ATM/DFW
April 29 - June 17, 2023
1426 N Riverfront Blvd | Dallas
Kirk Hopper Fine Art is proud to present ATM/DFW, a group exhibition featuring works by Celia Eberle, Tabatha Trolli, Celia Álvarez Muñoz, Taro Waggoner, Xxavier Edward Carter, Brian Scott, Brian Jones, Keer Tanchak, Joshua Goode, Andrea Tosten, Heyd Fontenot, and Erin Stafford.
This exhibition features North Texas artists who were guests on the podcast, Artists Talk Movies, each with their own unique contribution to the forum. Explore the artworks of ATM and the movies that caused a chain reaction of creativity by influencing artists of the 21st century!
Artists Talk Movies is a bi-weekly podcast established in 2021 and co-hosted by Erin Stafford and Heyd Fontenot. Every episode of ATM invites an artist to discuss a favorite film that connects to their studio practice or has shaped them artistically in some way. The purpose of the podcast is manifold: to celebrate the power of cinema and promote contemporary working artists while simultaneously encouraging critical discourse on film, relating it back to their creative processes. Foregoing stuffy “art speak”, this lively podcast delivers insight and introduces you to living artists through unique conversations.
As an extension to their studio practices, this platform allows Stafford and Fontenot to connect with artists with diverse backgrounds and perspectives while recording unique conversations around cultural and social issues as well as contemporary art. In this digital age, the podcast has repeat listeners across the U.S. and a significant global span of listeners in over fifty countries including Mexico, the Philippines, Germany, New Zealand, Japan, and Saudi Arabia. Both Fontenot and Stafford feel that it is important to select artists who not only have strong studio work but also showcase a diverse creative community that allows their voices to be heard locally as well as globally.
‘I Am Maybe’ and ‘Maybe Not’
‘Maybe’, mixed media on paper, 2020
Now part of a private collection
‘Learn Patois’, ink, gouache, colored pencil on paper, 2019
Now part of a private collection
‘Maybe I Am’ and ‘Am I’
‘Am I’
‘Am I’
‘Maybe I Am’
Heyd Fontenot, ‘ Andrea crossed legs and pink splash’ and ‘Emily Peacock’
Heyd Fontenot, Andrea crossed legs and pink splash, 2022, graphite, gouache on paper
(Photos: SDCC Staff / Imani Chet Lytle)
She Blinded Them With Science
December 2, 2022 – February 4, 2023 | South Dallas Cultural Center
"She Blinded Them With Science" is a body of work created by artist Andrea Tosten using text and pattern to explore social constructs, binary thinking, and the nature of existence. Tosten’s works on paper incorporate the processes of hand-lettering, drawing, origami, and the zoetrope. Working with a minimal amount of materials is important for her to convey a silent strength with a sense of the ephemeral nature of each moment in reflection upon a prominent figure of her culture, Queen Nanny, leader of the Windward Jamaican Maroons, who was almost erased from history.
In her research of Queen Nanny, four words stood out: ohemmaa (means queen mother in Kromanti (the language of the Jamaican and Surinamese Maroons heavily influenced by Twi (the language of Ghana)), xaymaca (means land of wood and water in Arawakan (the language of the indigenous people of South America and the Caribbean)), abeng (means horn in Kromanti), and gumbay (means drum in Kromanti). Nanny was an obeah woman (a woman who practices traditional African religions) who is portrayed historically as having used her powerful science to protect her people.
Tosten’s thoughts and emotions connected with the sounds made by the abeng and the gumbay, her continued study of Queen Nanny, and exploration of her mother’s homeland of Jamaica inform the composition of the work in this show. The video included in the exhibition (with music by Dashon Moore and edited by Ciara Elle Bryant) features sounds by the abeng and gumbay and distorted footage from Moore Town (formally Nanny Town) that she filmed during a trip to Jamaica at the end of May in 2022.
