This micro-park and exhibition were made possible by a partnership with Art South and SoMa District Fort Worth. Art South is a Near Southside art in residency program supporting publicly accessible art experiences that enriches the community. In 2019, they welcomed Art Tooth, their inaugural artists' collective in residence through 2020.
Installations
Anne Allen, Big Benbrook Kintsugi
June 11 - July 22
Due to social distancing concerns, we will not be holding a reception at this time. We invite you to visit the SoMa District Fort Worth Micro park any time beginning June 11 to see this fascinating exhibit.
Artist Statement:
In my wall drawings and works on paper, I explore patterns, still or in motion, using as source material short video segments or photographs I’ve taken on location. Video of swirling flood debris in the Rio Grande become stop-action drawings that isolate and capture movement and pattern. Abstractions of Cypress tree foliage as seen from the perspective of a canoe, yield patterns in inky watercolor and graphite. I work with an overhead projector, enlarging, isolating, abstracting and layering imagery. Working on paper or directly on the wall, my media includes watercolor, graphite, colored pencil, silver point, cut paper and gold point and ink.
Joshua Goode, Two Headed Mastodon Mummy
March 5 - April 15
Reception: March 7, 2-4pm
Artist Statement:
As an artist I am researching and developing mythic historical misinterpretations and manipulations in an effort to expose the malleability of our past, present and future. My alternate history and mythology preserve memories of childhood by reimagining objects and imagery from my youth as iconic ancient artifacts. I created the fictitious Texas based Aurora – Rhoman civilization inspired by the achievements of major historical figures. Having studied history and worked as an archaeologist on many actual excavations, I conduct staged excavations around the world, working with the community as a performance. My constructed artifacts of the invented civilization mix fact and fiction to appropriate and distort the history and myths of each region I engage. The actual and fake objects “found” during these digs have been exhibited in Spain, Germany, Russia, Croatia, Egypt, Italy, China, Belgium and the US, among others.
Alli Rogers, Invitation: Teeter Totter
January 9, 2020 - February 26, 2020
Reception: January 12, 2-5pm
Artist Statement :
In my studio and teaching practices alike, I earnestly believe in the value of collaboration and play. This installation invites friends and strangers alike to create and celebrate together, engaging in the messy work of fun and community building. The resulting sculpture installation serves both as a snapshot of a single event and an ever-changing, ephemeral balancing act.
Abbie Stellar, Time Blankets The Frame
November 28, 2019 - January 1, 2020
Reception: December 19, 6-9 in partnership with Morgan Mercantile
Artist Statement
Considering human nature and the innate yearning for material objects, the installation “Time Blankets the Frame (if only you could see)” is comprised of several larger scale wire and cotton sculptures. The structures, resembling clouds, or perhaps an accumulation of dust, have no definitive form, but rather what is seen is shaped and understood by one’s own memories and experiences.
The work serves as a multi-level portrait of subject, artist, and viewer. Thinking of the subjective nature of looking at clouds, the piece calls upon memory and association. The fragile structure – being made of both wire and cotton, two malleable materials – alludes to the impressions left by experiences and people. “Time Blankets the Frame (if only you could see)” is a symbol of the passage of time, acting as a solid yet delicate structure that provides a symbol and tangibility for lost relationships. Interested in details and subtleties, Abbie Stellar’s work incorporates memory, personal history, and imagination to give definitive forms to intangible things such as time and loss.
Tracy McKinney, Urban Fibers Pop-Up
October 19, 2019
Stop on by the Art Tooth at SoMa District Fort Worth container during ArtsGoggle 2019 - Saturday, October 19 - Noon to 10pm to check out the work of Tracy McKinney, AKA, Urban Fibers Studio!
Sponsored by The Greenhouse 817.
All of Tracy's work is available to purchase here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/UrbanfibersStudio?ref=s2-header-shopname
Allester Vinteers and Kimberly Cecil, Primordial Aquarium
September 7 - October 13, 2019
Reception: September 19, 6-9 in partnership with Morgan Mercantile
“The piece was inspired by our desire so see more collaborative work between artists in our community. A collaboration between the both of us was perfect because we both made ceramics that resemble shell-like forms. Conveniently, the shipping crate, with its glass panes, was the perfect "aquarium" to host our art work. Our installation evokes a sense of wonder and fantasy. It takes the viewer away from land and back in time. Our installation is particularly suitable for a public space because it is something both art enthusiasts and the general public can appreciate. It is call of awareness to the public that Texas was once underwater.”
Katie Toon, BLOOMS
June 27 - August 22, 2019
Reception: July 18, 6-9 in partnership with Morgan Mercantile
With “Blooms,” Katie Toon explores permanence and impermanence through the tender and intimate beauty of flowers. Composed of enlarged photographs of flowers in various stages of life and decay and an installation piece of organza and satin fabric petals and flowers suspended from the ceiling further inundate the viewer with the fleeting and transient. The scale of the photographs and installation is designed to immerse the audience in softness and luminescence, connected with the ephemeral.
Dunbar High School, Twombly Responses
May 1 - June 6
These works were created by students from Dunbar High School in partnership with The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. DHS faculty member, Dev'n Goodman organized the collaborations of fellow DHS teacher Devyn Gaudet and The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth ’s Assistant Curator of Education Jesse Morgan Barnett who worked with their students to create sculptures inspired by American artist Cy Twombly.
These found object constructions have been coated with various slips or washes of white, as if to neutralize the heterogeneous effects of their assembly. In this quiet and poetic reading, the individual aspects of each object become more legible, unified, yet distinct.
Cy Twombly has spoken about the monochromatic nature of his sculptures as a blank page or marble. When we encounter these objects, their materiality feels familiar yet uncommon, elusive yet literal.