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THE MCKINNEY AVENUE CONTEMPORARY ANNOUNCES  
THREE NEW EXHIBITIONS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  
 
BEYOND ABSTRACTION: RECENT WORKS BY SIX NORTH TEXAS ARTISTS
INCLUDING
DAVID A. DREYER, VINCENT FALSETTA, DAVID MCCULLOUGH, MICHAEL OSBALDESTON, RICARDO PANIAGUA AND MICHAEL TICHANSKY
CURATED BY DAVID MCCULLOUGH

ANDREW DOUGLAS UNDERWOOD:
THE FALL OF BONNIE AND CLYDE

ROBIN RAGIN:
HOMAGE TO A MENTOR

An opening reception will be held Saturday, May 18, 2013 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm at The MAC galleries, located at 3120 McKinney Avenue, in the Uptown District of Dallas. Exhibitions will be on view through June 29, 2013.  
 
Large Gallery
Beyond Abstraction: Recent Works by Six North Texas Artists
David A. Dreyer, Vincent Falsetta, David McCullough, Michael Osbaldeston, Ricardo Paniagua
and Michael Tichansky
Curated by David McCullough

David McCullough, #9 Quanta: "Gaia Centra-Fusion", from the Gaia Poesis Series,
acrylic, digital, mixed media on canvas, 48"x48", 2012
 
Beyond Abstraction: Recent Work by Six North Texas Artists, curated by David McCullough, is a group exhibition including David A. Dreyer, Vincent Falsetta, David McCullough, Michael Osbaldeston, Ricardo Paniagua and Michael Tichansky. McCullough brings together these six artists in order to explore their relationship to abstraction and the North Texas region. All have a history of exploring conventional and experimental approaches to the abstract art making process and provide an aesthetic study of abstract art work currently being created in North Texas. Beyond Abstraction includes new work by each artist, conceived from considerations of their place in the cultural operating system in which they have chosen to live and work. As a result, they have discovered an aesthetic means of expressing themselves that directly symbolizes what it means to be a North Texas artist.
 
Beyond Abstraction is curated by David McCullough. McCullough is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) working in the fields of Art and Technology and Aesthetic Studies. He received his MFA from UTD also in the fields of Art and Technology. McCullough has lived and worked in the North Texas region as a practicing artist, scholar and curator for many years. Most recent solo exhibitions include The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, the Mesquite Art Center, and Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Missouri. Throughout his career, McCullough has completed over seventy solo exhibitions nationally and in Germany. He has completed two artist residencies, one in Australia and recently one in India. Awards and honors include the Moss-Chumley award for painting from the Southern Methodist University, Meadows Museum. Also, McCullough was the first Texas artist to receive the Adolph Gottlieb Award.
 
Michael Tichansky was born in New York, NY. Tichansky received his BFA from Sul Ross State University and earned his MFA from Stephen F. Austin State University. Tichansky recently presented Michael Tichansky: Works from 2000-2010, a solo exhibition at the Bradshaw Gallery, Dallas Public Library. Tichansky's work is included in permanent collections of numerous museums and private collections including the Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, Texas and the Geometric/ MADI Museum, Dallas, Texas.
 
Michael Osbaldeston was born in San Jose, California and earned his BA and MA in Art from the University of Dallas. Osbaldeston is a founder and artist in residence at the Cumulus Studios in Irving, Texas. Osbaldeston's diverse works include baroque abstract expressionist paintings, cumulus glass, and monumental sculpture. He has had a solo exhibition at the Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX. His work is in museum and private collections located in 24 states and 9 countries, including The Nasher Sculpture Garden, Dallas, Texas.
 
Vincent Falsetta lives and works in Denton, Texas as a professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of North Texas. Currently, he is the University of North Texas, Institute for the Advancement of the Arts, Faculty Fellow. Falsetta's paintings in Beyond Abstraction will be the inaugural presentation of a number of the works completed in this fellowship. After receiving his BA in Art from Temple University in his hometown of Philadelphia, Falsetta earned his MFA at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and Rome, Italy. Falsetta has recently exhibited nationally and internationally with the Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, and The Reading Room in Dallas, Texas. Falsetta is represented by Conduit Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
 
Ricardo Paniagua was born in Dallas, TX. Paniagua is a self-taught artist, informing his own work through a keen observation of the world around him and questioning its history. Paniagua has exhibited throughout the state in more recent years. He recently presented CHAMP!, a solo exhibition with RE Gallery in Dallas, TX. This exhibition featured his latest experiments utilizing painting, casting resins and non-traditional mold-making techniques.
 
