem: (wo)manorial
An exhibition presented by the collective (wo)manorial. The title is taken from Virginia Woolf’s The Modern Essay and addresses doubts and beliefs, searches and frustrations.

Travis LaMothe: Crass reflections on the necessities of commodification
Work about words, objects and architecture with ideas about work and how art is commodified.

Asteroid Belt of Trash Blocking Transmissions of Love: a project by The Art Foundation for The Texas Biennial 2013
Drawing inspiration and content from Jonathan Lethem’s novel Chronic City, The Art Foundation will create a series of broadsides that will be layered graffiti style...
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Jesse Morgan Barnett: Season
Photography, video and sculpture, make subtle connections between fishing, weather, food preparation, philosophy and artistic endeavors.