March 2 - April 6, 2024
From Blind Alley Projects:
“Stage Manager Lucia Arbery Simek An art exhibition is always a kind of performance—the things considered and made in private become public and are witnessed by an audience. Usually, lots of people work together to make it happen. Here’s an exaggerated but tiny version of this; a space that’s more stage than gallery, holding in parenthesis some scene an artist puts here to be (maybe) observed by people walking their dogs or their children, driving fast or slow in cars, or sitting on porches across the street.
Is this theater?
What’s my role here?
What’s yours?
Blind Alley projects is pleased to announce Lucia Arbery Simek: Stage Manager, opening Saturday, March 2, 2024, with a meet-the-artist event Saturday, March 23, 6 to 8pm. Lucia Arbery Simek, astute and erudite, brings a fearless freshness to her work that is often puzzling while referentially familiar as well as visually undeniable. With allegiance to present ideas and interests, unbeholden to a canon or style, the work is unpredictable, delightfully surprising. This is certainly true of Stage Manager for which Arbery Simek transforms the exhibition space, which she sees as a stage, into the work itself. Blind Alley projects becomes sculpture, sculpture that is built something like a Constructivist painting, a compelling mashup of familiar references and materials used unconventionally to an inexplicable yet irrefutable end.
Lucia Arbery Simek is an artist, writer and curator and currently serves as deputy director at Dallas Contemporary. She has exhibited her artwork both locally and internationally, and has published widely on contemporary art. As a curator, she has mounted exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art and The Reading Room, among others, and as well as having curated a permanent collection of works for the historic Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas, where she also organized a highly acclaimed series of public talks with artists and writers. Arbery Simek is currently working on a book of essays about the Texan landscape and mid-century artists Forrest Bess, Myron Stout and Alberto Burri, to be published by Deep Vellum Publishing.”
Reception: March 23, 2024 | 6–8 pm
3317 West 4th Street
Fort Worth, 76107 Texas
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