David A. Dreyer was born in Dallas, and earned his BFA and MFA at Southern Methodist University. He was a recipient of the Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows Museum and has had solo exhibitions at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas and The Grace Museum in Abilene. Recently he had his fourth solo exhibition at Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden in Dallas.
 
 
Square Gallery
Andrew Douglas Underwood
The Fall of Bonnie and Clyde
 

Andrew Douglas Underwood, The Fall of Bonnie and Clyde (symbol key),
Assemblage, 24" x 32", 2013
 
The MAC is pleased to announce The Fall of Bonnie and Clyde, an exhibition by Andrew Douglas Underwood. The story of Dallas outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow is overlaid with symbolic imagery primarily relating to the fall of man. Through a multi-dimensional realization, the work in sound, drawing, painting, text, and sculpture employs the classical artistic device of symbolism, to untether the familiar story of Bonnie and Clyde from historical specificity, allowing a new perspective on their story from an encompassing distance.
 
This project's foundation is based on extensive research that is distilled to reveal only those details with the greatest potential to be charged with symbolic references. In classical religious depiction the use of symbolism was de rigueur. The image of a serpent was rich with meaning, referencing everything from Satan to sex. Allusions to art history and religion are a key element to this work, because in layering them on a contemporary narrative those associations reseat the narrative in a new context.
 
Imagery and text from the first few chapters of Genesis in the Bible and John Milton's Paradise Lost turn up in various iterations through the exhibition, not only in what is being depicted but also in the medium in which an image is rendered. Materials such as ash, charcoal, and gunpowder used throughout the show tie into the content of the narrative.
 
In the larger cultural consciousness Bonnie and Clyde have entered a folkloric realm due to a romanticized retelling of their story. By playing into the larger than life status, The Fall of Bonnie and Clyde refocuses on the timeless theme of the doomed love story and on the larger forces at work on that story, visible or not.
 
Andrew Douglas Underwood was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1974. He lives and works in Dallas, Texas. One-person exhibitions include: Archive of Shadows at the Mildred Hawn Gallery at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 2011, and An Evening of Alchemy at The Reading Room, Dallas, Texas, 2010. Austin, Texas-based Pastelegram's online issue #2 was built around Underwood's web-based project, At the Weehawken Dueling Ground, July 11, 1804, 2012. In 2012 Underwood co-founded the Dallas artist collective The Art Foundation.
 
 
New Works Space
Robin Ragin
Homage to a Mentor
     

Robin Ragin, Portable Cross, mixed media assemblage, 68"x24"x4", 2012
Photography by Matt Golden
 
The MAC is pleased to welcome Robin Ragin for her first solo exhibition, Homage to a Mentor.  Nearly twenty years ago, Ragin began working in the studio with artist David McManaway. McManaway is renowned for his use of assemblage and his ability to breathe new life into discarded objects. In honor of his memory and the bond that they formed while working together in the studio, Ragin presents her own unique interpretation of these iconic assemblage works, most of which were created in the last two years since McManaway's passing. Her intent is to explore the profound influence that objects can have on us and challenge our perceptions of value and obscurity. The objects in Homage to a Mentor are immediately whimsical, mischievous and a true testament to what it means to be a mentor.
 
Robin Ragin is currently based in Dallas and has practiced art for the majority of her life. Ragin studied fine art at Harford College, Baltimore, MD, Richland College, Dallas, TX and the University of MD College Park, MD. She also studied interior design at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. Ragin began her apprenticeship with David McManaway in 1995 which continued until his passing in 2010. In 2009, Ragin participated in the group exhibition Art For The Bridge at the Women's Museum in Dallas.
 
Homage to a Mentor Exhibition Sponsors
Stephen J. Azola
Norma McManaway
Bob and Joan Smith
 
A Special Thank You to The MAC's Season Sponsors
 
With the help and support of these individuals and organizations, The MAC is able to continue exhibiting quality exhibitions to the public.
 
Individual Donors   
Art Gods
Susan and Claude Albritton, Deborah Colton, Camilla Cowan, Trammell S. Crow, David Gibson, Nancy* & Tim Hanley, R.P. Washburne
Benevolent Ones
Alice and Charlie Adams, Chris Gonzalez and Rex Cumming, Martha Gray Fain, Kirk Hopper, Roger Horchow, Anne and John Mullen, Scott Shuford, Cheryl and Kevin Vogel, Sally Warren and Jeffery Jackson
Champions
Anonymous Donation in honor of Leslie Connally, Jan and David Bates, Robert Bellamy, Lilly and Chuck Briant, Kay and Elliot Cattarulla, Philip Collins, Kaleta Doolin and Alan Govenar, Brinkley and Jeffrey D. Eiting, Charles Wolcott Henry, Rick Liberto, Clyde Melville, Kathleen Messina, Molly Moore, William Neisel, John F. Stephens Jr., Barbara Thomas

