New Kite Installation for the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center.

Keeping Time: Cycle and Duration in Contemporary Photography
November 7, 2008 - January 25, 2009
Photographic Resource Center at Boston University
curated by Leslie Brown

http://www.bu.edu/prc/keepingtime.htm

This is a great event and its gets bigger and better every year. My contribution this time around was an arrangement of about 2000 sticks of white chalk, laid down on top of a field of blue contractors chalk. Special thanks to John Keedy for his assistance!

2332
Huntington Beach Art Center - Huntington Beach, California
October 18 – December 21, 2008
Opening Reception and Performance: Friday, October 17, 5 – 7 pm

Curated by HBAC director Darlene DeAngelo, 2332 is a conceptual investigation of baseball. The title is a numerical reference to two strikes, three balls, three men on, two outs. 9 artists were “drafted” for the exhibition, artist trading cards have been printed, a whiffle ball game will be played at the opening. My contribution is a series of four works on paper made up of many layers of baseball statistics. The numbers are drawn from the 1970 Major League season, the colors are extracted from baseball photographs (grass, dirt, mustard, relish, beer, jerseys, etc…).

Follow this link for a pdf of the catalogue:
http://www.ci.huntington-beach.ca.us/Visitors/Art_Center/2332_exhibition/2332_Catalogue.pdf

Changing Conditions Ahead
Jugglers’ Art Space, Brisbane
October 10 - November 20, 2008 

This show is curated by my colleague Joachim Froese. Check out Joachim’s excellent work here: http://www.joachimfroese.com/index.php?page=home

New sculpture and photography at JayJay Gallery in Sacramento, California.

Stuart Allen: Measured
September 12 - October 25th

Also on view:
Linda Day: Horizons
(beautiful work)

www.jayjayart.com

Group show with a time theme, curated by the San Antonio Art Museum’s David Rubin.

Blue Star Contemporary Art Center
June 26 - August 17, 2008

Lots of great work in this show including contributions from Joey Fauerso, John Keedy, Karen Mahaffy, Chris Sauter, Potter Belmar Labs and Aaron Forland.

Review of the Finesilver Gallery show in the Houston Chronicle:

http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2008_4542716

The show is up through April 20th, 2008.

As part of San Antonio’s citywide Luminaria Arts Festival , I have collaborated with Jason Stevens and Leslie Raymond (AKA Potter Belmar Labs ) on a multi-media sound and light installation for SAMA’s Cowden Gallery.

label text (courtesy David Rubin, Curator of Contemporary Art, San Antonio Museum of Art):

Stuart Allen (American, born 1970)
Potter-Belmar Labs: Leslie Raymond (American, born 1968) and
Jason Jay Stevens (American, born 1971)

Mixing Chamber , 2008
three-dimensional sail-cloth structure with video projections and sound
Courtesy of the artists

This installation is a new collaborative work by Stuart Allen and Potter-Belmar Labs (Leslie Raymond & Jason Jay Stevens). Using tall fabric screens, three channels of video projected on the screens, and multi-channel audio, the artists have created a large mixing chamber, with audio and video signals overlapping and combining within the space. Conceptually, the installation functions like a giant luminaria made using the tools of the 21st century, rather than from the traditional wax candle.

Designed specifically for the Cowden Gallery, the installation is a natural collusion of the work of these artists. Allen has constructed a series of vertical screens in a similar vein to his current installation, 29° 26′ 14" N ~ 98° 28′ 55" W , installed just below the ceiling in the Museum’s Great Hall. The temporal elements of this installation are characteristic of Potter-Belmar Labs’ audiovisual performance works. The video is comprised of three different projections, one red, one green, and one blue. When the colored lights overlap, they create the new and surprising colors from the light-mixing palette. The accompanying sounds result from a mixture of various tonalities moving in and out of synchronization with each other.

San Antonio Express News Article:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/stories/MYSA031208.01P.Luminaria_lights.18618a9.html

for more information abour Luminaria :
http://www.luminariasa.com/pages/citywide

In conjunction with the FotoFest2008 Biennial:
Stuart Allen
February 29 - April 5, 2008
Houston

http://www.finesilver.com/Shows-Detail.cfm?ShowsID=128