"She Blinded Them With Science" is her sixth solo exhibition. Tosten often utilize letterforms, paper, and sewing to recontextualize and conceptualize her Catholic upbringing, background, and where she fits in how history has unfolded.
I want to be active and present, a part of my community from my perspective as a Black woman. I am often engaged in an open exploration of social constructs, how they affect me, and how I can shift and change them. As a maker, I’m very into technique and love to indulge in perfection. Even as I work towards that perfection in a very technical way, the materials are going to do what they are going to do. Visual conversations between me, community, gender, race and the material form the identity of my work.
Andrea Tosten
Andrea Tosten held an artist talk on Jan. 13, 2022, at the South Dallas Cultural Center with guest Dr. Marta Torres, Dr. Ashley Wade, and Classi Nance.
My works on paper incorporate the processes of hand-lettering, drawing, origami and the zoetrope. Film by Andrea Tosten with music by Dashon Moore and edited by Ciara Elle Bryant... features sounds by the abeng and gumbay and distorted footage from Moore Town (formally Nanny Town) that I filmed during a trip to Jamaica at the end of May this year (2022).
Photo by Imani Lytle
Photo by Imani Lytle
Photo by Imani Lytle
Photo by Imani Lytle
Photo by Imani Lytle
Photo by Imani Lytle
Photo by Imani Lytle
Photo by Imani Lytle
Photo by Imani Lytle
Photo by Imani Lytle
Photo by Imani Lytle
Photo by Imani Lytle
Photo by Imani Lytle
Photo by Imani Lytle
Photo by Imani Lytle
Photographs from opening reception. (Photos: SDCC Staff / Imani Chet Lytle)
Photo by Analise Minjarez
Photo by Rachel Rushing
Photo by Rachel Rushing
Chateau Show (one night only)
At Aldredge House, 5500 Swiss ave. Dallas, Texas. 75214
November 5 th , 3pm-8pm 2022
List of Artists
Clint Bargers
Tino Ward
Hector Ramirez
Sierra Forester
Ruben Melendez
Adrianna Touch
Jessica Hilvitz
Andrea Tosten
Brandon Thompson
Fransisco Moreno
Paul Wendel
Liz Trosper
Greg Meza
Julie Leibersat
Oshay Green
Curated by Clint Bargers and Joel Murray
The show took place at the Historic Aldredge House located at 5500 Swiss ave. Dallas, TX, 75214
“No one’s saying Chateau right now.” The first ever Chateau Show is an artist-run exhibitionpresenting DFW artists of varying disciplines. Clint Bargers and Joel Murray bring together 15artists at different stages in their careers to create Chateau Show, taking place at the HistoricAldredge House. The Aldredge House is a 105-year-old museum owned and operated by theDallas County Medical Society Alliance Foundation. Chateau Show will run from 3pm-8pm onSaturday, November 5 th , 2022.
-It’s a small gesture to help bring together artists at various stages in their career.
Detail
Ohemmaa, Abeng, Gumbay, graphite on paper, 2022
Group Exhibition LOOKING BACK 2022 Opens Saturday, July 9th at Cluley Projects
[Dallas, Texas – June 3rd, 2021] CLULEY PROJECTS, the satellite project space of Erin Cluley Gallery that opened in April of 2021, is pleased to announce its summer group show, LOOKING BACK 2022. The exhibition will mark the occasion of Cluley Projects first year of operations by revisiting its past programming. The twelve participating artists represent each solo or two-person show that has been mounted at the gallery since its grand opening. The exhibition will be on view July 9th through August 13th at its location in West Dallas at 2123 Sylvan Avenue. An Opening Reception will be hosted for the artists Saturday, July 9th from 5-8 pm.
