My son Zach and his lovely wife Katia stopped in for visit on their way to Colorado to go camping and we decided to mess around with some promotional video stuff for the Visual Poetry and Color Exhibition coming up at Ferrari Gallery in Dallas July 27, 2024. We just kind of organically ended up doing this studio tour that Zach did a great job on and I thought I would share it with you. Below is the final tricked out version of the call for works for Visual Poetry and Color. In the meantime I received the boxes from Willie Marlow in Albany New York of the works from the first show and I have been busy inventorying and photographing all of those works and more works are starting to come in from other artists for the second iteration of the show in Dallas.
CALL FOR WORKS - DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2024
I would like to invite my fellow artists or poets to contribute one work to Visual Poetry and Color Opening July 27 and running through September at Ferrari Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
All works accepted and exhibited in this show. (spread the word with other artists)
Here is the show:
https://touchonian.substack.com/p/visual-poetry-color
What you need to do…
Buy an 8 x 8 x .75 inch birch cradled panel from Dick Blick
https://www.dickblick.com/prod.../blick-premier-wood-panels/
(does not need to be Dick Blick but the same sort of panel and the same dimensions)
Make a collage on it that somehow has to do with the theme and mail it to me by JULY 15, 2024 (deadline extended one extra month!). I’ll be driving the work over to the gallery the week of July 22, 2024 and install that week.
SEND YOUR VISUAL POETRY ARTWORK TO:
Visual Poetry - Cecil Touchon
4315 Rancho Largo Rd. NW Albuquerque, New Mexico 87120
THE EXHIBITION
OPENING - Saturday, July 27th, 2024: The show will open as a kind of all day open house format and run through September.
WORKSHOPS: On opening day I will be giving three short free collage workshops for local artists over the course of the day and inviting the participants to contribute the work to the Archives. The Promo:
July 27th opening with Workshops: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/923066846787?aff=oddtdtcreator
LECTURE - Thursday, August 15th, 2024 : I will then return in August to give a ‘ticketed’ Lecture Event joined by Cheryl Mitchell of the Art & Art History Department, the Collections Specialist at University of Texas, Arlington (UTA) talking about the Ontological Museum and the Exhibit that will include hors d'oeuvres and drinks. )
August 15th lecture night: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/923147798917?aff=oddtdtcreator
Here are other works in the show
https://2023-ontological-museum-acquisitions.blogspot.com
also see newly registered works for the exhibit from the last few weeks here:
Watch the above blog to see things come into the collection as they arrive.
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QUESTIONS: TOUCHON@GMAIL.COM - use subject line: Visual Poetry and Color
Studio Visit with Cecil Touchon