Art Patrons
CASETA, City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, Communities Foundation of Texas, The Dallas Foundation, Harold Simmons Foundation, Harry S. Moss Foundation, Hunt Cares Campaign, The Rosewood Foundation

Corporate Sponsors
Art Advocate
A+C Magazine, Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty, Greenberg Smoked Turkey, Inc., Heritage Auctions
Devotee
Catharine Clark Gallery, Charlie James Gallery, Hillcrest Bank, Norwood Flynn Gallery, Pinnacle Performance, Ro2 Art, Talley Dunn Gallery (in honor of Nancy Hanley)

In Kind Donors
Kitchen Dog Theater, Brainfood, Jennifer Hees Design, Dean Corbitt, Dallas Museum of Art, Tod Lewis / QDSdirect.com, Quin Matthews Films, David McCullough, The Writer's Garret, Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden, The Original Cupcakery
 
*deceased
About the MAC
Established in 1994, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC) is a nonprofit organization that stands as a Dallas advocate for creative freedom offering the opportunity for experimentation and presentation of art in all disciplines. It supports the emerging and established artist's role in society providing a forum for critical dialogue with their audiences. This relationship is cultivated through education and innovative programming. The MAC is a member of Dallas Art Dealers Association and The Uptown Association.


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CVAD faculty members Amelia Kraehe , Assistant Professor in Art Education and Art HIstory, and Laura Beard, Assistant Professor of Studio Art, received  REG awards (Research Enabling Grants) for Fall 2014!  Kraehne and Beard received two of the ten highly competitive REG grants given out recently by UNT's Office of Research and Economic Development.
Laura Beard, Art Studio - Painting and Drawing / College of Visual Arts and Design,
Artist in Residence at My Art Loft, Vienna, Austria and Solo Exhibition at the Manfred Flener Gallery in Vienna, Austria

Ryan Boettger, Linguistics and Technical Communication / College of Arts & Sciences,
A Corpus-Driven Analysis of STEM Students' Technical Vocabularies

Tracy Everbach, News / Mayborn School of Journalism,
Life and Death on the Border: Women Reporters Covering Mexico

Christopher Fuhrmann, History / College of Arts & Sciences,
Like a Thief in the Night: Security in the Roman World

Nora Gilbert, English / College of Arts & Sciences,
Unwomaned: Lady Novelists, Hollywood Starlets, and the Threat of Female Independence

Timothy Jackson, Music History, Theory & Enthomusicology / College of Music
The International Boycott of Heidelberg's 1936 Celebration and Sibelius's Acceptance of an Honorary Doctorate from Heidelberg

Dan J. Kim, Information Technology & Decision Sciences / College of Business,
What Dimensional Factors Influence the Level of Trust ? - A Multi-dimensional Trust Model in Online Exchanges

Amelia Kraehe, Art Education and Art History / College of Visual Arts and Design,
Cultural Production of the Arts in Education

Sanjukta Pookulangara, Merchandising / College of Merchandising, Hospitality & Tourism,
How Secure is your Website? Cybersecurity and Its Influence On Consumers Online Purchase Intention

Olga Velikanova, History / College of Arts & Sciences,
Mass Political Culture under Stalinism: Public Discussion of the Soviet Constitution of 1936

Gérard Grisey's
Le Noir de l'Etoile

Wednesday, May 29
TWILIGHT & MIDNIGHT PERFORMANCES

ON SALE NOW
Featuring percussionists Gregory Beyer, Timothy Feeney, Ayano Kataoka, Eduardo Leandro, Douglas Perkins, and Ian Rosenbaum

Each performance preceded by Science, Music, and the Galaxy Song, a special presentation and discussion with Matthew Shetrone, Ph.D, Research Scientist, McDonald Observatory.

Performance Schedule:

7 pm Discussion with Complimentary Wine
8 pm Performance

9:30 pm Discussion with Complimentary Wine
11 pm Performance

Nancy Nasher would like to extend an invitation to area college students to this concert at the Nasher Sculpture Center on Wednesday May 29. There are a total of (20) tickets available for both the 8:00 pm performance AND the 11:00 pm performance.
 
Let us know if you have any interested students and please forward their names so that we may advise the Nasher Sculpture Center staff.  A formal “Be My Guest” pass will be provided at a later date.
 
Best Regards,
 
Andi York

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