Works will be included by:
RABÉA BALLIN (Houston)
SARA CARDONA (Oak Cliff)
XXAVIER EDWARD CARTER (Mexico / Dallas) DU CHAU (Dallas)
ERICA FELICELLA (Dallas)
SARAH FOX (San Antonio)
BERONICA GONZALES (Denton)
ERIKA HUDDLESTON (Dallas)
ETHAN MERTZ (Dallas)
JOHN MIRANDA (Fort Worth)
ARMANDO SEBASTIAN (Dallas)
ANDREA TOSTEN (Dallas)
About Cluley Projects and Erin Cluley Gallery
Erin Cluley Gallery’s satellite gallery Cluley Projects opened in April 2021 and is housed in an 1100 sq ft space on Sylvan Avenue within walking distance from the Belmont Hotel. Cluley Projects will act as an incubator space focusing on regional artists and providing a platform for discovery and mentorship.
Erin Cluley Gallery opened its doors in West Dallas in 2014, igniting a creative movement and acting as a hub for visual arts and community engagement. After nearly five years on Fabrication Street, the gallery moved its main operation to Riverbend – a development in Dallas’ Design District celebrating the intersection between culture and commerce.
LOOKING BACK 2022 installation shot
RABÉA BALLIN, SARA CARDONA, XXAVIER EDWARD CARTER, DU CHAU, ERICA FELICELLA, SARAH FOX, BERONICA GONZALES, ERIKA HUDDLESTON, ETHAN MERTZ, JOHN MIRANDA, ARMANDO SEBASTIAN, ANDREA TOSTEN
Alchemy billboard in the wild (2137 Jacksboro Hwy, 76114).
Survival Symbols 2022 billboard in the wild (5316 Jacksboro Hwy, 76114).
Abeng billboard in the wild (2130 Jacksboro Hwy, 76164).
Using space from Clear Channel Outdoor as programming sites, Assistant Curators of Education Jesse Morgan Barnett and Tiffany Wolf Smith work with a variety of artists to situate imagery and text onto billboards, elements of the city that traditionally present commercial advertisements rather than cultural curiosities. For MODERN BILLINGS, artists place works into under-served communities along the periphery of downtown Fort Worth. These large-scale installations along Jacksboro Highway and the Lancaster corridor extend the reach of the Modern and the education department and provide an intervention opportunity for contemporary art in urban landscapes.
MODERN BILLINGS XI, June 24 - August 7, 2022
Margaret Meehan is a Virginia-based artist whose work is a research-based, multidisciplinary exploration that pulls from film, music, popular culture, folklore, and traditional crafts. She considers the origins of outcasts through their representation. Meehan’s research includes teratology and medicine, ornithology, the esthetics of cuteness, materiality in high and low culture as well as modes of feminist protest. This all stems from her curiosity about the lines that separate what is protected from what is feared and how gendering plays into these expectations. For MODERN BILLINGS XI, she references the Greek myth of Cassandra as a way to give voice to women and femme identified individuals in the world today.
Andrea Tosten is a Dallas-based artist whose work explores social constructs, binary thinking, and the nature of existence. She uses letterforms, paper, and sewing to recontextualize and conceptualize her Catholic upbringing, background, and place in history. For MODERN BILLINGS XI, she references the use of paper, thread, and ink to display words and symbols that entice viewers to look them up and learn some of the history associated with them.
February 12th through March 19th, 2022
A while back, my dad gave me the book ‘Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana’s Free People of Color’ (edited by Sybil Kein). He directed me to an essay in it about one of our distant relatives (“Light, Bright, Damn Near White: the Politics of Genealogy, and the Strange Case of Susie Guillory” by Anthony G. Barthelemy). The essay covers the story of Susie Guillory and her attempt to have the race on her birth certificate changed from black to white in the state of Louisiana in 1982. The state would not grant her request because her great-great-great-great grandmother was an enslaved black woman. The essay includes detailed descriptions of the categories of people that result from different combinations of miscegenation. I am fascinated by the individual words that are used as names for these categories because they point to a strange type of “math”. These names came into wide use between 1582 and 1859 and eventually declined in usage. For instance, griffe is defined in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as 1) a person of three-quarter black and one-quarter white ancestry, 2) a person of mixed black and American Indian blood.
