Coke O'Neal: coverage of the opening
Monday, March 25, 2013
Thanks to ODelle Abney for the video coverage!
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SHOUT OUT: Nails Across America!
Friday, March 22, 2013
Refinery 29 is spreading the news about Breanne Trammell's upcoming project/road trip, Nails Across America.
Breanne will be stationed outside Mixed Greens May 28-31. HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
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Coke O'Neal: opening tonight
Thursday, March 21, 2013
join us TONIGHT at Mixed Greens, 6-8pm, to celebrate the opening of Coke Wisdom O'Neal's Happy Little Accidents.
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DALLAS, here we come!
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Get ready for DALLAS! Mixed Greens will be exhibiting work by Kim Beck, Julianne Swartz, and Joseph Smolinski.
Read more about the Dallas Art Fair.
April 11 - 14, 2013
in Dallas' downtown Arts District
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Upcoming in our windows: Ann Tarantino
Monday, March 18, 2013
Ann Tarantino's Topoanalysis opens this Thursday, March 21st at Mixed Greens. The intricate, laser-cut patterns in Topoanalysis will fill the windows, interrupting the colored light emanating from behind the glass.
Ann inspects every minute laser cut before they are installed in our windows.
And Chuka and Rob are busy sanding the walls to prep for Coke O'Neal's exhibition, also opening this thursday at Mixed Greens, 6-8pm.
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Mark Mulroney
Thursday, March 14, 2013
An electrifying interview by the UK's We Heart with artist Mark Mulroney.
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Announcing our SUMMER GROUP SHOW
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
This summer, MIXED GREENS is all about DRAWING.Mark Your Calendars: 'DRAWING NOW' OPENING July 11th @ MIXED GREENS.
Featuring: Ruby Amanze, Firelei Báez, Oasa DuVerney, Sanam Enayati, Heeseop Yoon
Curated by: Dexter Wimberly and Larry Ossei-Mensah
Drawing Now is an exhibition of new works by a culturally diverse group of emerging female artists. The exhibition aims to showcase the exciting new ideas these under-the-radar artists are exploring through their artistic practice. Drawing Now will present distinct and experimental approaches to both representational and abstract drawing. The exhibition will also include large- scale drawing installations that push the medium to its extremes, with dramatic effect.
Oasa DuVerney in her studio.
Heeseop Yoon in her studio.
The exhibition also seeks to present the new ways these artists are re-defining drawing, and to explore how drawing fits into the broader contemporary art conversation, as opposed to the more prevalent presentations of paintings, video, sculpture or performance work.
We'll see you this summer.
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Ending Soon!
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Mark Mulroney's We're Not Getting Rescued With That Attitude ends this Saturday at Mixed Greens! Be sure to check it out while you can.
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Submissions--we'll get back to you shortly
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
This is just one of many cabinets overflowing with submissions. If you submitted to us by our January 31st deadline, we'll be reviewing the packets over the next two weeks, and you should begin to hear back from us by early March!
Thanks for your patience!
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Nearly done
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Show opens TOMORROW, folks! See you 6-8pm for the opening reception!
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Mark must be in town!
Monday, February 11, 2013
Installation is ongoing...and the blow-up dolls are getting the better of us.
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Mulroney installing: Preparing for Wednesday's opening
Monday, February 11, 2013
Mark Mulroney, with the help of his excellent assistant Lucy, is working on his murals for the opening of his solo exhibition this Wednesday at Mixed Greens.
And Rob's in the back gallery sawing the heck out of some 2x4's for our upcoming VOLTA booth.
Happy Monday.
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PARIS-SCOPE: STACEY WATSON
Monday, February 11, 2013
STACEY WATSON
February 14–April 20, 2013
Opening: WEDNESDAY, February 13, 6-8pm
Mixed Greens is thrilled to present the next installment of Paris-Scope, viewable through a peephole in the back gallery. There, viewers will encounter Stacey Watson’s astonishing, near-impossible transformation of the Projective City gallery space.
Golden stalactites hang from the roof of a glowing grotto, reaching ever so ponderously, impossibly, slowly to meet their stalagmite counterparts. The stalagmites are, in turn, formed by the preposterous labor of billions of water droplets, drizzling down the stalactites and falling to the cavern floor. With each drip, micro-milligrams of golden limestone accumulate to form perilous towers, stretching up to touch their creators and eventually joining them in a single column. The grotto itself is no longer a mere cave, but has been gilded and transformed through human activity for undisclosed ends. What rituals or obscure cosmic rites were performed in this transmogrified gloom? What are we to make of the mysterious axe? Against the backdrop of a gargantuan timescale, the scene suggests wealth, ambition, and opulence, but also gloom, doom, and decay.
Citing a range of source material for inspiration (the elaborate maquettes found in the Garnier Opera House in Paris, the tinfoil grandeur of the Ladurée macaroon shop in London, the unfinished Crystal Grotto in Surrey’s Painshill Park, and the Rocky Mountains of her native Canada), Watson has gooped, dripped, and oozed her sloppy materials all over the Projective City gallery, transforming the main exhibition space into an epic faux grotto. The cave is golden, luxurious, and rich, but it is a shabby luxury—a deliberately staged elegance at once natural and artificial, ceremonial and banal. Watson’s use of everyday materials (even in large quantities) evokes the pleasure of artistic play, and her light handling of complex themes generates an atmosphere at once solemn and absurd.
Watson has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in London, Paris, Berlin, Toronto and her native Calgary, where she is also the head curator at Pith Gallery. Her admittedly “ham-fisted,” playful approach to materials is unapologetically demanding of her viewers, who are invited to stretch their imaginations to meet hers, perhaps not unlike the stalactites and stalagmites in her current installation.
Paris-Scope is curated by Projective City.
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Steed Taylor's Commemorative Concrete Celtic Knot
Monday, February 11, 2013
Help support artist Steed Taylor's project here! Donations are tax deductible, and there are donor perks!
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