FLÂNEUSE featuring Martha Cooper, Alicia Eggert, Retha Ferguson, Laura Grace Ford, Roxane Huilmand, Cristina De Middel, Alicia Paz & Tuesday Smillie
Alicia Paz Artist Talk: Tuesday, September 11th, 5:20pm in Moudy North room 132
Join us at TCU in Moudy North Building in room 132 for an artist talk by Flâneuse artist Alicia Paz. Come hear Paz talk about her sculptures and artistic practice, and how her pieces inspired the curatorial direction of Flâneuse! August 24 – September 29, 2018, at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts
Flâneuse is a group exhibition featuring eight international artists whose work draws attention to the role of gender in contemporary urban experience. Through a variety of media the artists explore a diverse array of concerns about street life. The overlapping themes they address include history, memory, social justice, personal safety, public protest, physical movement, and commodity culture. Taking the traditional idea of the “flâneur” as a point of departure, the exhibition highlights key themes from ongoing scholarly debate about the appropriateness or indeed the existence of the female equivalent, the “flaneuse.”
Alicia Paz’s art reveals a vibrant interest in an eclectic mixture of genres ranging from Rococo painting and Pop Art, to Mexican surrealism. Her style is reflective of her life experiences of different cultures and spaces; she was born in Mexico, is now based in London, and has lived for long periods of time in France. Primarily a painter, her recent work has focused on the female figure, often inhabiting exotic or fantastical landscapes. In “Flâneueses,” a new series of semi-sculptural works (and the inspiration for this exhibition), Paz brings her painterly women to life as collage silhouettes in a three-dimensional world. Playful and coquettish, these colorful protagonists perform simultaneously as observers, guides and provocateurs.
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Fort Worth Contemporary Arts is one of two galleries that comprise The Art Galleries at TCU – Texas Christian University. Students and alumni of the TCU College of Fine Arts and guest artists exhibit at these galleries. Fort Worth Contemporary Arts is located at 2900 W. Berry St. located on the edge of TCU – Texas Christian University campus, Fort Worth, TX 76109.
Gallery Hours are Wednesday to Saturday, 12 - 5pm, and by appointment. Admission is free.
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