In this body of work, I reference my creole and Jamaican heritage and my identity as a Black woman. In addition to my personal story, I address the intersections between indigenous peoples and Europeans brought about in Alabama, Lousiana, Jamaica, and Mexico by the slave trade, colonial imperialism, and uprisings by enslaved people. I used research on Louisiana Voodoo to directly inform the composition of the pieces, including books and essays about Marie Laveau (a.k.a the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans) (‘Mules and Men’ by Zora Neale Hurston, ‘The Magic of Marie Laveau: Embracing the Spiritual Legacy of the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans’ by Denise Alvarado, and “Marie Laveau: The Voodoo Queen Repossessed” by Barbara Rosendale Duggal). The books contain spells, such as bottle spells and container spells.
This series continues my process of utilizing letterforms, paper, and sewing to recontextualize and conceptualize my Catholic upbringing, background, and my place in history.
Curated by Nell Potasznik Langford
Photo by Kevin Todora
Photo by Kevin Todora
Photo by Kevin Todora
Photo by Kevin Todora
Photo by Kevin Todora
Photo by Kevin Todora
Now part of a private collection
Photo by Kevin Todora
Photo by Kevin Todora
Now part of a private collection
Video Installation
Photo by Nell Potasznik Langford
Please Don't Drive Me (Convict Song) is a work that transcends time. It can be sung in memoriam of Negro folklore as well as in mourning for present day America. As Negros, Mulattos, Blacks, African-Americans, Colored's, and Light Skins, we work, hurry, and run for this country in a generational cycle yet to be broken. Song arranged and performed by Dashon Moore. Video edited by Fabiola Valenzuela.
Picture by Nell Potasznik Langford
Picture by Nell Potasznik Langford
Picture by Nell Potasznik Langford
Picture by Nell Potasznik Langford
Photo by Alisa Banks
Photo by Takisha Robinson
Photo by Takisha Roberson
Photo by Takisha Roberson
Photo by Takisha Roberson
Photo by Takisha Roberson
Photo by Takisha Roberson
Blog article about ‘Griffe’ at Cluley Projects
The Carillon Gallery
Tarrant County College, South Campus
September 2, 2021 - September 30, 2021
I finished the body of work for 'Flibbertigibbet' during my time as an artist-in-residence September 2019-September 2020 (chaired by Joshua Goode) at Tarrant County College (TCC), south campus, before I began work on 'Paper Altars'. I always take threads from work I've done before and carry them into the following project(s). In 'Flibbertigibbet', I use letterforms to ask one question and answer it in various ways in order to visually explore concepts of self, the human condition, existential dread, and social constructs in a time of uprisings and a pandemic.
Thank you to Joshua Goode, Leticia Huckaby, Jessica Fuentes, Jessica Trevizo, Betty Rodriguez, Dashon Moore, Brian Jones, and Brian Scott for making it possible.
Photo by Teresa Rafidi
Photo by Teresa Rafidi
Photo by Teresa Rafidi
Photo by Teresa Rafidi
On loan from the collection of David Anderson, photo by Teresa Rafidi
Photo by Teresa Rafidi
Photo by Teresa Rafidi
Photo by Joshua Goode
Photo by Joshua Goode
Photo by Joshua Goode
Photo by Joshua Goode
Andrea Tosten
Paper Altars
December 13, 2020 – January 19, 2021
Terrain Dallas is proud to present Andrea Tosten’s site-specific installation, Paper Altars, on view December 13, 2020 – January 19, 2021.
Tosten is an artist, calligrapher, and bookbinder. Her works on paper and installations explore social constructs, binary thinking, and the nature of existence. She utilizes letterforms, paper, and sewing to recontextualize and conceptualize her Catholic upbringing, background, and her place in history. Paper Altars is her second solo exhibition for 2020.
Using symbolic color, the practice of origami, and her skill as a calligrapher, Tosten will construct parterre paper altars in/around the landscape of Terrain Dallas. Parterre translates from French or Creole into English as “flowerbeds” or “orchestra”, but can also translate more broadly as “an organized mélange of different offerings and music”. Tosten’s altars will reference historical accuracies of parterres by residing on the ground at Terrain Dallas and being well ordered in their structure, but they will differ in their purpose and meaning.
The individual altars, which reference her creole heritage and her identity as a Black/African-American woman, are informed by spiritual practices in Catholicism and Louisiana Voodoo. Through this work, Tosten explores the complex histories of the African diaspora and patriarchal power structures to “strengthen her spiritual scaffolding”.
Situating these altars at Terrain Dallas, an outdoor environment with all the complications of weather adds another layer to Tosten’s work. Over time the paper material that makes up the altars may change in color and shape depending on the natural elements. This is intentional as it relates to the artist’s interest in material experimentation and is a conceptualization of shifting social constructs.
Galveston Arts Center (GAC) presents Going Through a Phrase, a group exhibition of text-based works by Alicia Eggert, Candace Hicks, Stephanie Patton, Andrea Tosten, and Rachelle Vasquez on view in the main gallery from October 10, 2020. ... Curated by Dennis Nance. This exhibition will remain on view through January 3, 2021.
Installation shots from ‘Going Through a Phrase’ by Roxann Grover
Installation shots from ‘Going Through a Phrase’ by Roxann Grover
Installation shots from ‘Going Through a Phrase’ by Roxann Grover
Installation shots from ‘Going Through a Phrase’ by Roxann Grover
Flibbertigibbet, 2020,
Music by Dashon Moore-Guidry
Edited by Brian Jones
Site-specific installation. Mountain View Cliff Gallery Spring 2020 Curated by Alison Starr
Video edited by Fabiola Valenzuela
Video edited by Fabiola Valenzuela
Video edited by Fabiola Valenzuela
Video edited by Fabiola Valenzuela
Drawing Room 2 (curated by Betsy Belcher), August 19, 2019-September 27, 2019, Cedar Valley College, Educational Art Gallery, Duncanville, Texas
Borgen Wolfe curated by Jesse Barnett
With James Mardis. Curated by Gerardo Robles. February 23, 2019-March 26, 2019, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas.
Ink on paper, 2018
Ink and colored pencil on paper, 2019
Ink on paper, 2019
Ink and colored pencil on paper, 2019
Curated by Rae Pleasant), October 2017, Jillian Bradshaw Gallery, Dallas Public Library, Main Branch, Dallas, Texas
'Epistolary Paper Quilts' is a celebration of the connection between calligraphy, and letter writing and journaling; as well as paper, ink and origami. Excerpts from five epistolary novels ('Dracula' by Bram Stoker, 'The Screwtape Letters' by CS Lewis, 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker, 'Parable of Sower' by Octavia Butler, and 'Super Sad True Love Story' by Gary Shteyngart) are featured.
Mixed media, 2009. In the collection of the Museum of Bad Art since 2011.
Acrylic on canvas, 2009. In the collection of the Museum of Bad Art since 2011.
Charcoal on paper, 2009
Charcoal on paper, 2009
Charcoal on paper, 2009
Charcoal on paper, 2009
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Part 1 of Basic Italic Calligraphy with a broad nib. The Ames Lettering Guide, holding your pen, and warm-ups are covered. Directed and Edited by Kellie Spano.
Viewers will learn the basics of Italic Calligraphy with a board nib. Covered here: Lowercase Italic Calligraphy and numbers. My calligraphy has improved since this video, but you can still learn from it. Directed and Edited by Kellie Spano.
Artist Andrea Tosten worked with magazines and pieces of paper to make a work based on Mark Bradford's End Paper paintings. For the Fort Worth Modern. Edited by Tiffany Wolf Smith.
First Saturdays at Home
with the Nasher Sculpture Center
Curated by Anna Smith
Create your own work inspired by Agnes Martin's "Leaf," 1965. Grab pencils, a metal ruler, and paper, as artist Andrea Tosten leads this session of Drawing from the Collection. Curated by Tiffany Wolf Smith
